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CONGRATULATIONS
LOUISVILLE 2024 COMMITTEE

The kudos keep rolling in from ACBL Management, the Board of Directors, the Advisory Council, Tournament Directors and ACBL employees, and most important of all the players on a job well done. Congratulations on a great success.

CONGRATULATIONS D11 MEMBERS!

Many District 11 members are featured in the Louisville 2024 Daily Bulletins.

CONGRATULATIONS D11 GNT Champions - Good Luck in Toronto in July 2024

JUNE 2024 - A District 11 Regional Split between Cincinnati and Evansville
Be sure to attend the site nearest you. The events between the two sites are not linked. The District 11 Board meeting will occur Monday Night in Cincinnati. The District 2023 Medallion awards will be Wednesday. The Clubs and Teachers Meeting TBA. Don't miss your best opportunity to earn gold points.

Larry Sealy, Region 7 Representative to the ACBL Board of Directors
Status Report on EDGAR - the ACBL's Computer Cheating Detection Tool

Board Report January 2024, annotated: SLIDES 2023 Fall BoD Report

ARE YOU NEW TO BRIDGE?
Check out all the great games and bridge classes available in District 11 - Just for FUN and Just for YOU! More...

D11 TOURNAMENT CALENDARS
Thanks to Tom Bishel, D11's new Tournament Coordinator, we have an interactive tournament calendar for your planning purposes. You can see a MONTHLY CALENDAR with exact dates, or a C URRENT YEAR LIST with week by week tournaments of interest. For longer range planning, you will fins the 3-YEAR LIST valuable. (Yes, you can also download a list .pdf for 1 or 3 years). This list will update as D11 tournament planning evolves. Remember, the official tournament information is on acbl.org

Are you interested in seeing how attendance at clubs and tournaments has grown since the pandemic? If so, the pages from Matt Baylow on the Rochester Duplicate Bridge Club (Minnesota) website will help. Matt extracts all data from ACBL LIVE and ACBL LIVE4CLUBS. This data is not official, but summarizes activity from what is available to the internet. This data does not include table counts from BBO ACBL games.

ACBL TOURNAMENT TABLES ACBL CLUB TABLES
These links will be available under "Useful Information"; (left) on this page.

ACBL NEWS page lists all ACBL bulletins affecting bridge rules and organization policy. Check it out!

Changes to the ACBL Cooperative Advertising Program

NEW! 5%/5%/5% Unit Rebate begins 4/1/2024. The ACBL has deployed the lapsed member contact application to Districts, Units, and clubs to support recruitment adn retention. Units will receive their customary 11% membership rebate through March 31, 2024. After that Units will receive 5%, with the option to earn up to 10% more by:
1) Submit lapsed member interview data using the application - +2.5%
2) Meet Lapsed member renewal goal (based on Unit Memberhsip) - +2.5%
3) Meet member recruitment goals - +5%
Note: Management and the Board of Directors are finalizing Unit goals and will deploy them in the first quarter 2024.
5% / 5% / 5% FAQs

SPRING 2024 ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING SUMMARY
MEETING REPORT LIBRARY

Current status of D11 Units on Retention Work:

Shark Bridge Teacher's Console is the choice for many successful Online Bridge teachers. This is the future for teaching bridge, whether online or in person! Cost is very modest and the technology creates a very enjoyable experience for students. Demo Videos

District 11 Stakeholder Workshops
Check out the workshops and audio recordings on this site. Next is the ACBL Best Practices Bridge Teachers Workshop at the next Regional TBD. Questions? Contact Siraj Haji at sirajhaji@gmail.com

Want Growth? Get behind the D11 Education Initiative! Siraj Haji is supercharging Education for District 11. Don't be left out. Make your ideas and voices heard. D11 growth depends on our success with these education initiatives.
Reference Pages: D11 Bridge Education        D11 Stakeholder Meetings
Contact Steve Moese moesefamily@aol.com or Siraj Haji sirajhaji@gmail.com