Unit 161 Tournaments
GNT
New Clubs Join Unit 161
Hope and Pine Bluff have joined Unit 161. Please welcome these clubs. If anyone in these club wishes to have their games uploaded or any content on their web page changed, PLEASE contact the Unit Webmaster (see link at the bottom of this page). It goes without saying that all clubs in the Unit have the same opportunity.
299er Tournament
August 28-29-30 299er Tournament update:
The tournament was a tremendous success!! We had 301 tables of bridge played compared to the last 2 full HSV sectional's attendance (299er part only) of 208 and 178. WOW!! The attendees had a lot of fun, and the tournament was profitable. Attendees came from 8 states, including 220 from Arkansas (134 from HSV, 33 from Little Rock, 8 from Jonesboro, 6 from Hot Springs, 5 from Fairfield Bay, 4 from Mountain Home, 3 from Fort Smith, and the rest from all over the state), 22 from Texas, 17 from Tennessee, 5 from Missouri, 4 from Mississippi, 2 from Louisiana, 1 from Oklahoma and 1 from Georgia. The average player played over 4 sessions of bridge over the 3 days!
As always, having a successful tournament depends on a large number of volunteers to contribute their time. We would like to thank again that wonderful group of committee chairs and their dozens of helpers who so generously donated in total hundreds of hours. We did something new this time, our life masters donated their time to caddy for the 299ers, which not only saved us money but it was great for the 299er players to see that all of us at the VCC have something big in common -- a love of the game of bridge; also for the 299ers to see how much fun the LM's had seeing the enthusiastic response to the tournament from the 299ers.
Ned Irving & Ginna DeThomas, Tournament Chairs
Education Liaison
Attention Unit 161 clubs: The Education Liaison from the Unit 161 Board to your club for 2009 is Dick Heil. Please contact him at: Home Tel # 501-753-3097, Cell # 501-529-6404, E-mail heil@sbcglobal.net
The primary functions of the Educational Liaison are:
Promote Educational Programs throughout the Unit at the Unit and Club Level.
Administer the Unit’s Educational reimbursement policy, and to help coordinate with the District their Educational reimbursement policy.
Use the available resources of the ACBL to develop a cadre of accredited Bridge Teachers.
Develop and implement programs for the advancement and improvement of teaching techniques.
Assist Clubs in the development and implementation of New Player Development programs.
Preface
The Board of Directors of Unit 161 have generously provided the
smaller clubs in the Unit a web presence. Each club will be provided
the opportunity to upload game results. If each of the clubs
would provide a representative to act as a liaison with the
Unit Webmaster , it would be greatly appreciated. I am going to start each club
with some general information and a game schedule. The game schedule
can be used to view the weekly game results.
The liaison will check the web pages associated with his/her
club, contact the webmaster with corrections, and provide any
change in content that the club may desire.
Each club has access to a 'Game Upload Page' just
for that club. Via this page, the game results provided by ACBLscore
can be uploaded to the web site so all the players can view the
results from home or any other Internet connection.
Richard Robertson, Unit Webmaster