[sdoty]

Halftime results from the Round of 8:

Link to today's bulletin (team rosters, bracket sheet, etc): Daily Bulletin

Welland 39 76
Robinson 9 42

Baze 29 52
Chang 70 98

Nickell 42 53
Hollman 29 72

Shugart 69 114
Moss 30 73


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Round of 16 Results:
Nickell 26 89 125 169
Strul 32 47 80 105

Hollman 12 108 128 162
Lynch 26 27 59 92

Jacob 5 29 57 94
Shugart 31 70 97 145

Moss 24 77 92 118
O'Rourke 37 59 95 103

Welland 67 99 172
Marston 28 56 89 W/D

Rubin 29 53 74 91
Robinson 34 64 91 162

Team Orange 46 67 78 127
Baze 39 83 113 144

Chang 26 91 119 148
Schwartz 11 50 124 135

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Round of 32 Results:
Nickell 22 64 108 172
Hans 17 58 82 103

Roman 51 77 106 ??
Strul 41 65 98 ??
Strul advances. I'm not sure of the final score, but I believe the match was decided on an appeal.

Meltzer 38 54 69 111
Hollman 28 80 127 156

Lynch 48 76 204 137
Kasday 21 56 83 120

Team Robison 38 52 87 143
Baze 61 96 114 161

Weed 3 22 49 W/D
Team Orange 51 85 130

Schwartz 22 62 118 160
Johnson 42 77 103 120

Kamil 38 57 88 123
Chang 29 78 109 124

Welland 36 71 101 140
Schermer 37 48 72

Polowan 14 37 95 105
Marston 31 51 76 115

Robinson 49 96 154 200
Tucker 29 95 96 134

Rubin 29 59 89 126
Gordan 13 36 58 85

O'Rourke 25 55 115 148
Helman 34 60 83 117

Milner 10 37 55 107
Moss 36 64 130 156

Narasimhan 16 54 104 141
Shugart 31 69 128 169

Jacobs 10 33 70 102
Jacob 36 54 84 114

[glen]

wow this is wonderful - thanks thanks thanks for posting and updating!

Note that Fred is playing as part of this team: Ron Rubin, Miami FL; Russell Ekeblad, Providence RI; Brad Moss, New York NY; Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV; Geoff Hampson, Los Angeles CA; Eric Greco, Philadelphia PA

Justin is in this team: Melanie Tucker - John Kranyak, New York NY; Justin Lall - Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Guido Ferraro, Torino Italy; Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina - hopefully he will have a great 4th Q

[han]

This was nonsense, I got confused because of the two Robinson teams.

[glen]

Hannie, on Apr 5 2006, 04:13 AM, said:

Looks like Justin's team is called Baze, and is up 114-87, against Robinson. (according to the completely unofficial scores)

Team Baze is listed as Grant Baze, San Diego CA; Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA;
Michael Whitman, San Francisco CA; Krzystof Buras, Chorzow St. Lucia; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Bielsk

[Walddk]

officeglen, on Apr 5 2006, 05:17 AM, said:

Krzystof Buras, Chorzow St. Lucia

Interesting that the organisers seem to have relocated Chorzow in Poland to St. Lucia.

Roland

[Elianna]

They also relocated The Hague to Nebraska for one of the dutch contestants.

[Aberlour10]

Walddk, on Apr 4 2006, 11:45 PM, said:

officeglen, on Apr 5 2006, 05:17 AM, said:

Krzystof Buras, Chorzow St. Lucia

Interesting that the organisers seem to have relocated Chorzow in Poland to St. Lucia.

Roland

I wish it would be true , because I was born in the direct neighborhood
of Chorzow, the town of steel, coal, and dust


One of the favorites, team Jacobs is so early out of the event, what a surprise!

Robert

[Walddk]

Well done Susan, compiling the results from Dallas, but shouldn't you be there as a vugraph operator? Maybe you are at the venue, and if so, why are you not operating?

USA has several excellent operators, and Susan is arguably the very best. What a shame that we're not showing anything from the event so far.

Roland

[Gerben42]

Thanks Susan for telling us the results. Looking forward to seeing the Vugraph of what could almost be called the world KO championship.

If the Bermuda Bowl is the Wimbledon of Bridge, this surely is the US Open.

Gerben (from wet and cold southern Germany)

[Gerben42]

Let's have a look at the RO16:

1. Nickell vs 17. Strul (with Tuszynski, Kowalski, Lesniewski and Peter Weichsel)

As usual foreign teams are underseeded so Nickell need to play their best to win this one.

8. Lynch vs 24. Hollman

Looks like Lynch has the better cards here - but never underestimate Joe Grue!

20. Baze vs 36. Team Orange

Team Orange will continue to show that seed 36 is a joke. And they must be hot since Helgemo and friends gave up with 16 boards to play!
Team Baze did well so far, includes Polish ex-juniors Buras - Narkiewicz but it will be the end of the line here.

5. Schwartz vs 44. Chang

Chang includes one of China's star pairs: Zhao Xie & Fu Zhong so clearly underseeded. But as a Dutchy I have to vote for the Schwartz all-star team here

3. Welland vs 46. Marston

I think Welland should win this, Marston was way underseeded (the Australian open team) but with BB finalists Balicki & Zmudzinski, Welland will be the favorite.

6. Robinson vs 11. Rubin

Clear vote for Fred here - so Rubin to go through.

7. O'Rourke vs 23. Moss

O'Rourke is going to win this one big is my guess. Did you see their lineup? Wow!

18. Shugart vs 34. Jacob

Team Jacob must have been VERY happy to get past the nr. 2 seeds so I will give them at least a chance here. Still Shugart will be favorite, though.

So my QF lineup is:

Nickell - Lynch
Team Orange - Schwartz
Welland - Rubin
O'Rourke - Shugart

And pretty pretty please with sugar on top... Vugraph?

[inquiry]

Gerben42, on Apr 5 2006, 09:06 AM, said:

And pretty pretty please with sugar on top... Vugraph?

Uday report abiut semi-finals

[sdoty]

First post now updated with Round of 16 halftime results.

[luke warm]

i agree with roland... i kib a *lot* and susan is (and i mean no disrespect to the other operators, they all do a great job) the absolutely best i've ever seen

[Nadreck]

Is their any site or link with the running scores , hand records etc.

This information was easily obtained for the Bermuda Bowl but the ACBL site seems very limited apart from daily bulletins. The results for the Vanderbilt appear in the bulletin but not in the results link.

Based on the coverage (not the bridge standard) then if the Bermuda Bowl is the Wimbledon of Bridge, this surely is a local school competition

[uday]

After the 3rd quarter, unofficial scores, via a kindly spec

Moss up 95-92 vs orourke
Nickell up 125 to 80
Hollman up 128 to 59 vs lynch
Baze 113 to 78 vs team orange
Chang down 119 to 124 to Schwartz
welland won 172-89
rubin down 74 to 91 vs robinson

shugart up 91 to 57 vs jacob



btw: Karen walker and tom kneist won the mixed pairs

[Aberlour10]

Final scores taken from ACLB-site:

Nickell 169
Strul 105

Lynch 92
Hollman 162

Orange 127
Baze 144

Schwartz 135
Chang 148

Welland 172
Marston 89 WD

Robinson 162
Rubin 91

O'Rourke 103
Moss 118

Shugart 145
Jacob 94

[Walddk]

Gerben42, on Apr 5 2006, 03:06 PM, said:

So my QF lineup is:

Nickell - Lynch
Team Orange - Schwartz
Welland - Rubin
O'Rourke - Shugart

Try the lottery instead, Gerben; that will give you better odds

The quarter-final pairings are:
Nickell vs. Hollman
Baze vs. Chang
Welland vs. Robinson
Moss vs. Shugart

Roland

[glen]

Repeating the above,

bulletin said:

In yesterday’s round of 32, top seeds Nickell
(#1), Welland (#3) and Robinson (#6) cruised to
victory.
Hollman (original #24 seed) continued its
march, walloping the Lynch squad (#8) by 70
IMPs. In the second quarter, Hollman dished out a
96-1 punishment of Lynch.
Grant Baze’s team (#13) stopped Team
Orange (original #36) 144-127.
Chang continues to impress, defeating #5
Schwartz 148-135.
Moss ousted higher-ranked O’Rourke 118-
103, and Shugart (#18) handled giant-killer
Jacob 145-94.

http://web2.acbl.org...6spring/db7.pdf

Of interest to Canadians is CNTC Silver Medalists Nicolas L’Ecuyer and Zygmunt Marcinski are in the round of 8, playing as a four bagger - you would think the CNTC 4 bagger experience would have been enough! Many years ago Bruce Ferguson (on the Hollman team) was asked if he was nervous playing in a CNTC final - he replied it was nothing compared to a Vandy.

In the bulletin article "Devious defense" the text mixes up a suit so says "You’ll need something good to happen in the minor suits, however, as you’re looking at two spade losers, and probably two diamond losers and two club losers" - however clubs are A9x opposite KQJTx.

Below that article we see:

bulletin said:

Vugraph volunteers needed
ACBL Chief Tournament Director Rick Beye is looking for several experienced BridgeBase Online (BBO) users to help with the online broadcast of the Vanderbilt vugraph presentation.

[Gerben42]

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Try the lottery instead, Gerben; that will give you better odds biggrin.gif

I will not write down my predictions for the Soccer World Cup then, because the team I will predict as winner will do best to withdraw right away since it will be knocked out in the group phase anyway

[MickyB]

Elianna, on Apr 5 2006, 05:14 AM, said:

They also relocated The Hague to Nebraska for one of the dutch contestants.

Worst of all, they relocated Glasgow to England for a contestant in one of the other events. Good way to annoy 50 million people at once.