[aguahombre]

Congratulations to USA2 for winning the exhibition match with USA1. I also want to congratulate them for their choice of Charity.

Classy in every respect; there are few things I find to restore my faith in young people. This is one.

[chasetb]

And I have a great idea on how the Junior Fund can use that money - make it free to join the USBF as a Junior, rather than having to pay $25 a year ($15 if you are 18 or younger) for membership. Too bad to qualify for the Patino U-26 Championship, you had to not only pay for a membership, but ALSO go to the fall NABC to play. For some of us, we can't afford the $1000 to fly cross-country, hotel, and food. There's also classes and/or jobs on top of that.

[JLOGIC]

I was a little worried about this choice of charity as I am still eligible for the juniors for another year, so I didn't want to directly benefit from the choice since it might look bad. But I do really support junior bridge and am glad about our choice. I think I probably won't be playing any more junior events, so I don't think there will be any conflict on that front. Even if I do, hopefully everyone realizes we just wanted to give back to a program that gave us so much, and there were no nefarious motives.

[barmar]

the USBF Junion Fund wasn't likely to run out of money while you were still eligible for their subsidies, so you would have gotten funded by them regardless, and I don't see it as a conflict. This money goes into the pool, and is an investment for future juniors.

[PassedOut]

JLOGIC, on 2011-September-19, 22:54, said:

Even if I do, hopefully everyone realizes we just wanted to give back to a program that gave us so much, and there were no nefarious motives.

Everyone understands that, and congratulations on the win! (Nice duck with A-x-x of trumps.)

[rogerclee]

chasetb, on 2011-September-18, 19:06, said:

And I have a great idea on how the Junior Fund can use that money - make it free to join the USBF as a Junior, rather than having to pay $25 a year ($15 if you are 18 or younger) for membership. Too bad to qualify for the Patino U-26 Championship, you had to not only pay for a membership, but ALSO go to the fall NABC to play. For some of us, we can't afford the $1000 to fly cross-country, hotel, and food. There's also classes and/or jobs on top of that.

You don't actually have to join the USBF to play in the junior trials, only if you win. I agree about all the other stuff though, I talked to two USBF members at length about how bad it is to have an in-person trials for the juniors (and this is coming from someone who is going to Seattle and who is flexible enough to travel to the nationals), but there are some people on the board who think they know how things should be done.