Month: January 2022

As he undertakes his new mandate, Region 13 Director Tim White has sent out a letter to all Region 13 members (or at least those who have a valid email address registered with ACBL) explaining how he sees his role and priorities over the next three years.

If you haven’t received it, you can read it here.

On January 1, 2022, Tim White officially became Regional Director for ACBL Region 13, which comprises Districts 18 and 19.

He sends us a very comprehensive report from the National Board Meeting in Austin which you can download as a pdf here
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Two items may be of particular interest to clubs and players:

1) Improvements in information technology, including:

• Completing the tournament event pre-registration system.
• Moving Trax application to cloud-based application.
• Moving ACBLScore to a web-based application.

2) A revamped convention card, debuting mid 2022 and featuring these changes:

• Seldom-used conventions have been removed and commonly-used conventions added.
• Recent changes in alerts and announcements are reflected.
• The One Club and One Diamond open bid sections have been expanded, providing more room to address different minor suit openings.
• The right side of the card has been reorganized, with bids shown in ascending order of strain

The new card can be downloaded here.