[bid_em_up]

barmar, on Apr 25 2008, 11:36 PM, said:

And only half the points requires to achieve LM status are allowed to be earned online.

ummm, I believe it is only 1/3 (not 1/2) that are allowed to be applied to any "rank" status.

So for Life Master, only 100 points can be colorless, the rest must be pigmented.

[bid_em_up]

Mbodell, on Apr 24 2008, 05:25 PM, said:

blackshoe, on Apr 24 2008, 04:52 PM, said:

I read in the excellent Preempts from A to Z that Sabine Zenkel (now Auken, I believe) achieved ACBL Life Master status in some 8 weeks, beating Jeremy Flint's previous (11 week, I think) record. Along the way, she had to get special permission to play in the Life Master Pairs (or some similar high level tournament) at an NABC because she wasn't a LM yet. (IIRC, she won the event). I don't know, but I would imagine that she had some experience playing bridge in her home country (Germany, I believe) before she came here. :-) It may well be that she was or could have been classified "Flight A" for ACBL events the day she arrived in this country.

That's a record that may be very hard to break as it would be pretty hard to accumulate 300 points including 50 black in <2 months while also playing enough non-club games to get the 50 silver, 25 gold, 25 red/gold, and 300 total.

Black points may be won at locations other than clubs. They are also awarded at sectionals, regionals, and I suspect, even nationals. So that 50 black points could easily be obtained while playing at one of the other higher level tournaments.

[Mbodell]

bid_em_up, on Apr 29 2008, 03:52 PM, said:

Mbodell, on Apr 24 2008, 05:25 PM, said:

blackshoe, on Apr 24 2008, 04:52 PM, said:

I read in the excellent Preempts from A to Z that Sabine Zenkel (now Auken, I believe) achieved ACBL Life Master status in some 8 weeks, beating Jeremy Flint's previous (11 week, I think) record. Along the way, she had to get special permission to play in the Life Master Pairs (or some similar high level tournament) at an NABC because she wasn't a LM yet. (IIRC, she won the event). I don't know, but I would imagine that she had some experience playing bridge in her home country (Germany, I believe) before she came here. :-) It may well be that she was or could have been classified "Flight A" for ACBL events the day she arrived in this country.

That's a record that may be very hard to break as it would be pretty hard to accumulate 300 points including 50 black in <2 months while also playing enough non-club games to get the 50 silver, 25 gold, 25 red/gold, and 300 total.

Black points may be won at locations other than clubs. They are also awarded at sectionals, regionals, and I suspect, even nationals. So that 50 black points could easily be obtained while playing at one of the other higher level tournaments.

I'm pretty sure you are wrong. I don't recall ever getting black points not at a club. Generally at nationals you get red points for non-gold non-platinum results. The ACBL page says:

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[black] points are awarded for success in sanctioned club games and unit games. There are some special events (usually conducted at clubs) that award points where some portion of the award will be in black points and the remainder will be in another color.

Even district qualifiers for "grass roots" events like NAP give red/gold points not black.

[runewell]

barmar, on Apr 25 2008, 11:36 PM, said:

And only half the points requires to achieve LM status are allowed to be earned online.

1/3 of the pts to achieve a rank can be online, not 1/2 (unless it changed recently). So only 100 online pts toward the 300 needed. Lots of misinformation. I didn't think the definition of flighted above was right either, sounds like stratified to me.
When I think flighted I think strataflighted swiss. Stratafied is everyone plays everyone, A/B/C. Strataflighted means A/X plays separate, B/C/D plays separate but the flights are stratafied. So I would think Flighted is the separation into different playing groups.
But what do I know.

[barmar]

runewell, on May 8 2008, 11:40 PM, said:

barmar, on Apr 25 2008, 11:36 PM, said:

And only half the points requires to achieve LM status are allowed to be earned online.

1/3 of the pts to achieve a rank can be online, not 1/2 (unless it changed recently). So only 100 online pts toward the 300 needed.

Yes, bid_em_up already pointed out my mistake 2 weeks ago. Thanks for reiterating that my memory isn't perfect.