Oct. 5th, 2007
I went to the UBC. That actually went very well. I met several nice people, partnered a second year who played bridge but hadn't come to ubc before, and we did very well.
It's a bit annoying, as I didn't get to *do* anything very good. We managed several very satisfying defences, (in fact, I think most of our score came from workmanlikely taking down contracts that were unfortunate or shouldn't have been in an extra trick (or four)), and I made the contracts I did play as well as I might have done, and we had a few insightful last minute overcalls, but nothing I can point to and say we were really proud of.
But mechanically it all went well. The timer was set very slow, and we finished a little bit inside it. We chatted to several nice couples passing us. We never revoked. We had one awkward moment of "2C oh shit", where I had to call the director because I had no idea what contract we'd have got into if I'd have believed it, but it turned out to be completely irrelevant because LHO had psyched a pass all the others bid to 2X or 3X and went down one, so we were due a bottom however many clubs we bid.
It's a bit annoying, as I didn't get to *do* anything very good. We managed several very satisfying defences, (in fact, I think most of our score came from workmanlikely taking down contracts that were unfortunate or shouldn't have been in an extra trick (or four)), and I made the contracts I did play as well as I might have done, and we had a few insightful last minute overcalls, but nothing I can point to and say we were really proud of.
But mechanically it all went well. The timer was set very slow, and we finished a little bit inside it. We chatted to several nice couples passing us. We never revoked. We had one awkward moment of "2C oh shit", where I had to call the director because I had no idea what contract we'd have got into if I'd have believed it, but it turned out to be completely irrelevant because LHO had psyched a pass all the others bid to 2X or 3X and went down one, so we were due a bottom however many clubs we bid.