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Grand National Teams and North American Pairs
Jackie Cornfoot-Ortiz: EMAIL -
jackieo@sonic.net
District 21 GNT/NAP Coordinator
NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS FOR 2009 - 2010
The time has arrived for clubs to start
planning for 2009-2010 NAP games in the month of June, July or
August. Clubs may hold two NAP qual. games per sanctioned
session per month. Sanction fee is only $1.00 per person and mps.
are half red at sectional rating. No sanction # is required for
Club games just shuffle, deal and play!. Strats are A Open
B 0-2,000) C (0-500 nlm) must be by June 2009 mpt. cycle. Qualify
at the club level then unit level than D21 final and lst place will
receive $700.00 per person and 2nd place $300.00 per person & 3rd
place will be invited to participate to represent D21 in each strat. There
is no entry fee at 2009
Reno, Nevada Spring NABC and monetary awards will be given on
site at the end of the event. Unit qual. games must be sanctioned by
ACBL for the months of Sept., Oct.,Nov. & Dec. and only one game per
Unit is allowed. The fee is $7.00 per table. All players must be a
member of D21 with paid member and in good standing. All players
MUST have qualified at the club and unit Level before they are
eligible to play at the District 21 finals. I would appreciate
all UNITS to notify me of your NAP games that you have
scheduled......
Jackie Cornfoot-Ortiz
NAP D21 FINALS schedule is as follows:
Sat. Feb. 20th, 2010 Flight A
Semi-Finals
Sun.Feb. 21st, 2010 Flight A Finals
Sat. Feb. 20th, 2010 Flight C
Finals
Sun. Feb. 21st, 2010 Flight B
Finals
Each day there will be 2 sessions starts
Noon & TBA -- A players MUST have qualified at the club level and
then at the Unit level to be able to participate in District 21 NAP
Finals at Bayshore
Bridge Ctr. 1300 Bayshore Blvd. #168, Burlingame
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D21 GNT Open Flight
13 Tables / Based on 27 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
| 36.00 |
1
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Kyle Larsen, San Francisco CA; Rose
Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; Chip Martel - Jan Martel, Davis CA; Kit
Woolsey - Sally Woolsey, Kensington CA |
| 27.00 |
2
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Gary Soules, Elk Grove CA; Mark Ralph - Thomas Stern, San
Francisco CA; William Sanford, Orangevale CA |
| 18.00 |
3/4
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Lew Stansby - Joanna Stansby, Dublin CA; Srikanth Kodayam,
Fremont CA; Nick Bykov, Stockton CA; Edward Wojewoda, Clovis
CA; Farid Assemi, Fresno CA |
| 18.00 |
3/4
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Harvey Brody - Ron Smith, San Francisco CA; Edward Nagy,
Danville CA; James Griffin, San Ramon CA |
D21 GNT-A Various
2/7-2/8 & 3/7-3/8/09
11 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
| 30.00 |
1
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Franklin Lowenthal, Pleasanton CA; Jack
Scott, El Cerrito CA; Robert Ng, Millbrae CA; Pat Galligan, San
Mateo CA |
| 22.50 |
2
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Len Vishnevsky, San Francisco CA; William Watson, Sunnyvale CA;
Robert Thomson, Burlingame CA; Mark Moss, Piedmont CA |
| 15.00 |
3/4
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Grant Vance - Gregory Vance, San Leandro CA; Dmitri Shabes, San
Ramon CA; Tanakorn Lavanakul, Dublin CA; Michel Schneider - Shelley
Lapkoff, Berkeley CA |
| 15.00 |
3/4
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Bill Heid, Pacifica CA; Bob Sanner, Palo Alto CA; Marc Renson,
San Mateo CA; Tom Trachuk, Walnut Creek CA |
D21 GNT Flight B
14 Tables / Based on 18 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
| 26.00 |
1
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Gregory Vance, San Leandro CA; Jannes
Van T Oever, Berkeley CA; Shuofei Geng, San Francisco CA; Bin
Liang, Fremont CA; Michael Bodell - Alan Malloy, Santa Clara
CA |
| 19.50 |
2
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Eric Mayefsky, Palo Alto CA; Rajeev Gupta, San Mateo CA;
Tanakorn Lavanakul, Dublin CA; Victor Chubukov, San Francisco
CA |
| 13.00 |
3/4
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Mark Robichek - Franz Lanzinger - Franklin Smoot,
Sunnyvale CA; Rick Jasper, San Jose CA |
| 13.00 |
3/4
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Lauren Friedman, Daly City CA; Thomas McLaughlin - Steven
Kipperman - Kimberly Fanady, San Francisco CA |
D21 GNT Flight C
Burlingame, Ca
3/28-3/29, 2009
10 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
| 15.00 |
1
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Stephanie Kung - Barry Ko - Frank
Lin, Berkeley CA; Han-Yu Chang, Mountain View CA
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| 11.25 |
2
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Qiang Zhang - Serena Guo, Pleasanton CA; Wanwan Ren,
Sunnyvale CA; Qing Xia, Castro Valley CA; Tao Fan, Union City
CA |
| 7.50 |
3/4
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Michael Bodell, Santa Clara CA; Elenalani Lam, Sunnyvale
CA; Benjamin Leitner - Michael Leitner, San Jose CA |
| 7.50 |
3/4
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Jennifer Gu, Sunnyvale CA; Jonathan Pines, Berkeley CA;
Adam Portley, San Francisco CA; Daniel Harting, Mountain View
CA |
D21 NAPB Final
15.0 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
Score |
| 16.00 |
1
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Tanakorn Lavanakul, Dublin CA; Rajeev
Gupta, San Mateo CA |
60.49% |
| 12.00 |
2
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Melinda Foos, Campbell CA; Michael Fleisher, Sunnyvale CA
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56.36% |
| 9.00 |
3
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Victor Chubukov, San Francisco CA; Eric Mayefsky, Palo Alto
CA |
55.80% |
| 6.75 |
4
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Georgianna Spinazze, Saratoga CA; Steve Chen, Fremont CA
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55.64% |
| 5.06 |
5
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Jonathan Pines, Berkeley CA; Belinda Gu, Palo Alto CA |
54.34% |
| 3.80 |
6
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Bob Sanner, Palo Alto CA; Mark Moss, Piedmont CA |
53.35% |
| 2.85 |
7
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Bert Rettner, Fresno CA; Mick Friedberg, Aptos CA |
52.03% |
D21 NAP - C FINALS
6.0 Tables / Based on 7 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
Score |
| 10.00 |
1
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Michael Bodell, Santa Clara
CA; Elenalani Lam, Sunnyvale CA |
59.41% |
| 7.50 |
2
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Argenta Price, San Francisco CA; Alex Lovejoy,
Stanford CA |
59.02% |
| 5.63 |
3
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Joseph Chin, Sunnyvale CA; Pei Sun, Palo Alto CA
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58.45% |
| 4.22 |
4
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Shuofei Geng, San Francisco CA; Jennifer Gu,
Sunnyvale CA |
56.90% |
| 3.16 |
5
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C Conrad - Darrell Fung, Castro Valley CA |
54.79% |
D21 NAP - A Finals
7.0 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
Score |
| 36.00 |
1
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Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark
Ralph, San Francisco CA |
180.12 |
| 27.00 |
2
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William Watson, Sunnyvale CA; Bill Harker, Copperopolis CA
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177.75 |
| 20.25 |
3
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Gregory Vance - Grant Vance, San Leandro CA |
177.66 |
| 16.00 |
4
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Li-Chung Chen, Cupertino CA; Mark Dean, Fremont CA |
174.57 |
| 14.40 |
5
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Joanna Stansby - Lew Stansby, Dublin CA |
170.63 |
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DISTRICT 21
GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS 2009 CONDITIONS OF CONTEST
Updated 10/11/2008
In accordance with ACBL regulations, each
participant in the GNT must be an ACBL member
and must follow ACBL residency
requirements.
The GNT is divided into four flights as
defined below. Players will be allowed to participate in
as many flights as they desire, provided
that they are eligible to play based upon their master-
point holdings as of the September 2008
cycle (determined Aug.6th,2008)
1. FLIGHTS
Open unlimited
Flight A 0-5000 mpts.
Flight B 0-2000 mpts.
Flight C Non Life Master
with fewer than 500 mpts.
2. ENTRY FEES
Entry Fees will be $40.00 per team
per session.
D21 shall give each flight $2,000.00
to represent D21 at the summer Nationals in\
Washington, DC
to be held
July 23, 2009 thru
August 2, 2009
3. PRE-REGISTRATION
All team must pre-register with the
D21 GNT Co-ordinator no later than
January 31, 2009.
Late registration will be accepted
only at the discretion of the GNT D21 co-ordinator.
4. CAPTAINCY
Each team must designate the team
captain from amongst its own playing members on
its registration entry, and said
captain will be responsible for all represention of the team.
5. TEAM COMPOSITION AND PLAY
REQUIREMENTS
Teams may consist of four, five or
six players. Players may be added at any time before
actual competion begins. Each
player must play at 50% of the boards or one full session
during the first stage and at least
50% of the final and semi-final knockout match thereafter.
Exception to this rule may be made
by request to the D21 GNT co-ordinator but will be
entertained only with good cause.
No exceptions will be made for the final match.
5. ITEMS NOT COVERED
Any items not covered by these
Conditions of Contest will be resolved by the D21 GNT co-
ordinator in consultation with the
Tournament Director.
6. CONVENTIONS
All conventions in the General Chart
are permitted in all flights. Only General Chart conventions
will be allowed in Flight B and
Flight C. Mid Chart will be allowed in the other flights provided that
2 identical
legible written viable defenses with
auction extensions and continuations are provided for the opponents.
7. SUBSTITUTIONS, REPLACEMENT AND
AUGMENTATIONS
A permanent replacement for a player
who, for cause, cannot continue in the event is permitted
only with the permission the of
the D21 GNT co-ordinator.
Prior to the completion of the District final,
the replacement need not have played
in the event but must:
Be a member of the ACBL and
maintain their membership in D21
and not appreciable
strenghten the team
A replaced player permanently leaves
the event with all masterpoints already earned and the
replacement continues in the event
earning masterpoints thereafter. Play percentage requirements
apply to the replacement only for
the portion of the event yet to be played. A fifth and/or sixth player
may be added to a team
after completion of the District 21 final
Any such player must have
played on another team in the same
flight of the current year's GNT or have previously represented
D21 in the same flight of the GNT at
a prior summer Nationals.
8. KNOCKOUT MATCH DURATION
Each KO match in the Open Flight and
Flight A will consist of 64 boards divided into two 32 board halves.
Flights B and Flight C will play 28
board matches.
9. SEEDING
Final Seeding for all flights will
be chosen by the Director In Charge and the D21 GNT co-ordinator.
GNT Flight Winners: C
B A
Open
D21 2008 GNT Open/C
Burlingame
2/23-2/24 2008
D21 2008 GNT Flight C
10 Tables / Based on 13 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
| 15.00 |
1
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Stephanie Kung, Atherton CA; Han-Yu
Chang, Mountain View CA; Kevin Shiue - Michelle Lee, San Francisco
CA; Dan Joo, Burlingame CA |
| 11.25 |
2
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Mark Hersko, Windsor CA; Randee Dimond - Larry Spanier - Meryl
Fischer, Santa Rosa CA |
| 7.50 |
3/4
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Joseph Chin, Sunnyvale CA; Pei Sun - Richard Yu, Palo Alto CA;
Ivy Chueh, Saratoga CA; Helen Chao, San Jose CA; Jia Tarng Wang,
Milpitas CA |
| 7.50 |
3/4
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Mischel Postas - L John Postas, Campbell CA; Michael Bodell,
Santa Clara CA; Elenalani Lam, Sunnyvale CA |
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Flight B winners
Winners: Chris Galbraith, Crispin Barrere, John Hadreas & Bruce Blakely
Runner up: Frank Smoot, Franz Lanzinger, Mark Robichek & Rick Jasper
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13.00 3/4
David Neuman, San Francisco CA; Terry Darwin,
Millbrae CA; John Kozero, Santa Rosa CA; Gary
Robinson, Forestville CA
13.00 3/4 Kenneth Llacera - Donald Seldeen - Neil
Joseph
Smyth, Santa Cruz CA; Mick Friedberg, Aptos CA
5.85 5/8 Mike Develin - John Barth, Mountain View
CA;
Nongyu Li, Sunnyvale CA; Jiang Chen, Cupertino CA
5.85 5/8 Stephen Tu, Milpitas CA; Li-Chung Chen,
Cupertino
CA; Steve Chen, Fremont CA; Rajeev Gupta, San
Mateo CA; Vandana Vidwans, Mountain View CA
5.85 5/8 Tanakorn Lavanakul, Dublin CA; Dmitri
Shabes, San
Ramon CA; Gregory Vance, San Leandro CA; Paul
Vevera, El Dorado Hills CA
5.85 5/8 Daniel Raider - Janice Nakao - Thomas
Quinlan,
San Mateo CA; Marolyn Imaoka-Yancey, San Jose CA;
Marcus Ballinger, Burlingame CA; Eugene Sor,
Richmond CA
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Burlingame, California
2/9-2/10; 4/5-4/6
D21 GNT - Flight A
12 Tables
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
| 30.00 |
1
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Tien-Chun Yang - Peter Sun,
San Jose CA; Bin Dai, Mountain View CA; Xiaodong Zhang, Fremont
CA; Bruce Tuttle, Berkeley CA |
| 22.50 |
2
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Clark Millikan, Mountain View CA; Steve Chen,
Fremont CA; Li-Chung Chen, Cupertino CA; Terry Terzian, Castro
Valley CA; Samuel Ieong, Stanford CA |
| 15.00 |
3/4
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Ken White, Lafayette CA; Jack Scott, El Cerrito
CA; Daniel Friedman - Linda Friedman - Manfred Michlmayr, Orinda
CA |
| 15.00 |
3/4
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Len Vishnevsky, San Francisco CA; William Watson,
Sunnyvale CA; Qing Yang, Cupertino CA; Sathya Bettadapura,
Campbell CA |
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| MPs |
Rank |
Names |
| 36.00 |
1
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Cheryl Mandala - Yul Inn, Cupertino CA;
William Watson, Sunnyvale CA; Bill Harker, Copperopolis CA
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| 25.20 |
2
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Tien-Chun Yang - Peter Sun, San Jose CA; Qing Yang, Cupertino
CA; Bin Dai, Mountain View CA |
| 14.40 |
3/4
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Rose Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; Kyle Larsen - Ron Smith, San
Francisco CA; JoAnna Stansby - Lew Stansby, Castro Valley CA; Brad
Moss, Mill Valley CA |
| 14.40 |
3/4
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Len Vishnevsky - Don Laycock - Jo Ginsberg, San Francisco CA;
John Hodges, Sunnyvale CA |
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And the winners for the 2008 NAP
are...
Overalls
Flight A
Flight B
Flight C
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