STaC Week!

Sectional Tournament at Club Week

Twice each year you can earn SILVER points,

merely by playing in the local club games.

All masterpoints awarded are silver!

The sanction number is ST 0902006

Contact information that may be useful for directors, club owners:

Director in Charge (DIC)

Jay Albright

phone: 614-891-3817 & 614-634-3014 email: jalb@insight.rr.com

District 8 event coordinator 

Mike Tomlianovich

new phone: 309-825-5823

new email: mjtomlia@gmail.com (new email)

new address: P.O. Box 5864,Bloomington,IL 61702-5864

Club directors and players, see below for important Conditions of Contest.

Next 2009 STaC Week: 

November 2 (Monday) - November 8

STaC Explained

Plan now to play in your local club in District 8's twice annual Sectional-Tournament-at-Clubs (STAC). All club games that week can award sectional silver points to winners and runners-up in all three flights.

Masterpoint awards: The STAC event offers 12 different sessions -- a day and an evening session on each weekday, plus day only sessions on Saturday and Sunday. In addition to the silver-point section awards at each site, each session will be scored across the District for overall awards. 

Stratification : Open Pair games will have three strata — A: 1500+;  B: 0-1500;  and C: Non-Life Master (0-500). Clubs can also run stratified novice pairs and victory-point team games.

Entry fees: Sanction fee to the club is $6 per table, so expect to pay an extra $1.50 over your club's regular entry fee. Proceeds help fund the Advocate newsletter , the District finals of the North American Pairs and Grand National Teams, and other District 8 activities. And it is still less expensive than a "weekend Sectional."

Online results :  District-wide results from each session will be updated on the STAC website. 

Game sites: Call your club manager for details on the STaC games in your area.

Conditions of Contest:

1. 12 events, 2 events each of Monday through Friday

• (1 day side& 1 evening), plus 1 event each of Saturday day side and Sunday day side, will be held.
• Results submitted for a Saturday or Sunday evening game will be returned.
• All events are stratified open pairs or swiss teams:
  • A: open B: <1500 masterpoints C: NLM <500 masterpoint
  • Any game file not rated correctly will be corrected by the DIC. The minimum number of pairs in direct competition at your club for the lowest strata level to award section masterpoints is two. All pairs at each club will be eligible for the overall awards regardless of the number of pairs in your game.
  • When scoring your game, do NOT ask for overall results. Overall results are done ONLY by the DIC! For swiss team events, you may enable overall ranking.
  • No player may play in a game that will cause his/her name to be entered in any event more than once. The DIC will use the 1st game played to select the entered game.

2.Each club field must be seeded as much as possible.

3. All open games will be eligible for District 8 overall awards.

• Invitational games will be handled as single-session side games.
• Limited masterpoint games will be scored and ranked as stand-alone events unless a similar limited game is held during the same playing session.
• If you hold a limited masterpoint game during STaC week, please make every attempt to coordinate with other clubs so fields can be properly combined.
• Invitational games may be OPENED if you wish to participate in overall awards.
• Swiss games get a full rating with each swiss site scored and ranked separately.

4. All masterpoints awarded will be silver.

5. Disputes/rulings not handled at the club level will be handled by the DIC where all rulings are final. The DIC will be available by telephone during and immediately after each session for that session.

6. The club manager is responsible for reporting game results to the DIC within 36 hours after the game is over.

• Taking time for a correction period and game auditing is encouraged.
• Reporting game results can be done by:

a. emailing to the DIC a backup copy of the ACBLScore game file

b. phoning the DIC with game results

• If your club uses ACBLScore, then emailing a backup copy of the ACBLScore game file is required.
• When creating your game file, use the sanction number displayed on the first page of this document.
• The subject of the email needs to have District 8, Unit 143, and your club number.
• The club level correction period is over as soon as the game file is sent to the DIC or results are reported to the DIC. Only 1 game file is to be sent to the DIC. Replacement game file submissions will be rejected by the DIC.
• Final standings for each event will be posted on the web site 36 hours after the end of each event. Since standings will be published promptly after each event, players, directors, and club managers are NOT to phone the DIC nor the event coordinator for status. Final standings for each event will be posted on the web site as soon as possible after the end of the 36 hours reporting period. At the end of the week's events, a masterpoint race total for the week will be prepared and posted on the web site.

Practice email messages to the DIC during prior to STaC week are encouraged. Email any backup game file to the DIC. The DIC will inspect the file sent and reply by email if the file is ok or if an additional practice message is needed. Each emailed game file will receive an emailed response when the game file is processed.

7. The sanction fee is $6 per table; $1.50 per player above the regular club entry fee.

Clubs in: Northern Indiana unit 154, Central Illinois unit 208, Southern IL/Paducah unit 223 are not to be concerned about the sanction fee since their respective units will pay the sanction fees. Each other club manager is to mail a check by the Wednesday following the last event of the week, made out to "District 8 STaC" for the total sanction fees for all sessions held during the week. All payments are to be sent to the event coordinator (NOT the DIC!).  Delinquent payments are NOT condoned! If any payment cannot be made by the cutoff, prior arrangements with the event coordinator MUST be made.

8. Club managers are encouraged to hold a STaC week game during regularly sanctioned game time periods. Plus, club managers may hold as many additional games during the week at any time as they wish. No special sanction is required.

9. Let's have the biggest & best STaC week district 8 ever had!   Schedule your games now!!