Bluff City Bridge Club News
Pick-A-New-Partner Tourney
5/21/2024
Starting on Tuesday June 4th (and the 1st Tues/Wed of each month thereafter),
The BLUFF Club will be doing a Pick-A-New-Partner pairs tourney.
Here are the steps describing planned implementation:
#1 All players should place their name on the Partnership Desk
OR
#2 Choose a different member from the partnership desk each month to play with.
#3 After picking a new partner, introduce yourself. Give a little bio on yourself.
#4 Do not try to register with your "normal" partner. If you do, your registration will
be deleted and you will be nicely informed to pick a new partner.
#5 The tourney will be a normal 4 rounds with 4 Boards duplicate (NOT SWISS).
#6 Members that wish to play need to grab a partner before the start of the tourney!
Any members left on Partnership desk will be chosen first to fill ROBOTs or to SUB.
Thanks to all for your cooperation!
Final BLUFF Tourney Stats for 2023
4/20/2024
The "Stats" page has been updated for all of year 2023! Please have a look!
These are Active Member BLUFF tourney statistics for 1/1/2023 to 12/31/2023.
We had 205 Active Members in the club during 2023.
An Active Member is any member that completed at least 1 BLUFF tourney
from 1/1/2023 to 12/31/2023.
Hope you all made it to one or more of the Top 25 Lists for 2023 !
I would like to congratulate and thank the 10 Most Active BLUFFERs for 2023.
2023 (730 Total BLUFF Tourneys)
Mike (sar_anga) completed 637 tourneys
Carol (pepse4) completed 617 tourneys
Janet (jjwren) completed 604 tourneys
Shirley (cloee1125) completed 596 tourneys
Jeanie (sum_mer) completed 536 tourneys
Cecile (nightowl_5) completed 511 tourneys
Shirley (sag432) completed 489 tourneys
Bev (brr1) completed 474 tourneys
Jan (nuttibabe4) completed 466 tourneys
Barb (barbcash) completed 428 tourneys
Well Done !!! And Well Done to all our Active BLUFFERs !!!
Keep striving to get those overall Average Scores higher! You can do it !
BLUFF Tourney Stats added for 2024 (1/1/24 - 3/31/24)
4/20/2024
The "Stats" page has been updated for 1st Quarter of 2024! Please have a look!
These are Active Member BLUFF tourney statistics for 1/1/2024 to 3/31/2024.
We have 177 Active Members in the club so far for 2024.
An Active Member is any member that completed at least 1 BLUFF tourney
from 1/1/2024 to 3/31/2024.
Hope you all made it to one or more of the Top 10 Lists so far for 2024 !
I would like to congratulate and thank the 5 Most Active BLUFFERs so far for 2024.
2024 (182 Total BLUFF Tourneys)
Janet (jjwren) completed 162 tourneys
Carol (pepse4) completed 160 tourneys
Mike (sar_anga) completed 157 tourneys
Elaine (laerastill) completed 141 tourneys
Shirley (cloee1125) completed 136 tourneys
Well Done !!! And Well Done to all our Active BLUFFERs !!!
Keep striving to get those overall Average Scores higher! You can do it !
BLUFF Active Member Rankings as of 1/1/2024 are posted.
4/20/2024
The "Rankings" page has been updated as of 1/1/2024! Please have a look!
The rankings are based on all BLUFF tourneys for 2022 and 2023 (cumulative).
To be included in the current INDY ranking tables,
the BLUFF Member must have completed 100+ INDY tourneys from 1/1/2022 - 12/31/2023.
To be included in the current PAIRS ranking tables,
the BLUFF Member must have completed 100+ PAIRS tourneys from 1/1/2022 - 12/31/2023.
Keep striving to move up in rank during 2024!
More importantly, keep your % change from previous ranking going higher
(GREEN .. not RED). You can do it !
New Member Requests
4/20/2024
To sponsor a new member to be approved (or disapproved) to the BLUFF City Club:
#1. You must be an "Active" Member and have played an
average of 5 Bluff tourneys per month for the last 6 months.
#2. You can only sponsor 1 new member every 6 months.
#3. The new member you are sponsoring must have played in at least
10 other BBO tourneys over the last 3 months. You need to
partner with the new member as often as possible before
referring for membership.
#4. The new member you are sponsoring MUST have their Name,
Skill Level, and System/Conventions they play entered on
their BBO Profile. Skill Level must be Intermediate or Advanced.
Having Name or Skill Level set to "PRIVATE" is unacceptable.
#5. The new member must not have a ACBL #/rating greater than 8.
#6. To sponsor a new member send an email to
The email MUST include the following:
Your BBO Name
The New Members
Real Full name
BBO Name
Their Email Address
A few lines stating why you want this new member
added to the Bluff City Club.
Please do not ask the Active TD about sponsoring a new member!
Just send an email as indicated.
#7. The Bluff City COOP will process the new member request in a
timely manner and approve or disapprove the new member request.
If approved, the new member will receive an email welcoming her/him
to the club, You as the sponsor will receive a copy of the email as well.
If disapproved, an email will be sent to you as the sponsor stating the
reason the new member request was disapproved.
Thanks to all for cooperation in adding new members.