[HeavyDluxe]

Announcing the 2008 BBOF Spingold & Wagar Pool!

Pick the outcome of the main events at this year's Summer NABC and win big prizes... After all, what greater prize is there than bragging rights and the adulation of your bridge peers?

Submissions should be posted to this thread so everyone can see who's in. If you really want, you can PM your submission to me instead. If you submit via the thread and change your mind before the deadline edit your original post to reflect the change, please.

Submissions must be made/received by 1pm PDT (20:00GMT) on Wednesday, July 23rd since that's when cards hit the table in Las Vegas.

SPINGOLD
* 4 losing quarterfinalists (3 points each)
* 2 losing semifinalists (6 points each)
* Runner-up (12 points)
* The winner (24 points)

WAGAR
* 2 losing semifinalists (4 points each)
* Runner-up (8 points each)
* The winner (16 points)

For a total of possible 92 points.

When you list your teams, please list the LASTNAME of the first person on the roster and the teams seed #, just so there's no confusion. For example:
Gordon (#38) or Gordon (#22)

Team rosters and (eventually) brackets can be found here.

Tiebreaker: What will be the margin of victory (in IMPS) in the Spingold Final on Sunday?


Results will be posted to no later than Monday morning (EST).

Good luck and happy VuGraphing!

[hrothgar]

Thanks for organizing this

[NickRW]

OK, bit like trying to pick a winner out of 100 horse race, but just for a laugh, how about:

HeavyDluxe, on Jul 22 2008, 01:06 PM, said:

SPINGOLD
* 4 losing quarterfinalists (3 points each)
* 2 losing semifinalists (6 points each)
* Runner-up (12 points)
* The winner (24 points)

Quarters: O'Rourke #3, Ekeblad #9, Lynch #12, Mahaffey #16
Semis: Strul #4, Cayne #2
Runner up: Nickell #1
Winner: Gromov #5

Quote

WAGAR
* 2 losing semifinalists (4 points each)
* Runner-up (8 points each)
* The winner (16 points)

Semis: Yalan #5, Jacobs #6
Runner up: Bjerkan #3
Winner: Fireman #1

Tie breaker = 43.

Most probably I will score nothing!

Nick

[HeavyDluxe]

NickRW, on Jul 22 2008, 10:53 AM, said:

OK, bit like trying to pick a winner out of 100 horse race...

Yeah, that's the reason I thought give ppl 'til tomorrow to submit. At least by that point you're down to 32 teams to choose from...

If we extended the deadline into Thursday, we basically 'lose' the Wagar. I'm no opposed to that. Then you're picking from 16 teams in the Spingold.

If the group feels strongly, we can extend the picks into Thursday. Thoughts?

[jkdood]

Good luck and happy VuGraphing!

HAPPY VU-GRAPHING?

There's no mention of the Spingold on the BBO VuGraph schedule for 2008!
(Or anywhere)
See thread in BBO Forum "Vu-Graphs"

[PeterGill]

Spingold

Cayne (2) to win by 26 imps from Strul (4), then Brogeland (17) and O'Rourke (3), followed by Mahaffey (16), Shi (45), Diamond (24) and Kamil (23).

Notable omission: Team 1, because I think some players in Teams 16 and 17 have good form, making Team 1's draw too tough. Better to be seeded 2 or 3 this time.

Wagar
McCallum (2) by 1 imp from Fireman (1) then Yalan (5) and Bjerkan (3)
followed by Jacobs (6), Westheimer (8) , Mancuso (4) and Sulgrove (7).

Peter Gill.

[jkdood]

Update from Jan (Thanks Jan!):

There will be Vugraph from the Spingold, but they didn't know when it would start because of not knowing the number of teams. I think they're trying to start it today, but since I'm being a bridge player at least for another day and hopefully longer, I don't actually know. I promise they're planning to cover from the Round of 32 at least.

[NickRW]

HeavyDluxe, on Jul 22 2008, 04:53 PM, said:

If we extended the deadline into Thursday, we basically 'lose' the Wagar. I'm no opposed to that. Then you're picking from 16 teams in the Spingold.

If the group feels strongly, we can extend the picks into Thursday. Thoughts?

Nah, them that post late can enter for half points is my idea.

Nick

[hrothgar]

Has anyone found a nice tree showing the brackets?

[Aberlour10]

hrothgar, on Jul 22 2008, 04:31 PM, said:

Has anyone found a nice tree showing the brackets?

I suppose ACBL will publish it after todays round is finished.

[TimG]

hrothgar, on Jul 22 2008, 04:31 PM, said:

Has anyone found a nice tree showing the brackets?

ACBL has one up for the Wagar. They have a tendency not to put up[ bracket sheets until the round of 16, so I suspect there won't be one until after completion of play on Wednesday.

[Aberlour10]

TimG, on Jul 22 2008, 10:56 PM, said:

hrothgar, on Jul 22 2008, 04:31 PM, said:

Has anyone found a nice tree showing the brackets?

ACBL has one up for the Wagar. They have a tendency not to put up[ bracket sheets until the round of 16, so I suspect there won't be one until after completion of play on Wednesday.

There are complete Spingolds bracket sheet in Daily Bulletin, pages 6 & 7



PS. Uday faces today the eastern power of team Gromov, good luck for him!



Robert

[hrothgar]

All this is predicated on the assumption that Cayne plays the length of the series

Four Losing Quartfinalists:

2: Cayne
4: Struhl
6: Schwartz
8: Meltzer

Two Losing Semi Finalists:

1. Nickell
7. Sadek

Losing Finalist:

3. O'Rourke

Top Dog:

5. Gromov

[Edit: Guess it was a mistake not to have looked at last night's results before picking Struhl to make it into the elite 8... Oh well]

[655321]

After seeing the brackets, my guess is:

QF: Brogeland(#17), Konow(#61), Narasimhan(#10), O'Rourke(#3)
SF: Meltzer(#8), Schwarz(#6)
RU: Gromov(#5)
W: Weed(#2)

I had picked Strul instead of Konow before today's bulletin reported the results. MFA is playing in team Konow.

[HeavyDluxe]

Here's my shot:

SPINGOLD
* 4 losing quarterfinalists: ♣ Meltzer (#8), ♣ Sadek (#7) , ♣ Goren (#55), ♣ O'Rourke (#3)
* 2 losing semifinalists: ♦ Lynch (#12), ♦ Schwartz (#6)
* Runner-up: ♥ Weed (#2)
* The winner: ♠ Nickell (#1)

WAGAR
* 2 losing semifinalists: ♦ Mancuso (#4), ♦ Jacobs (#5)
* Runner-up: ♥ Fireman (#1)
* The winner: ♠ Baker (#2)



One FINAL note: Remember you can edit your picks until 1PM Las Vegas time today. At that point, I'll pull all the picks out into a spreadsheet for scoring.

Thanks!

[hrothgar]

hrothgar, on Jul 23 2008, 01:38 PM, said:

All this is predicated on the assumption that Cayne plays the length of the series

Four Losing Quartfinalists:

2: Cayne
29: Markowicz,
6: Schwartz
8: Meltzer

Two Losing Semi Finalists:

1. Nickell
7. Sadek

Losing Finalist:

3. O'Rourke

Top Dog:

5. Gromov

[Edit: Guess it was a mistake not to have looked at last night's results before picking Struhl to make it into the elite 8... Oh well]

Since I get to edit my picks still

Four Losing Quartfinalists:

2: Cayne
29: Markowicz,
6: Schwartz
8: Meltzer

Two Losing Semi Finalists:

1. Nickell
7. Sadek

Losing Finalist:

3. O'Rourke

Top Dog:

5. Gromov

[NickRW]

Not sure if I'm in time, but, if so:

Quarters: Lynch #12, Mahaffey #16, Meltzer #8, Konow #61
Semis: Ekeblad #9, Tuszynski #20
Runner up: Nickell #1
Winner: Gromov #5

Wagar
====
Semis: Simon #12, Jacobs #6
Runner up: Bjerkan #3
Winner: Fireman #1

Tie breaker = 43.

[cherdano]

Spingold:
Quarters:
Meltzer, Konow, Sadek, Schwartz

Semis:
Gromov, Weed

Losing finalist:
Nickell

Winner:
O'Rourke


Wagar:
Semis:
Westheimer, Carol Simon's team

Losing finalist:
Jacobs

Winner:
Baker

Spingold final margin: 3 IMPs

[HeavyDluxe]

Small group... but I've got everyone's entries. Good luck!

Oh, and I forgot my guess for margin of victory - 10 IMPs in the Spingold.