What's new this year

Ebulletins

This year, in an effort to save money and simplify the process, the daily bulletin is being emailed early in the morning to everyone who played during the previous 48 hours. Assuming, of course, that the ACBL database has your correct email address. (If it doesn't, update it ASAP.)

If you don't have email, or you didn't play, you can access all the bulletins through the Denver website: www.denverbridge.com>Results>Regional Bulletins.

Note: This is our first time doing this. I'm asking for forgiveness in advance for any glitches.

Results

As always, you can get game results at the playing site a few minutes after the game ends. You also have two electronic options:

- Check your email for a message from ACBL Live.
- Go to live.acbl.org. From there, you can enter your name and get your individual results, or you can drill down to the game and see the complete result set.

Results will NOT be available via BridgeResults, and there will not be a link to results from the Denver bridge website.

Schedule changes

One of the first things that happens after every regional: People get together to analyze what went well and what could be improved. At the two most recent Denver regionals, the Daylight Pairs overwhelmingly outdrew the 1:00 and 7:00 Open Pairs. Also, it seemed that starting a new KO every day was resulting in dilution of the events.

So, this year, we're trying something new! Actually, several things new:

- Rather than running two-session events at 1:00 and 7:00, we're running two-session events at 10:00 and 3:00.
- For people who want to play at night, there's a Fast Pairs game every night, and two-session team games that run on consecutive evenings. Except for the first night, all evening games start at 7:30.
- There is no KO overlap. If you didn't happen to advance in your KO (due to extremely bad luck, of course), there are single-session Swiss games and bracketed team games to keep you occupied until the next KO starts.

Please let us know how you like it. We want to make you happy:) Find one of the Denver board members, or send an email to tournamentchair.denverregional@gmail.com.