Bridge Tournaments
NABCs
Three North American Bridge Championships are conducted each year, providing ample opportunity to earn a high quantity of platinum, gold and red points.
REGIONALS: Calendars and Results
A substantial number of Gold and Red points are awarded at regional championships, held by the 25 ACBL districts. View a schedule of upcoming regional tournaments in your area. See results of recent tournaments.
SECTIONALS: Calendars and Results
Win silver masterpoints at these unit-level events. View a schedule of upcoming sectional tournaments in your area. See results of recent tournaments.
SECTIONAL Tournaments at CLUBS: Calendars
Earn silver points in the comfort of your own club at the popular Sectional Tournaments at Clubs (STaCs). Results of these tournaments are posted on the monthly sectional tournament pages.
Intermediate/Newcomer Tournaments: Calendars
Make your first foray into tournament bridge and meet new partners at an Intermediate/Newcomer (IN) Tournament. Results of these tournaments are posted on the monthly sectional tournament pages.
Worldwide Tournaments
Find tournaments around the world sponsored by the World Bridge Federation and other countries’ bridge leagues.
Youth/Junior Tournaments
The World Bridge Federation youth web site. Find more information about youth and junior tournaments held around the world.
ABA
Tournaments
ACBL members are welcome at tournaments sponsored by the American
Bridge Association. (Only ABA masterpoints are awarded.) The ABA
was founded in the 1930s by African-American players then not allowed
to participate in ACBL games. The two organizations now enjoy a
fully cooperative and supportive relationship.
Explanation of Events
Find descriptions of each type of bridge event in three different categories: individual, pairs and teams.
Tournament E-mail Notices
To take advantage of the ACBL Tournament E-mail Notice Program, please send your notices to Tournament Email Services. All notices must include a phone number and an e-mail address that can be used for replies. Replies to tournament notices will no longer be sent to the ACBL, but, will be sent to the tournament representative. See the full list of Guidelines below.
The ACBL is mindful of increasingly strong laws regarding internet privacy. Members currently are able to opt out of messages. We are working on an “opt in” program that will allow members to accept tournament e-mails and other messages.
Notice Guidelines
All notice requests must be sent to the ACBL via email to Tournament Email Services. In order to ensure that your e-mail flyer notice is sent out in a timely fashion, please note the following deadlines for submitting e-mail notice requests to the ACBL:
- Notices for Sectional tournaments should be sent to the ACBL at least six (6) weeks prior to the tournament start date.
- Notices for Regional tournaments should be sent to the ACBL at least eight (8) weeks before the tournament start date.
- The ACBL cannot guarantee the timely delivery of any notices that are submitted less than the above deadlines.
- All notices MUST be sent to the ACBL in the body of an email or with a Word document attachment containing the information.
- All notices MUST include a phone number.
- All notices MUST include an e-mail address that can be used for replies.
- Only one (1) e-mail notice will be sent per tournament to the distribution criteria you select.
- You are responsible for including distribution criteria – units(s), districts(s) or zip codes – all of which are subject to approval.
- You are responsible for your notice content, so please be sure to proof read it – twice!
- Do not use photos or other graphics in your e-mail notices because these make the notices more difficult to download. All submissions that contain photos/graphics will be returned for correction purposes.
- E-mail notices may not contain any attachments.
- Click here for a Sample Tournament E-mail Notice.