Fresh Decks Spades Tournament - Fall Edition

♠️🃏SPADES TOURNAMENT🃏♠️♠️The Setup!8 Teams to compete for a CASH PRIZE

Teams of 2

Team Registration: $40 per team

Free Agent Registration: Purchase a $10 FREE AGENT ticket. On the day of the tournament, you will be matched with a partner. Once matched, you and your partner will pay the remaining TEAM fee ($10 each)

Tournament Style: 3 Rounds of Play

A fresh deck of cards supplied by venue

Doors open at 2:00 PM & Tournament starts at 3:00PM

Too intense to play? Feel free to spectate and enjoy the shenanigans for $10! Your general admission ticket includes 1-beverage and 1 Raffle Ticket

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Family-Friendly

We will be hosting the tournament outdoors in the Backyard and the family/kids’ activities are in the 1st floor studio! Kids are FREE! - RSVP only. There will be 90s nostalgia, light snacks and beverages, and raffles throughout the event!!🌮Food: Available for purchase - Black & Brown-Owned🥤Drinks: BYOB

♠️ATTENTION TEAMS - Gameplay Rules♠️

Spades can be played many ways! To have UNITY during the tournament, there are a set of gameplay rules for all teams to follow. Review all of the rules before registering for the tournament.

🃏Card Rank

1. Big Joker

2. Little Joker

3. 2 of Diamonds

4. 2 of Spades

5. Ace of Spades

♠️Dealing

· Deal clockwise to the left

· Cut to the right of the dealer

· Deal cards FACE DOWN

· No Spades in hand? REDEAL!!!

🃏Bidding

· First hand bids itself

· Team opposite dealer bids first

· Blind 6 ONLY when down 100+ pts

· Sandbags counted

🚩Penalties

· Reneging will cost the team 3 books

· Talking over the board about strategy or to confirm who threw a card will cost the team 1 book

· If there is a penalty, GET THE REF to settle!

🏆Scoring & Winning

· Use the provided score sheet

· One person keeps the score

· Sandbags are counted if a team overbids

· REF checks scoring at the end of each round (First Round, Semifinals, Finals)

· The team who reaches 350 points first or has the highest score after 45 minutes will move on to the next round.

♠️Taking Breaks

· Unless there is an emergency, players take breaks between hands and rounds. This will maximize gameplay time and help players keep track of which cards are played by who.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ace Academic & Creative Arts Studio, 219-44 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, United States