WBF 2nd Small Federations Online Open Teams - Event Information

Participants

Representative teams from small federations invited by the WBF.

Format and Timetable

Format Partial round robin
Boards per match 12
Matches per team 12
Competition dates 2 - 5 October 2025
9 - 12 October 2025
Session dates and times Varies by team

Playing conditions

The matches will be scored in VPs, using the WBF continuous VP scale.

The matches will be played with screens and self-alerts/explanations.

For full details and Conditions of Contest see

http://championships.worldbridge.org/2025-small-federations-online-open-teams

Tournament Directors

  • Marc van Beijsterveldt - Chief Tournament Director
  • Sanjay Chakraborty
  • Anna Kosiorek
  • Miltos Koutougkos
  • Maria Maczka
  • Camila Nunez

Watching / kibitzing

All of the matches will be listed on the RealBridge kibitz site: https://kibitz.realbridge.online

For security reasons, the matches are not shown in real time.

Team Rosters

http://db.worldbridge.org/Repository/tourn/SFGOnline.25/microSite/Participants.asp

Also available at:

https://realbridge.online/wbf-small-federations-2025-team-rosters

System cards

Team captains have been sent instructions for submitting convention cards.

System cards will be on the WBF microsite, at

All registered system cards

For how to load your system card in a RealBridge session, please see Loading system cards 

Security Protocols

Refer to the Supplementary Conditions of Contest (SCoC), specifically: Chapter 5, and Appendix A.

The SCoC is here:  http://www.worldbridge.org/conditions-of-contest

Watch this short video 📺:  

Video for Supervisors and about room cameras

Useful information for players

FAQ:

https://realbridge.online/assets/documents/faq-for-realbridge-screens-and-self-alerts.pdf

Joining the RealBridge session for your matches:

https://realbridge.online/wbf-small-federations-2025-joining-the-realbridge-session

How to load your system card in a RealBridge session:

https://realbridge.online/loading-system-cards-b

Match Schedule, Results and Ranking List

https://realbridge.online/wbf-small-federations-2025-matches

https://realbridge.online/wbf-small-federations-2025-ranking-list

Team web page

Each team has a page dedicated to them. It contains:

📃 List of practice sessions on RealBridge for participants, and how to join the sessions.

🔗 Links for each player in their team, for each session.

🔗 Links for the captain and coach, for each session.

📞 Support telephone numbers and  📧  email addresses. RealBridge can be contacted via WhatsApp.

🔗 Links to useful information

If you are playing and you have not received the link to your team's page, please contact your team captain/coach. You will need this page in order to get your link for playing.