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#1 User is offline   JanM 

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Posted 2007-December-03, 19:57

Just what we need, another BBO Forum B). Let's see if I can try to explain the reasoning behind it. The idea came up during the USBF Junior Committee meeting in San Francisco. We were talking about the Youth events scheduled for next year - The WBF has events for players 21 and under, 26 and under and 28 and under, all scheduled for Beijing in the first 2 weeks of October, more or less. In addition there's the FISU event scheduled for September in Poland (that's for players who are students at a university and I think under 28, but maybe under 26) and the ACBL Youth NABC for players 19 and under, in Atlanta July 3-6, and probably other events I don't yet know about. We thought it would be useful to have a place people in those age groups could go to find partners and teammates, discuss hands they'd played in Junior practice events on BBO (coming up soon - watch this space :)), and anything else you might want to do.

I'm going to start a thread on the 2008 USBF Junior trials in a moment. Hopefully I understand what we decided to do with that and then all of you can tell us how we could do better.

So, any Juniors or people who are interested in Junior bridge, please join us here.
Jan Martel, who should probably state that she is not speaking on behalf of the USBF, the ACBL, the WBF Systems Committee, or any member of any Systems Committee or Laws Commission.
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Posted 2007-December-03, 20:08

Awesome. Thanks, Jan. Good idea.
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Posted 2007-December-03, 21:09

Great idea Jan! I hope this forum works well and everyone convinces their junior friends to participate in it.
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Posted 2007-December-04, 00:59

28 here for another 10 months, does that make me youthful enough, or am I aged out of this one?
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Posted 2007-December-04, 01:27

No age limit for posting to this forum, just interest in youth bridge :).
I'm afraid that you are too old to compete in the Youth events in Beijing though - you have to turn 28 in 2008 (been born in 1980 or later) in order to be eligible for the Mind Sports events. Sorry about that, but welcome to the forum.
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Posted 2007-December-04, 02:41

I'll be 28, and my team has been planing about going for months, I really expect to be at Beijing. With a friend who plays Go :).
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Posted 2007-December-04, 04:20

I think it's a good idea to spread the word about this sub-forum. I just bumped into an Aussie youth player who maintains a popular Australian Youth bridge website and he'll add a link.

Andy Hung's website

There's also a bucket of young people playing on the site, perhaps management can add a news item.

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Posted 2007-December-05, 01:39

Wow, is this forum my 20th birthday present from BBF? :P
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Posted 2007-December-05, 06:16

Very nice new forum, Jan. Mind Sports events at the Olympics...how wonderful! :P
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Posted 2007-December-05, 13:38

Wow. I was born three weeks into the new year, on January 18, 1980. I qualify by a whisker. :P
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Posted 2007-December-11, 11:28

this forum is great news!
hopefully all junior activities on BBO will get posted here.
would also be great if the news of the existance of this forum would be shown on the BBO news so all the juniors on BBO know where to look for their events.
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