Important Notes for the Participants

• In SILVER event, a team can have only one “National Master or above level player”, who will be treated as the team mentor. All other players should be below the rank of “National Master”. In case, a team is found to have more than one player above “National Master” level, the team will get scratched from Silver event.
• Any player who has played in any of the Previous Finals of HCL Team of Four – Silver event (from 2013 onwards) will be treated as equivalent to “National Masters” for this purpose, irrespective of the fact that he / she may not have attained the status of “National Master” in terms of Master Points.
• All foreign teams will participate in the GOLD event only, unless tournament committee gives them special permission to participate in “SILVER” category.
• The MPs to be considered for participation in the Silver event will be as on 1^st Oct 2025.
• The TOP 26 pairs from Elimination-3 round of MP Pairs will qualify for MP Pairs GOLD final, whereas pairs ranked 27-52 will play in the MP Pairs SILVER final. The rest of the Elimination-3 qualifiers will be seeded to the IMP Pairs final.
• The TOP 25 pairs from Elimination round of Mixed IMP Pairs will qualify for Mixed IMP Pairs GOLD final, whereas pairs ranked 26-51 will play in the Mixed IMP Pairs SILVER final. The rest of the participating pairs can play in the Mixed IMP STRATA event.
• Sponsor will have a quota of 2 Pairs, directly seeded to the MP Pairs GOLD Final, and quota of 1 Pair seeded to the Mixed IMP Pairs Final. Sponsor can nominate any player to play in the final, irrespective of whether the player has played in elimination round or not. However, a sponsored player is not eligible for Ranking Points, if he / she has first played in the elimination round and after not qualifying has again re-entered the final.
• The Match Point Pairs STRATA is only for those non-qualifiers, who could not qualify to the elim-2 round of the MP Pairs event. Similarly the Mixed IMP Pairs STRATA and IMP Pairs STRATA is only for those non-qualifiers, who have played the elimination event but could not qualify to the Finals. Any non-qualifier not interested to play the STRATA event is kindly requested to inform the same to TC Pant through WhatsApp (Mob: 9811094407) or personally at the venue.
• In ProAm event, recognized expert players may not be permitted to play as an Amateur, on discretion of the Tournament Committee.
• Registration for all events will only be done online. The Registration will be considered “complete”, only once the payment of entry fee is made online through the payment gateway on the registration page.
• No entry for team event (Gold & Silver) will be accepted after the stipulated closing time of 2000 hrs on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
• All teams are advised to register their entries in advance on website. The following persons can be contacted for any clarification:
  T. C. Pant - Tel: +91 9811094407 Email: tcpant@hotmail.com
  Sudhir Aggarwal – Tel: +91 9810100361 Email: sgaggarwal@gmail.com
  Srinivasan Iyengar - Tel: +91 9974164676 Email: cardpacker@gmail.com
• Closing time for entries of Mixed IMP Pairs is 2100 hrs on Wednesday, October 01, 2025.
• Closing time for entries of MP Pairs is 2100 hrs on Wednesday, October 08, 2025.
• Closing time for entries of IMP Pairs is 2030 hrs on Friday, October 10, 2025.
• Participating players are required to take their seats as per the program; failure to do so will result in penalty.
• Displaying of properly filled convention cards at the table is compulsory. Copies of blank Convention cards will be made available at the venue.
• Players will be provided Lunch at the venue. Tea /coffee and snacks during scheduled tea breaks, will also be provided.
• Players are requested not to bring Tea/Coffee/Cold drinks/Lunch inside the playing arena.
• Please visit the Tournament web site www.hcl-bridge.com for accommodation details in nearby hotels and their contacts. Details will be updated around 15th July 2025.
• The applicable Supplementary Conditions of Contest (SCoC) will be published on the tournament web site www.hcl-bridge.com by 1st July 2025.
• Tournament will follow the WBF - 2017 Laws of Duplicate Bridge.
• The organizing committee has the right to change the tournament schedule and format, if deemed necessary.
• All prize money will be credited to the winner bank accounts within 20–30 days of the final day of the tournament, with the condition that player has sent the required documents asked by the HCL accounts department for transferring the same into their bank accounts.