2019 Unit 430 Masterpoint Races as of December 8

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The three lists below include the following trophy races:

LIST ONE: Sectional Trophy Races

The Phil Wood Trophy goes to the overall masterpoint leader in a calendar year, who wins free plays to all open sectionals in the next calendar year. 2019 Winner: Cam Doner
The Edie Bonnell Trophy goes to the masterpoint leader in a calendar year among female players, the winner receiving six free plays to open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2019 Winner: Katrin Litwin
The Phil Wood Under 200 Trophy goes to the player with the most masterpoints who began the year under 200 masterpoints, the winner receiving six free plays to open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2019 Winner: Qiang Hua
These three trophy races include only points won at the four open sectionals of each year. You'll be listed if you are in the top 100 of the Phil Wood race, or the top 50 of the Edie Bonnell race, or the top 30 of the Phil Wood under 200 race.
The Leo Steil Trophy goes to the overall masterpoint leader in a calendar year among players 65 or older. In my younger and crazier days I would actually ask the Phil Wood leaders and try to determine who was old enough. When enough people looked at me like I was some sort of degenerate I decided to stop doing that, and now we simply ask eligible players (born in 1953 or earlier for the 2019 contest) who are in contention to quietly claim the prize, which is six free plays for open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2019 Winner: unclaimed

LIST TWO: Monthly Unit Game Trophy Races

The Monthly Unit Game Trophy goes to the player with the most masterpoints in Monthly Unit Games (usually the first Saturday of each month, 7pm at the VBC), the winner receiving free plays to all Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2019 Winner: Ben Takemori
There is a B flight of the Monthly Unit Game Race which goes to the player under 2500 points with the most points in Monthly Unit Games. 2019 Winner: David Huang
There is a C flight of the Monthly Unit Game Race which goes to the player under 1000 points with the most points in Monthly Unit Games. 2019 Winner: Sidney Yang
If there is a tie, the tied players share the prize. No player can win more than one prize, but can win parts of prizes from different flights, as long as the parts add up to no more than one prize.

LIST THREE: The Rocket Rookie Race

The Rocket Rookie Race tracks all Unit-run events and counts only masterpoints won by non-Life Masters playing only with other non-Life Masters, with two exceptions: 1) Mentor-Mentee game masterpoints count for non-Life Masters even if their mentor is a Life Master, but only count at 50% rounded up: an award of 1.11 would add 0.56 RRR points to a non-Life Master's total, and 2) You become ineligible to win RRR points when you become a Life Master, except that the Flight B/C IMP League continues to count even if you became a Life Master during the event. The prize is (you guessed it) six free plays for the next calendar year at open sectionals.
The difference between the RRR and the Phil Wood Under 200 is that the under 200 race is usually won by a newer player playing with a Life Master in open games. The RRR smokes out the non-Life Masters most ready to move up into the open game! 2019 (repeat) Winner: Qiang Hua

ALERT: to be eligible to win a prize for any race (including the Unit ones mentioned here, and the ACBL-wide ones some of us track every night...) you need to be a paid up member of the ACBL by the time the race ends. (We're OK if you joined mid-year.) However, for year-long races with a masterpoint limit, what counts is how many you had at the start of the year. Unit 430 also reserves the right to restrict limited awards for players who have had significant experience in another National Bridge Organization before joining the ACBL.

THE LISTS:

Phil Wood	Edie Bonnell	P.Wood Under 200	Player	MPts
1			Cameron Doner, Surrey BC	100.76
2	1		Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC	81.17
3	2		Yue Su, Vancouver BC	73.12
4			Larry Pocock, Vancouver BC	71.03
5			Aidan Ballantyne, Burnaby BC	69.40
6			Alex Hong, West Vancouver BC	66.92
7			Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC	64.55
8			Donald Sache, West Vancouver BC	57.85
9			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	55.15
10			David Waterman, Surrey BC	54.23
11	3		Monica Angus, West Vancouver BC	54.21
12			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	51.42
13			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	50.84
14			Michael Yuen, Vancouver BC	49.52
15			Lawrence Hicks, Coquitlam BC	46.07
16			David Yu, Ottawa ON	44.75
17			Tao Feng, Burnaby BC	41.36
18			Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	41.00
19			Long Xie, Burnaby BC	40.87
20	4		Julie Smith, Vancouver BC	38.61
21			Sidney Yang, Richmond BC	38.02
22	5		Kathy Adachi, Surrey BC	37.52
23			John Bryden, Surrey BC	36.15
24			Joel Martineau, Vancouver BC	35.93
25			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	35.30
26			Laurence Betts, Burnaby BC	34.11
27			Sid Segal, Vancouver BC	33.87
28			Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	33.49
29		1	Qiang Hua, Surrey BC	32.38
30			Les Fouks, Vancouver BC	31.86
31			Kai Zhou, Burnaby BC	31.66
32			David Huang, Burnaby BC	31.43
33			Garry Skoropada, Maple Ridge BC	31.36
34	6	2	Jennifer Hong, Burnaby BC	30.42
35			Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	30.04
36	7		Shelley Burns, North Vancouver BC	29.93
37			Jack Lee, Richmond BC	29.72
38		3	Lu Gan, Burnaby BC	29.59
39			Michael Hargreaves, Victoria BC	29.36
39			Gordon McOrmond, Vancouver BC	29.36
41			Stanford Christie, Kirkland WA	29.13
42	8		June Keith, New Westminster BC	27.57
43			William Ge, Burnaby BC	26.62
44			Ryley Breiddal, Vancouver BC	25.24
45			James Wu, Surrey BC	24.77
46			Martin Henneberger, Coquitlam BC	24.24
47			James Lenobel, West Vancouver BC	23.88
48			Baixiang Liu, New Westminster BC	23.86
49			Thomas Devine, Ferndale WA	23.36
50	9	4	Mojgan Shad, West Vancouver BC	23.25
50		4	Khosrow Shad, West Vancouver BC	23.25
52			Xiangdong Meng, Surrey BC	23.01
53			James Marshall, Maple Ridge BC	22.91
54			Tom Cotton, Surrey BC	22.74
55	10		Susan Peters, Vancouver BC	22.40
55			Doug Hansford, Surrey BC	22.40
57	11		Amy Gao, Richmond BC	22.18
58			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	22.06
59	12		Marlene Sumi, Burnaby BC	21.92
60	13		Diana Jing, Surrey BC	21.61
61	14		Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	21.14
62			Morris Chen, Surrey BC	20.85
63			Paul Harding, New Westminster BC	20.73
64			Gustav Axen, New Westminster BC	20.34
65	15		Lucy Zhong, North Vancouver BC	19.87
65			Jack Qi, North Vancouver BC	19.87
67			Dean Altschuler, Bellingham WA	19.62
68			William Osten, Richmond BC	19.54
69			Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	19.48
70	16		Rhoda Tafler, Richmond BC	19.06
71			Kenneth Ramsay, West Vancouver BC	18.90
72			Andrew Krywaniuk, Burnaby BC	18.89
73			Bjarne Christoffersen, New Westminster BC	18.72
74	17		Kathy Bye, Burnaby BC	18.68
75	18		Shameine Ali, Vancouver BC	18.14
76	19		Marcia Taylor, Nanaimo BC	17.11
77			Wei Liu, Zhichun Road CP	16.86
78		6	Michael Desaulniers, Coquitlam BC	16.65
79	20		Debbie Hargreaves, Victoria BC	16.60
80	21		Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	16.40
81			Robert Bjorge, Bellingham WA	15.96
82	22		Dee Steil, New Westminster BC	15.32
83			Ted Dagan, Richmond BC	15.19
84			Zoran Peca, Vancouver BC	15.03
85			Ian Affleck, Vancouver BC	14.81
85	23		Marlene Powell, Vancouver BC	14.81
85	23		Glenda Affleck, Vancouver BC	14.81
88			Jim McKenzie, Vancouver BC	14.80
89		7	Dariusz Matus, Surrey BC	14.63
90			Andy Hellquist, Surrey BC	14.55
91			Michael Christensen, Seattle WA	14.27
92			Gene Fomin, Glacier WA	14.20
92	25		Sandra Robson, New Westminster BC	14.20
92			Tom Satanove, White Rock BC	14.20
95			John Anthony, Vancouver BC	13.85
96			John Hurdle, Richmond BC	13.39
96	26		Trudy Hurdle, Richmond BC	13.39
98		8	Shaviv Ben Neriah, Vancouver BC	13.31
99			Hong Gao Yu, CP	13.24
100	27		Dianne Isfeld, Coquitlam BC	13.22
		9	Tanweer Saqalan, Richmond BC	12.98
	28		Caroline Solonenko, Brackendale BC	12.96
	29		Debbie Martignago, Coquitlam BC	12.50
	30		Angela Fenton, Vancouver BC	12.21
	31		Yen Karro, Surrey BC	12.20
	32	10	Lisa Li, Surrey BC	12.07
		11	Wolf Fiedler, Port Moody BC	11.99
	33	12	Henry Yao, Vancouver BC	11.14
	34	13	Irene Dundon, Vancouver BC	10.86
	35		Judy Chang, Vancouver BC	10.78
	36		Edee Rumley, Langley BC	10.64
	36		Diane Griffiths, Langley BC	10.64
	38	14	Karen Tomkins, Burnaby BC	10.43
	39		Rebecca Brown, Bellingham WA	10.19
		15	R Backman, Burnaby BC	10.14
		16	Stephen Emerman, Vancouver BC	9.94
	40		Sheila Sache, West Vancouver BC	9.77
		17	Cedric Miller, Surrey BC	9.63
	41	17	Adelaine Miller, Surrey BC	9.63
		19	Peter Altridge, W Vancouver BC	9.33
		20	Ian Gilhooley, Vancouver BC	9.14
	42		Judy Harris, Salmon Arm BC	8.79
	43	21	Lana Chow, Vancouver BC	8.46
		22	Peter Wong, Vancouver BC	8.01
	44		Joanne Parker, Abbotsford BC	7.90
		23	Wade Carpenter, Burnaby BC	7.68
		24	Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	7.59
	45	25	Laila I Axen, New Westminster BC	7.44
		26	Nimi Bhachu, Maple Ridge BC	7.26
	46	26	Lou Rene Legge, Pitt Meadiows BC	7.26
	47		Cathy Miller, Burnaby BC	7.08
		28	Ron Delbecq, Bellingham WA	6.99
	48		Cristal Nell, Seattle WA	6.94
	49	29	Elizabeth Foster, Surrey BC	6.93
	50		Isabel Chernoff, Surrey BC	6.90
		30	Flora Yan, Langley BC	6.89
		30	Junkai Peng, Langley BC	6.89

MUG Race	Flt. B ( < 2500 )	Flt. C ( < 1000 )	Player	MPts
1			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	19.15
2			Joel Martineau, Vancouver BC	16.85
3			William Ge, Burnaby BC	15.08
4	1		David Huang, Burnaby BC	13.73
5			Michael Yuen, Vancouver BC	12.69
6			Kai Zhou, Burnaby BC	12.20
7			Baixiang Liu, Burnaby BC	11.22
8	2		Amy Gao, Richmond BC	9.95
9	3		Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	9.75
10	4		Zoran Peca, Vancouver BC	9.66
11			Jack Lee, Richmond BC	9.46
12	5		Yue Su, Vancouver BC	9.18
13	6		Xiangdong Meng, Surrey BC	9.15
14			David Yu, Burnaby BC	8.74
15	7		Kenneth Ramsay, West Vancouver BC	8.51
16			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	8.34
17	8		Shelley Burns, N Vancouver BC	8.11
18			Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	7.95
19			Aidan Ballantyne, Burnaby BC	7.29
20	9	1	Sidney Yang, Richmond BC	7.13
21	10		Leila Jinnah, Vancouver BC	6.54
22			Les Fouks, Vancouver BC	6.29
23			Mike Wilson, New Westminster BC	5.85
24	11		David Hu, Vancouver BC	5.78
25			June Keith, New Westminster BC	5.58
26	12		David Waterman, Surrey BC	5.49
27			Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC	5.47
28			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	5.30
29			Larry Pocock, New Westminster BC	5.23
30			Martin Henneberger, Coquitlam BC	5.07
30			Dianne Isfeld, Coquitlam BC	5.07
32	13		Andrew Nalos, Vancouver BC	4.94
33	14		Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	4.92
34	15		Diana Jing, New Westminster BC	3.99
35	16	2	Lucy Zhong, North Vancouver BC	3.94
35	16	2	Jack Qi, North Vancouver BC	3.94
37			Anne Scott, North Vancouver BC	3.74
38	18		Tao Feng, Burnaby BC	3.63
39	19		William Osten, Richmond BC	3.49
40			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	3.43
41	20	4	Morris Chen, Surrey BC	3.42
42			Laurence Betts, Burnaby BC	3.29
42	21		Karin Phillips, Vancouver BC	3.29
44	22	5	Judy Strebinger, North Vancouver BC	3.24
44			Don Brazeau, Burnaby BC	3.24
46	23	6	Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	3.21
47	24		Sid Segal, Vancouver BC	3.20
48	25		Alex Hong, Delta BC	3.05
49			Tai Eng, N Vancouver BC	3.02
50			Peter Maclean, Vancouver BC	2.94
50		7	Sam McIlwain, Invermere BC	2.94
		8	Jennifer Hong, West Vancouver BC	2.85
		9	Qiang Hua, Burnaby BC	2.80
		10	John Lai, Hong Kong HK	2.35
		11	Ian Affleck, Vancouver BC	2.15
		11	Shameine Ali, Vancouver BC	2.15
		11	Glenda Affleck, Vancouver BC	2.15
		14	Lorne Burns, N Vancouver BC	2.10
		15	Lu Gan, Vancouver BC	2.01

Rocket Rookie Race	Player	MPts
1	Qiang Hua, Burnaby BC	37.73
2	Jennifer Hong, West Vancouver BC	33.95
3	Morris Chen, Surrey BC	22.86
4	Lucy Zhong, North Vancouver BC	19.66
4	Jack Qi, North Vancouver BC	19.66
6	Khosrow Shad, West Vancouver BC	17.80
6	Mojgan Shad, West Vancouver BC	17.80
8	Irene Dundon, Vancouver BC	17.53
9	Michael Desaulniers, Coquitlam BC	16.18
10	Henry Yao, Vancouver BC	15.45
11	Lana Chow, Vancouver BC	15.35
12	Marcia Taylor, Nanaimo BC	15.32
13	Vern Porter, North Vancouver BC	15.11
13	Janice Porter, North Vancouver BC	15.11
15	Nimi Bhachu, Maple Ridge BC	15.07
15	Lou Rene Legge, Pitt Meadiows BC	15.07
17	Dariusz Matus, Surrey BC	14.16
18	Art Loy, Surrey BC	13.74
19	Adelaine Miller, Surrey BC	13.70
19	Cedric Miller, Surrey BC	13.70
21	R Backman, Burnaby BC	13.50
22	Shaviv Ben Neriah, Vancouver BC	12.81
23	Tanweer Saqalan, Richmond BC	12.48
24	Keith Lee, Vancouver BC	11.93
25	Lisa Li, Surrey BC	10.79
26	Peter Altridge, W Vancouver BC	10.41
27	Joanne Parker, Abbotsford BC	9.53
27	Ted Parker, Abbotsford BC	9.53
29	Christine Walter, Vancouver BC	9.15
29	Bill Walter, Vancouver BC	9.15
31	Ian Gilhooley, Vancouver BC	9.14
31	Karen Tomkins, Burnaby BC	9.14
33	Rebecca Brown, Bellingham WA	9.06
34	Ian Affleck, Vancouver BC	7.61
35	Flora Yan, Langley BC	7.11
35	Junkai Peng, Langley BC	7.11
37	Judy Chang, Vancouver BC	7.04
38	Ron Delbecq, Bellingham WA	6.99
39	Jeremy Bowman, Vancouver BC	6.95
40	Don Guichon, White Rock BC	6.94
41	Wei Weng, Richmond BC	6.61
41	Dieter Rechel, Richmond BC	6.61
43	Paul Pattison, North Vancouver BC	6.54
43	Margaret Pattison, North Vancouver BC	6.54
45	David Yuen, North Vancouver BC	6.36
45	Al Warner, Vancouver BC	6.36
47	Debra Sutherland, Burnaby BC	6.28
48	Elizabeth Foster, Surrey BC	6.05
49	Janie Ochsendorf, Surrey BC	5.93
50	Carrie Cade, Vancouver BC	5.88
51	Jerry Shapiro, Vancouver BC	5.61
52	Gita Sheikholeslami, Vancouver BC	5.47
53	Stephen Emerman, Vancouver BC	5.38
54	Linda Simmons, Vancouver BC	5.14
55	Chi Deng, Surrey BC	5.09
56	Brenda Tuele, Port Coquitlam BC	5.02
56	Amrit Manak, North Vancouver BC	5.02
58	Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	4.95
59	Mike Foster, Surrey BC	4.89
60	Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	4.71
60	John Zhang, Burnaby BC	4.71
62	Jo-Anne Ellenor, Surrey BC	4.67
63	Carroll Guichon, White Rock BC	4.64
64	Larraine Smith, North Vancouver BC	4.62
65	Tadeusz Smaruj, Vancouver BC	4.60
66	Roy Livingstone, [parts unknown]	4.51
67	Wendy Allex, Ferndale WA	4.49
68	Reza Hadavi, North Vancouver BC	4.41
68	Mitra Hadavi, North Vancouver BC	4.41
70	Susanne Sherburne, Bellingham WA	4.40
71	Daphne Fortin, Surrey BC	4.31
71	Louis Fortin, Surrey BC	4.31
73	Jeannie Coleman, West Vancouver BC	4.21
74	Joanne Emerman, Vancouver BC	4.18
75	Frank Vick, Surrey BC	4.17
76	Sandy Young, Vancouver BC	4.01
77	Bernice Kling, Vancouver BC	3.90
78	Bryan Brooking, North Vancouver BC	3.79
79	Ron Williams, Delta BC	3.78
80	Debbie Harris, North Vancouver BC	3.74
81	Edward Sun, Burnaby BC	3.70
82	Herb Brown, Vancouver BC	3.68
83	Ofer Livni, Vancouver BC	3.63
84	Carol Jensen, White Rock BC	3.56
85	Randy Erickson, Ferndale WA	3.46
86	Karen Munro, North Vancouver BC	3.42
86	Lori Staehling, North Vancouver BC	3.42
88	Pamela Moore, Vancouver BC	3.34
89	Patricia Hartley, West Vancouver BC	3.30
89	Gary Kaiway, West Vancouver BC	3.30
91	Kathy Molnar, North Vancouver BC	3.23
92	Ron Chong, Burnaby BC	3.22
92	Leonard Dong, Burnaby BC	3.22
94	Douglas Ellenor, Surrey BC	3.20
95	Mike Stewart, Vancouver BC	3.06
96	Roger Walker, Schelt BC	3.03
96	Joan Walker, Schelt BC	3.03
98	Christopher Hearty, New Westminster BC	2.98
98	Darlene Carolsfeld, Nanaimo BC	2.98
98	Myra Andrews, New Westminster BC	2.98