The 43rd edition of the Tonči Radelja Memorial - BBO InterCity League (Tonči Radelja ICL) will start on Wednesday, 5 March 2025: it will be played each week and always on Wednesday (21.00 Paris, 8pm London).
In order to register, just send an email with the name of the team (a town or city) and the name and the BBO username of the captain to Paulo. All this should be done by Saturday, 1 March.
Don't be late, or you would run the risk of missing the places with the best panorama!
The Tonči Radelja ICL is the BBO international online team championship established in 2004 by the late Tonči Radelja, a Croatian professor of mathematics who loved the Bridge and used it as a tool to become friends. So wrote Tonči several years ago:
"Think of this as a night in your local club: be friendly and enjoy meeting old/new friends at the table".
Thereby, being friendly to our partner and opponents is the first and most important victory we can get here.
The format is by round robin round and knock-out stages. The teams are divided in groups; the best ones of each group, usually about 50 per cent of the participants, but no more than forty teams overall, will advance to the knock-out stage.
There aren’t limits to the number of players: each captain can line up as many players as he likes, but players that haven’t played the round robin shouldn't be employed in the knock-out stage, unless the team couldn't complete the foursome.
The mandatory playing time is on Wednesday starting at 20:45-21:00 CET (20:00 GMT), unless both captains agree for different time or day; but displacements should be only done exceptionally.
Paolo Enrico Garrisi