The inaugural Sarim Bowl is a contract bridge tournament for national teams. National teams, comprising of 3 pairs of players (and a non-playing coach), will compete each other in duplicate team bridge, and compete for the Sarim Bowl title. The format of this tournament is largely modeled after the Bermuda Bowl, which is a competition between national teams with no age or gender restrictions.
Format
Teams will compete against each other in a
Scorination
Scorination will be done using xkoronate, with a modified chess file generating Victory Points (instead of IMPs) margin between 2 teams.
Entry Rules
Nations will be allowed to submit one main entry and a puppet nation. Such a puppet must be declared as such.
Roleplay Guides
There is no requirements that the roleplay be bridge related. Roleplays about any topics under the sun is acceptable, though a small additional bonus will be provided for RPs that have interactions between participant nations.
Experience
I have hosted a World Lacrosse Championship, a Sepak Takraw World Cup, an Independent Associations Championship (IAC) - football tournament, a Melayu Archipelago Cup (MAC) - football tournament, and a few domestic football competitions as part of the IFCF.
Feel free to sign up below or ask any questions.
Signups
1. Poafmersia (Host Information & Roster)
2. Græntfjall
3. Gortolekua
4. Delaclava
5. Sarzonia
6. StrayaRoos
7. Kriegiersien
Cutoff Dates
By convention, the first listed team sits at North/South pairing at Sector A, second listed team sits at North/South pairing at Sector B.
Cutoff Timing: 1pm-2pm UTC time.
8th July (Fri): Round 1 & 2 (2 v 7, 3 v 6, 4 v 5, 1 bye / 1 v 2, 7 v 3, 6 v 4, 5 bye)
10th July (Sun): Round 3 & 4 (3 v 1, 4 v 7, 5 v 6, 2 bye / 1 v 4, 2 v 3, 5 v 7, 6 bye)
13th July (Wed): Round 5 & 6 (4 v 2, 5 v 1, 6 v 7, 3 bye / 1 v 6, 2 v 5, 3 v 4, 7 bye)
17th July (Sun): Round 7 & 8 (5 v 3, 6 v 2, 7 v 1, 4 bye / 7 v 2, 6 v 3, 5 v 4, 1 bye)
19th July (Tue): Round 9 & 10 (2 v 1, 3 v 7, 4 v 6, 5 bye / 1 v 3, 7 v 4, 6 v 5, 2 bye)
21st July (Thur): Round 11 & 12 (4 v 1, 3 v 2, 7 v 5, 6 bye / 2 v 4, 1 v 5, 7 v 6, 3 bye)
23rd July (Sat): Round 13 & 14 (6 v 1, 5 v 2, 4 v 3, 7 bye / 3 v 5, 2 v 6, 1 v 7, 4 bye)
25th July (Mon): Semifinals (1st vs 4th, 2nd vs 3rd)
27th July (Wed): Finals & 3PPO