In recent memory, GNT Flight B hit a record number of teams in Feb 2020, just prior to Covid (sadly the national finals were cancelled that year). While Flight B tends to be the most popular flight each year, we have hovered around 10-14 teams since bringing back face-to-face GNTs in 2022. As of 2/14/2026, we have 14 full teams registered with a few stragglers soon to come. If we can reach 16 teams, we will have the ideal number to qualify 8 teams into the quarterfinal KOs. At 17, we tie the 2020 record and then 18+ puts us in new and prosperous times.
If you have any interest at all in signing up for Flight B, email partnerships@gnyba.org and we can match your pair with another to form a team (singletons can email too, but no promises). If you are a Flight C team, we highly encourage playing both the Flight B and Flight C opening rounds. It’s great practice, and to be honest, our district has a long history of 0-750 NLM teams winning or placing well in Flight B.
See who has registered:
gnyba.org/gnt
In other news, Championship Flight is looking very strong this year. We have multiple Grand Life Masters pre-registered. The defending champion team will have plenty of competition this year at the District level — the D24 phase might be even more difficult than the national finals in Minneapolis. Too bad, unlike Flight B and C, each District may only send 1 team to the NABC for Flight A and Championship Flight.