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2012 Playoffs for Selection of Australian Representative Teams

General Information
updated March 6, 2012

The 2012 Australian Teams Playoffs will be in a teams format*. The Open and Women's Playoffs will be held March 31 - April 5, 2012 and the Seniors April 18-22, 2012.

Teams will enter based on PQPs earned in the events listed below. PQP awards for each of these events can be found in the PQP Awards Table. More details of the events can be found on the Events page.

The Open and Women's Playoffs will follow the two Division model used successfully for the Open in 2011 with the proviso that all players in Division 1 must have earned at least 1 PQP in that category (Open or Womens). 

All players are eligible for Division 2. The 4 highest PQP teams who are eligible will form Division 1. (Should there be less than 4 eligible teams then the 'category proviso' will be relaxed to allow 4 teams to qualify. If the total number of entries is 6 then the format will revert to that used for the Women and Seniors in 2011; if 4 then the format of Division 1 of the Open. Four or six member teams would be permitted in both Divisions with augmentation rules as set out for the Open in 2011. Teams of 4 or 6 may enter the playoffs. Teams will be allocated to each division.

Teams in both Division 1 and 2 will be ranked according to their total PQPs after any points not earned withing the unit of the Playoff entry have been halved. In the case of insufficient teams in Division 1, or a withdrawal from Division 1 prior to the playoffs, the team in Division 2 with the highest total PQPs will be offered promotion to Division 1.

The Seniors' Playoff is limited to a maximum of 6 teams and will follow the format used in 2011 except that there will be no wildcard team. All players must have earned at least 1 Senior PQP, except

players who were too young to enter some or all 2011 ABF events offering Seniors PQPs, but are old enough to enter the 2012 Seniors Playoffs, will be entitled to transfer their Open PQPs to Seniors PQPs and will be eligible to enter the Seniors' Playoff, provided they have 24 or more Open PQPs.

No Yellow systems or Brown Sticker conventions will be permitted in the Playoffs, mirroring WBF Regulations.

Target events for the 2012 playoffs will be the the World Bridge Games to be held in August 9-23 in Lille, France.

All persons participating in the target WBF events must comply with all of the WBF's codes and regulations. See links on the Playoffs page.

Notices from decisions of the ABF Management and Tournament Committees relating to the Playoffs will be posted here: Notices.

* The formats of the Open and Women's Playoffs will be dependent on the number of teams entering the playoff. A summary of the proposed formats is in the following document:

2012 Proposed Open and Women's Playoffs Formats

2012 Playoffs PQP Team Calculator

PQP Player Report Utility - displays details of all of the events for which you received PQPs in 2011.

PQP Events for 2012

¹See Notices for changes to Seniors eligibility.