We will be holding all of the opening rounds at 110 East 55th Street, 6th floor, at 11am.
Feb 2nd: Flight A and Flight C
Feb 15th: Championship Flight
Feb 23rd: Flight B
Here is the GNT Flyer for 2025.
Here are the full conditions of contest for GNT 2025.
Click to pre-register your GNT 2025 team
See Teams Already Registered
In another never-before-seen D24 GNT phenomenon, we have two final matches to play in GNT Flight A and GNT Flight B, and both are between the same two captains. Team Jeanguenat (just pronounce it Team AJ), has the more favorable seed going into both matches. They finished top seed in the GNT-B qualifying Swiss and defeated Team Verrier by only 1 IMP after 24 boards in the semi-finals. In GNT-A, team AJ assumed the top seed after defeating Team Kuang in a very wild GNT-A quarterfinal match (down 53 IMPs after 12 boards followed by +58 IMPs).
To make things more complicated, both captains have a different roster in each flight, we can call them AJ-A, AJ-B, Trabulus-A, and Trabulus-B. Also, because Flight B may send two teams and no player may play at the national finals in more than one flight, we have another crazy situation where it is impossible for AJ and Trabulus to captain all 3 slots.
Check out the latest standings on the GNT season page.
While there are a wide range of possible outcomes and resolutions, Team Trabulus-A happens to have 6 players. If they win both GNT-A and GNT-B finals, it allows them to transfer the GNT-A spot to the non-overlapping 3 players and augment to form a team for Philly, with the Trabulus-B team staying intact. However, they are also allowed to keep the team intact for GNT-A and free up a slot for Team Kolbun and Team Verrier to play for the remaining Philly NABC slot. Once again, we are super happy that so many players compete in multiple flights, and thankfully our conditions of contest are prepared to handle thse complications later.
Twelve teams played in the GNT-B opening round yesterday playing 7 rounds of 7 boards each. The semifinalists advancing to the KO rounds consist of an all-star collection of veteran District 24 GNT and NAP past champions.
Team Jeanguenat
Also known as “Team AJ”, this team consist of Andrew Jeanguenat, Kenneth Mandel, Maya Jonas Silver, and Jack Latta; was also the winner of the opening round D24 GNT-B Swiss last year and has also twice represented the District in the GNT-C national finals. During the Chicago NABC of 2023, they were part of the New York City sweep, the 2nd time and perhaps last time ever that the same District won 1st and 2nd place nationwide.
Team Kolbun
Consisting of Vladimir Kolbun, Amit Duvshani, Bill Sigward, and Nancy Marshall, this team has extensive NABC and NAOBC successes. Vladimir and Amit played in the District first pair position during the Memphis NABCs in 2019, then made the national semi-finals during the 2020 North American Online Bridge Championship 0-1500 Teams KO. Bill and Nancy were finalists in the Young Pairs, aka Micro LM Pairs, in Toronto NABCs last year.
Team Trabulus
It’s no surprise to see the Long Island GNT veterans. The team of Norman Trabulus, Charles Bilich, Michael Krevor, and Matthew Gordon have represented the District consistently every year, sometimes multiple times a year, in the GNT and NAPs in our national finals (and win plenty of other events along the way). Most recently in Las Vegas 2024, Matt was a platinum overall winner for the 10K Fast Pairs and 10K IMP Pairs, while Charles and Michael were platinum overall winners in the Super Senior Pairs.
Team Verrier
While Team Petsch was the official defending champion in GNT-B, the team of Celia Verrier, Lore Monnig, JoAnn Goodspeed, and Peggy Ellis are the skip-year defending champions, which does not gain any seeding benefits but adds to the excitement. Two years ago Team Verrier represented D24 in Chicago as the B1 team, securing their ticket to the NABCs after winning their KO match from the Seed 4 position. Amusingly, that KO was also against Team Petsch of 2023, and they later faced a modified Team Latta in the finals. The four members regularly practice under team conditions in the Interclub Bridge League.
Also, to clarify there are a few alter ego versions of each team across the flights; players who play multiple flights tend to do well and have a propensity to nominate the same captain for added ambiguity. There is a Team AJ in GNT-A as well, but that team swaps Maya and Jack with two players who represented the District making it to the final round of the NAP-B at Reno 2022. Team Trabulus in GNT-A swaps Matt with players from NAP-B in Reno 2022 and GNT-A in Chicago 2023.
| GNT Championship Flight Opening Round: Sat, Feb 15 Day 2: Sun, Feb 16 |
| Seed 1 vs Seed 4 match (Feb 16th, 11am) Allen Kahn, Jeffrey Rothstein, John Rengstorff, Glenn Eisenstein vs Sam Ehrlichman, Jacob Freeman, Franco Baseggio, Cornelius Duffie, Sheldon Tan, Adam Wildavsky Seed 2 vs Seed 3 match (Feb 16th, 11am) Mike Lipkin, David Gurvich, Erez Hendelman, Russ Samuel vs Gillian Miniter, Joe Grue, John Hurd, Joel Wooldridge, Max Rotaru Knocked Out Julian Kurtzman, Dan Lev, Sam Kuang, David Yoon Kari Tetzlaff, Rachael Moller, Laura Tolkow, Stephannie Culbertson |
District 24 Champ GNT RR Session February 15, 2025
Scores after 5 rounds
Team Wins Score
1 4.00 62.77 Q Allen Kahn – Jeffrey Rothstein – Glenn Eisenstein – John Rengstorff
2 4.00 61.85 Q Michael Lipkin – David Gurvich – Erez Hendelman – Russell Samuel
3 3.00 57.97 Q Gillian Miniter – Joe Grue – John Hurd – Joel Wooldridge – Iulian Rotaru
4 2.00 51.05 Q Samuel Ehrlichman – Jacob Freeman – Franco Baseggio – Cornelius Duffie – Sheldon Tan – Adam Wildavsky
5. 52.00 42.61 Julian Kurtzman – Daniel Lev – Samuel Kuang – David Yoon
6. 0.00 23.75 Kari Tetzlaff – Rachael Moller – Laura Tolkow – Stephannie Culbertson
GNT-A and GNT-C kicked off last week and the semifinal KOs are in progress. The first match took place last night. Congrats to Janice Winwder, Stephanie Chamberlain, Thomas Romeo, and Thierry Bonnet for placing 3rd/4th in the District. Each player will receive overall awards of at least 7 Masterpoints, half red half gold. Team Bellows has advanced to the finals and will play the winner of the other semifinal match, with teams captained by Music Li and Rachel Brannan.
See the rest of the matchup on our GNT season page.
You can still register a team for the Championship Flight and Flight B. We have 16 teams registered across the two events, but would love to welcome more. As it turns out, any new teams that sign up for the Championship Flight will drastically change the event structure. Because we take our GNTs quite seriously, when there are exactly 8 teams, our seeding committee will form a bracket of 8 teams and the teams play a knock out starting in the first round. However, with 9 teams, we can do a full round robin with 8 rounds of 6 boards. Once you add the 10th team, rather than have 9 rounds, it is more common for the seeding committee again to split the teams into two group of 5 to play a round robin (and the top two teams of each group moves on to semi finals).
Thankfully, we are prepared to accommodate any number of teams and absorb the oncoming chaos. As for Flight B, we will run a swiss regardless of the number of teams. We simply don’t feel that seeding Flight B is viable and the randomness of a Swiss is more acceptable than the randomness of imperfect seeding.
The team of Julian Kurtzman, Jess Jurkovic, Dan Lev, and Sam Kuang took the top seed position in Flight A, ending the day with 86.50 Victory Points after winning 4 of 7 rounds, beating 2nd and 3rd place teams Team Yoon and Team Jeanguenat who each won 5 matches. Defending champions Team Trabulus also made the final 4. See the brackets at gnyba.org/gnt#teams
In Flight C, the team of Music Li, Yuchen Xu, Hengrui Xing, and Yang Xu took first place with a commanding 113.40 Victory Points, beating 2nd place Team Bellows by over 20 VPs. GNT veterans Team Windwer took 3rd followed by Team Brannan in 4th (the qualification today pushed member Kerry Noble over the Life Master line!). Congratulations also to many first time GNT-C players. We hope to see you in more Unit and District events!
For completion, the GNT-A Final Whiteboard
Good news, we have a working list of teams who are pre-registered for GNTs. We could use a few more, in particular in Flight C which allows us to send 2 teams to the Philadelphia NABCs as long as we have 8 teams in the opening round swiss.
If you have a team to register, which you may edit at any time, please register asap. In addition to assisting the organizers and director, one major advantage of pre-registering is voting on your favorite pizza topping. Currently mushroom pizza* is in the lead…
We do have defending champions in most flights, other than Flight C. Team Lipkin is back to defend their Championship Flight victory with 75% of the same team composition. Team Poon has the identical team from last year, where they qualified into the Round of 8 in 6th place and proceeded to win 3 KOs to win the District GNT-B, earning 33.5 gold points, a trip to Toronto nationals, and the hardest-earned possible invitation to the Blue Ribbon Pairs.
Flight A currently has the 2023 season champions registered, with Team Trabulus easily the most consistently winning grassroots team across the past 8 years. Combined their team has represented the New York City and Long Island almost every year, sometimes multiple times a year, in the North American Pairs and Grand National Teams.
Flight C technically does not qualify as defending champions under the conditions, but the prior winners from the NAP-C nationals and GNT-C nationals merged on to a combined team. Still, we should also point out that Flight C is the most accessible event of the year for newer players, and last year our finalists had never scored IMPs prior to the event. All players are not Life Masters and have 0-750 Masterpoints.
*If you registered prior to the pizza topping vote, you may edit your response and we will re-tally, or just let us know via email
Thanks to everyone who attended the GNYBA Winter Regional.
Here is a quick link to the official regional results.
Up next, we have three great events.
The District 24 GNTs for 2025 (four different flights)
The Silver Points Pro-Am in March 2025
The Eastern States Regional in May 2025
| Rank | MPs | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 79.57 | Zachary Grossack – Newton, MA |
| 2 | 65.72 | Martin Schaltz – Copenhagen, Copenhagen |
| 3 | 65.72 | Chris Willenken – New York, NY |
| 4 | 62.59 | Susan Schnelwar – New York, NY |
| 5 | 61.88 | Glenn Robbins – New York, NY |
| 6 | 61.88 | Jiang Gu – Mountain Lakes, NJ |
| 7 | 44.57 | Matthew Weingarten – Seattle, WA |
| 8 | 44.57 | Sam Goldberg – Melville, NY |
| 9 | 44.26 | David Soukup – Philadelphia, PA |
| 10 | 43.33 | Michael Lipkin – Brooklyn, NY |
| 11 | 40.39 | Samuel Ehrlichman – Brooklyn, NY |
| 12 | 40.39 | Kari Tetzlaff – Brooklyn, NY |
| 13 | 40.18 | Joe Grue – New York, NY |
| 14 | 38.92 | Gillian Miniter – New York, NY |
| 15 | 37.67 | Adam Wildavsky – New York, NY |
| 16 | 34.21 | Jacqueline Chang – New York, NY |
| 17 | 33.51 | Migry Zur Campanile – New York, NY |
| 18 | 32.36 | Jerry Goldberg – New York, NY |
| 19 | 32.20 | Harry Faivus – New York, NY |
| 20 | 30.99 | Julian Kurtzman – Brooklyn, NY |
| 21 | 30.90 | Sergio Bianchi – Cesena, Cesena |
| 22 | 30.86 | Eleanor Seaman – New York, NY |
| 23 | 29.77 | Janos Geller – Morristown, NJ |
| 24 | 29.77 | Jeffrey Rothstein – New York, NY |
| 25 | 29.70 | Uday Ivatury – New York City, NY |
| 26 | 28.57 | J David Adler – New York, NY |
| 27 | 28.57 | Leonardo Fruscoloni – Brooklyn, NY |
| 28 | 28.57 | Aldo Gerli – Padova, Padova |
| 29 | 28.44 | Mustafa Cem Tokay – New York, NY |
| 30 | 28.44 | Barbara Hendra – Brooklyn, NY |
| 31 | 28.09 | David Parsons – New York, NY |
| 32 | 26.34 | David Yoon – Bayside, NY |
| 33 | 26.06 | Lynne Koeppel – New York, NY |
| 34 | 25.75 | Iulian Rotaru – New York, NY |
| 35 | 25.70 | Monique France – New York, NY |
| 36 | 25.55 | Jerry Stamatov – Boca Raton, FL |
| 37 | 25.55 | Gail Schargel – New York, NY |
| 38 | 23.94 | Federico Iavicoli – Roma 00185, Roma 00185 |
| 39 | 23.94 | Leonardo Cima – Roma, Roma |
| 40 | 22.75 | Dana Berkowitz – New York, NY |
| 41 | 22.75 | Franco Baseggio – New York, NY |
| 42 | 22.39 | David Marker – New York, NY |
| 43 | 22.03 | Andrew Rosenthal – New York, NY |
| 44 | 21.51 | Daniel Rothstein – New York, NY |
| 45 | 21.50 | Ettore Bianchi – Stamford, CT |
| 46 | 21.50 | Barbara Dessi – , |
| 47 | 21.33 | Ron Gerard – White Plains, NY |
| 48 | 20.66 | Ralph Tamlyn – New York City, NY |
| 49 | 20.59 | Hong Ding – New York, NY |
| 50 | 20.59 | Sheldon Tan – New York, NY |
| Rank | MPs | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 51 | 19.20 | Jill Marshall – Port Chester, NY |
| 52 | 19.16 | Adam Grossack – Newton, MA |
| 53 | 19.09 | Joseph Byrnes – Long Beach, NY |
| 54 | 18.76 | William Powell – New York, NY |
| 55 | 18.74 | Melissa Fawer – New York, NY |
| 56 | 18.64 | Lee Lin – New York City, NY |
| 57 | 18.38 | Christal Henner – New York, NY |
| 58 | 17.89 | Alan Davidson – New York, NY |
| 59 | 17.06 | Parag Saxena – Rye, NY |
| 60 | 16.34 | Allen Kahn – New York, NY |
| 61 | 16.10 | David Sloane – Glen Cove, NY |
| 62 | 15.77 | Giorgia Botta – Brooklyn, NY |
| 63 | 15.71 | Jeffrey Allen – Armonk, NY |
| 64 | 15.71 | Theo Allen – Armonk, NY |
| 65 | 15.67 | Wendy Nickerson – New York, NY |
| 66 | 14.70 | Melanie Petsch – New York, NY |
| 67 | 14.64 | Sarik Goyal – Jersey City, NJ |
| 68 | 14.64 | Kelley Hwang – New York, NY |
| 69 | 14.37 | Manish Chopra – New York, NY |
| 70 | 14.37 | William Rittenhouse – Round Top, NY |
| 71 | 14.12 | Gloria Tamlyn – New York City, NY |
| 72 | 13.89 | Ilan Wolff – New York City, NY |
| 73 | 13.76 | Charles Bilich – Hewlett, NY |
| 74 | 13.74 | Jason Ji – JERSEY CITY, NJ |
| 75 | 13.54 | Stanley Tuhrim – New York, NY |
| 76 | 13.54 | Betty Mintz – New York, NY |
| 77 | 13.41 | William Hohauser – Port Washington, NY |
| 78 | 13.41 | Jeffrey Neuman – New York, NY |
| 79 | 13.23 | Thomas Hunter – Norwalk, CT |
| 80 | 13.23 | Valerie Deneroff – New York, NY |
| 81 | 13.23 | Martin Deneroff – New York, NY |
| 82 | 12.90 | Paul Frean – New York, NY |
| 83 | 12.77 | Peter Clark – New York, NY |
| 84 | 12.65 | Michael Krevor – Port Washington, NY |
| 85 | 12.46 | Barbara Schwartz – New York City, NY |
| 86 | 12.11 | Victor Poon – Stony Brook, NY |
| 87 | 12.09 | Paul Lewis – White Plains, NY |
| 88 | 11.98 | Joyce Goldstein – Brooklyn, NY |
| 89 | 11.88 | Rona Levine – New York, NY |
| 90 | 11.88 | Stephen Levine – New York, NY |
| 91 | 11.73 | Elliot Sternlicht – New York, NY |
| 92 | 11.71 | Scott McDermott – New York, NY |
| 93 | 11.70 | Sheng Li – New York, NY |
| 94 | 11.64 | Igor Savchenko – Morris Plains, NJ |
| 95 | 11.32 | Elizabeth Reich – New York, NY |
| 96 | 11.21 | Alex Perlin – Metuchen, NJ |
| 97 | 10.62 | James Sundstrom – New York City, NY |
| 98 | 10.62 | Zhuo Wang – Forest Hills, NY |
| 99 | 10.48 | Robert Kuhnreich – New York, NY |
| 100 | 10.24 | David Gurvich – New York, NY |
You can now register your team with the simple Google form:
Register your D24 GNT Team 2025
You can change or edit your submission at any time, just email gnt@gnyba.org
You are very welcome to register teams for multiple flights, and your team can have drastically different rosters between different flights. For whatever reason, last year many Flight A and Flight B teams, without any intended coordination, happened to do some musical chairs shuffling so that teammates and even partnerships were not the same. It was lots of fun!
Note, the latest conditions and flyer will always be linked off the home page of gnyba.org on the right hand side, or on the D24 GNT page, so be sure you are using the latest.
We just have a few photos courtesy of David Moss from very successful first day of the December 2024 Holiday Regional. We far exceeded the original attendance projections and thankfully secured the additional playing space months prior to accommodate significantly more attendance.
Thank you to our tournament chairs, Phil Lentz and Bill Sigward, along with unit president Melanie Petsch and many others for their hard work (a slew of other volunteers man the hospitality desk, partnership desk, and behind the scenes organizing to make it happen).
Apparently it is now confirmed, Jiang Gu has indeed broken the Barry Crane Top 500 record set by Joe Grue in 2018. We will know the final tally at the end of the 4th day of the regional (and perhaps he will grind out a few more online black points too on New Year’s Eve).
