Category Archives: ACBL News

Last Chance to Qualify for NAP 2021

Posted on August 23, 2021 by Lee Lin

First, mark your calendars for Oct 24th, 2021. District 24 has a sanctioned and approved district final for NAP, all flights (Open, 0-2500, and NLM 0-500). Club Qualification To participate in the Oct 24th District finals, you and your partner … Continue reading →

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District 24 and 25 Regional Director Debate 8/11

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Lee Lin

The ACBL board of directors is going through a massive overhaul. For years, the board of directors consisted of 1 director per district for a total of 25 people representing all regions of North America. Now we are reducing that … Continue reading →

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ACBL Board of Governors Meeting 7/19/2021

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Lee Lin

The Board of Governors is meeting again today. Didn’t we just have a BoG meeting two weeks ago? Yes, but that was a special meeting to discuss any reactions we would have to the Board of Directors meeting during NAOBC … Continue reading →

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Team Xing and Merlo advance to GNT National Finals!

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Lee Lin

Congrats to our Flight B and C GNT teams for making it to the 2021 finals! That automatically ensures them a spot on the Wikipedia page forever. Team Merlo got slightly more rest today after their semifinal opponents conceded the … Continue reading →

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ACBL Multi-Day Pairs Events at NAOBC: Automatic Prepaid “Consolation” Entries?

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Lee Lin

I tend to prefer team games to pairs, but I noticed an interesting quirk in the NAOBC multi-day pairs events. You prepay for ALL days of the event. For the 2-day pairs events starting today, you pay either $64 for … Continue reading →

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GNT 2021 National Finals Enters Round of 16

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Lee Lin

The national finals of the Grand National Teams kicked off yesterday, with 6 teams from New York and Long Island representing in the 4 flights. In the championship and A flights, each of the 25 districts send exactly one team … Continue reading →

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Special Meeting of ACBL Board of Governors July 6, 2021

Posted on July 6, 2021 by Lee Lin

A quorum of eligible Board of Governors members gathered for Zoom meeting to discuss upcoming ACBL events and consider a set of motions. Board of Governors chair Doug Couchman led the way through the agenda. After a few administrative to … Continue reading →

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ACBL Board of Governors Livestream NOW

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Lee Lin

Today the ACBL Board of Governors is doing its first ever remote livestream. Here is the link embedded below. Nothing TOO exciting should be discussed, but you may see several of the folks representing you. Livestream: https://youtu.be/Mpx9FmJNBwwsoUpdate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eki6IJedtho The stream will … Continue reading →

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District Director Letter March 2021

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Lee Lin

Once again, District Director David Moss updates all of us on the latest happenings with ACBL, our unit in Greater New York, and our neighboring unit 242. In the quarterly letter, he announced the dates for our greatly revamped District … Continue reading →

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District 24 Director Newsletter – November 2020

Posted on November 24, 2020 by David Moss

No one has ever accused me of being a glass half full person, but given recent vaccine news, we might be more than half way through our time with no face-to-face bridge. Let’s hope. In the mean time, new options … Continue reading →

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