Week 1
Qualification Swiss
March 16, 17, 18, 19: qualification stage
Played as Swiss (3 matches x 10 boards per day).
The seeding for the 1st round matches will be done by a guided draw.
After 12 rounds of Swiss:
the first 16 teams will qualify to play the play-off in the 2nd week (March 23, 24, 25, 26).
The remainder of the teams will compete in the Swiss for the bronze medals, where also the losers of play-off matches will join.
For the Swiss phase, each result will be converted from IMPs into VPs according to the WBF scale for 10 boards.
Week 2
Knockout Phase
Round of 16 (3 x 10 boards)
The team placed 1st at the end of the Qualification Swiss has the right to choose their opponent among the teams placed 9th-16th. Then, the team placed 2nd will choose their opponent among the remaining teams placed 9th-16th, etc. Further details about this procedure will be published later.
Quarterfinals, semi-finals and final (all 3 x 10 boards)
The teams will be placed in a standard bracket, according to their rank in the Qualification. If a lower ranked team beats a higher ranked team, it takes over it's seed.
| Quarterfinals |
Semi-finals |
Final |
| 1 plays 8 |
1 or 8 plays 4 or 5 |
1/8/4/5
vs
2/3/6/7 |
| 4 plays 5 |
| 3 plays 6 |
3 or 6 plays 2 or 7 |
| 2 plays 7 |
Carry over in R16, QF and SF matches is 0.1 imp for the team higher placed in Qualification Swiss.
Week 2
Swiss for the 3rd Place
Swiss for the third place will be played as 8 rounds swiss, two rounds of 14 boards per day.
Results will be converted from IMPs into VPs according to the WBF 14 boards VP scale
Carry over is 1/3 of VP from the Qualification Swiss.
Draw to the first round is done according to the carry over.
Losers of the Knock-out matches will join 3RD PLACE SWISS (according to the rank in Qualification Swiss – highest ranking team the lowest place)
After round of 16 – to the 3rd-10th places with number of VP equal to the average of 3rd and 4th team after a previous round; the positions and pairing of the matches will be based on the places at qualifications swiss (highest placed will play with the lowest placed etc.); if less than 10 teams will play in the first round of the 3rd Place Swiss, than the pairings will be made on the rules with similar logic.
After quarterfinal – to the 9,7,5,3 places (according to the rank in Qualification Swiss), with number of VP equal to the average of 3rd and 4th team after a previous round.
After semifinal – to the 5th and 3rd place (according to the rank in qualification Swiss) with number of VP equal to the average of 2nd and 3rd team after a previous round.
Line-ups will be determined by RealBridge, which will assign pairs randomly to the North–South or East–West positions.
Each board is allocated 7 minutes 30 seconds, with an additional courtesy period of 2 minutes at the beginning of each round.
Updates to the above are available on the event's microsite: championships.eurobridge.org/2026-european-spring-online-transnational-senior-teams-championship
Draw and Lineup
To avoid the complexity of line-up submissions and the transmission of line-ups from the EBL systems to RealBridge in every round, players will receive a personalised link. Players must use only their own personalised link.
Players must log in using the name as it appears in the EBL database. The player will compete under that name and ID.
Each team will sit at its designated table, with the correct partnerships.
At the start of each round, the system will randomly determine which pair will sit North–South and which pair will sit East–West for the match.
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