Vanderbilt predictions
#1
Posted 2009-March-15, 07:05
Where were you while we were getting high?
#3
Posted 2009-March-15, 08:42
My prediction for the final 8 will be.
#16 Rosenberg
#2 Cayne
#14 Pczszola
#13 Mahaffey
#5 Rubin
#6 Katz
#7 Meltzer
#8 O'Rourke
The most horrible draw is #5, which includes:
#12 Diamond (starring Gitelman - Moss, Greco - Hampson)
#28 Ivatury (with Henner-Welland and 4 Dutch stars)
#53 Chinese Women Team
#4
Posted 2009-March-15, 09:56
Robert
#6
Posted 2009-March-15, 10:02
Ant590, on Mar 15 2009, 11:00 AM, said:
http://www.acbl.org/...009/01/VANDPRS/
#7
Posted 2009-March-15, 10:22
#8
Posted 2009-March-15, 11:45
Would also like to see teams with Chris Willenken and Migry, Chip Martel, Joe Grue, Uday and Josh Sher do well.
#9
Posted 2009-March-15, 11:47
1. Nickell
2. Cayne
3. (19) Onstott
4. Welland
5. (12) Diamond
6. (22) Deutsch
7. (10) Gromov
8. (25) Rosenthal
with final 4:
Nickell
Cayne
Onstott
Diamond
Finals: Nickell over Onstott
#10
Posted 2009-March-15, 14:13
I will go out on a limb and pick teams 1-7 to get to final 8.
#11
Posted 2009-March-15, 18:07
#12
Posted 2009-March-15, 18:13
Anyway of course I pick Nickell. And I root for team 29 while hoping they don't miss me too much.
Another team of interest to me is 10. Two of the strongest pairs there are, and a pair of ladies I have never heard of. I'm very curious to see how they do.
#13
Posted 2009-March-15, 18:30
jdonn, on Mar 15 2009, 07:13 PM, said:
Aberlour10 Posted on Mar 15 2009, 10:56 AM
[...]I would bet a coke on team Gromov as I always do, but they gave up their strong 4-handed line up, so I dont think, they have a real chance this time.
Robert
they have Gromovs wife and her partner in their team for years now. the ladies play far less boards then the others, but they were members of the team that won silver in transnationals 2007 in shanghai etc. also in the NABC events they officially were teammembers - so team 10 will be as strong as always
my favs outside the top 8 seeded are team (additional to 10) 11 with Fredin-Fallenius and Gawrys-Lesniewski and the Teams with the Dutch players in (17 and 28) - How can Brink-Drijver be seeded 28?
#14
Posted 2009-March-15, 18:32
Tomi2, on Mar 15 2009, 07:30 PM, said:
It's based on ACBL results only. And theirs haven't been anything special, at least not yet.
#15
Posted 2009-March-15, 18:33
JanM, on Mar 15 2009, 07:07 PM, said:
16-17 with Rosenbergs and Auken-Van Arnim against Dutch will be highlight in that wound of 32 IMO
#17
Posted 2009-March-15, 19:07
JanM, on Mar 15 2009, 07:07 PM, said:
What did they do with 71 teams? Seems like spending a whole day to reduce 71 to 64 isn't ideal. And, reducing to 32 involves some of those 3-ways with one survivor things (or similar). Byes?
#18
Posted 2009-March-15, 19:18
TimG, on Mar 15 2009, 08:07 PM, said:
JanM, on Mar 15 2009, 07:07 PM, said:
What did they do with 71 teams? Seems like spending a whole day to reduce 71 to 64 isn't ideal. And, reducing to 32 involves some of those 3-ways with one survivor things (or similar). Byes?
Tim, you are correct but in talking with several teams they really do not seem to mind that much. In fact I would guess that the bottom 50% are excited and look forward to playing.
btw side note I know several nontop teams play 32 bds on sunday afternoon..if they win they advance to 64 on monday. If they lose they play a new team of 32 bds sunday night to advance to monday.
#19
Posted 2009-March-15, 19:25
mike777, on Mar 15 2009, 08:18 PM, said:
I'm still not sure what the format was.
#20
Posted 2009-March-15, 19:40