ASIA PACIFIC BRIDGE FEDERATION CONGRESS FUKUOKA 2012
SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS
1. General
2. Tournament Officials
3. Systems and Defenses
4. Procedures and Restrictions
5. Board Duplication and Fouling
6. Scoring, Correction Periods and Appeals
7. Ties
8. Substitutes
9. Forfeits and Withdrawals
10. Timing and Procedural Penalties for slow play and late arrival
11. Format – APBF Congress Teams Championships
Appendices1. Official Session Times
2. Teams Qualifying Draws
3. Team numbers
4. VP Scales
5. Internet addresses for Regulations and Convention Cards

1. General
1.1 This Congress is conducted by the Japan Contract Bridge League (JCBL) under the auspices of the Asia
Pacific Bridge Association (APBF) as the Regulating Authority. The events are held under the 2007 Laws of
Duplicate Bridge, the APBF General Conditions of Contest for APBF Championships and Congress March2011 version and these Supplementary Regulations. In case of conflict between the General Conditions ofContest and the Supplementary Regulations, the Supplementary Regulations will apply.
1.2 The venue for all events is Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, Fukuoka, Japan.
1.3 The APBF Congress will consist of three events:
1. APBF Open Pairs Championship
2. APBF Congress Teams Championships
3. Fukuoka Mayor’s Cup (Open Teams) and TV Nishi-Nippon Cup (Open Pairs)
The A P B F Teams Championship will be played in four divisions: Open, Women’s, Senior and Youth.
1.4 English is the official language of the APBF Congress. During a session players may converse only inEnglish unless both captains (Teams), and all four players at the table (all other events) agree to use someother common language at their own risk. Appeals based on misunderstanding in a language other thanEnglish will not be entertained.
1.5 Participants in the APBF Congress agree that all or portions of the event may be filmed, recorded,
otherwise documented and/or publicized at the discretion of the Tournament Organizer.

2. Tournament Officials
The Tournament Organizer is Tomoya Yamaguchi.
The Chief Tournament Director (CTD) is Richard Grenside.
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3. Systems and Defenses
3.1 Each pair shall have two current WBF systemically-identical system cards on the table for the opposing
pair before the start of each round.
3.2 Subject to the following, the provisions of the WBF Systems Policy will apply to all events:
3.2.1 Green, Blue and Red systems are permitted in all events. Yellow (HUM) systems are not permitted.
3.2.2 Brown Sticker conventions will be permitted only in Semi-Finals and Finals of the Teams
Championship.
3.2.3 Psyches protected by system and classified as Brown Sticker by the WBF are not permitted for any
event.
3.2.4 Psyches of conventional and artificial openings are not permitted in any event
3.3 During the auction, pairs may use written notes of a defense to a Brown Sticker convention and Multi-2C/2D
providing they comply with the following regulations and Clause 2.4a of WBF System Policy:
3.3.1 A written defense must be typed or written in black ink on one side of an A4 sheet and be identical foreach player. Two copies must be submitted to the opponents at the start of the match.
3.3.2 During the play period, a player may only refer to the written defense in order to answer a question fromthe opponents.
4. Procedures and Restrictions
4.1 Smoking is permitted only within the areas as designated by Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk. In the Teams
Championship, no player may leave the playing area in order to smoke or consume alcohol before the end of
any match or stanza. In the Pairs event, players may smoke between the sessions only.
4.2 Mobile telephones, pagers and other electronic equipment (including ipods, headphones, etc) may not be
brought into the playing area during session time, except with the express permission of the CTD.
4.3 Players, team officials and spectators are not permitted to bring alcohol into the playing area during
session times.
4.4 Bidding boxes will be used at all tables.

5. Board duplication and Fouling
5.1 Pre-duplicated boards will be used in all events. Identical boards are used for concurrent events.
5.2 A ruling that a board was fouled (Law 87) must be sought within the correction period (see 6.5). A boardthat does not correspond to the hand record is not necessarily defined as “fouled”.
6. Scoring, Correction Periods and Appeals
6.1 Table results must be entered on the BridgeMate provided at each table. All players at the table areresponsible for verifying the accuracy of any information recorded.
6.2 Pairs qualifying events are scored across the field.
6.3 For the purposes of Law 86A, awards of average plus or average minus are set at plus or minus 3 IMPs
respectively for the Teams Championships.
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6.4 The (Law 79C) correction period in all events expires 30 minutes after the official finishingtime of the subsequent session, or 30 minutes after the official finishing time of the current stage ofan event (i.e. after the Pairs Qualifying, the Pairs Finals, Teams Qualifying, Teams Semi-Final, orTeams Final), whichever time period is shorter. Official session times are listed in Appendix 1.
These times and correction periods may be altered at the discretion of the CTD.
6.5 A request for a Director’s ruling, an appeal against a Director’s ruling or a request for review
of a Director’s ruling must be notified to the CTD within 30 minutes of the official finishing time ofthe session in which the board was played. This time may be altered at the discretion of the CTD. In
the case of an appeal or a request for review, a duly completed appeals form must be lodged with the
CTD within 30 minutes of the posting of scores for the session in which the ruling was made. All
appeals or request for review must be lodged by the Team Captain, or a member of the pair in Pairs
events. When lodging an appeal, the appellant must deposit US$50 (¥5,000) with the CTD. Thisdeposit will be refunded unless the Committee determines that the appeal was without merit, inwhich case the deposit will be forfeited and paid to a charity nominated by the APBF President.
7. Ties
7.1 Ties will be broken for awarding of prizes.
7.2 Ties will be broken for the purposes of qualification into the Pairs Finals or to the Teams SemiFinals or Teams Finals. The loser of any tie-break will assume the next lower rank.
7.2.1 Pairs: Scores are tied only if they are identical. If a tie needs to be broken, the winner is thepair with the highest score in its best Session played at that stage. Further ties are broken likewise.
If there is still a tie, the highest score in two Sessions is decisive. This applies both in thequalifying stages and in the final.
If a tie (or ties) still exists the remaining tie (or ties) shall be broken in favor of the pair whoscored the most match points against the highest ranking pair or pairs that all the tied pairs played
against. Should a tie still exist, the foregoing procedure shall be used with the next highest ranking
pair or pairs and so on until the tie is broken
7.2.2 Teams Qualifying: Ties for positions 1 and 2 will be resolved by the IMP Quotient of allmatches played by the teams concerned.
7.2.3 Teams Semi-Finals: Ties for Final will be resolved in the following order until broken:i) Total Pointsii) Two board play-off until broken

8. Substitutes
8.1 Substitutes will be permitted for cause (with the consent of the CTD).
8.2 A substitute may not be an entrant in the current stage of an event, but may be an entrant
who was eliminated in a previous stage. The substitute must satisfy any requirements of the divisionin which she/he is substituting (ie. Women’s/Senior/Youth).
8.3 In allowing substitutes, the rights of the other contestants and the integrity of the event will beconsidered.
8.4 The CTD may make emergency substitutes where necessary to ensure the orderly progress of thegame. In the case of emergency substitutions, the CTD determines whether and on what terms
the unit will be permitted to continue. The CTD may, at his discretion, award adjusted scores to the3unit and their opponents, allow the unit to continue without further restriction, or disqualify the unit
from the event. The decision of the CTD may be appealed to the Tournament Appeals Committee,
or the CTD may, without first making any ruling, refer the matter to the Tournament Appeals
Committee for judgment.
9. Forfeits and Withdrawals
9.1 In the case of a forfeit in the Teams Championships, after the final round, the non-offendersscore will be adjusted to whichever of the following is the highest:* 18 VPs; or* The mean score of the non-offenders in all their completed matches; or* 30 VPs minus the mean VP score for the completed rounds of the offending team or pair (toa maximum of 25 VPs).
The non-offender's IMP score will be the mean of the range of the VPs
allocated.
9.2 In the Teams Qualifying, if a team withdraws (for whatever reason) before two-thirds of therounds (rounded down) in that stage have been completed, all scores for all completed matches
involving the withdrawing team shall be deleted. The opponents of the withdrawing team shall beawarded 18 VPs for that match. If the team withdraws after two-thirds of the rounds (roundeddown) in that stage have been completed, all previous scores will stand. Matches still to be played
against the withdrawing team will be treated as forfeits and scored as above. For the purposes ofthis regulation, a team which is disqualified shall be deemed to be a withdrawing team.

10. Timing and Procedural Penalties for slow play and late arrival
10.1 Timing: For the Teams Qualifying and Pairs, the time allocated per board will be7 minutes. For
the Teams Semi-Finals and Finals, the time allocated per board will be 8.5 minutes. In the Teams
Qualifying, boards on which play has not been commenced 5 minutes prior to the end of the official
finishing time for the session may be withdrawn from play at the discretion of the CTD. Any such
un-played boards will be scored with a score of 0 IMPs awarded to both sides with slow playpenalty as per reg10.3.
10.2 Late arrival:
Any team not seated and ready to play at the announced starting time of a match or a session of amatch will be assessed a penalty according to the following scale:0+ – 5 minutes latewarning to captain(s) (after the second warning the provision
for 5+ minutes late shall apply)
5+ – 10 minutes late
1 VP
10+ – 15 minutes late
2 VPs
15+ – 20 minutes late
3 VPs
20+ – 25 minutes late
4 VPs
Over 25 minutes lateat the Discretion of the Tournament Appeals Committee; may
include recommendation of forfeit of match or more severe
action by the Executive Committee.
For the above purposes, the 1st and 2nd Round Robin are considered to be separate events. Thus
any late arrival warnings issued during the 1st Round Robin are not carried over into the 2ndRound Robin
10.3 Slow Play:The time allowed for each match or session shall be computed from the time play in such match or4session is started by a Tournament Director. If play continues after the time allowed, then either orboth of the pairs shall be subject to penalty, according to the amount of delay for which such pair
was judged responsible, as follows:
Excess time apportioned to a pair0+ – 5 minutes late
1 VP
5+ – 10 minutes late
1½ VPs10+ – 15 minutes late
2 VPs
15+ – 20 minutes late
2½ VPs20+ – 25 minutes late
3 VPs
Over 25 minutes lateat the Discretion of the Tournament Appeals Committee; may
include recommendation of forfeit of match or more severe
action by the Executive Committee.
11. Format – APBF Congress Teams Championships
11.1Teams Qualifying:
The format will be round-robins of 20 board matches. Each match will be scored by IMPs
converted to Victory Points using the WBF 20 board VP scale.
11.1.1 Open: The field will be seeded into 2 groups of 15teams. Each group will play a complete
round-robin of 20 board matches. Team numbers and the draw are in Appendix 2. The two highest
placed teams in each group will qualify to the semi-finals.
In the event that exactly two teams from a NBO qualify for the semi-finals, those teams will bedrawn to play each other in the semi-finals. Otherwise, the first placed team in each group will play
the second placed team in the other group. The semi-finals will be over 48 boards, played in threestanzas of 16.
The winners of the semi-finals will play off in the final over 64 boards, played in four stanzas of
16. There will be no playoff for third place.
11.1.2 Senior’s & Youth: The fields will play a complete double round-robin of 20 board matches.
Team numbers and the draw are in Appendix 2. The four highest placed teams will qualify to thesemi-finals.
In the event that exactly two teams from a NBO qualify for the semi-finals, those teams will bedrawn to play each other in the semi-finals. Otherwise, the draw for the semi-finals will be 1st v 4th
and 2nd v 3rd. The semi-finals will be over 48 boards, played in three stanzas of 16.
The winners of the semi-finals will play off in the final over 64 boards, played in four stanzas of
16. There will be no playoff for third place.
11.1.3 Women’s: The field will play a complete round-robin of 20 board matches. Team numbers
and the draw are in Appendix 2. The four highest placed teams will qualify to the semi-finals.
In the event that exactly two teams from a NBO qualify for the semi-finals, those teams will bedrawn to play each other in the semi-finals. Otherwise, the draw for the semi-finals will be 1st v 4th
and 2nd v 3rd. The semi-finals will be over 48 boards, played in three stanzas of 16.
The winners of the semi-finals will play off in the final over 64 boards, played in four stanzas of
16. There will be no playoff for third place.
511.2 Line-ups
11.2.1 Line-ups – Open & Women’s Qualifying: The line-up for the qualifying rounds will beblind.
11.2.2 Line-ups – Senior’s & Youth Qualifying: The line-ups for Visiting Teams must be
submitted within 10 minutes after the end of each match or session; the line-ups for Home Teams
must be submitted within 15 minutes after the end of each match or session.
Captains are required to submit their line-up sheet within 10 minutes after the end of the round.
Failure to submit the line-ups on time will result in a warning in the first instance and a penalty
of 2 VPs for subsequent offences.
11.2.3 Line-ups – Finals series
Semi-Finals: The seating for Stanza 1 of the semi-final will be blind. The higher placed (or higher
scoring) team from the qualifying shall have the right of choosing to be the Away team in either
the second or third stanza. (For any stanza, the Home team has the choice of opponents for thatstanza.)Line-ups – Finals: The team winning a coin toss will have the right to choose to be the Away teamin either the first and third stanzas or second and fourth stanzas. (For any stanza, the Home teamhas the choice of opponents for that stanza.)
For the blind line-up for Stanza 1 of the semi-finals, teams must submit their line-up 10 minutes
prior to the start of the stanza. For all other stanzas, the Away team must submit their line-up at least
10 minutes prior to the commencement of the stanza, after which the Home team must submit
their line-up at least 5 minutes prior to the commencement of the stanza. In the case of latesubmission of line-up by the Away team, the Home team must submit within 5 minutes of thetime of submission by the Away team or by the official starting time of the stanza, whichever isearlier. Teams submitting their line-up after the required time will receive a warning in the first
instance and a penalty of 3 IMPs for subsequent violations. Warnings will carry- over from the SemiFinals to the Finals.
11.3 System Disclosure
11.3.1 Submission of systems prior to the commencement of the Congress is not required.
11.3.2 Pairs must make their convention cards available to their opponents no later than 10 minutes
prior to the commencement of each match by delivering them to the table at which they will play thatround. Failure to do so will be penalized at the same rate as Late Arrival (10.2)

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Appendices
Appendix 1.Official Session Times (These times may be varied at the discretion of the CTD.)
Date
August 25

Event
APBF Pairs

August 26
August 27

Teams Qualifying

August 28

August 29

August 30

August 31

September 1 Teams Semifinal

Teams Final
Fukuoka Mayor's Cup
September 2 Teams Final

Fukuoka Mayor's Cup
Television Nishinippon Cup

SessionQualifying 1
Qualifying 2
Final 1
Final 2
Qualifying 1
Qualifying 2
Qualifying 3
Qualifying 4
Qualifying 5
Qualifying 6
Qualifying 7
Qualifying 8
Qualifying 9
Qualifying 10
Qualifying 11
Qualifying 12
Qualifying 13
Qualifying 14
Qualifying 15
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Semifinal 3
Final 1
Qualifying 1
Qualifying 2
Final 2
Final 3
Final 4
Final 1
Final 2
Session 1
Session 2

Starting Time
14:30
19:00
10:00
14:30
10:00
14:00
16:40
10:00
14:00
16:40
10:00
14:00
16:40
10:00
14:00
16:40
10:00
14:00
16:40
9:00
11:30
15:15
17:45
10:00
14:30
9:00
11:30
15:15
10:00
14:30
10:00
14:30

Finishing Time
17:30
22:00
13:00
17:30
12:20
16:20
19:00
12:20
16:20
19:00
12:20
16:20
19:00
12:20
16:20
19:00
12:20
16:20
19:00
11:15
13:45
17:30
20:00
13:00
17:30
11:15
13:45
17:30
13:00
17:30
13:00
17:30

Appendix 2.Teams Qualifying – Draws
Draw for 16 teams
Round1
2 - 15 3 - 142
15 - 1 13 - 3
3
1 - 14 2 - 134
13 - 1 14 - 2
5
1 - 12 2 - 116
11 - 1 12 - 2

4
14
4
15
3
9

- 13
- 4
- 15
- 3
- 10
- 3

5
11
5
9
4
10

- 12
- 5
- 10
- 5
- 9
- 4
7

6
12
6
10
6
15

- 11
- 6
- 9
- 6
- 15
- 5

7
9
7
11
7
13

- 10 8 - 9 1- 7 10 - 8 16
- 12 8 - 11 3
- 7 12 - 8 16
- 14 8 - 13 5
- 7 14 - 8 16

- 16
- 2
- 16
- 4
- 16
- 6

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8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

1
9
1
7
1
5
1
3
1

- 10
- 1
- 8
- 1
- 6
- 1
- 4
- 1
- 2

2
10
2
8
2
6
2
4
3

9
2
7
2
5
2
3
2
4

3
11
3
5
3
7
5
7
5

- 12
- 3
- 6
- 3
- 8
- 3
- 8
- 5
- 6

4
12
4
6
4
8
6
8
7

- 11
- 4
- 5
- 4
- 7
- 4
- 7
- 6
- 8

5
13
10
15
9
13
9
11
9

-

14
5
15
9
14
9
12
9
10

6
14
11
13
10
14
10
12
11

-

13
6
14
11
13
10
11
10
12

Draw for 12 teams
Round1
2 - 10 3 - 112
11 - 1 10 - 3
3
1 - 10 2 - 11
4
9 - 1
7 - 2
5
1 - 8
2 - 9
6
7 - 1
8 - 2
7
1 - 6
2 - 3
8
5 - 1
4 - 2
9
1 - 4
2 - 6
10
3 - 1
5 - 2
11
1 - 2
3 - 4

4
8
4
8
3
9
5
6
3
4
5

-

9
4
7
3
7
3
4
3
5
6
6

5
9
5
10
4
10
8
9
7
11
7

- 7
- 5
- 8
- 5
- 11
- 4
- 10
- 7
- 10
- 7
- 8

6
7
6
11
6
11
9
11
8
9
9

-

8
6
9
6
10
5
11
10
11
8
10

1
12
3
12
5
12
7
12
9
12
11

-

12
2
12
4
12
6
12
8
12
10
12

Draw for 8 teams
Round
1
1 - 8
2
7 - 1
3
1 - 6
4
5 - 1
5
1 - 4
6
3 - 1
7
1 - 2

3
5
3
7
5
7
5

-

6
3
8
3
8
5
6

4
6
4
8
6
8
7

-

2
8
2
6
2
4
3

-

-

7
2
5
2
3
2
4

8
15
12
14
12
15
14
15
13

-

5
4
7
4
7
6
8

Appendix 3.Team numbers
Open Teams
GROUP A
Number Name
1
Pan-China Construction
2
Japan C'est si bon
3
Japan welcome Kyushu
4Singapore RYLAI
5
Japan NON PROBLEM
6
China Hong Kong Spark
7
CBLT1
8
Beijing BEIH

GROUP B
Number Name
1
Beijing Dazhong Investment
2
Korea GLPD
3
Japan sacrum
4
Australia KLINGER
5
CBLT2
6
Japan Gahhahha Honpo
7
Japan MIURA
8SHENZHEN NANGANG
8

15
7
13
12
15
11
15
13
14

7
16
9
16
11
16
13
16
15

-

16
8
16
10
16
12
16
14
16

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10
11
12
13
14
15

Japan SAYN
China Geely automobil
Australia Yarralumla Yabbies
Japan KM AT
KuwaitJapan City Bridge
Beijing Jinghua

9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Women’s Teams
Number Name
1
Shenyang Olystar
2
Japan Shimamura
3
Japan Takeuchi
4Australia Women
5
Japan Merci
6
Japan Naito
7
Japan Sugino
8
Japan Misotoma
9Australia BOURKE
10
Korea Alpha
11
Japan Evolution
Senior’s Teams
Number Name
1
Japan Lycaon
2
Chinese Taipei
3
MAGIC EYES THAI
4
Japan PSbridge
5
Japan NOSE
6
Japan YAMADA
7
China Shanxi elderly
8
AUSSIES
Youth Teams
Number Name
1
Shanghai Weiyu
2
CHN RDFZ 1
3
Japan Youth K
4
Beijing Yindi
5
Chinese Taipei
6
CHN RDFZ 2
7
Japan Youth A
8Japan Youth B

Appendix 4.Victory Point Scales
9Japan well fitted
Beijing Evertrust Group
Singapore/Malaysia SMJ
Japan TANAKA
China Hong Kong VICO
Japan Papas & Puppies
HYX CHINAVPs
15 - 15
16 - 1417 - 1318 - 1219 - 1120 - 1021 - 922 - 823 - 724 - 625 - 525 - 425 - 325 - 225 - 125 - 020 Boards
0 - 2
3 - 8
9 - 1213 - 16
17 - 21
22 - 26
27 - 31
32 - 36
37 - 41
42 - 47
48 - 53
54 - 59
60 - 65
66 - 72
73 - 79
80 -Appendix 5.Internet addresses for Regulations and Convention Card
WBF Systems Policy
http://www.worldbridge.org/departments/systems/policy.asp
WBF Alerting Policy
http://www.worldbridge.org/departments/systems/alerts.asp
WBF Convention Card
http://www.worldbridge.org/departments/systems/cce.asp

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