Pre-lim GNT-A and GNT-C Results

These are unofficial photos of the D24 GNT Flight A and Flight C opening round robin matches today:

Flight A:

1. Team 1 – 109.98 (Q) Paul Frean – Sabrina Frean – Daniel Rothstein – Amy Rhodes

2. Team 5 – 107.78 (Q) David Yoon – Julian Kurtzman – Jacqueline Chang – Jordan Lampe

3. Team 7 – 102.93 (Q) Tetzlaff – Chang – Quinn – Mittman – Culbertson – Shiaffino

4. Team 6 – 95.76 (Q) Moller – Florin Neamtu – Ilan Tadmor – Christopher Rivera

5. Team 2 – 92.18 Gloria Tamlyn – Ralph Tamlyn – Yasmine Guenancia – Shlomit Rind

6. Team 4 – 88.20 Jeanguenat – Mandel – Latta – Jonas-Silver – Jurkovic – Adelman

7. Team 8 – 84.82 Joseph – Lamountain – Mark Hyman – Ken Lowenstein – James Knopf

8. Team 9 – 81.42 Nickerson – Joan Dziekanski – Melanie Petsch – Xander Clague

9. Team 10 – 69.85 Lentz – Roberto Verthelyi – Robert Kuhnreich – James Southern

10. Team 3 – 67.08 Alan Davidson – Charles Bilich – Michael Krevor – Lee Lin

Flight C:

1. Team 5110.34 (Q) William Gold – Aaron Igra – Vincent Zheng – David Long

2. Team 789.50 (Q) Rebecca Mathew – Cooper Pierce – Sam Bellows – Ellie Gossage

3. Team 684.38 (Q) Andrew Chou – Andy Schatz – David Miller – Alan Dichter

4. Team 371.80 (Q) Terri Newman – Judith Peck – Barbara Vallely – Ruth Cox

5. Team 263.22 Quentin Liang – Patrick Yee – Justin Li – Jesse Tan

6. Team 155.19 Paul Oratofsky – Steven Solomon – James Diederich – Rita Bar-Or

7. Team 443.69 Tom Romeo – Adam Jaffe – Thierry Bonnet – Stephanie Chamberlain

8. Team 841.88 Judith Schwartz – Anthony Siclare – Karen Dann – Susan Sutin

TOTALS remain 560.00

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Early Pre-Reg Results

Pre-registration for the April 24-26 2026 regional in Manhattan has been live for about 48 hours. So far, there almost an even split between Friday and Saturday pre-reg, and between pairs and teams. Recall that a single pre-reg for the team event is a full name while pairs is only half a table, so we would expect a ratio of almost 2 to 1 if each format were equally popular.

Pre-Reg: https://forms.gle/Ry58v3egk3fqYTjZ7
Already pre-registered? Check to confirm your pre-reg
Tournament Flyer: Spring 2026 Regional

The most unfortunately news is the very small number of Gold Rush registrations. If you know anyone who would fit well into the Gold Rush pairs, please encourage them to play in the regional.

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Pre-Registration for April 24-26 Regional

Spring Regional in Midtown Manhattan

Space is limited, so preregistration is required.  To register, go to this link and fill out the form:

https://forms.gle/Ry58v3egk3fqYTjZ7

Tournament Flyer: Spring 2026 Regional
Already pre-registered? Check to confirm your pre-reg
(results take 48 hours to populate)

Sponsored by the Greater New York Bridge Association

April 24-26, 2026 — Friday, Saturday and Sunday

  • Honors Bridge and Games Center
  • 110 East 55th St. (just east of Park Ave.) – 6th floor

Schedule:  Each Day — Friday thru Sunday, April 24-26:

  • 10 am and 2:30 pm – Two-session Open Stratified Pairs (unlimited/4000/1500)
  • 10 am and 2:30 pm – Two-session Gold Rush Pairs (750/300/150)
  • 10 am and TBD – Bracketed Round Robin Teams
    • Stratifications subject to change by the Director-in-Charge

>> Card Fee – $35 per person/per session, pairs and teams
>> Duplicated boards with hand records for all pair and team games.
>> Pairs can play just one session of two-session events.
>> Payment will be made at the tournament site by credit or debit only – No Cash.

Tournament chairs:

Phil Lentz (plentz@nyc.rr.com)
Bill Sigward (wsigward@ix.netcom.com)
Partnership desk: partnership@gnyba.org

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Ehrlichman Takes GNT-Champ Top Seed

District 24 GNT Open February 21, 2026

Scores after 8 rounds

Team Wins Score Qual
1 6.50 105.15 Q Samuel Ehrlichman – Ilan Wolff – Adam Wildavsky – Sheldon Tan – Jacob Freeman – Cornelius Duffie
3 4.00 100.92 Q Gillian Miniter – Joe Grue – John Hurd – Iulian Rotaru – Chris Willenken
4 5.00 90.10 Q Jeffrey Rothstein – Allen Kahn – John Rengstorff – Glenn Eisenstein
8 5.00 85.67 Q Michael Lipkin – David Gurvich – Erez Hendelman – Omer Ekinci
6 5.00 82.09 Joel Wooldridge – Jodi Edmonds – Kent Mignocchi – Radu Nistor – Adam Grossack
9 3.50 74.38 Monique France – Joseph Byrnes – Jordan Lampe – Christopher Moh
7 4.00 68.19 Michael Botwin – Barry Plotkin – James Southern – Robert Kuhnreich
2 2.00 57.56 Adam Parrish – Lucy Zhang – Uday Ivatury – Elizabeth Reich
5 1.00 55.94 Joan Dziekanski – Wendy Nickerson – Rachael Moller – Stephannie Culbertson

GNT Championship Flight
Opening Round: Sat, Feb 21st
Day 2: Sun, Feb 22nd
Seed 1 vs Seed 4 match (Feb 22nd, 10am)
Sam Ehrlichman, Ilan Wolff, Adam Wildavsky, Sheldon Tan, J. Freeman, C. Duffie
vs
Mike Lipkin, David Gurvich, Erez Hendleman, Omer Ekinci

Seed 2 vs Seed 3 match (Feb 22nd, 10am)
Gillian Miniter, Joe Grue, John Hurd, Max Rotaru, Chris Willenken
vs
Jeffrey Rothstein, Allen Kahn, John Rengstorff, Glen Eisenstein

Knocked Out
Michael Botwin, Barry Plotkin, James Southern, Robert Kuhnreich
Joan Dziekanski, Wendy Nickerson, Rachel Moller, Stephanie Culbertson
Monique France, Joseph Byrnes, Jordan Lampe, Christopher Moh
Joel Wooldridge, Jodi Edmonds, Kent Migniocchi, Radu Nistor, Adam Grossack
Adam Parrish, Lucy Zhang, Uday Ivatury, Elizabeth Reich

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GNT Still Scheduled

At this time we still plan to hold the GNT-B event tomorrow, Sunday Feb 22nd beginning at 10am. We hope most teams will finish by 6pm. We will also have the first KO phase of the Championship Flight as planned.

We understand there are weather concerns tomrrow and are monitoring the situation. We will update all the captains if there is a change.

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Tentative Pro-Am Date: Sunday March 29th

Mark your calendar again for Sunday, March 29th. We are holding another GNYBA Pro-Am-Am-Am Team game. As usual, this is a great introduction to team games and IMP scoring formats. Each team has one “pro”, usually a seasoned Life Master (and sometimes grand life master if you are lucky). The other three are amateur players.

While there is no hard cutoff on who can be a pro vs an amateur, the spirit of the game is a pro is the team captain, guiding three people who still feel they need guidance. The amateurs are players who generally still enjoy playing in newcomer and gold rush events.

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GNT Flight B: Can We Beat the 2020 Record?

In recent memory, GNT Flight B hit a record number of teams in Feb 2020, just prior to Covid (sadly the national finals were cancelled that year). While Flight B tends to be the most popular flight each year, we have hovered around 10-14 teams since bringing back face-to-face GNTs in 2022. As of 2/14/2026, we have 14 full teams registered with a few stragglers soon to come. If we can reach 16 teams, we will have the ideal number to qualify 8 teams into the quarterfinal KOs. At 17, we tie the 2020 record and then 18+ puts us in new and prosperous times.

If you have any interest at all in signing up for Flight B, email partnerships@gnyba.org and we can match your pair with another to form a team (singletons can email too, but no promises). If you are a Flight C team, we highly encourage playing both the Flight B and Flight C opening rounds. It’s great practice, and to be honest, our district has a long history of 0-750 NLM teams winning or placing well in Flight B.

See who has registered:
gnyba.org/gnt

In other news, Championship Flight is looking very strong this year. We have multiple Grand Life Masters pre-registered. The defending champion team will have plenty of competition this year at the District level — the D24 phase might be even more difficult than the national finals in Minneapolis. Too bad, unlike Flight B and C, each District may only send 1 team to the NABC for Flight A and Championship Flight.

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GNT Pre-Registration Live, Major Conditions Changes

First of all, pre-registration for GNT is live. We will be updating the list of pre-registered teams regularly on gnyba.org/gnt.

There are three major changes to the conditions this year compared to last year:

Swiss Winners Do NOT Choose KO Opponents

In most KO formats that begin first with a qualifying swiss, the top seeded team would have some choice of opponents in the first round of the KO phase.

We have found that providing said choice adds to the overall stress levels for both organizers and players, with dubious benefits to any team, including the ones supposedly receiving an advantage of having the choice. Having any decision also places actual duties of consequence to the captains of each team beyond the already large burden of finding suitable KO dates for 8-12 players and a director.

This year, there is no choice. KO matches will always be done based on the Victory Point results of the swiss, including byes when the number of qualifying teams is not a power of 2.

More DIC Discretion for Number of Boards

Previously we mandated a minimum of 48 boards for the qualifying swiss, which works well for familiar formats such as 6 rounds of 8 or 7 rounds of 7. However, the directors would be stuck choosing 5 rounds of 10 in the case of 6 teams showing up, which might be overkill in lower flights. The director and all players should reasonably expect to end their day playing at most 3 hours per session, meaning 7 rounds of 6 or 5 rounds of 8 are valid formats.

Qualifying 6 teams from 12, 7 teams from 14

Last year cut 12 teams down to 4 in Flight B. While that allowed for a short and sweet KO phase, eliminating almost 70% of the teams on the first cut is not reflective of the actual GNT event in the national finals — the event has always been more of a KO than a swiss. We will bring back 12 teams qualify 6 and 14 teams qualify 7, 16+ qualifies 8.

However, 11 teams will still qualify only 4. In prior years we allowed a KO bracket of 5 teams where spots 4 and 5 played a wild card match — not happening this year.

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Manhattan Regional Apr 24 – 26 2026

Location: Honors Bridge and Games Center
110 East 55th St. (just east of Park Ave.) – 6th floor
Card Fee: $35 per session per person

Daily Events

Open Stratified Pairs (open/4000/1500) (10am and 2:30pm)
Gold Rush Pairs (750/300/150) (10am and 2:30pm)
Bracketed Round Robin Teams (10am and TBD)

Pre-Registration Highly Recommended

We highly recommend pre-registering for this regional. More instructions to come.

Tournament chairs:
Phil Lentz (plentz@nyc.rr.com
Bill Sigward (wsigward@ix.netcom.com)
Partnership desk: partnership@gnyba.org

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GNT Dates Updated (Flight A and C)

Mar 15th: Flight A and C
All games start at 10am, held at Honors
Pre-registration is live
(See Already Registered Teams)
D24 GNT Flyer
D24 GNT Conditions of Contest

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