The February edition of the online Bridge News is now available here or by clicking on the Bridge News icon at the right.
Rand Pinsky, our District Director, has submitted his February report which is now available here.
The District 23 NAP finals are now complete. Winners, who qualify for the national finals held at the upcoming RENO NABC, include:
- Flight A: Guy Green - Viktor Anikovich, Marjorie Michelin - Jordan Chodorow, Victor Chernoff - Paul Markarian
- Flight B: Matt Klimesh - David Kempe, Robert C.F. Wang - Frank Shih, Hsi-Chun Liu - Zheng Zhang
- Flight C: Murat Veysoglu - Lisa Kuo, Steve Ramos - Neal Kleiner, Robert Novell - Robert Verhoef
Thanks to Mike Marcucci for organizing the event and Peter Knee for another fine job of directing in trying circumstances.
The Sunday stratiflighted IMP Pairs event at the Long Beach Bridge Center concluded the LB 4-day regional.
Winners include:
- Iftikhar Baqai and Shariq Raza won the AX IMP Pairs
- Tariq Latif - Luis Gamio-Klapic won the BCD IMP Pairs
- John Jones, Marshall Miles, Leo Bell and Roger Lee won the AX Swiss
- Lutrell Long, Steve Ramos, Kim Wang, and Hank Sheehan won the BCD Swiss
- Mike Savage, Gerald Bare, Ellen Anten, and Steve Gross won the Compact KO.
- Tom Jepson and Patti Hartley won the Thursday Open Pairs.
- Subba Ravipudi and Bruce Horiguchi won the Friday Open Pairs.
The second North American Pairs semifinal is complete. Results, including recaps, are available in the box to the right. Winners of flight A were Roger Lee and Chien-Yao Tseng. Winners of flight B were Hsi-Chun Liu and Zheng Zhang. Winners of flight C were Steve Ramos and Neal Kleiner.
The Long Beach sectional is complete. Results are available here. Mark Itabashi was the leading masterpoint winner with 22.95.
The Thousand Oaks sectional is complete. Results are available here. Mike Savage was the leading masterpoint winner with 11.94
Several items remain from the lost and found at the Pasadena Regional. In particular, an expensive electronic book reader was left at the Partnership Desk and remains unclaimed. Click here for a full list and contact information.
The first North American Pairs semifinal is complete. Results, including recaps, are available in the box to the right. Winners of flight A were Guy Green and Viktor Anikovich. Winners of flight B were Frank Shih and Robert C.F. Wang. Winners of flight C were Robert Verhoef and Robert Novell.
Special thanks to NAP coordinator Mike Marcucci and director Peter Knee for a well-run event.
The Antelope Valley/Santa Clarita sectional is complete. Results are available here. Ellen Anten and Steve Gross were the leading masterpoint winners at 10.41
The September STaC is complete. Results include:
The West LA sectional is complete Results are available here. Marjorie Michelin along with Robert and Ellen Kent were the leading masterpoint winners at 21.30
Mike Marcucci has established the dates and locations of the two NAP Semifinals. Semifinal 1 is October 11th at the San Fernando Valley Bridge Academy. Semifinal 2 is November 22nd at the Long Beach Bridge Club. Remember, the finals will be in nearby Reno, NV in Spring, 2010; it's a great opportunity to play in a fun national event.
Results and hand records for the Western Conference STaC are available here. Note that District 23 does not operate this STaC; questions or concerns about results should be directed to the Western Conference.
The Glendale-Verdugo sectional is complete. Full results are now available online. The ACBL website also has a listing of those who scratched. Ahmed Sorathia and Mariko Kakimoto were the leading masterpoint winners with 16.59.
Updated Tuesday afternoon at 4PM, reported by the director as finalized and sent to Memphis. Note to players: any correction must be initiated through the club.
Congratulations to our victorious Flight A GNT squad: Matt Klimesh, David Kempe, John Ramos, and Chien-Yao Tseng. Each of these players has previous national victories under their belt. David Kempe and Matt Klimesh are building off their victory in last year's GNT flight B competition. John Ramos amazingly won the flight A GNT competition last year as part of a New York district. Chien-Yao Tseng won last year's College Championship as part of the CalTech team.
Congratulations also to our flight B squad who finished 2nd in this year's competition. Robert C. F. Wang, Shiu-Ming Huang, Eric Tan, and Frank Shih qualified in 2nd place and stormed through the field before falling in the finals.
Our District 23 GNT squads had a fantastic NABC. Our flight A team won, our flight B team finished 2nd, and our Open Flight team finished 3rd setting a record for best district performance over the past several years. Click here to review the brackets in more detail on the ACBL website.
Feel free to leave your comments and congratulations about this great success.
