[BudH]

I see in the recent New Orleans Spingold that winning two matches and advancing to the round of 16 was worth 50 masterpoints (65 teams entered in Spingold, 38 in Mini-Spingold, 28 in Mini-Spingold II).

Can someone tell me what the masterpoint award is for winning ONE 64-board match and making it to the round of 32 this year?

[rogerclee]

Pretty sure it's 25

Edit: Oh I guess this year it was different since there were only 65 teams (so they started with the round of ~64). Maybe you need two match wins to get an overall award; pretty harsh! In years where there is a first-day round with most of the top teams getting a BYE, you get 25 for making the round of 32.

It looks like for making R32 this year all you got was a match win, apparently 5 (did this recently go up?)

[TimG]

I think they would have listed 17/32 in the final results if they made the overalls and got 25 masterpoints, so my guess is that it's just whatever a match award is. Maybe that's 25 for the Spingold, but I'd guess something lower.

EDIT: Maybe I'm wrong...

Quote

VANDERBILT & SPINGOLD - 1st 250 - 2nd 180 - 3/4 125 - 5/8 80 - 9-16 50 17/32 25
Match Award - 6.00

There is specific mention of a reduced award for some events when minimum table requirements aren't met, but not for Spingold and Vanderbilt.

[tgoodwinsr]

My team was 9th/16th in the 1981 Spingold, winning a 1-out-of-3 three-way in Rd 1 and then two regular matches in Rds. 2 & 3. I don't remember how many teams entered the event, but it was obviously more than 64 (and fewer than 128). Can you guess what this was worth to our team in terms of masterpoints?







Answer: 12.50. I believe the winners that year got 125.00, but I could be mistaken about that.

[Phil]

tgoodwinsr, on Aug 11 2010, 08:55 PM, said:

My team was 9th/16th in the 1981 Spingold, winning a 1-out-of-3 three-way in Rd 1 and then two regular matches in Rds. 2 & 3. I don't remember how many teams entered the event, but it was obviously more than 64 (and fewer than 128). Can you guess what this was worth to our team in terms of masterpoints?







Answer: 12.50. I believe the winners that year got 125.00, but I could be mistaken about that.

The Spingold and Vanderbilt are also much more international now than they were in 1981.

I have heard from a source (reliability unknown) that the Spingold and Vanderbilt were, at one time, only open to North Americans. I don't know if this is true, and if it were, what the rational was.

[jjbrr]

I believe the answer is ~5 MPs

not sure what the others are talking about tbh

[tgoodwinsr]

I don't know, either, whether the Vanderbilt and Spingold were ever restricted to Americans. One of them, the Spingold, is officially the "Masters" team championship, which means you must have 100+ ACBL masterpoints to be eligible to play. (There was a time when 100 masterpoints meant something.) Maybe that kept some foreign players out.

[mike777]

i remember my pards telling me how master points are taken away every year....



300 current pts are a lot...in a lifetime...

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