All four flights completed their final 48-board knockouts this past Sunday. Here are the results!
Championship: Blanchard vs Dinner
Team Blanchard won after 36 boards with a score of 82-18. For winning first in the championship flight, Robert Blanchard, Sam Lev, Fred Chang, Adam Wildavsky, and Daniel Lev will each win 48 gold points, and a blue ribbon qualifier. Runners up Bill Dinner, Jack Lipson, Bart Cirker, and Mark Leibowitz will each win 36 gold point and a blue ribbon qualifier.
You can also find the entire recap of the championship flight on ACBL Live.
Flight A: Moss vs Cable
Team Moss defeated Team Cable with a score of 136 to 79 across 48 boards. David Moss, Stephen Levine, Jacqueline Chang, and Richard Walker will each receive 40 gold points and a blue ribbon qualifier. In 2nd place, Lorraine Cable, David Yoon, Stephannie Culbertson, and Rachael Moller win 30 gold points and a blue ribbon qualifier.
Due to scheduling conflicts, Team Moss has declined to represent the district during the July national finals. Instead, the honor falls to team Cable. As usual, all teams representing the district are allowed to augment their roster to a total of 6 eligible players, as long as 3 out of the 4 original team members remain on the team. Of course, teams can also just compete with no such modifications.
See the full Flight A recap on ACBL live.
Flight B: Merlo vs Yu
The highest total IMPs knockout took place in the match between Merlo and Yu. This is somewhat expected – the two teams were playing vastly different bidding systems that easily leads to different contracts on many hands, in addition to the normal chaos that comes from a 48-board KO. The final result is 129-111 for Merlo, also the defending champions from last year. Stefano Merlo, Robert Forster, Christopher Moh, and Jordan Lampe will each win 33.5 gold point and a blue ribbon qualifier.
For Flight B, because 10 teams showed up for the opening round, the District can sent two teams to the national finals. Each member of 2nd place team Leon Yu, Qun Yang, Jimmy Wang, and Samuel Kuang will win 25.13 gold points and a blue ribbon qualifier. Together, both teams will represent District 24 in July.
See the full Flight B recap on ACBL live.
Flight C: Xing vs Wagner
The Flight C final knockouts concluded as well, with Wagner winning 99-90. As stated in a prior post, both teams will win lots of gold and red masterpoints, as well as a red ribbon qualifier.
Similar to Flight B, both teams are invited to represent the district in the national finals. It was a close call, because as the registration deadline approached, there were only 6 teams, two short of the 8 team requirement for sending a second team. However, thanks to some collaboration between the clubs, units, and district (some of you may have received more than a few notices), we managed to muster up 3 last minute teams – including Team Wagner!
See the full Flight C recap on ACBL live.