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Each club can hold two NAP (North American Pairs)
games per sanctioned session during each of the months of June,
July and August. These games award 100% sectional rated half
red/half black masterpoints.Each club can hold two NAP (North American Pairs)
games per sanctioned session during each of the months of June,
July and August. These games award 100% sectional rated half
red/half black masterpoints.
The NAP
event has been a major ACBL pair championship since 1979 and was
originally known as the Grand National Pairs. This grassroots
event is staged in qualifying rounds at the club, unit and
district levels. It culminates in a final held in conjunction
with the 2025 Spring NABC, in Memphis, TN. A player may
qualify as often as desired and with as many different partners
as desired. The contest is run as a flighted event: Flight
A (Open), Flight B (fewer than 2500 masterpoints as of the June
2024 masterpoint cycle) and
Flight C (Non-Life Masters with fewer than 500 masterpoints as of
June 2024). Please check your June 2024 Bridge Bulletin for your
masterpoint total.
The Longest Day is an annual fundraising event held to support the fight against Alzheimer’s disease by the Alzheimer’s Association. The ACBL was an inaugural global partner for this effort, and after 10 years of participating, bridge players have raised more than $9 million! (Funds raised in Canada are donated to the Alzheimer Society of Canada.)
The Longest Day is a
sunrise-to-sunset event to raise funds for the care,
support and research efforts of the Alzheimer's
Association. For 2024, face-to-face clubs can choose one day during the week of June 16-23 as their Longest Day for special fundraising games. Sanction fees from Virtual Club games during the weekend of June 22-23 will automatically be donated.
The longest day of
the year, this event asks participants to push
themselves to complete approximately 16 hours of a
consecutive activity, such as playing bridge. It's one
day to honor the strength and courage displayed by
people with Alzheimer's and their caregivers every day. Bridge is uniquely suited for The Longest Day because studies have shown that playing strategic games, like bridge, help keep your brain healthy.
Show your support
by registering your club as an official 'team', donating
to a bridge club team, participating in The Longest Day
games, or all three! You'll be honoring the more than
35 million people worldwide who are living with
Alzheimer's and countless caregivers who face this
disease. And by playing bridge, you'll show the world
there is a fun game that may help slow the onset of this
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