Unit 430 Final 2017 Masterpoint Races

Still awaiting Flight B/C 2016-17 IMP League info for Rocket Rookie Race

I was sure that I did this after the November sectional, but it appears I did not, and when I lost files in an attempt to clear hard drive space on my tiny laptop, I needed to reconstruct things on a new computer, but all that has now been done and we have most of our 2017 leaders below.

The three trophies listed here are:

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.
- The 2017 winner: Aidan Ballantyne!
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.
- The 2017 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.
- The 2017 winner: Harry Satanove!

Listed below are only the top 50 in the Phil Wood, and the top 30 in the Edie Bonnell and the under-200 race.

There are three more races not covered here:

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 1951 or earlier for the 2017 contest) who are in contention to quietly claim the prize, which is six free plays for open sectionals in the following calendar year.
The Rocket Rookie Race tracks a number of Unit-run events and looks mostly for points won by non-Life Masters playing with other non-Life Masters. The data is not all in on this one yet, still awaiting data from the 2016-17 Flight B/C IMP League. The prize is (you guessed it) six free plays for the next calendar year at open sectionals.
The Monthly Unit Game Race 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. In addition, there are separate races for Flight B (0-2500) and Flight C (0-1000), which have prizes of six free plays to Monthly Unit Games in the following year.
- The 2017 winners: Baixiang Liu (A), David Yu (B), Tom Anderson (C).

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.

Phil Wood	Edie Bonnell	P.Wood Under 200	Player	MPts
1			Aidan Ballantyne, Burnaby BC	110.89
2			William Ge, Burnaby BC	74.39
3			John Bryden, Vancouver BC	72.95
4			James Wu, Surrey BC	72.41
5			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	72.25
6			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	67.55
7			Les Fouks, Vancouver BC	58.21
8			Gary Harper, Burnaby BC	58.02
9			Laurence Betts, Burnaby BC	53.45
10			Doug Hansford, Surrey BC	52.99
11			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	50.47
12			Gustav Axen, New Westminster BC	46.68
13	1		Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC	46.19
14			David Waterman, Surrey BC	45.72
15			Barry Yamanouchi, Burnaby BC	44.85
16			Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	44.62
17			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	43.78
18			David Huang, Burnaby BC	42.77
19			Baixiang Liu, Burnaby BC	42.53
20			Brad Bart, Coquitlam BC	40.95
21	2		Susan Peters, Vancouver BC	39.62
22			Sid Segal, Vancouver BC	39.20
23			Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC	38.48
24	3		Julie Smith, Vancouver BC	38.04
25	4		Rhonda Foster, Victoria BC	36.52
26			Gerry McCully, Victoria BC	36.52
27			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	35.70
28			James Lenobel, West Vancouver BC	35.61
29			Michael Yuen, Vancouver BC	35.32
30			Larry Pocock, Vancouver BC	33.87
31			Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC	33.65
32	5		Yue Su, Vancouver BC	32.28
33	6		Aban Gerrie, Richmond BC	32.16
34			Robert Gerrie, Richmond BC	32.16
35			Bjarne Christoffersen, Coquitlam BC	31.88
36	7		Kathy Adachi, Surrey BC	31.76
37			Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	30.96
38			Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	30.47
39			John Demeulemeester, Burnaby BC	30.32
40	8		Monica Angus, West Vancouver BC	30.10
41	9		Marlene Sumi, Burnaby BC	29.46
42			Thomas Davis, North Vancouver BC	29.42
43			Derek Ziola, Surrey BC	28.58
44			Monte Ziola, Mesa AZ	28.58
45			Tom Cotton, Surrey BC	28.52
46			Alan Borden, Vancouver BC	26.80
47			Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	26.72
48		1	Harry Satanove, Vancouver BC	26.58
49			Tom Jen Kwan, Vancouver BC	26.54
50	10		Shelley Burns, North Vancouver BC	26.45
	11	2	Lisa Li, Richmond BC	23.74
	12		Sheila Sache, Burnaby BC	23.62
	13	3	Shameine Ali, Vancouver BC	23.21
	14		Dee Steil, New Westminster BC	22.97
		4	Barney Kalos, Vancouver BC	22.26
	15		Kathy Bye, Burnaby BC	20.20
	16		Caroline Solonenko, Brackendale BC	18.35
	17		Marion Crowhurst, North Vancouver BC	16.43
	18		Marge Neate, North Vancouver BC	16.34
	19	5	Joanne Parker, Abbotsford BC	15.78
		5	Ted Parker, Abbotsford BCC	15.78
	20		Rhoda Tafler, Richmond BC	15.69
	21	7	Elizabeth Axford, Clinton WA	15.59
	22		Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	14.67
	23		Trudy Hurdle, Richmond BC	14.38
	24		Diana Jing, New Westminster BC	14.34
	25		Jane Youngberg, Surrey BC	14.34
	26		Anne Scott, North Vancouver BC	14.19
	27		June Keith, New Westminster BC	13.60
	28		Debbie Martignago, Pitt Meadows BC	13.22
	29		Amy Gao, Richmond BC	13.14
	30		Edee Rumley, Langley BC	13.07
		8	Keith Lee, Vancouver BC	11.57
		9	Stephen Emerman, Vancouver BC	10.52
		10	Glenda Affleck, Vancouver BC	10.49
		10	Ian Affleck, Vancouver BC	10.49
		12	Howard Haugom, West Vancouver BC	10.36
		13	William Ophoff, Surrey BC	7.80
		14	Junkai Peng, Langley BC	7.31
		15	Tom Satanove, Surrey BC	6.96
		16	Lu Gan, Vancouver BC	6.75
		17	Don Gurski, Surrey BC	6.72
		18	Deborah Davy, Gibsons BC	6.52
		19	Don Campbell, North Vancouver BC	6.52
		20	Diana Tchakalian, Vancouver BC	6.43
		21	Ernst Walti, Vancouver BC	6.43
		22	Flora Yan, Langley BC	6.36
		23	Shael Smith, Richmond BC	5.29
		24	Michael Demner, Vancouver BC	5.24
		25	Shaviv Ben Neriah, Vancouver BC	5.15
		26	Elena Ransom, Furry Creek BC	5.05
		26	Kevin Contzen, Vancouver BC	5.05
		28	Jeff Mear, Osoyoos BC	5.01
		29	Don Guichon, White Rock BC	4.94
		29	Carroll Guichon, White Rock BC	4.94

569 players won a total of 4644.25 silver points at the four Unit 430 open sectionals of 2017 (a further 117 players played at least one session but didn't win any).
For those who have won masterpoints, this is an average of 8.16 points.