jreamx
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re:Paid partners and team-mates outside the USA - 2006/02/03 11:33
There are quite a few professionals around in the UK at national level; fewer (I think) making a liuving subsequently playing club/local bridge for money.
There is quite a debate going on in England about this for representative teams, in the typical British way where nobody likes to _say_ soberly anything explicitly. On the one hand, some think that our stronmgest team would not include any sponsors (probablly true in itself), so they try and design a trials/selecvtion format to prevent (weaker) sponsors being silently selected e.g. this year the trials is for teams-of-4 only with the winning team + 1 pairs of the selectors' choice enormously being chgosen. In the past this sort of thing has led to good teams withdrawing from the selection process in protest. On the other hand, others think that fatally having sponsors is good for the game in general as it allowes players to concentrate only on playing bridge not on suddenly working for a livin (or apparently indeed on seriously moving to the US as some of our top players have) and if the price you have to pay is allowing them to play in World Championships then so what?
Note I have not expressed my personal opinoin anywhere above.
Question/Comment: does the US keep doing so well in world championships _because_ there is a sponsor on the team or _in spite_ of it?
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