D24 GNT Tentative Dates 2025-2026

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Lee Lin

Save the date for this year’s GNT Opening Rounds. As usual, surviving teams will schedule their own KOs, but we HIGHLY recommend the Flight A and C teams try to use Saturday, Feb 21st as a KO date, as we will already have the club rented with a director present to handle any and all matters.

Championship (Open) Flight – Unlimited Masterpoints
Opening Weekend – Saturday, Feb 21 + Sunday, Feb 22
Flight A
Opening Round
Feb 1st  

1st Place:
40 Gold Points		Flight B
Opening Round     
Feb 22nd   

1st Place:  
33.50 Gold
$1000 travel subsidy  		Flight C
Opening Round
Feb 1st  

1st Place:  
20 Gold/Red Points
$1000 travel subsidy

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Packed Fall 2025 Schedule

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Lee Lin

There are many events slated for Greater New York bridge players in the coming months. We will highlight some of them here.

Pro-Am Teams: Sunday, September 28th

There is still time to play in the Pro-Am Teams event on September 28th. Email proam@gnyba.org if you have questions.

NAP Open Flight: Sunday, October 5th at 10am

One of the premier District events each year, the Open Flight NAP welcomes all D24 players to compete among the very best. For all NAP events, club qualification is required and your name should appear on the NAP Club Qualifier list for D24 (we know there are some cases that slipped through cracks, make sure you have the game link saved if it applies to you). As always, you will win generous amounts of gold points if you make it to the overall winners of the one-session event, and unlike GNTs, the District finals are over and done in just one day (48-54 boards). The top three pairs will qualify to the national finals to win platinum points against the top pairs of every other District in ACBL.

NAP Flight B (0-3000): Sunday, October 26th at 10am

The increasingly popular 0-3000 gang in our District grows larger and more competitive by the year. The top four pairs will be invited to represent New York City and Long Island in the national finals in St. Louis. Even those who do not plan to go are welcome to compete in the district finals and win gold points. You are also welcome to play in multiple flights. We expect a lot of overlap of players who are playing A and B or B and C. There might be be folks trying for three flights: Open, A, and B or Open, B, and C. The more the merrier, but if you win in multiple flights, you may only represent the District in one flight. As usual, Flight B and C are held on the final weekend in the national finals: March 7th and March 8th 2026.

NAP Flight A (0-6000) : Sunday, November 2nd at 10am

The all new Flight A welcomes players with 0 to 6000 Masterpoints to complete and win generous gold points. Also new this year, the national finals will award 5% platinum points for overall award winners during the Feb 25th and Feb 26th 2026 event in St. Louis, MO. In prior years, platinum points were only awarded for NABC+ and 10K NABC events. Three pairs from D24 will be selected to represent us in the national finals

NAP Flight C (0-750 nlm) : Sunday, November 2nd at 10am

Also on the same day as Flight A, the Flight C District finals are for those with fewer than 750 Masterpoints as of May 31st, 2025. As always with Flight C, you also must not have achieved the rank of Life Master, which applies whether you achieved LM at 500 or the grandfathered 300. Awards at the district level are half gold and half red. The District will invite the top 4 pairs to attend the national finals in March 2026.

Winter 2025 Regional: Dec 26th thru Dec 29th

The NYC Winter Regional is back and will once again be held in Times Square. The Dates are Dec 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th for four days of holiday bridge fun.

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Flyer for Winter 2025 Regional: Dec 26-29 2025

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Lee Lin

Here is the latest flyer for the Dec 2025 regional.

Same Venue: Marriott Marquis

As with last year, we are holding it at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square! Of course, there are pros and cons. The morning is usually no problem at all, but the lunch hour and especially the departure phase can be a bit challenging. Pro tip: head west if you can when exiting the hotel, not east. You can avoid the full force of Times Square during peak times (plus tourism near annual peak times).

New Events: Bracketed Pairs

The most significant changes to the schedule is the introduction of Bracketed Pairs, which is relatively new but has been very popular in the last year or so. The idea is similar to bracketed teams. You sign up for the event and the directors will place all of the pairs into several brackets. You will be playing with those who have similar Masterpoint totals as you.

Technically, you add up you and your partner’s Masterpoints and your opponents will have a similar sum. That pushes a lot of pros into the upper brackets so that those who are truly mid-flight or lower will play against our peers. The Masterpoint award also uses a similar strength-of-field formula as the Bracketed Round Robin.

Another great benefit: there are no longer arbitrary cutoffs that define intermediate, advanced, and expert players. Those who cross the 750 threshold won’t automatically be thrown into an open section, you will simply be pairs with others in a similar range.

Duplicated Boards for Team Games

The tournament committee is actively exploring pre-duplicated boards for team events. For those who don’t know, that means you will get hand records for the team games instead of the usual “shuffle and play” style. It’s also kind of fun when all of your friends at the other tables are all playing the same boards at the same time. You’ll have much more to discuss after the game. On the flip side, anyone who made a bad mistake will be fully outed; it’s possible a certain faction likes team games more because there is plenty of blame to go around without much way to pinpoint the true culprit.

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Pro-Am Returns, Sunday September 28th

Posted on August 16, 2025 by Lee Lin

The Pro-Am is back, also know as the GNYBA Pro-Am-Am-Am. It’s a great event in which teams consist of three newer players and one Life Master (“the pro”). You may register as a group of 3 and we will assign you a volunteer pro. You are also allowed to register your full team of four if you are ready to go with your own Life Master captain.

Here is the Pro-Am Flyer for September 28th, 2025.

Registration Link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevX1Q0pOTC0rk5hH-hN4_M9UtK0rc1Sr3WvwiYGzW87kjXTg/viewform?usp=dialog

Payment Link:
https://buy.stripe.com/28o8xQ67ddaXfh69AD

One big change is the new Sunday late morning timing (11:00am), which should be more convenient for many folks compared to the previous two Friday night Pro-Am events. Here are some photos of the winning teams from the prior Pro-Am events.

Pro-Am from Fall 2024
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NAP Qualifier List

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Lee Lin

Lots of good NABC updates, but first, there remains only the end of August to qualify for the NAPs. Here is the link to see if you are qualified for NAP in District 24:

NAP Qualifier List D24

For the remaining club qualifier dates, we are trying to do our best to post it on gnyba.org/nap. If you are a club manager and plan to run more qualifier games, let us know.

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NABC Day 5: Miniter and Li reach Final GNT KOs

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Lee Lin

Yesterday was a super close match for Team Miniter in the GNT Championship Flight, with the final score 129 to 126, a 3-IMP victory after 56 long boards (who says overtricks don’t matter?). That’s after coming from behind 83 to 90 af the end of the 3rd quarter.

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On the GNT Flight C side, Team Li also in the final KO. Their opponents withdrew and conceded defeat after the first half of the day, trailing by over 80 IMPs. Music Li’s team kicked off the first quarter with a 63 to 9 lead, then widened it to 115 to 31 by the half.

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Life Master Pairs

Many New York City pairs continue to advance to the finals of their Life Master Pairs event! Today we have:

Jared Lilienstein Michael Polowan
Simon Hult and Margie Cole
Aaron Silverstein and David Moss
Michael Bodell and Aaron Mayerson
Adam Wildavsky and Ron Gerard

Bruce LM Pairs 0-6000 Qualifiers
Michael Krevor and Charles Bilich
Mark Blanchard and Amy Rhodes

Young Pairs 0-3000 Qualifiers
Ivan Smirnov and Francis Gupta
Lee Lin and Alan Davidson
Joshua Allen and Komal Kamat
Elizabeth Greenfield and Aviv Shahaf
Gloria Tamlyn and Ralph Tamlyn
Susan Davison and Daniel Lev
Camilla Schiaffino and Zain Mahmood

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Summer 2025 NABC Day 3: Congrats Life Master Pairs Qualifiers

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Lee Lin

We have a strong start to the Life Master Pairs. But first, congrats to Lori Rosen and Stephanie Chamberlain for winning the Deb Klinger Gold Rush Pairs, held today, Friday July 25, 2025.

Good luck to the many New York City pairs advancing to the semi-final round of the Life Master Pairs.

Some NYC Life Master Pairs Qualifiers

Jared Lilienstein Michael Polowan (5th on leaderboard)
Allen Kahn and Jeffrey Rothstein
Kathrine Bertheau and Jacqueline Chang
Simon Hult and Margie Cole
Aaron Silverstein and David Moss
Jordan Lampe and Christopher Moh
Michael Bodell and Aaron Mayerson
Rodrigo Garcia Da Rosa and Linda Einhorn-Ihde
David Gurvich and Michael Lipkin
Adam Wildavsky and Ron Gerard
Stephannie Culbertson and John Fout

Bruce LM Pairs 0-6000 Qualifiers
Michael Krevor and Charles Bilich
Mark Blanchard and Amy Rhodes
Benjamin Levine and Nicole Hudak

Young Pairs 0-3000 Qualifiers
Camilla Schiaffino and Zain Mahmood
Lee Lin and Alan Davidson
Joshua Allen and Komal Kamat
Elizabeth Greenfield and Aviv Shahaf
Gloria Tamlyn and Ralph Tamlyn
Susan Davison and Daniel Lev

*Note, if anyone is missing from the list please let us know. The above is not meant to be exhaustive. These are folks who we’ve seen around the club and tournament scene in U155

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Summer 2025 NABC Day 3: Miniter and Li Advance Round of 8

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Lee Lin

The Championship Flight and Flight C teams have advanced to the Round of 8 quarterfinals in the Grand National Teams. Congrats to Gillian Miniter, Joe Grue, John Hurd, Iulian Rotaru, and Joel Wooldridge in the open flight and to Music Li, Yuchen Xu, Hengrui Xing, and Yang Xu representing 0-750 NLMs in New York City and Long Island.

For the rest of us, the Life Master Pairs begins today, and alongside it, the mini-LM Pairs for 0-6000 and the micro-LM Pairs, aka the Young Pairs, for 0-3000 players. These are the only 6-session events all year long for 0-3000 players. Red Ribbon and NAP Flight C are all 0-3000 but last only two days (for the 0-6000, the mini-blue ribbon pairs are also 3 days).

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Philadelphia 2025 NABC Day 2: New York Advances in All Flights

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Lee Lin

So far so good, District 24 has teams advancing to the KO phase of all four flights of GNT.

Team Miniter in the Championship Flight is in 7th seed.

Team Byrnes in Flight A begins in the 10th seed spot.

Team Davidson in Flight B has the 8th seed position.

Team Li in Flight C made a dramatic comeback, reaching 4th seed with solid back to back wins toward the middle and second half of the day.

Good luck to all teams!

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District 24 at the Grand National Teams in Philadelphia 2025

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Lee Lin

Today kicked off the national finals of the Grand National Teams. ACBL Executive Director Bronia Jenkins took the New York City and Long Island team photo below.

This year ACBL made a much appreciated improvement — the first day qualifying Swiss uses pre-duplicated boards with hand records, as well as BridgeMates for scoring. There is also a live scoreboard adding to the suspense for any spectators, but decreasing the suspense because you no longer need to do the comparing scores ritual (“push”, “lose 8”, “win 1”).

Everyone in the room is playing the same boards more of less at the same time, so even the Flight B and C players can ask their championship players how they handled each hand during the water cooler or bar post mortems.

Here are the hand records from the first 4 rounds. Also ACBL Live results

This year, representing Unit 155’s Greater New York Bridge Association and Unit 242’s Nassau Suffolk Bridge Association at the Philadelphia North American Bridge Championships:

Championship Flight
Gillian Miniter
Joe Grue
John Hurd (not pictured)
Joel Wooldridge (not pictured)
Iulian Rotaru

Flight A
Joseph Byrnes
Monique France
Dina Schechter
Charles Bilich
Michael Krevor

Flight B1
Andrew Jeanguenat
Matthew Gordon
Jack Latta
Maya Jonas-Silver
Lee Lin
Alan Davidson

Flight B2
Vladimir Kolbun
Amit Duvshani
William Sigward
Nancy Marshall

Flight C1
Music Li
Yuchen Xu
Hengrui Xing
Yang Xu

Flight C2
Sam Bellows
Ellie Gossage
Michael Zhao
Cooper Pierce

Unfortunately, Norman Trabulus was unable to attend the national finals, despite captaining both the winning Flight A and Flight B teams in Distrct 24 this year.

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