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Traveling score slip (or traveler)
A traveling score slip, often called a
traveler or pickup slip, is a score sheet
that stays with a duplicate bridge board
during play. Each table records its
results after the play of the deal. At the
end of the game, the score slips for all of
the boards are matchpointed and the
director adds the matchpoints to
determine the winner. Travelers are
sometimes used in games scored by
computer to enhance the social side of
the game.
Treatment
A treatment is a systemic agreement
that defines whether a natural bid is
forcing, invitational or signoff.
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Unauthorized Information (UI)
Law 16 of the Laws of Duplicate Bridge
says that a player may not make a call or
play that could have been suggested over
another by information the player has
received extraneously from partner.
Extraneous information includes actions
such as a remark, a question, a reply to a
question, an unmistakable hesitation,
unusual speed, special emphasis, tone,
gesture, movement, mannerism, etc.
Unit
A unit is a division of the ACBL covering
a designated area. Some units include
only a part of a city, and others include
entire states. The unit supervises bridge
activities at ACBL games in its territory
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and conducts tournaments at the local
and sectional levels. Groups of units
form ACBL districts, and officers and
board members of units elect the
district's representative to the ACBL
Board of Directors. ACBL has more than
300 units. ACBL members are placed in
the unit where they are geographically
located.
Unit championships
Each unit may conduct 24 unit
championship sessions per year. These
games award masterpoints based on
63.6% of sectional rating. These games
may be held at one centralized location
or with " split-sites " at various clubs
throughout the unit. In addition, each
unit is allotted four unit
fund/foundation championships per
year.
Unit-wide championship
A unit-wide championship is a game
with unit-championship rating held
simultaneously at three or more
locations within the unit boundaries
with a minimum of five tables at each
site.
United States Bridge Federation
(USBF)
The United States Bridge Federation
was formed in 2001 by the ACBL and
the ABA (American Bridge Association)
in order to conform to Olympic rules
that require each sport be governed by a
national (not zonal) organization. The
purpose of the USBF is to advance the
interests of the United States in

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