The Summer NABC Robot Individual is approaching, July 13-15, so get ready, read up on the Conditions of Contest to make sure you’re not missing something important, and – most of all – practice!
NABC Practice Tournament #2 takes place this weekend, July 6-7, and it’s almost identical to the real thing. Come play and you’ll get “mock masterpoints” at the end too, to give you an idea of how you would have done, had this been the actual NABC.
You’ll find the NABC Practice Tournaments in the ACBL WORLD section of BBO this weekend. Plan for Saturday! This is a 2 day event, so you must play each day, you can’t “catch up” later.
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.
- Each tournament expires at midnight US Eastern time.
- Unplayed boards are scored as 0 (zero).
- You need to play at least 1 board each day to advance to the next day.
- 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.
- Not everyone will be dealt the same boards.
- 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 11 free entries to the actual NABC Robot Individual (July 13-15), as follows:
- Free entry to the winners of Strats A, B, and C, respectively, in NABC Practice tournament – Day 1
- Free entry to the winners of Strats A, B, and C, respectively, in NABC Practice tournament – Day 2
- Free entries to the winners of Strats A, B, and C, respectively, in the overall results
- Two random prizes
- If a free entry winner already has registered to the NABC Robot Individual, their entry fee will be refunded
- If the Day 2 or overall winners have already won free entry in one of the previous sessions, the prize goes to next place (3rd, 4th, etc.)
How to join the practice tourneys?
Click ACBL WORLD and look for the ACBL NABC Practice Tournament.
Comments
12 responses to “NABC Practice this weekend: July 6-7”
According to ACBL, these practice tournaments award real masterpoints.
“Get in shape for FREE and win entries and masterpoints.
BBO hosts several practice tournaments before each NABC Robot Individual. Practice tourneys are free, restricted to ACBL members and award masterpoints and prizes!”
https://nabc.acbl.org/nabcrobot/
The masterpoints in free practice tournaments are not real points.
These tourneys shouldn’t be limited to ACBL members, especially when free entries are given. A non-member winning an entry could encourage them to join.
I cannot register for the practice tourn july 6-7. Very frustrating, how do you do this ? Couldn’t last week either…
@johnhbmd try now. You probably tried late Friday and the tournament wasn’t open yet.
I finished the first 12 boards this morning and now can’t figure out how to get to the second set of hands for today Any suggestions?
FDickerson
@fdickerson the next set is tomorrow, Sunday. The Practice tournaments are just 12 boards, not 24 like the actual NABC
First game froze before completion. So disappointed, I started playing late in the evening, so there’s no other chance for today
I have been getting no response to ‘click’ here for practice robots for tournament.
Very disappointed that if you miss a Saturday practice you can’t participate in the Sunday practice!! It’s all or nothing??? Why????
Sorry you missed the NABC Practice Tournament. This is a two session tournament.
The actual NABC Robot Individual is a three session tournament. That means you have to play session 1 to qualify for session 2 and you have to play session 2 to qualify for session 3.
It’s better that this happened during practice and not with the actual NABC. It wouldn’t be possible to start with session 2 there either.
Meanwhile you can practice with daylong tournaments, the format is very similar to what the real NABC will be.
I played 4 boards of session 2 last night before I went to sleep. Now I want to play the rest of the boards but it wouldn’t let me in, saying “an error has occurred.” Please advise.