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3rd World Online University Team Championships
January 2012
PRESS RELEASE (January, 24, 2012)
The Australian team of Griff Ware (ANU), Ellena Moskovsky (USyd), Stephen Williams (ANU/USyd), James Higgins (ANU) and Sebastian Yuen (ANU) are the defending champions and it would be great to see Australia strongly represented again.
If you fit the fairly broad criteria of being aged 17-28 and are either at university or a year pre or post, you are encouraged to form a team and have your captain submit your entry by email to kubakasprzak@o2.pl (with copy to geert.magerman@telenet.be). The closing date for entries is 21 December 2011 and the competition will start in January 2012; most likely with a group stage to reduce the field to a suitable size for a straight knock-out format.
If you are just a single pair or even a single player and are interested in playing, please send your details to Dave Thompson (dave@amontay.com) who will see if he can assemble one or more multi-campus teams.
Website: www.unibridge.eu
Details (supplied by Geert Magerman,Technical Delegate FISU Bridge):
- It is a knock out competition (see item 1 below) on internet between countries where the schedule is determined by draw. We will start by playing in groups, followed by a knockout final stage.
- A country can enter an unlimited number of teams. Your team must be composed of between 4 and 6 university players and a captain must be indicated. For each player, you must enter: name, surname, birthday, nationality, university or high school, country.
- Both captains have some time (see item 2 below) to schedule and play a match of 32 boards. The result must be sent directly after the match to kubakasprzak@o2.pl (with a copy to geert.magerman@telenet.be)
- Results will be published on www.unibridge.eu and on the facebook account "Uni Bridge".
- Participants must meet the following conditions: - being at a university or high school (or 1 year after or before studies) - being between 17 and 28 years old - having the nationality of the country he or she represents.
After receiving all entries and after the draw, we will inform each captain by the next match.
We rely on fair play and friendship from all participants, important values for FISU and WBF. Any violation against fair play will not be accepted and have severe consequences. At the request of any Captain, Kuba can be the Tournament Director during the match.
- first we will play in groups then knock out stage
- we will know exactly when we will know how many teams will start