Swiss Team Strategy

The Game's the Thing. Swiss Teams, and indeed all Teams play, is basically different strategy than matchpoint play, because of how Pairs Events are scored. Games and Slams are far more important, as the total score on a board is vital, and it's only played one other time -- not 12 times like Pairs events boards.

At Matchpoints, every trick is vital, and players scrap for every one, and sometimes get disastrous results and go down 1100. But, it's only one board, so it won't hurt your overall score for a round -- much.

Big Swingers. But, in Swiss Teams play, and other events scored with IMP's, the difference between bidding and making a Vulnerable Game and not bidding it can be 500 points, and that's a lot of IMP's -- it could lose the whole match for you and your teammates. Slams are even bigger swingers, of course.

Aggressive Bidding. So, in Swiss Team play, be aggressive about bidding even skinny Games and Slams -- go for Slam if it's even a 50% chance, because of the other team does and you don't, goodbye match.