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Traveling sheet is a form used for recording individual results on duplicate bridge tournaments. In pairs tournaments, every deal is placed into boards and played several times by different competitors, unchanged. The results are entered into traveling sheets, which are placed in board pockets. At the end of the tournament, traveling sheets are gathered and the tournament is calculated (results compared) in order to determine the winners.
A traveling sheet usually has the following entries, that should be filled in by competitors:
A traveling sheet on a 5-table matchpoint tournament, on board no. 1. Entries filled by competitors are colored blue, and entries filled by the calculating staff in red:
NS | EW | Contract | By | Made | Lead | Score | MP/IMP | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NS | EW | NS | EW | ||||||
1 | 1 | 4♠ | N | = | ♥x | 420 | 5 | 3 | |
5 | 4 | 4♠ | N | -1 | ♦x | 50 | 0 | 8 | |
4 | 2 | 3♠ | S | +1 | ♥K | 170 | 2 | 6 | |
3 | 5 | 4♥! | W | -3 | ♠A | 500 | 8 | 0 | |
2 | 3 | 4♠ | N | = | ♣J | 420 | 5 | 3 |
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