[Tola18]

Guys.
How are the ACBL-tournaments organized?
I understand they are pay-tournaments, but otherwise I dont know much.

Do they play for the US-master-points? Can all paying players participate?
DO the US-federation, ie ACBL, gets money from these tournaments?
Are these tournaments hard to arrange?

There are perhaps other federations then US having already such tournaments??


If yes to most of the points, is it possible for other national federations to do something similiar?
Taking Sweden as an example among all other:
The swedish federation giving its blessing to some tourneys. Getting in return a substanial part of the fee from the participating players. Top 1/4 players getting the swedish master-points, in bronze, but perhaps even in silver...



Please, tell me...

[awm]

I think ACBL has arranged a special program with BBO for the tourneys. They are directed by ACBL directors and run according to ACBL rules (or some approximation thereof). They do award ACBL masterpoints. Anyone can play in them, but in order to get the masterpoint award you have to be an ACBL member.

Other bridge federations can do something similar -- I'm pretty sure the Italian bridge federation has already done so (BBO Italia) and others may as well.

[barmar]

ACBL online masterpoints are treated similarly to club game (black) masterpoints, except that they have a limit on the number of online points that may be used towards any of the masterpoint ranks (this was done to appease people who worried that there would be rampant cheating in order to become Life Master easily). BBO is the "club", and they pay sanction fees for the games much like any RL club (although presumably less per table, since they only charge $1 for 12 boards -- RL clubs typically charge about 3 times as much).

[Tola18]

Tx a lot Barmar and Awm for info.