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The festival has tournaments suited for everyone. From bronzetournaments with handicap to international teams of very high class and of course most Swedish national finals.

Signup

Normally there is no signup required, you just take a seat at one of the tables in the tournament and wait for it to start. There are however some exceptions:
  • Chairman’s Cup, latest 25 july 8pm. Signup
Note: The bronze and silvertournaments could be full, in which case first in first served is applied.

Inside Conventum

Prepayment
New for this year is that you're able to prepay your starting fees. By doing so, you get a lower cost than paying at the table. Prices prepaid are (all prices in SEK) 80 for bronze, 150 for silver and 250 for the goldtournament. If you pay att the table the cost is 100, 200 and 300.

"Festivalklippet"

If you buy this, for 300SEK, you're granted free play in every tournament the last 3 days. You choose yourself which ones you wanna play, whether it be a bronze, silver or the goldmine tournament. You may not use it as payment in the national finals. Besides playing for free, each "Festivalklippet"-card works as a ticket in a lottery with daily prices from our sponsors wheter you play or not.

Point leagues

Compete in the race for winning: Best Bronzeplayer, Best Silverplayer and Best HCP-player.

Best HCP-player:

5 out of 7 HCP-tournaments counts.
Prizemoney: 1500-1000-500.
Results

Best Bronzeplayer:

9 out of 13 bronze-tournaments counts.
Pricemoney: 3000-2000-1000.
Results

Best Silverplayer:

4 out of 6 silver-tournaments counts.
Pricemoney: 5000-3000-1000
Results

All leagues end at Thursday evning. Pricegiving cermony at 10pm.

 

THE GOLD MINE

The festivals big pairtournament(except National Pairs). It's played as a swiss over 42 boards on Saturday, dividing the field into groups of 16. The final on Sunday is played over 30 boards, facing all 15 other pairs in your group and with a carry-over from the swiss.

Each group plays for goldpoints and groups A-J for prizemoney.

Pricemoney: 1 000 SEK to each groupwinner in groups B through J
The rest of pricemoney is divided to the top 5 in group A.

Example: At 160 pairs playing the swiss the pricemoney in group A would be:
16 000 SEK - 8 000 SEK - 4 000 SEK - 2 000 SEK - 1 000 SEK.

PROGRAM

In summary, this is the program of the festival.

Three bronzetournaments/day. At 10AM, 2.30PM(HCP) and 7PM
One silvertournament/day, from Friday 26th of July to Friday 1st August with start at 3.30PM (Tuesday 2PM)
Chairman's Cup starts on Saturday 27th of July and ends on Thursday 1st August.
3-4th Agust there's a goldtournament - the Gold Mine.
National finals are spread out through all 10 days.

Feedback

Our swedish Bridgefestival is one of the largest bridgearrangements and it's also one of Swedens largest annually recurrent arrangements. We are growing for each year and nothing indicates it will change in the coming years. We're allways interested in your oppinions on the festival and suggestions on how to improve it.

Send your thoughts to Micke Melander, mme@svenskbridge.se..