The mission of the ACBL is to serve the bridge-related interests of its members and to promote and sustain the game of bridge.
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Important Notice – New Requirements for Life Master
Help pass along the news about the upcoming changes to the Life Master requirements.
What are the new requirements?
As of January 1, 2010, the requirements for attaining Life Master status will change to 500 total masterpoints, of which, 50 must be gold or platinum, 50 red, gold or platinum, 75 silver and 75 black.
What does this mean?
If you are not a Life Master and your ACBL membership is not active as of December 31, 2009, you will be required to fulfill the new Life Master requirements. It also means that if you let your ACBL membership lapse after January 1, 2010, before you become a Life Master, the new requirements will apply to you.
So, help spread the word and let anyone not currently an ACBL member know that now would be an excellent time to join!
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 Share Your Marketing Tips and Possibly Win a Pizza Party!
ACBL’s marketing department is excited to announce a new program – Tips & Tricks - that will allow clubs and teachers an opportunity to share their marketing tips. The goal of this program is to create a dedicated area on the ACBL web site where club and teacher marketing success stories can be posted and shared for the mutual benefit of all.
To kick-off this program and make it more exciting – in exchange for sharing their marketing tips, clubs and teachers will have an opportunity to win a pizza party for their club or bridge class! Click here to learn how it works.
A club owner/manager or bridge teacher will earn one entry into the pizza party drawing for each successful marketing story or tip that they submit to marketing@acbl.org between now and December 6, 2009. The marketing tip submission should include name, phone number, club name and number (if applicable), and ACBL member number. Submit as many tips as you want – each tip submitted earns you another entry into the drawing! All marketing tips must be submitted and received by marketing@acbl.org no later than 12:00 a.m., CST, December 6, 2009, to be eligible for the drawing. The drawing will be conducted on or about December 14, 2009 and the winner will be notified no later than December 18, 2009. There’s no purchase necessary to enter – just send us your marketing tips!
To jump start this program, we’ll share a marketing tip with you:
Looking for a way to get local publicity for your club? Submit the names and photos of your masterpoint winners to your local newspaper for publishing. If the news gets published, you’ve just generated free publicity for your club or class!
Start sharing your tips and ideas with us today by e-mailing marketing@acbl.org - and be on the lookout for the Marketing Tips & Tricks forum on the ACBL web site.
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 King or Queen of Bridge
If you know of a graduating high school senior who is an ACBL member who plays and promotes bridge, then you might want to encourage them to enter the 2009 King or Queen of Bridge contest. Recent winners have been cited for outstanding tournament performances plus administrative, recreational and promotional activities related to bridge. The ACBL Educational Foundation will present a $1000 scholarship to the King or Queen of Bridge.
The 36th monarch will join some prestigious previous winners including Jeff Meckstroth, Bobby Levin, Kent Mignocchi, Joel Wooldridge and John Kranyak. To enter the contest, have the hight school senior e-mail their personal information and qualifications, along with the name of their school, the school principal, the school address and phone number, to Education@acbl.org no later than May 15, 2009.
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 What’s Happening?
Are any of your members about to celebrate milestone birthdays? Do you have any interesting bridge stories? What’s happening in your club or classes? Send your stories and/or photos to marketing@acbl.org for a possible posting on the ACBL home page.
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NAP- NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS 2009-2010
The NAP games are held during the months of June, July and August. Each club can hold two games per sanctioned session during each month. No special sanction is required. These games award 50/50 red/black 100% sectional rated masterpoints. The NAP material has been sent by e-mail to all club managers, unit and district NAP coordinators. Please read the Conditions of Contest carefully. Unit-level events begin September 1 but must be held prior to the district finals. The NAP finals will be held in Reno, NV in March, 2010. First and second place district finishers in all flights receive monetary awards that will be distributed at the tournament.
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 Reminder
If you have not yet taken advantage of using ACBL’s free weekly bridge columns, Bridge Bites, as a potential free advertising vehicle for your club or bridge class, there’s still time to sign up! Just e-mail marketing@acbl.org and we’ll send you information and put you on our distribution list.
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