2026 Unit 430 Masterpoint Races as of October 11

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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.

Last year's results are here.

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. 2025 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!) 2025 Winner: Cindy Oishi.
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. 2025 Winner: Hua Ying Wan (who is NOT eligible for 2026).
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 1955 or earlier for the 2026 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. 2025 Winner: Nick Stock.
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

Monthly Unit Games are run by a number of different clubs in Unit 430 but results on ACBL Live for Clubs are posted under the Unit 430 club here. You will NOT find the game results posted at your club's space on ACBL Live. It sometimes takes a day or two for results to be posted, but the masterpoints usually increase from the printed version, since ACBL has stopped updating ACBLscore's masterpoint calculator. At the beginning of a calendar year, I sometimes take a bit of a break and do not post leaders until at least two MUG games have been played, so we can all read the final stats from the previous year.
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. 2025 Co-Winners: Julien Lévesque, Nigel Fullbrook.
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. 2025 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. 2025 Winner: Shael Smith.
Note that individual Unit Games are not always stratfied to these limits: for 2024, 3000 and 1500 was usually a starting point, but Directors 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.
SPECIAL ALERT: Something appears to have happened in mid-2024 and the masterpoint awards that ACBLscore produces for these games is recalculated by ACBL Live for Clubs, almost always resulting in about 10% more points for most awards, but sometimes for some unknown reason going down. Those of you tracking the races carefully at home will need to know that the on-site masterpoint awards printed out are approximate. (I think this applies to club games as well: what I hear in the Directors grapevine is that the ACBL IT department has decided it is too difficult to update ACBLscore, which is written in TurboPascal, a computer language nearly as dead as COBOL, FORTRAN, or ancient Aramaic, and easier to update Live for Clubs, which I presume is mostly JavaScript, the language IT people love.) Luckily, it doesn't take too long to replace the masterpoints in the file with the revised ones.
MONTHLY UNIT GAME DIRECTORS: If your club is going to hold a game, there are some guidelines and advice for running these games here

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! 2025 Winner: Hua Ying Wan, who is eligible for the 2026 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			David Huang, Burnaby BC	54.92
2	1		Julie Smith, Vancouver BC	50.11
3	2		Amy Gao, New Westminster BC	40.10
4			Yi Xiong, Lawrenceville GA	39.47
5			Felipe Hernandez, Coquitlam BC	38.91
6	3		Jane Youngberg, Surrey BC	38.08
7		1	Sam Wang, Coquitlam BC	37.84
8			Baixiang Liu, New Westminster BC	37.79
9			Kai Zhou, Burnaby BC	36.21
10	4		Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	34.49
11			Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	30.21
12			Gustav Axen, New Westminster BC	28.20
13			Kenny T K Chan, Burnaby BC	26.12
14			Aidan Ballantyne, Burnaby BC	25.15
15	5		Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC	24.66
16			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	24.08
17	6		Hua Ying Wan, Surrey BC	22.46
18			Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	22.43
18			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	22.43
20			William Ge, Burnaby BC	22.37
21			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	21.18
22			Barry Yamanouchi, Burnaby BC	20.83
23	7		Sandra Robson, New Westminster BC	20.75
23	7		Angela Taylor, Nanaimo BC	20.75
25	9		Diana Jing, Surrey BC	20.40
26			Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	20.32
27			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	19.64
28			Robert Gerrie, Richmond BC	19.28
28	10		Aban Gerrie, Richmond BC	19.28
30			Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC	18.20
31			Julien Levesque, Burnaby BC	17.58
32			Jack Lee, Richmond BC	16.85
33	11		Mojgan Shad, West Vancouver BC	16.36
34			Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	16.25
35			Khosrow Shad, West Vancouver BC	15.93
36			Arun Chopra, Surrey BC	15.72
37	12		Linda Palm, Surrey BC	15.65
38			Cecil T C Chan, Portland OR	15.64
39	13		Lisa Li, Surrey BC	14.03
40			Andrew Krywaniuk, Burnaby BC	13.84
41		2	Marco Wong, Richmond BC	13.49
42	14		Jennifer Hong, Burnaby BC	13.43
43			William Ju, Vancouver BC	12.03
44	15		Myra Johnston, North Vancouver BC	11.67
44	15		Anne Smith, NW Minister BC	11.67
46			Abdul Fakih, Calgary AB	11.60
47	17		Monica Woods, Surrey BC	11.39
47			Michael Roberts, Victoria BC	11.39
49	18		Xiaojing Deng, Richmond BC	11.23
50			John Demeulemeester, Burnaby BC	10.86
51			Xiaoming Shen, Richmond BC	10.70
52			Jack Qi, North Vancouver BC	10.55
53			T Brian Zaugg, Burien WA	10.53
54			Michael Ainsley, Victoria BC	10.50
55			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	10.27
56			Al Warner, Vancouver BC	10.04
57	19		Debbie Martignago, Port Coquitlam BC	9.93
58	20		Kathy Adachi, Surrey BC	9.77
59	21		Jin Mei Luo, Burnaby BC	9.72
60			Paul Sontag, Chilliwack BC	9.23
61			Nigel Fullbrook, Delta BC	9.18
62			David Waterman, Surrey BC	9.15
63			Anssi Rantamaa, Vancouver BC	9.09
64		3	Patti Gies, Vancouver BC	9.05
64		3	Karen Cochlan, Vancouver BC	9.05
66		5	Keith Stevenson, Vancouver BC	8.91
67			George Meng, White Rock BC	8.89
68			Andy Hellquist, Strathmore AB	8.81
69	22		Adrianne Wurz, North Vancouver BC	8.77
70	23		Frances Corney, Vancouver BC	8.46
71			Rex Tu, Bellevue WA	8.44
72			Dariusz Matus, Surrey BC	8.33
73			Paul Yip, Richmond BC	8.31
74			Xiangdong Meng, Surrey BC	8.25
75			Jack Johnson, Surrey BC	8.20
76	24		Pat Hodgson, North Vancouver BC	8.01
77		6	Xiang Guang Ding, Surrey BC	7.92
78			John Bryden, Surrey BC	7.64
79			Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	7.58
79			David Wei, Vancouver BC	7.58
81	25		Isabel Chernoff, Surrey BC	7.38
82	26		Karen Inglis, Surrey BC	7.30
83		7	Effie Cheung, Surrey BC	7.19
84		8	Imran Raza, Surrey BC	7.17
85	27		Robin Adams, Surrey BC	7.15
86	28		Kathy Dreisinger, Delta BC	7.14
87			Stan Christie, Kirkland WA	6.98
87			Ray Miller, Seattle WA	6.98
89		9	Qiao Li, Burnaby BC	6.96
90	29	10	Jane Lutman, North Vancouver BC	6.91
91			Vern Porter, North Vancouver BC	6.54
91	30	11	Janice Porter, North Vancouver BC	6.54
93			Don Gurski, Surrey BC	6.51
93			William Ophoff, Surrey BC	6.51
95		12	Jim Chen, Bellevue WA	6.30
96	31		Hong Helen Chang, White Rock BC	6.25
97			Michael Christensen, Seattle WA	6.24
98		13	Bob Zoltok, Surrey BC	6.21
98		13	Orest Kubrak, Surrey BC	6.21
100			Qi Wu, Vancouver BC	6.10
100	32	15	Maria Irvine, Burnaby BC	6.10
100		15	Maria Ria Lawson, New Westminster BC	6.10
		17	Cindy Chan, Vancouver BC	5.98
	33		Lana Chow, Vancouver BC	5.88
	33		Joyce Tokarek, Vancouver BC	5.88
	35		Maryellen Gallo, Surrey BC	5.57
	36		Lucy Zhong, North Vancouver BC	5.54
	37		Cristina Jacob, Vancouver BC	5.42
		18	Hirschel Wasserman, Vancouver BC	5.37
		18	Geoffrey Goldman, Delta BC	5.37
	38		Vicki Moffatt, Surrey BC	5.37
	39		Juan Xu, Coquitlam BC	5.36
	40		Colleen Perry, North Vancouver BC	5.31
	41		Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	5.30
	42		Judy Chang, Vancouver BC	5.15
	43		Sherrie Shorman, Maple Ridge BC	4.92
	44		Margaret Pattison, North Vancouver BC	4.84
	45		Christine Walter, Vancouver BC	4.66
	46		Gita Sheikholeslami, Vancouver BC	4.60
	47		Diane Ayukawa, Richmond BC	4.49
		20	David Dreisinger, Delta BC	4.49
	48		Glenda Affleck, North Vancouver BC	4.47
	48	21	Eloise Carbone, Vancouver BC	4.47
	50		Judy Christensen, Surrey BC	4.40
		22	David Xu, Vancouver BC	4.20
		22	Tony Y N Shyu, Coquitlam BC	4.20
		24	Wendy Yoshida, Vancouver BC	4.05
		25	Zhengyuan Gu, Burnaby BC	4.03
		26	Ken Klakowich, Delta BC	3.71
		27	Brenda Maclean, Vancouver BC	3.57
		28	Joy Oxton, Vancouver BC	3.42
		29	Wade Carpenter, Burnaby BC	3.35
		30	Byron Stewart, Vancouver BC	3.28

MUG Race	Flt. B ( < 2500 )	Flt. C ( < 1000 )	Player	MPts
1	1	1	Cecil T C Chan, Portland OR	13.03
1			Kenny T K Chan, Burnaby BC	13.03
3			Gustav Axen, New Westminster BC	12.70
4			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	12.16
5			Julien Levesque, Burnaby BC	11.52
5			Nigel Fullbrook, Delta BC	11.52
7			Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	11.15
8	2		Felipe Hernandez, Coquitlam BC	10.51
9	3		Theodora Friedman, Richmond BC	7.42
10	4	2	Hua Ying Wan, Surrey BC	5.84
11	5	3	Marco Wong, Richmond BC	5.35
12			Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC	5.03
13			Susan Peters, Vancouver BC	4.84
13			Doug Hansford, Surrey BC	4.84
15			David Huang, Burnaby BC	4.66
16			Sandi White, Vancouver BC	4.24
17	6	4	Shirin Samii, Vancouver BC	4.20
18	7	5	Xiang Guang Ding, Surrey BC	4.05
19	8		Ted Dagan, Richmond BC	3.87
20			Julie Smith, Vancouver BC	3.81
21			William Ju, Vancouver BC	3.63
22	9		Avril Karr, North Vancouver BC	3.49
23			Tai Eng, West Vancouver BC	3.37
23			Kenneth Ramsay, Coquitlam BC	3.37
25	10	6	Moira Bradford, North Vancouver BC	3.34
25			Lily Lesiw, Oceanside CA	3.34
27			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	3.18
27	11	7	Sheila Van De Velde, Vancouver BC	3.18
29			Joel Fuhrman, Kirkland WA	3.12
30			Andrew Nalos, Vancouver BC	3.11
31	12		Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	2.98
32	13		Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	2.74
33			Vicki Moffatt, Surrey BC	2.72
33	14		Thomas Davis, North Vancouver BC	2.72
33			Isabel Chernoff, Surrey BC	2.72
36	15		Ernst Walti, Vancouver BC	2.71
37	16	8	Cindy Chan, Vancouver BC	2.70
38	17		Barry Yamanouchi, Burnaby BC	2.47
39	18		Andrew Krywaniuk, Burnaby BC	2.41
40	19	9	Robert Sewell, Vancouver BC	2.39
40			Holly Wan, Coquitlam BC	2.39
40	19	9	Gordon Keller, Vancouver BC	2.39
40	19	9	Juan Xu, Coquitlam BC	2.39
44	22	12	Victoria Silk, Vancouver BC	2.37
44	22	12	Alison Donoghue, North Vancouver BC	2.37
46			William Osten, Richmond BC	2.19
47	24		Peter Altridge, W Vancouver BC	2.17
48	25	14	Jane Lutman, North Vancouver BC	2.14
48	25	14	Keith Stevenson, Vancouver BC	2.14
50			Effie Cheung, Surrey BC	2.11

Rocket Rookie Race	Player	MPts
1	Keith Stevenson, Vancouver BC	11.05
2	Jane Lutman, North Vancouver BC	9.05
3	Xiang Guang Ding, Surrey BC	8.55
4	Karen Cochlan, Vancouver BC	8.16
5	Marco Wong, Richmond BC	8.12
6	Patti Gies, Vancouver BC	7.54
7	Sheila Van De Velde, Vancouver BC	7.34
8	Kathy Dreisinger, Delta BC	7.14
9	Qi Wu, Vancouver BC	6.76
10	Hirschel Wasserman, Vancouver BC	6.70
11	Shirin Samii, Vancouver BC	6.62
12	Janice Porter, North Vancouver BC	6.54
12	Vern Porter, North Vancouver BC	6.54
14	Don Gurski, Surrey BC	6.51
14	William Ophoff, Surrey BC	6.51
16	George Meng, White Rock BC	6.25
16	Hong Helen Chang, White Rock BC	6.25
18	Orest Kubrak, Surrey BC	6.21
18	Bob Zoltok, Surrey BC	6.21
20	Maria Irvine, Burnaby BC	6.10
20	Maria Ria Lawson, New Westminster BC	6.10
22	Geoffrey Goldman, Delta BC	5.37
23	Qiao Li, Burnaby BC	5.33
23	Jin Mei Luo, Burnaby BC	5.33
25	Effie Cheung, Surrey BC	5.29
26	Frances Kammermayer, Vancouver BC	5.18
27	Anssi Rantamaa, Vancouver BC	4.89
28	Gabor Sandi, Vancouver BC	4.72
29	Christine Walter, Vancouver BC	4.66
29	Bill Walter, Vancouver BC	4.66
31	David Dreisinger, Delta BC	4.49
32	Joy Oxton, Vancouver BC	4.48
33	Alison Donoghue, North Vancouver BC	4.37
34	David Xu, Vancouver BC	4.20
34	Tony Y N Shyu, Coquitlam BC	4.20
36	Diana Tchakalian, Vancouver BC	3.85
37	Roger Annis, Vancouver BC	3.84
38	Lily Lesiw, Oceanside CA	3.83
39	Colleen Perry, North Vancouver BC	3.75
39	Susan Craven, North Vancouver BC	3.75
41	Cindy Chan, Vancouver BC	3.64
42	Brenda Maclean, Vancouver BC	3.57
43	Eric Promislow, Vancouver BC	3.52
43	Gita Sheikholeslami, Vancouver BC	3.52
45	Daphne Fortin, Surrey BC	3.44
45	Louis Fortin, Surrey BC	3.44
47	Siu Kwan Leung, BC	3.36
47	Caleb Meyer, Victoria BC	3.36
49	Moira Bradford, North Vancouver BC	3.34
50	Debra Sutherland, Burnaby BC	2.65
51	Robert Sewell, Vancouver BC	2.56
52	Jane Gray, Vancouver BC	2.52
52	Paul Gray, Vancouver BC	2.52
54	Linda Simmons, Vancouver BC	2.42
55	Gordon Keller, Vancouver BC	2.39
55	Holly Wan, Coquitlam BC	2.39
55	Juan Xu, Coquitlam BC	2.39
58	Victoria Silk, Vancouver BC	2.37
59	Yan Luo, Surrey BC	2.28
60	Reza Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	2.25
61	Byron Stewart, Vancouver BC	2.15
61	Gene Nagy, Vancouver BC	2.15
63	Caroline Patterson, Vancouver BC	2.08
64	David Drake, Vancouver BC	1.97
64	Leo Kevin O Farrell, Vancouver BC	1.97
66	Sylvia Males, Vancouver BC	1.95
67	Rajindra Krishnan, Vancouver BC	1.88
68	Bruna Giacomazzi, Surrey BC	1.80
68	Ken Trevisanutto, Thunder Bay ON	1.80
70	Wendy Yoshida, Vancouver BC	1.74
70	Ginger Chiew, Vancouver BC	1.74
72	Lori Chong, Burnaby BC	1.72
73	Mitra Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	1.62
74	Maureen Casey, Vancouver BC	1.56
74	Louise Labuda, Vancouver BC	1.56
76	Prashant Pandit, N Vancouver BC	1.55
76	Meredy Townsend, W Vancouver BC	1.55
78	Teresa Elder, North Vancouver BC	1.51
78	Julie Mussenden, Vancouver BC	1.51
80	Ernst Walti, Vancouver BC	1.45
81	Mahshid Esfandiari, Vancouver BC	1.28
81	Sandra Stepien, Vancouver BC	1.28
81	Imran Raza, Surrey BC	1.28
84	Hua Ying Wan, Surrey BC	1.18
85	Kathleen Jones, Vancouver BC	1.10
85	Paul Daltrop, Vancouver BC	1.10
87	Maggie Rusinek, New Westminster BC	1.05
87	Grzegorz Kaznowski, Port Coquitlam BC	1.05
89	Ron Remick, Vancouver BC	1.00
89	Larry Kahn, Richmond BC	1.00
91	Karen Wells, Maple Ridge BC	0.97
91	George Wood, Maple Ridge BC	0.97
93	Jael Emberley, New Westminster BC	0.89
94	Ron Chong, Burnaby BC	0.83
95	Marguerite Ethier, Vancouver BC	0.82
95	Jan Bos, Vancouver BC	0.82
97	Carol Linda Ward, Vancouver BC	0.79
97	Eiler Eis, Vancouver BC	0.79
99	Linda Eng, Vancouver BC	0.77
99	Catherine Pallen, Vancouver BC	0.77