Scottish Bridge Union: East DistrictScottish Bridge Union: East District
The Atholl Cup is the East District’s knockout pivot teams event, and entries are now being accepted by Alan Officer ( or 0131 3432560) until 9th October. Entry costs £20 per team. Each team captain plays 10 boards with everyone else in their team, making a 30 board match.
Follow the action on the Atholl Cup Wall Chart.
After last year’s extensive weather problems, the Atholl scheduling was subject to unacceptable delays. This year the committee anticipates that all teams will make every effort to complete their matches to schedule to prevent similar chaos this year! In accordance with the rules, a named substitute is permitted in the event of a team member being unable to meet any of the available dates.
Follow the action on the Atholl Plate Wall Chart.
At the November committee meeting of the East District, ways of encouraging more teams to enter the Atholl Cup in future years were discussed, and since we had a nice well rounded entry this year of 16 teams, it has been decided to run an “Atholl Plate”, for the 8 teams knocked out in the first round of the Atholl Cup. This will guarantee this year’s Atholl Cup entrants a minimum of 2 matches. A trophy will be provided for the competition.
This will be a trial event and will run this season. If it proves a success, we will look at ways in which the event might be developed further. We'll canvas opinions later in the season.
The match format will be identical to the Atholl Cup - three sets of ten boards played with each of your team mates in turn, and the calendar will run in parallel with that event. Presumably the final is likely to be a longer event, in line with the Atholl Cup.
The competition has its own fan club on Facebook!
* One of these will be designated a sub
No set dates, each round to be played within a specified period by mutual agreement. The venue is chosen by Home Captain, within reason!
The draw will be made on 10th October 2011.
Round 1 by 30th November 2011
Round 2 by 29th January 2012
Round 3 by 11th Mar 2011
Final by 19th April 2011
Entry Fee: £20 per team. Any table money due should be arranged locally on the night.
Convener: Alan Officer
0131 343 2560
The Atholl Cup is the East District Pivot Teams of Four Championship.
It is a Knock-out pivot Teams of Four where the Captain plays one-third of the boards with each of his team members. Matches consist of 30 boards (in 3 sets of 10) played at both tables, although in the Final the rules specify 48 boards should be played, though a single session of 36 may be played by agreement between the two captains.
The two Captains play against each other throughout, and their partners alternate in turn, so each team member plays with all other members over the three stanzas.
After each set of 10 boards the boards should be IMPed, and the match position tallied.
Please consult the "Guidelines for Running East District Events", and forward any necessary amendments for future reference to the Committee.
There are no particular entrance qualification requirements for the Atholl Cup other than membership of the East District. The draw is seeded for the preceding year’s Semi Finalists.
Substitute players are acceptable subject to the following:
In the event of a team winning the trophy having utilised a substitute in any match, the original four team members are seen as the winning team for the purposes of engraving and record keeping.
