2024 Unit 430 Masterpoint Races as of September 6

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How this works: at the start of the year, we make a file from the January ACBL database, with over 30,000 players from Districts 18, 19, and 20. Then, after results are confirmed, we add the results text to a growing text file of results for tournaments, IMP League results, Unit Games, and Mentor-Mentee games. The Python code reads the opening lines of each event and determines which type of event it is and then checks all entries for ACBL numbers (or names where none are listed) and masterpoints won, adding it to the pertinent lists. Once all the results are in, the results are sorted and each masterpoint race is updated on this HTML page.

To claim a free play, let the director know as you buy your entry. Free plays on Entry Express, the pre-arrival entry buying site, is not yet an easy possibility. Unit free plays are not transferable. Bruce McIntyre keeps track of masterpoint winner free plays used at sectionals and Unit Games, so no certificates or letters are given out. A list of players eligible for free plays and the ones that have been used is here.

All the masterpoint races are based on events within a calendar year. In the first two or three months of the year, I usually do not update this page at all since there are only a few events in and people prefer to see the winners of the previous year until there is a new race with multiple results to see. You will find results from Monthly Unit Games at this link and ACBL Live will have all of the Unit's sectionals.

The three lists below include the following Unit 430 trophy races:

LIST ONE: Sectional Trophy Races

The Phil Wood Trophy goes to the overall masterpoint leader in a calendar year, who wins free plays to all open sectionals in the next calendar year. 2023 Winner: Nick Stock.
The Edie Bonnell Trophy goes to the masterpoint leader in a calendar year among female players, the winner receiving six free plays to open sectionals in the following calendar year. (A growing number of people are joining the ACBL without indicating a gender: when the program encounters one of these it assumes "M" but this can be changed manually. If you are included in this race but should not be, or vice versa, let me know!) 2023 Winner: Jennifer Hong.
The Phil Wood Under 200 Trophy goes to the player with the most masterpoints who began the year under 200 masterpoints, the winner receiving six free plays to open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2023 Winner: Jin Mei Luo (who is eligible for 2024).
The Leo Steil Trophy goes to the overall masterpoint leader in a calendar year among players 70 (a recent change from 65) or older as the year begins. In my younger and crazier days I would actually ask the Phil Wood leaders and try to determine who was old enough. When enough people looked at me like I was some sort of degenerate I decided to stop doing that, and now we simply ask eligible players (born in 1953 or earlier for the 2024 contest) who are in contention to quietly claim the prize (or have a friend in the know claim it for them), which is six free plays for open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2023 Winner: still unclaimed (as far as I know).
The four trophy races above include only points won at the four open sectionals of each year. You'll be listed if you are in the top 100 of the Phil Wood race, or the top 50 of the Edie Bonnell race, or the top 30 of the Phil Wood under 200 race.

LIST TWO: Monthly Unit Game Trophy Races

The Monthly Unit Game Trophy goes to the player with the most masterpoints in Monthly Unit Games (usually the first Saturday of each month, 7pm at the VBC), the winner receiving free plays to all Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2023 Winner: Julien Lévesque & Nigel Fullbrook (tie).
There is a B flight of the Monthly Unit Game Race which goes to the player under 2500 points (at the beginning of the year) with the most points in Monthly Unit Games. The prize is six free plays to Monthly Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2023 Winner: Julien Lévesque.
There is a C flight of the Monthly Unit Game Race which goes to the player under 1000 points (at the beginning of the year) with the most points in Monthly Unit Games. The prize is six free plays to Monthly Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2023 Winner: Nolan Derby.
Note that individual Unit Games are not always stratfied to these limits: for 2023, 3000 and 1500 is usually a starting point, but we often adjust the limits to ensure that all three groups are large enough to warrant separate awards.
If there is a tie, the tied players share the prize. No player can win more than one prize, but can win parts of prizes from different flights, as long as the parts add up to no more than one prize. For 2024, I am awaiting word from the Unit Board on how the free plays resulting from tie in MUG strat A, which includes the B winner, will be divvied up.

LIST THREE: The Rocket Rookie Race

The Rocket Rookie Race tracks all Unit-run events and counts only masterpoints won by non-Life Masters playing only with other non-Life Masters, with two exceptions: 1) Mentor-Mentee game masterpoints count for non-Life Masters even if their mentor is a Life Master, but only count at 50% rounded up: an award of 1.11 would add 0.56 RRR points to a non-Life Master's total, and 2) You become ineligible to win RRR points when you become a Life Master, except that the Flight B/C IMP League continues to count even if you became a Life Master during the event. The prize is (you guessed it) six free plays for the next calendar year at open sectionals.
The difference between the RRR and the Phil Wood Under 200 is that the under 200 race is usually won by a newer player playing with a Life Master in open games. The RRR smokes out the non-Life Masters most ready to move up into the open game! 2023 Winner: Cedric & Adelaide Miller (tie), who both are eligible in 2024 but may become Life Masters and be ineligible from that point to win more points in the race.

ALERT: to be eligible to win a prize for any race (including the Unit ones mentioned here, and the ACBL-wide ones some of us track every night...) you need to be a paid up member of the ACBL by the time the race ends. (We're OK if you joined mid-year.) However, for year-long races with a masterpoint limit, what counts is how many you had at the start of the year. Unit 430 also reserves the right to restrict limited awards for players who have had significant experience in another National Bridge Organization before joining the ACBL. Members who have been suspended or placed on probation for any part of the year are not eligible by ACBL bylaws.

THE LISTS:

Phil Wood	Edie Bonnell	P.Wood Under 200	Player	MPts
1			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	40.25
2	1		Julie Smith, Vancouver BC	33.40
2			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	33.40
4			Gustav Axen, New Westminster BC	32.29
5			Andrew Krywaniuk, Burnaby BC	28.96
6			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	27.57
7			Dariusz Matus, Surrey BC	24.95
8			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	24.53
9			Yuandong Ren, Burnaby BC	23.77
9			David Yu, Burnaby BC	23.77
11			Morris Chen, Surrey BC	22.55
11			Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	22.55
11			David Huang, Burnaby BC	22.55
14			Michael Desaulniers, Maple Ridge BC	22.36
15			Brad Bart, Coquitlam BC	22.31
16			Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	20.36
17	2		Trudy Hurdle, Richmond BC	19.71
17			John Hurdle, Richmond BC	19.71
19	3		Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	19.55
20			Sheldon Spier, Chemainus BC	18.69
20			Michael Ainsley, Victoria BC	18.69
22			Aidan Ballantyne, Burnaby BC	18.48
22	4		Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC	18.48
24		1	Arun Chopra, Surrey BC	18.40
25			Jack Lee, Richmond BC	18.39
26			Donald Sache, West Vancouver BC	17.03
27			Michael Yuen, Vancouver BC	16.88
28	5		Janet Galbraith, Calgary AB	16.36
29	6		Shelley Burns, North Vancouver BC	15.87
30	7		Mojgan Shad, West Vancouver BC	15.53
30			Khosrow Shad, West Vancouver BC	15.53
32			Jack Qi, North Vancouver BC	15.30
32	8		Lucy Zhong, North Vancouver BC	15.30
34			Xiaoming Shen, Richmond BC	15.09
35			Felipe Hernandez, Coquitlam BC	14.52
36			Larry Meyer, Richmond BC	14.31
37	9		Debbie Harris, North Vancouver BC	14.06
38			Kai Zhou, Burnaby BC	13.97
39	10		Diana Jing, Surrey BC	13.80
40	11		Avril Karr, North Vancouver BC	13.76
41			Jim McKenzie, Vancouver BC	13.74
42	12		Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	13.20
43		2	Caleb Meyer, Victoria BC	13.02
44		3	Wade Carpenter, Burnaby BC	12.97
45			Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	12.91
46			Robert Gerrie, Richmond BC	12.77
46	13		Aban Gerrie, Richmond BC	12.77
48			Mike Takemori, Coquitlam BC	12.70
49			Joel Fuhrman, Kirkland WA	12.62
50	14		Hong Helen Chang, White Rock BC	12.27
51	15		June Keith, Surrey BC	12.26
52			Baixiang Liu, New Westminster BC	12.22
53			David Waterman, Surrey BC	12.14
54	16		Lisa Li, Surrey BC	12.13
55	17		Amy Gao, New Westminster BC	11.66
56	18	4	Jin Mei Luo, Burnaby BC	11.08
57			Cameron Doner, Surrey BC	10.83
58		5	George Meng, White Rock BC	10.47
59			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	10.45
60	19		Linda Palm, Surrey BC	10.40
61			Rex Tu, Bellevue WA	10.30
61			George Tu, Vancouver BC	10.30
63		6	Qiao Li, Burnaby BC	10.04
64			Julien Levesque, Burnaby BC	9.85
65			Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	9.84
66	20		Debbie Martignago, Port Coquitlam BC	9.76
67			Andy Hellquist, Strathmore AB	9.50
68	21		Angela Fenton, Vancouver BC	9.32
69			Thomas Davis, North Vancouver BC	8.80
69			David Hu, Richmond BC	8.80
71	22		Kathy Adachi, Surrey BC	8.68
72	23	7	Wenmin Chen, Richmond BC	8.66
73			Lu Gan, Vancouver BC	8.35
74			Tao Feng, Burnaby BC	8.24
75			Hua Ying Wan, Surrey BC	7.73
76	24	8	Juan Xu, Coquitlam BC	7.56
77	25		Bruna Giacomazzi, Surrey BC	7.41
78	26		Gita Sheikholeslami, Vancouver BC	7.31
79			Kenny T K Chan, Vancouver BC	7.16
80			Anssi Rantamaa, Vancouver BC	7.04
81			Rasim Sari, Annapolis MD	6.99
82			Barry Kirkham, West Vancouver BC	6.81
83			Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	6.77
84	27		Lana Chow, Vancouver BC	6.76
85			Paul Fournier, Vancouver BC	6.75
86			Sam Wang, Coquitlam BC	6.71
87	28		Xiaojing Deng, Richmond BC	6.60
88			Maarten Tjebbes, Vancouver BC	6.19
89	29		Sheila Sache, West Vancouver BC	6.14
90	30		Shameine Ali, New Westminster BC	5.97
91			Tadeusz Smaruj, Vancouver BC	5.82
92			Tracy Luo, Surrey BC	5.75
93	31		Yue Su, Vancouver BC	5.69
93			Larry Pocock, Vancouver BC	5.69
95		9	Christopher Edwards, Bellingham WA	5.68
95		9	Kun Jung Lin, Vancouver BC	5.68
95	32		Gay Parrish, Bellingham WA	5.68
98			Marc Furnemont, Victoria BC	5.55
98	33		Ingrid Anderson, Nanaimo BC	5.55
100	34	11	Alison Donoghue, North Vancouver BC	5.53
	35	12	Eloise Carbone, Vancouver BC	5.46
	35	12	Adrienne Drobnies, Vancouver BC	5.46
	37		Jane Youngberg, Surrey BC	5.33
	38		Julia Yan Ye, Bothell WA	5.24
	39		Judy Christensen, Surrey BC	4.96
	40		Andrea Miller, Victoria BC	4.81
	40		Ruth Davies, Victoria BC	4.81
	42		Carrie Cade, North Vancouver BC	4.75
	43	14	Salma Tejpar-Dang, West Vancouver BC	4.16
	43		Jennifer Hong, Burnaby BC	4.16
	43	14	Gulshan Dhanani, West Vancouver BC	4.16
	46		Colleen Perry, North Vancouver BC	4.14
	47		Mitra Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	3.90
	48		Susan Craven, North Vancouver BC	3.88
	49		Kathy Bye, Burnaby BC	3.85
	50		Anita Morse, North Vancouver BC	3.79
	50		Maryellen Gallo, Surrey BC	3.79
		16	Holly Bennett, North Vancouver BC	3.73
		17	Vern Porter, North Vancouver BC	3.59
		17	Janice Porter, North Vancouver BC	3.59
		19	Joseph Shirzad, Vancouver BC	2.91
		19	Katayoun Shirzad, Vancouver BC	2.91
		21	Min Li, Edmonton AB	2.68
		22	Fatemeh Rashidifar, West Vancouver BC	2.41
		23	Ron Sekiya, Vancouver BC	2.33
		23	Ron Senda, Vancouver BC	2.33
		25	Rachel Goddard, Vancouver BC	2.02
		25	Fred Van Leeuwen, Vancouver BC	2.02
		27	Byron Stewart, Vancouver BC	1.88
		28	Eric Abrutyn, Bellingham WA	1.64
		28	Weihua Zhang, Burnaby BC	1.64
		28	Jane Abrutyn, Bellingham WA	1.64

MUG Race	Flt. B ( < 2500 )	Flt. C ( < 1000 )	Player	MPts
1			Julie Smith, Vancouver BC	12.85
2			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	10.52
3			Aban Gerrie, Richmond BC	8.90
3			Robert Gerrie, Richmond BC	8.90
5	1		Julien Levesque, Vancouver BC	8.24
6			Nigel Fullbrook, N Delta BC	5.15
7	2		Janis Parker, Delta BC	4.42
7	2		Nick Parker, Delta BC	4.42
9	4		Al Freeze, Surrey BC	4.30
10	5		Fred Baldwin, South Surrey BC	3.97
11			Rhoda Tafler, Richmond BC	3.86
11	6		Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	3.86
13	7	1	Jim Glanville, Surrey BC	3.79
14			David Huang, Burnaby BC	3.37
14			Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	3.37
16	8		William Osten, Richmond BC	3.26
17	9	2	Sue Glanville, Surrey BC	2.84
17	9	2	Peter Lockwood, Surrey BC	2.84
19	11		Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	2.81
20	12	4	Terry Brine, White Rock BC	2.79
20	12	4	Robin Adams, Surrey BC	2.79
22			Doug Hansford, Surrey BC	2.77
22			Susan Peters, Vancouver BC	2.77
24	14		Jack Johnson, Surrey BC	2.64
25	15		Homa Boustani, West Vancouver BC	2.63
26	16		Isabel Chernoff, Surrey BC	2.55
27			Kathy Bye, Burnaby BC	2.48
27	17		Suzette Bahar, West Vancouver BC	2.48
29	18		Andrew Krywaniuk, Vancouver BC	2.39
29			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	2.39
31	19	6	Bob Zoltok, Surrey BC	2.38
31	19	6	Louis Fortin, Surrey BC	2.38
33			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	2.33
34	21		Andy Hellquist, Surrey BC	2.16
35	22		Shameine Ali, Vancouver BC	2.07
36	23	8	Ron Sekiya, Vancouver BC	1.98
36	23	8	Lana Chow, Vancouver BC	1.98
38			Qingan Zhu, Burnaby BC	1.97
38	25	10	Hai Zhu, Port Moody BC	1.97
38			Larry Pocock, New Westminster BC	1.97
38			Yue Su, Vancouver BC	1.97
42		11	Amanda Murdoch, South Surrey BC	1.93
43		12	Roy Livingstone, Whiterock BC	1.78
43			Edgar L'Heureux, White Rock BC	1.78
45			Joel Fuhrman, Kirkland WA	1.76
46		13	Hirschel Wasserman, Vancouver BC	1.71
47		14	Don Guichon, White Rock BC	1.65
48			Maryellen Gallo, Surrey BC	1.64
48		15	Sharene Jansen, Vancouver BC	1.64
48			Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC	1.64

Rocket Rookie Race	Player	MPts
1	Arun Chopra, Surrey BC	15.17
2	Hong Helen Chang, White Rock BC	12.27
3	Caleb Meyer, Vancouver BC	11.81
4	George Meng, White Rock BC	10.47
5	Linda Palm, Surrey BC	9.14
6	Lu Gan, Vancouver BC	8.35
7	Hua Ying Wan, Surrey BC	8.19
8	Anssi Rantamaa, Vancouver BC	7.04
9	Sam Wang, Coquitlam BC	6.71
10	Bruna Giacomazzi, Surrey BC	6.41
11	Jin Mei Luo, Burnaby BC	6.22
11	Qiao Li, Burnaby BC	6.22
13	Tracy Luo, Surrey BC	6.21
14	Kun Jung Lin, Vancouver BC	5.68
15	Alison Donoghue, North Vancouver BC	5.53
16	Eloise Carbone, Vancouver BC	5.46
16	Adrienne Drobnies, Vancouver BC	5.46
18	Julia Yan Ye, Bothell WA	5.24
18	Gary Jun Ye, Bothell WA	5.24
20	Don Guichon, White Rock BC	4.93
21	Gita Sheikholeslami, Vancouver BC	4.82
22	Robin Adams, Surrey BC	4.61
23	David Wei, Vancouver BC	4.31
23	Yong Sun, Surrey BC	4.31
23	Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	4.31
26	Gulshan Dhanani, West Vancouver BC	4.16
26	Salma Tejpar-Dang, West Vancouver BC	4.16
28	Juan Xu, Coquitlam BC	4.13
29	Reza Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	3.90
29	Mitra Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	3.90
31	Susan Craven, North Vancouver BC	3.88
31	Colleen Perry, North Vancouver BC	3.88
33	Holly Bennett, North Vancouver BC	3.73
34	Janice Porter, North Vancouver BC	3.59
34	Vern Porter, North Vancouver BC	3.59
36	Ron Sekiya, Vancouver BC	3.45
37	Rasim Sari, Annapolis MD	3.36
38	Billy Szeto, Hong Kong HK	3.27
39	Carrie Cade, North Vancouver BC	3.09
40	Gene Nagy, Vancouver BC	3.02
41	Katayoun Shirzad, Vancouver BC	2.91
41	Joseph Shirzad, Vancouver BC	2.91
43	Ron Senda, Edmonton AB	2.90
44	Peter Lockwood, Surrey BC	2.84
44	Sue Glanville, Surrey BC	2.84
46	Terry Brine, White Rock BC	2.79
47	Joanna Chu, New Westminster BC	2.62
48	Debra Sutherland, Burnaby BC	2.61
49	Fatemeh Rashidifar, West Vancouver BC	2.41
49	Mina Mofazali, West Vancouver BC	2.41
51	Bob Zoltok, Surrey BC	2.38
51	Louis Fortin, Surrey BC	2.38
53	Linda Simmons, Vancouver BC	2.37
53	Corrina Wong, Vancouver BC	2.37
55	Xiaodong Zhao, Edmonton AB	2.16
55	Min Li, Edmonton AB	2.16
57	David Drake, Vancouver BC	2.03
58	Fred Van Leeuwen, Vancouver BC	2.02
58	Rachel Goddard, Vancouver BC	2.02
60	Qingan Zhu, Burnaby BC	1.97
60	Hai Zhu, Port Moody BC	1.97
62	Christine Walter, Vancouver BC	1.96
62	Bill Walter, Vancouver BC	1.96
64	Adelaine Miller, Surrey BC	1.95
64	Cedric Miller, Surrey BC	1.95
66	Amanda Murdoch, South Surrey BC	1.93
67	Karen Inglis, Surrey BC	1.91
67	Frances Brunskill, Mesa AZ	1.91
67	John Brunskill, Mesa AZ	1.91
70	Byron Stewart, Vancouver BC	1.88
71	Larraine Smith, North Vancouver BC	1.80
72	Bob Dillon, Surrey BC	1.76
73	Hirschel Wasserman, Vancouver BC	1.71
74	Pat Hodgson, North Vancouver BC	1.66
75	Jane Abrutyn, Bellingham WA	1.64
75	Eric Abrutyn, Bellingham WA	1.64
75	Weihua Zhang, Burnaby BC	1.64
78	Teresa Elder, North Vancouver BC	1.63
78	Julie Mussenden, Vancouver BC	1.63
80	Paul Pattison, North Vancouver BC	1.48
80	Margaret Pattison, North Vancouver BC	1.48
82	Karen Cochlan, Vancouver BC	1.44
82	Patti Gies, Vancouver BC	1.44
84	Gabor Sandi, Vancouver BC	1.36
85	Gretchen McConnell, Surrey BC	1.31
86	William Ophoff, Surrey BC	1.30
87	Tina Gumuchian, Vancouver BC	1.28
87	Mark Porter, Richmond BC	1.28
89	Liese Goosen, Delta BC	1.27
89	Karen Cooke, North Vancouver BC	1.27
89	Bill Cooke, North Vancouver BC	1.27
92	Brian Simons, Richmond BC	1.14
92	David Laulainen, New Westminster BC	1.14
92	Ruth Freeman, Vancouver BC	1.14
95	Lana Chow, Vancouver BC	1.12
96	Sharene Jansen, Vancouver BC	1.09
96	Leslie Hill, Vancouver BC	1.09
98	Jack Saunders, Toronto ON	1.07
99	Liz Delaney, Surrey BC	1.04
99	Mary Frances Bishop, Delta BC	1.04
99	Bud Bishop, Delta BC	1.04