Today kicked off GNT season with 12 teams showing up for the opening round! By now, everyone should know the preferred format with 12 teams. To recap, a seeding committee nominated by the director, District Representative, and Unit GNT Coordinator must split the 12 teams into two balanced groups of 6.
(Edit: Read the latest posts about GNT-Championship 2020)
Each group plays round robin among themselves, and the top four in each group survive to Sunday Feb 23rd. The top finisher in each group chooses from among the 3rd and 4th place finishers of the OTHER group, to play a round of 8 knockout tomorrow. Here are the results of the round robin, with matchups to watch tomorrow:
- (Group 1 Winners chooses from Group 2 4th Place)
Gillian Miniter, Joe Grue, John Hurd, Joel Wooldridge, Kent Mignocchi
vs - David Moss, Kerry Kappel, Cathy Nathan, Marc Nathan, Raluca Dobrescu
- (Group 2 Winners chooses Group 1 4th Place)
Glenn Eisenstein, Magnus Olafsson, David Gurvich, Michael Radin, John Rengstorff, Michael Lipkin
vs - Ira Herman , Allen Kahn, Jeffrey Rothstein, David Rosenberg
(2nd place in each group plays the remaining opponent)
- Peter Trenka, Igor Savchenko, Giorgia Botta, Long Island Cit NY; Ahmed Solima
vs - Andrew Rosenthal – Chris Willenken – Aaron Silverstein, Jan Jansma
- Adam Parrish, Dana Berkowitz, Franco Baseggio, Adam Kaplan, Craig Ganzer
vs - Lynne Koeppel, Iulian Rotaru, Erez Hendelman, Radu Nistor, Mustafa Cem Tokay
For The Rest Of Us
Our team had a great time. We are very lucky to have so many resident professionals and world class players in the New York bridge scene. Every player in the four non-qualifying team will continue their GNT 2020 ambitions in the GNT-B opening round tomorrow, or next weekend’s GNT-A and GNT-C event (or both!).
