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About District 16
District 16 of the American Contract Bridge League consists of most of Texas and all of Mexico. Its members play duplicate bridge in games at clubs and at sectional and regional tournaments within the district.
District 16 boasts many national and world champions, as well as many other expert or near-expert players. It also provides venues for beginning and learning players. District 16's mission is to promote bridge in its geographic area.
On these pages you'll find information about the district's officers and key personnel, the district calendar, results of district tournaments, minutes of the district board meetings, district financial reports, and other useful information.
District News & Coming Attractions
Lone Star Regional Results
Results from the 2012 Houston Lone Star Regional can be seen here. With daily bulletins and photos of winners!
Grand National Teams
Unit Qualifying
Listed below are all the Unit qualifying games for Units in District 16 now scheduled.
Players may play in any Unit qualifying game to qualify to the District level.
There is no unit level qualifying for Flight A or the Superflight.
| Unit | Flight | Date | Site | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 172 | B & C | January 28 | Turtle Creek DBC | 10 & TBA |
| 173 | B & C | January 29 | The Bridge Studio | 10 & 3 |
| 174 | B & C | February 26 | Houston Bridge Studio | 11 & 4 |
| 176 | B | May 12 | Dorsey’s Bridge Studio | 1:30 & TBA |
| C | May 12 | Bridge Academy of North Dallas | 1:30 & TBA | |
| 183 | B | April 15 | Ft. Worth Bridge Studio | 12:30 & TBA |
| C | March 4 | Ft. Worth Bridge Studio | 12:30 & TBA | |
| 187 | B & C | March 21 | Bridge Club of South Texas | 10:30 & TBA |
| 197 | B & C | February 19 | The Bridge Center | 1 & TBA |
| 201 | B & C | March 17 | Beaumont Bridge Studio | 9:30 & 1 |
| 204 | Not Available | |||
| 205 | Not Available | |||
| 207 | B & C | January 28 | Bridge Center of Austin | 10 & 2 |
| 209 | Not Available | |||
| 224 | Not Available | |||
| 225 | B & C | May 5 | Dottie Pirkle’s DBC | 10 & TBA |
| 233 | B & C | January 22 | Cultural Activities Center | 10 & TBA |
| 237 | Not Available | |||
| 353 | Not Available | |||
District North American Pairs
The results from the 2012 District NAP Qualifying can be seen here.
These pairs qualified to compete at the National Level:
Flight A
- Chris Compton - Marc Levine
- Guss Ginsburg - Mike Doyle
- Jim Hilton - Kenneth Schutze
Flight B
- Ankur Rathi - Mahesh Rathi
- Daniel Jackson - Bill McCarty
- Tiger King - James Zhan
- Jerrold Harrington - Gary Anziani
Flight C
- Troy Carr - Katherine McClure
- Toni Hurlbut - Alberta Birk
- Karen Fillis - George Fillis
- Bogumil Knypinski - Pawel Hanus
Good luck in Memphis!
Seattle Report
Dan Morse's report from Seattle has been posted on this website. You may read it here.
New District Head Director
Effective December 31, 2011 Tom Whitesides will be retiring as Field Supervisor for the Southwest. Tom intends to remain on board as a part time TD through 2012. We have selected Gary Zeiger to replace Tom in this Field Supervisor position. Gary will assume the role on January first.
Please join me in providing any support Gary may need during this transition and beyond. He will be joining Betty Bratcher, Patty Johnson, Charles MacCracken, Millard Nachtwey, Chris Patrias, Matt Smith, and Sol Weinstein as one of eight Field Supervisors responsible for all of our ACBL tournament directors.
Thanks to Tom for all his hard work!
