2020 Mixed USBC CANCELLED

The 2020 Mixed USBC has been cancelled because the WBF will not hold a World Championship before summer of 2021.

Location & Dates

The 2020 Mixed USBC will be held at the Schaumburg, IL Hyatt Regency, starting sometime. Room rate for the MUSBC is $136 per night, including internet; there is no early departure fee. You can make a reservation for any or all of the 2020 USBCs at our online reservation page, or by calling Hyatt at 877-803-7534 and mentioning USBF. You may be able to find a lower AAA or Senior rate on the Hyatt website. If you have any problems with hotel reservations, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and she will try to straighten things out. The cut-off date to make reservations at our rate is ???, but the online site will remain open after that and reservations will be accepted as long as the hotel has available rooms.

Eligibility

Each team must have at least 2 men and 2 women and may have no more than 3 players of either gender. Each pair at the table must consist of one man and one woman.

Entry Information

Entries are now open. To assure entry in the 2020 Mixed USBC, you must enter your team by June 1, 2020. Additional entries will be accepted until ???, but only if they do not change the dates of any stage of the event or cause the Round Robin to have a "bad" number of teams.

Entry Fees

There will be an event entry fee of $360 for each team. In addition, each team pays session fees of $600 for the 2-day Round Robin and additional session fees of $200 per session of play ($400 per day) for KO matches. $960 is collected at the time you enter the event: this is the event fee and session fees for the Round Robin. The event fee and session fees are refundable if you withdraw from the event.

Format

There will be 3 or 4 stages: if there are 9 or more teams entered, the first stage will be a 2-day Round Robin to select the 8 teams that will play in the Quarterfinal; if there are 5-8 teams entered, the first stage will be a Round Robin to select the 4 teams that will play in the SemiFinals; the other stages will be 120 board Knockout matches.

system forms

Each pair is required to submit a System Summary Form two weeks before the event. To create or edit a SSF, first log in to this site, then click on "Create or Edit SSF" under the User Menu, which appears in the left hand column when you log in. You can either create a new form or copy an old one. If you have any problems, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and she will try to help.

 

Each pair is also required to submit an ACBL convention card two weeks before the event. We haven't yet been able to set up a way for you to upload your ACBL convention card or link to a BridgeWinners card online, so please either share your BridgeWinners card with Jan or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. the "print" URL from your BridgeWinners card or a PDF or JPG version of your convention card to Jan, and she will upload and link. If you sent Jan a convention card or link last year and it's the same for this year, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and let her know to copy that card or link to this year. Thanks.

 

If you are playing a method that is allowed under paragraph 3 or paragraph 7 of Opening Bids on the new Open+ Convention Chart, and there is not now an ACBL approved defense fo the method, you must submit a full description of the method and a recommended defense at least 4 weeks before the start of the MUSBC. Our software no longer allows you to create an Advance Submisstion Form online, but you can download the form as a Word document and use it as an outline of the information you should submit. Complete it, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and she will convince the website to see it as an ASF and link it to your SSF. She will also send it to the USBF Conventions Committee for review. If the committee has not rejected it within 1 week of submission, it is accepted and you may play the method and must bring the recommended defense to the table with you.

Relevant Dates

4 weeks before the event: Final day to submit Recommended Defenses for any paragraph 3 or 7 methods.

Probably about 2 weeks before the Open USBC starts: Last day to make hotel reservations and be assured of receiving our hotel rate. The hotel may honor the rate for later reservations, but is not required to do so.

Monday, June 1st: Final day to enter and guarantee that you can play in the MUSBC

2 weeks before the event: Final day to submit System Summary Form and ACBL Convention card. Penalty for late submission is loss of seating rights in one segment of a KO match (starting with the first match the team plays) per day that either the SSF or Convention Card is late. SSFs will be reviewed by a subcommittee of the ITTC and rejected if not adequate.

A few days before the event: Last day for roster changes without Credentials Committee approval.

Seeding, Setting the Bracket

The teams will be seeded for KO play after completion of the Round Robin. The Round Robin winner will be assigned bracket position 1 and entitled to choose their Quarterfinal opponent from the teams that finished 5-8 in the Round Robin. The second place team in the Round Robin will be assigned bracket position 2 and will be entitled to choose their Quarterfinal opponent from the remaining teams that finished 5-8. The teams that finished 3rd and 4th in the Round Robin may choose to make themselves available to be selected by the teams that finished 1st and 2nd. After the 1st and 2nd position Round Robin finishers have selected their opponents, the remaining teams will be ordered in Round Robin finish order, the top two teams will be randomly assigned bracket positions 3 & 4; the remaining 2 teams will be randomly assigned bracket positions 5 & 6. If the first KO stage is the SemiFinals, the Round Robin winner will be assigned bracket position 1 and be entitled to choose their SemiFinal opponent from the teams that finished 3rd and 4th in the Round Robin (the team that finished 2nd may make itself available to be chosen).

Results

When the event has started, you will be able to click here to get to the results page for the MUSBC. Once there, you can click on the stage of the event in which you are interested.

Available Documents

Special Conditions of Contest for the 2020 MUSBC in PDF format

Conditions of Play for the 2020 MUSBC in PDF format will be linked after entries have closed.

2020 General Conditions of Contest in PDF format.

ACBL Convention Charts in PDF Format; the Open+ Chart will apply for USBF events.