The 12 Flight C teams played 50 boards each today in two groups of 6 teams. In group A, the leaders are Music Li, Yuchen Xu, Joshua Allen, and Lee Silberman. Also surviving to the KO round are Team Oratofsky and Team Diederich.
Team Rockoff after learning they are the Flight C bracket winners
In Flight C group B, pictured above are the bracket winners Jesse Rockoff, Linda Brady, Olga Stein, and Dylan Lupo. Incredibly, this was their first time playing a team game or using IMP scoring; they signed up thanks to encouragement from their Supervised Play instructor and prior D24 GNT Coordinator Amy Rhodes.. The other survivors are Team Smirnov and Team Moscow.
Per our GNT conditions, now the 6 teams enter a Quarterfinals. Group leads Rockoff and Li receive byes in the first KO round. However, Rockoff will play the winner of Oratofsky vs Moscow while Li will play the winner of Smirnov vs Diederich. All players who have survived this far will receive at least 6.67 gold and red points, but could be upgraded to as high as 20 points and an invitation to the Red Ribbon Pairs and the McNab Grand National Teams during the Toronto NABCs this July.
For raw results, check the GNT update post.
GNT Flight A: Trabulus and Chang Defend
In Flight A, the two defending finalists from last year have repeated their strong performance from the prior year. Norman Trabulus, Joseph Byrnes, Dina Schechter, David Joseph, Charles Bilich, and Michael Krevor, aka the Defending Champs, ended the day with the most Victory Points in the field. In the other Group, Spingolders Jacqueline Chang, Dave Marker, Jordan Lampe, Christopher Moh, Leon Yu, and Zhuo Wang won 4 out of 4 matches for 55.58 Victory Points.
Honorable mention to Team Dziekanski for also winning all 4 matches. The other two surviving teams are Team Ekinci and Team Jonas-Silver.
All surviving teams at this point will receive at least 13.33 gold points, which may be upgraded to as high as 40 gold points, an invitation to the Blue Ribbon Pairs , and the Goldman Grand National Teams during the Toronto NABCs in July.
For raw results, check the GNT update post.