Grand National Teams

Description
This event is a major ACBL team championship conducted with district (and sometimes unit) qualifying rounds that lead to a final round held in conjunction with the Summer NABC. The Grand National Teams (GNT) is a district event. Please read the District 16 Conditions of Contest (http://www.d16acbl.org/COC/COC_D16GNT.html) for more information.

 

2012 Grand National Teams

Congratulations to the winners of the District GNT! Winners were:

  • Super Flight: Chris Compton & Bart Bramley, Ira Chorush and Hemant Lall
  • Flight A: Bob Friz, Brady Allen, Jonathan Ernest, and David Farris
  • Flight B: Richard Curtin, Kay Laird, Roxie Tom, and Pat Prichard
  • Flight C: Pawel Hanus, Bogumil Knypinski, Brett Elliott, and Chris Anderson

Superflight

Seven teams entered the Superflight. On Saturday, they played a Swiss to reduce the number of teams to four. These four teams survived the first round:

  • Bart Bramley, Chris Compton, Ira Chorush, and Hemant Lall
  • Nancy Kornegay, Stephen Kornegay, Bill Staats, Mark Bumgardner, Hugh Hillaker, and Kimmel Jones
  • Bob Hamman, John Zilic, Chris Hamman, and Jeffrey Juster
  • Dan Morse, John Sutherlin, Greg Hinze, Ira Hessel, and Steve Shirey

The results from the qualifying round are shown here.

On Sunday, those four teams played a knockout to determine the winners with the Bramley team prevailing over the Kornegay team in the finals. Congratulations!

The results are here.

Flight A

Eight teams entered the event. On Saturday they played a Swss to reduce the field to these four teams:

  • Jack Borenstein, Murray Berger, Bob Scallan, and Suresh Agrawal
  • Leonard Schaen, M. Aslam Ansari, Martha Young, Jay Gibson, Gerrie Owen
  • George Fox, Anton (Tony) Haddad, Gil Micheletti, and Daniel Suty
  • Bob Friz, Brady Allen, Jonathan Ernest, and David Farris

On Sunday, those four teams faced off in a knockout event, with the semi-finals played in the afternoon and the finals in the evening.

The results from the qualifying round are here.

On Sunday, the Friz team defeated the Borenstein team in the final round to win flight A. Congratulations to the winners!

The results from the final rounds are here.

Flight B

Twenty one teams entered the event. On Saturday a Swiss with six rounds of eight boards were played to reduce the number of teams to twelve. These teams qualified for the final round:

  • Harry Elliott, Bob Wilkin, James Andre, David Pearlman, David Goldfarb, Donald Varvel
  • Phillip Jaeger, Thomas Hackenberg, William Garrard, Donna Garrard
  • Joseph Gill, Adrianne Feuer, R Randall Smith, Mark Hatkoff,
  • Jim Brown, Lauren Brown, Stephen Hibbard, Penny Mixon
  • Robert Reichek, Herbert Kalman, Jack Rawitscher, Jay Karkowsky
  • Charles Ensor, Birendra BK Singh, Carmen Keys, Paul Cuneo
  • Forrest Gray, Jeri Tribo, Fran Vanecko, Cecelia Zachar
  • Jeff Dater, Judith Lotridge, Rich Brandenburg, Tony Pellegrini
  • George Fillis, Karen Fillis, Gary Anziani, Jerrold Harrington
  • Barbara Hollahan, Nancy Dean, Richard Frankeny, Diana Frankeny
  • Richard Curtin, Kay Laird, Roxie Tom, Pat Prichard
  • Joe Black, Laura Delfeld, Wiley McMinn, Dean Truair

The results from the qualifying round are here.

On Sunday the twelve qualfying teams faced off in a knockout format. In the final round, the Curtin team defeated the Reichek team to win Flight B. Congratulations to the winners!

The results from the final rounds are here.

Flight C

Nine teams entered the event. On Saturday a Swiss with eight six board matches was played to reduce the field to these four teams:

  • Jerrold Albom, James Richman, Suvabrata Biswas, John Pelletti
  • Frank Durante, Satish Shah, Diana Chen, Nancy Latner
  • Jacqueline Montgomery, Susan Pratt, Barbara Baker, Jane Larimore
  • Pawel Hanus, Bogumil Knypinski, Brett Elliott, Chris Anderson

The results of the qualifying round can be seen here.

On Sunday, those four qualifying teams faced off in a knockout event, with the Hanus team defeating the Albom team in the final round. Congratulations to the winners!

The results from the final rounds are here.