GNT-A and GNT-C kicked off last week and the semifinal KOs are in progress. The first match took place last night. Congrats to Janice Winwder, Stephanie Chamberlain, Thomas Romeo, and Thierry Bonnet for placing 3rd/4th in the District. Each player will receive overall awards of at least 7 Masterpoints, half red half gold. Team Bellows has advanced to the finals and will play the winner of the other semifinal match, with teams captained by Music Li and Rachel Brannan.
See the rest of the matchup on our GNT season page.
Last Call for Open and Flight B Teams
You can still register a team for the Championship Flight and Flight B. We have 16 teams registered across the two events, but would love to welcome more. As it turns out, any new teams that sign up for the Championship Flight will drastically change the event structure. Because we take our GNTs quite seriously, when there are exactly 8 teams, our seeding committee will form a bracket of 8 teams and the teams play a knock out starting in the first round. However, with 9 teams, we can do a full round robin with 8 rounds of 6 boards. Once you add the 10th team, rather than have 9 rounds, it is more common for the seeding committee again to split the teams into two group of 5 to play a round robin (and the top two teams of each group moves on to semi finals).
Thankfully, we are prepared to accommodate any number of teams and absorb the oncoming chaos. As for Flight B, we will run a swiss regardless of the number of teams. We simply don’t feel that seeding Flight B is viable and the randomness of a Swiss is more acceptable than the randomness of imperfect seeding.