Check out the leaderboard to see the round 1 results and round 2 matchups. Remember, it’s a swiss, so you play against a team with a similar victory point total to yours. Also, there are no playbacks during the 5 round swiss. As the rounds progress, it turns into more of a round robin – in fact we might have to allow playbacks to avoid byes – we will see how it goes.
Fastest Players Shoutout Round 1: Gellas vs. Stanton
The fastest players shoutout goes to the match between Bonnie Gellas, Nancy A Garvey, Laura Tolkow, Eva Graczyk, and Gloria K Tamlyn vs. Kitty B Stanton, Sam Guzzardo, Martin M Deneroff , and Valerie L Deneroff. Of the 13 matches, they were the first to complete 20 boards at both tables, in 1 hour and 34 minutes. Even more impressive given they had a substitution at board 11, relative to the 4 vs 4 straight matches.
Welcome New Players, Congrats Veterans
With round 1 results over, we are seeing some familiar names off to a strong start.
In group C, previous season playoff winners the NMFers are in the lead: Barbara Ullman, Betsy Scherl , Nancy Calomiris , Catherine Williams, Audrey J Meredith, and Cynnie Ogden. As for my team, we are in the midst of a dubious swiss gambit…
In group B, previous regular season winners Better Than Ok On A Good Day are leading: Ralph Tamlyn, Robert Tamlyn, Steve Levine, Rona Levine, Joyce M Goldstein, and Tracy A Brines. In 2nd is new team Frozen Tundra, which happens to contain one of the original professors from MathCamp – significant because that summer 1999 in Seattle was my first time playing bridge (credit to professors David Savitt and Jeremy Martin for teaching our crew of 13 to 18 year olds AND chaperoning multiple trips to the bridge club)!
And in group A, new team Glubok has taken the top spot with a 27 IMP victory. Welcome to the league: Brian Glubok , Alex Kolesnik, Walter M Schenker, Edward Zuckerberg, Ron Smith, and Tod Moses.