<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://448/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Folks,<div><br></div><div>Please see Russ Jones' response below. As all events Friday in Feb will be pairs, there would be no award reductions based on # of boards.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">D10D-Russ Jones <<a href="mailto:District10Director@acbl.org">District10Director@acbl.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: MP Awards Question Please</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">October 10, 2017 6:49:45 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Tim White <<a href="mailto:trkwhite@gmail.com">trkwhite@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div dir="ltr"><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Tim,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Sorry for the late response, but I was away yesterday. The formula for pair games does NOT reduce the awards based upon the number of boards. There is a slight reduction in team games when the number of boards are reduced below 24.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Hope that helps,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Russ<br></div></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 734px; "><div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tim White <<a href="mailto:trkwhite@gmail.com">trkwhite@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, October 9, 2017 11:40:14 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>D10D-Russ Jones<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>MP Awards Question Please</font><div> </div></div></div><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Hi Russ,<br><br>(I would normally ask this question of Matt Koltnow, but he is wrapping up the Seaside, OR regional and I need an answer quickly.) I'm U446 (Seattle) President. We have our monthly board meeting this evening and must finalize session times for our Feb sectional so we can get flyers completed and printed to put out at our Oct sectional. I understand you are the expert on MP awards provisions. <br><br>In our Feb sectional, for the first time we will be having 3 sessions on Fri. Allowing for set up time Fri AM, and breaks between sessions, this puts the squeeze on session start times. It might be that some sessions (and particularly limited-MP events) might have to be limited to 24 or fewer boards to fit it all in. Is there a minimum number of boards required in open and/or limited-MP events of sectionals in order to avoid a reduction in MP awards?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Tim White<br>Seattle U446<br>cell: 206-979-9041</span></font></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>