::MadeSix::
Monday, January 4, 2010
Johnathan has a good point, I haven't been posting. (oops)
For our recent competitions.....
National Bridge Handicap Team Championships 12-13 Dec
Well nothing much to say really, we got owned pretty bad. But hey, it's how you play the game right?
We couldn't even play the last 2 rounds of the first day because of a certain player shortage. So yeah, I think it's safe to say we qualified for the CONSOLES without even trying.
Consoles was pretty fun, I think we managed to almost beat 1 team.
Overall, I think getting clobbered even with handicapped is pretty sad.... So yeah, lots of work to do guys.
National Youth Team Championships 19-20 Dec
A few things I learnt from the 2 days
1) Khalid is an idiot. Albeit a funny idiot.
2) The word "Youth" is deceiving.
3) Bridge is insanely fun when you're sleep deprived.
4) Watching ur P "sweat it out" while declaring because of your insane, irrational bids is VERY entertaining. (Don't let me catch you doing it)
5) No double no trouble.
6) Trust your P. No exceptions.
7) ALWAYS consider a walkover. It's like a sac bid.
Yeah this was slightly better. Had some pretty ownage streaks. Even had Kiran declare 80% of the boards in 1 round thanks to my awesome bidding.
We maintained ~5th position for the first day and first half of the second day. Then got totally raped by the top 3 teams of the competition and bumped down to 7th. (Refer to lesson 7)
So if you take away those 3 or 4 teams who fake youth, I think we settle pretty nicely into 3rd or 4th. Heh.
Also, we beat a team who beat us a week ago at the handicaps. AND THIS WAS WITHOUT HANDICAPS! Hahahaha that felt great.
They bidded an impossible 4H. Can't remember exactly how the bidding went, but the 4H was after his P preempted. I was thinking "Where are your points!?@ Sac bid while vul?!". End up 4Hx-2 vul, 500 for us plawks. (Should have been -3.... Oops!) Stole our 4S tho, but the other side didn't bid to game so yeah thanks for 8 IMPs.
We also downed their 4S cold, which was for the lulz.
So yeah... That's what went down during the 2 comps. Hope you guys learnt as much as I did and had as much fun as I had. And many thanks to Johnathan for coming down to help with our player deficit for both competitions.
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