Another District 24 Showdown?
In an incredible display of skill and stamina, we might see another NYC final KO as two primarily District 24 teams ascend to the semi-finals of the Chicago 2023 Micro-Spingold. The team of Avery Silverstein, Jack Boge, Nicole Hudak, and Benjamin Levine beat Team Cusson in the quarterfinals to reach the 2/3 bracket of the semi-finals. And yes, this is the same Avery and Jack that won the GNT Flight C national championship earlier this week in the Battle of the Jacks Rematch, capping a draining 5-day Soloway style KO.
Over in the 1/4 side of the bracket, the team of Susan Davison, Daniel Lev, Catherine Williams, Sharon Phillips, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Michael Xu emerged as one of two survivors in their difficult Day 1 three-way KO (the other surviving team includes Henry Shi and Ping Hu, who just won the Young Pairs 3 days prior).
Impressive District 24 Mini and Micro Spingold History
In addition to our robust GNT-C history, District 24 has achieved a very impressive showing in the Mini-Spingold II for 0-2500 players (aka Micro Spingold). In 2018, a team captained by Leon Yu from Syosset won the Micro-Spingold in Atlanta in a field of 20 teams. The following year, an exclusively New York team comprising Christopher Moh, Jacqueline Chang, Siqing Yu, and captain Jordan Lampe took 1st in the 2019 Micro-Spingold, hosted at the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan.
Interestingly, these two captains faced off in Providence last year during the more prestigious Mini Spingold I (0-6000), culminating in a dramatic all New York mini-Spingold finals (with David Yoon and Lorraine Cable joining the Lampe roster).
Let’s wish our New York teams good luck in delivering us yet another District 24 final KO.
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