[Dealing_Don]

Tyler,

This is a result of the sections that BBO sets up. I argue that sections do not make much sense for BBO tournaments which are typically only rounds. If there are 15 pair in each section, you would only play 27% of those pairs in the entire tournament. Hardly a valid reason to be in such an arbitrary grouping.

BUT...and this is a big BUT.... the way ACBL allows masterpoints to be awarded encourages sections--be they fair or not. Under the current rules if the tournament were scored as one large sedtion, there would not be many more awards in that large section as there are in each current section and the size would be approximately the same. So what BBO is doing is using the system to provide players with the maximum points allowed under the ACBL rules.

This is an ACBL issue of changing the award "tables" to keep up with technology that makes super large sections possible.