The GNT Seeding committee has assigned the top seed position to Andrew Rosenthal, Migry Zur Campanile, Aaron Silverstein, and Chris Willenken in the Championship Flight. Assuming no further changes to the registered teams, they will play against Team Moller in the semi-finals of the District 24 Championship Flight Grand National Teams. In the other bracket, Team Parrish will play Team Eisenstein.
Our District tries to minimize the impact and need for seeding teams. Most of the time, the opening round consists of a complete round robin with top teams surviving into a KO based on cumulative victory points. However, in the rare case when exactly 4 or 8 teams register in the Open flight, we defer to a seeding committee of District experts to draw brackets. In the lower flights, we seed entirely based on team average masterpoints (and defending winners from the prior year).
All that said, we would love to NOT require any seeding. Seeding is subjective and far from perfect, given that the true effectiveness of a team is far more complicated than the sum of the individuals. If one more team joins, we revert back to the usual round robin format.
There is still time to put together a team and spend this Saturday challenging multiple world class players to an all-day team game. You may even win a chance to represent New York City and Long Island during the national finals in Providence.
Registration: https://bridgewinners.com/tournament/view/2022-d24-gnt/