According to the July 9 minutes, published for logged in users only, the Board has enacted a final policy on strats.  Newcomers, except for NAP games, will continue to split at 20 and 100, yielding 0-19, 20-99, and 100-299.  NAP games cannot be stratified for non-life-master sections.

Open games will have floating strats, arranged as follows.  "In a Mitchell move­ment, the C strata will have a minimum of 5 pairs. The rest of the players will be divided as evenly as possible in the A or B strata. In a Howell movement, the C strata will have a minimum of 3 pairs. The rest of the players will be divided as evenly as possible in the A or B strata."

Furthermore, the Board says: "Stratification for each NCBC game will be at the discre­tion of the director after all names have been entered in the computer."

The previous strats of 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 was an interim policy until the July 9 meeting, and has now been revoked.