The NABC Robot Individual is coming! As of 2019, it awards 50% more ACBL Masterpoints than in previous years. Registration opened June 28 (Friday) and if you register early you receive a $6 discount. If you played the 2019 Spring NABC Robot Individual, you get another $6 discount. Read the NABC info page for details.
What’s the NABC Robot Individual like? You don’t need to guess. Try the free NABC Practice Tournament this weekend (June 29-30) to see for yourself. You’ll find the NABC Practice Tournaments in the ACBL WORLD section of BBO this weekend.
Tournament Conditions of Play:
- These practice tournaments are free and use advanced robots. Click here for the robot system notes.
- ACBL membership is required. Click here to check if BBO has your ACBL number on file.
- Each tournament is 12 boards, Matchpoints scoring.
- The moment you register, and then launch the tournament, you have 18 hours to complete your set of hands for the day.
- Unplayed boards are scored as 0 (zero).
- You need to play at least 1 board each day to advance to the next day.
- Not everyone will be dealt the same boards.
- You need to play each day to progress to the next day. To spell it out – You can’t play on Sunday without playing on Saturday.
- At the end of each day, you will receive a leaderboard with “mock masterpoints” that will show you what you would have earned had this been the real NABC. These are not real points.
Prizes:
We’ll give out 4 free entries to the actual NABC Robot Individual (July 13-15), as follows:
- Free entry to the winner of NABC Practice tournament – Day 1
- Free entry to the winner of NABC Practice tournament – Day 2
- Free entries to 1st place and 2nd place overall
- If a free entry winner already has registered to the NABC Robot Individual, their entry fee will be refunded
- If the overall winners have already won free entry in one of the previous sessions, the prize goes to next place overall (3rd, 4th, etc.)
How to join the practice tourneys?
Click ACBL WORLD and look for the ACBL NABC Practice Tournament.
Comments
32 responses to “NABC Practice this weekend: June 29-30”
Is there a fixed ending time for the tournament days, such as 11:59pm Eastern, which applies independent of the 18 hour per session time limit?
Yes. All tournaments end at midnight US Eastern Time. So you have to complete the hands within 18 hours since you started or before the tournament closes, whichever comes first.
None of the links work on my ipad
Try the web page, there’s a problem with opening links in-app. Open your browser (Safari, Chrome) and visit http://www.bridgebase.com. Tap Login/Register to log in as usual. The links will work there. Sorry about this, it’s some sort of iOS limitation, we’re looking for a workaround.
May I play those free tournaments ? my ACBL number 9433025. Kindly let me know.
@badal the number is not valid. Check again on the ACBL website: acbl.org
Interesting. I was told the entry fee would be discounted if I played in the last one. But I see here the entry fee is shown as discounted only by $6, the early bird discount, not by $12, as it should be.
@wuudturner if you played the Spring NABC Robot Individual you get an extra $6 discount
Diana, like the previous poster, I was charged $44, though I played in the Spring Nationals online tourney.
Original we were told if registered early and played in spring tournament, we would only pay $30 for summer event. Why are we now being charged $38. Very misleading and false information.
@MawJ you were charged $38. We’ll try to add a hack that shows prices differently soon, to make it more clear who gets the extra discount.
Where do I sign up for the practice session on the 28th and 29th? I don’t see them on the schedule.
@Austin the practice tournament is June 29-30, it will show up on Saturday
what is GIB?
GIB means robot, that’s what the bridge playing software used by BBO is called.
Where is the registration link please
Click *ACBL World*, and the first two tournaments in the list are the NABC Robot Individual, and the NABC Practice. Click the one you want to register to, and you’ll see a button saying Register.
Hi… my ACBL membership had just expired and I renewed yesterday, but it’s still not allowing me to play this nor to sign up for the tournament. Happy to provide the receipt. Anything I can do?
@antonio try now please. We processed your membership expiration date by hand so you can catch the practice event.
I see that now the price shows the full discount for me. Thanks for fixing it. As otherwise, people will be confused, even if they would have ended up with the proper discount.
@wuudturner Glad to hear it now works and you see the pricing that applies to you. You’re right, they were confused 🙂
Having trouble accessing the free practice tournament
@pasta4 did you play Day 1, on Saturday?
I played in Day 1 and got my simulated results, but the Day2 event is not available to me. Why?
How do I find out my results from the practice hand yesterday?
@sueswimmer you should receive your results in bbo mail (Messages > Mail) and also in ACBL World -> Completed tournaments. Click the NABC Practice Day 1 tournament and you will see the results.
Is it 4 four free entries in total or 4 free entries per stratum?
Will “real” master points be awarded at a later point in time for these practice games as was done at the spring version?
@anon there will not be real masterpoints, just the mock-points. Mixing acbl daylong style real points with NABC points was confusing last time, so we’ll simply use the practice tourney as they were intended: to give players an idea of what the real event will be like. The points you see in the NABC Practice leaderboard are not real points. They are what the real NABC would have awarded, had this been the NABC Robot Individual.
It’s 4 free entries in total for this one: 1st place day 1, 1st place day 2 and places 1&2 overall. There will be more free entries awarded as prizes for Practice 2.
How do I find winners for day one practice?
My NABC tournament last are all messed up. I did Day 1and received my results, but Day 2 is not available. Instead the actual NABC tournament is Yellow (active) and I get an error if I try to play. Please fix!
Never mind. Looks like I played Day 2 early by mistake, thinking I hadn’t played Day 1. It occurred around midnight.