[inquiry]

Coming into last boards, Jlall-han were ahead 82 to 65

Same contract on these two hands. 15 was could you find the magic fit and play 6S, 2nd one is could you get into hearts after a 1NT opening bid by the opponents.

Board 15
Drl South
Vul NS

E=W do not bid, submitted by Jillygean

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NS goodwins

Scores:
6S = 11
5S = 8
5H = 4
6H = 0

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86 Jlall-han
69 Goodwins


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Board 16
Dlr West
Vul EW
NS=goodwins
West opens 1NT, east either uses Jacoby
transfer 2♥, or if north bids ♦s or ♥s, bids
a non-forcing 2♠.

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NS Han/Jlall
Scores;
2H = 10
3D = 8
3H = 6
4H = 4
4D =2

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Final (non-official, quite a bit of challenges outstanding)
94 Jlall-han
71 Goodwins

This post has been edited by inquiry: 2010-November-26, 15:53
Reason for edit: correct the running scores from earlier scoring edits

[PhantomSac]

No comment on these really, seems like EW undercompeted on 16 though!

[awm]

3♥ seems pretty good to me on board 16; probably better than 3♦. Of course, the competing pairs bid to the same spot so it won't matter.

[MrGoodwin]

We had a chance on 15, if I had followed through with my original intention to raise spades on the second round. I chickened out when Tim raised to 4H, because 4S now would be a slam-try and I didn't think we had five-level security.

Ref. challenges outstanding: it is hard to imagine 37MP worth of changes, so I urge you not to spend a lot of time/effort on revising scores. Congrats to Phantom/Han, who were clearly superior to us. /TLG

[inquiry]

MrGoodwin, on 2010-November-26, 01:59, said:

We had a chance on 15, if I had followed through with my original intention to raise spades on the second round. I chickened out when Tim raised to 4H, because 4S now would be a slam-try and I didn't think we had five-level security.

Ref. challenges outstanding: it is hard to imagine 37MP worth of changes, so I urge you not to spend a lot of time/effort on revising scores. Congrats to Phantom/Han, who were clearly superior to us. /TLG

Well, after careful examination, i am ready to say who made the most mistakes on this set...... me!

I apologize for the errors in typing in auctions, hands, and most especially estimating the scoring. With current corrections, their lead has been cut about in half. Not sure if there is that many more corrections, so you are probably right.

[PhantomSac]

GG everyone

[gnasher]

So do we have a winner?

[han]

Sounds like the Phantom and MrGoodwin think so. I'm hoping for some clarification from Ben.

Then, it would be nice to talk about how we continue. Assuming we won, will we then be challenged by some other pair? Perhaps it would be fun if people like mikeh, phil, cascade or franceshinden, who did not join yet, would compete. It would be interesting to see them bid the hands. Another option is elianna-awm, who had to drop out due to scheduling problems. Another thought was that hrothgar and free might like to join for real now, it would be interesting to read about the moscito auctions in more detail.

Anyway, lots of options. What are your ideas Ben?

[TimG]

han, on 2010-November-30, 08:58, said:

Sounds like the Phantom and MrGoodwin think so. I'm hoping for some clarification from Ben.

I'm convinced too. I'm disappointed that the final was not much of a contest. But, I thoroughly enjoyed the contest as a whole and join in congratulating Han and Justin on their convincing victory.

[inquiry]

Sorry, I thought we realized that we have a winner, and I have been in Orlando at the nationals. The winner was Jlall and han. They should realize as they got a small reward from BBO as champions for winning.

Let's begin thinking about how we select pairs to challenge the champs.

Ben