The two teams remaining teams in the Flight B District Finals completed their final 52 board knockout last week. This marks the end of the entire 2019-2020 GNT season for our district!
Congratulations to Stefano Merlo, Jin Hu, Jordan Lampe, Chris Moh, and Robert Forster for winning the 2019-2020 GNT-B Season. Each player will receive 33.5 gold pigmented masterpoints and a blue ribbon qualifier. Under the current CoC, defending champions also receive favorable seeding for next year – but the new GNT committee will review seeding rules.
For placing 2nd, the team of Norman Trabulus, Charles Bilich, Barry Walfish, and Robert Kuhnreich will each receive 25.13 gold pigmented masterpoints and a blue ribbon qualifier.
As with Flight C, normally both teams would have represented New York City and Long Island in the GNT national finals during the summer NABC, with the winning team receiving a $1000 travel subsidy. However, with Montreal NABC and the national finals for 2020 cancelled, the district plans to run a new tournament for 2020 and 2021. All teams will be eligible again for next year to play in Flight B, even if the players now have over 2500 masterpoints. We hope to see many returning teams as well as new players – stay tuned for details.