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2020 Summer NAOBC: Daily Updates

The NAOBC Teams KO finals, between Kolesnik’s team (Finn Kolesnik, Jacob Freeman, Kit Woolsey, Bart Bramley, Bob Hamman, and Peter Weichsel) and the Levine squad (Mike Levine, Eddie Wold, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, Geir Helgemo, and Tor Helness) ended in a tie at 113-113 after 56 boards.

The two teams refused to play over time to determine the winner in an 8-board playoff, so the event ended as a tie, with both teams awarded masterpoints for the second place.

You can review the boards in this exciting final at the links below:

Spread over two weekends (July 23-26 and July 30-Aug. 2), the Summer North American Online Bridge Championships take place on Bridge Base Online and feature two premier events: a knockout team event and a special pair event (Aug. 1-2). Both award NABC titles.

The matches are featured on Vugraph on delayed video, to preserve event security.

Sunday, August 2

NAOBC Knockout Finals Segment
1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
1 Levine [4]
 35
 59
 81
 113
2 F Kolesnik [7]
 32
 51
 69
 113

Saturday, August 1

NAOBC Knockout Semifinals Segment
1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
1 Tulin [8]
 18
 39
 65
 115
4 Levine 30
 68
 104
 139

2 F Kolesnik [7]
 32
 39
 72
 132
3 Spector 17
 72
 77
 84

Friday, July 31

NAOBC Knockout Quarterfinals Segment
1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
1 Nickell 23
 41
 67
 107
8 Tulin 50
 90
 134
 160

2 Rosenthal 32
 68
 106
 113
7 F Kolesnik
 44
 69
 96
 142

3 Spector 49
 87
 122
 173
6 Hill [11]
 24
 42
 68
 98

4 Levine
 22
 61
 86
 101
5 Korbel 30
 50
 74
 76

Thursday, July 30

NAOBC Knockout Round of 16 Segment

Segment
1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
1 Nickell 32
 71
 106
 134
 2 Rosenthal 31
 97
 168
 168
16 Passell 28
 54
 63
 84
 15 Lall 15
 27
 30
 W


3 Spector 10
 32
 52
 78
 4 Levine 40
 61
 123
 143
14 Baseggio [51]
 31
 42
 56
 65
 13 Nadel [20] 30
 62
 77
 101


5 Korbel 26
 48
 78
 105
 6 Donner 14
 33
 54
 65
12 Lev 19
 29
 44
 59
 11 Hill 30
 44
 62
 88


7 F Kolesnik
 14
 42
 99
 134
 8 Tulin 27
 41
 59
 103
10 Gupta 37
 67
 83
 88
 9 Bettadapura [41]
 17
 28
 45
 47

Sunday, July 26

NAOBC Knockout Round of 32

1
32		Nickell
Dawson		175
W		 2
31		Rosenthal
Hwang		149
95
3
30		Spector
Leslie		206
90		 4
29		Levine
Reynolds		137
89
5
28		Korbel
Fox		145
122		 6
27		Donner
Howard		160
W
7
26		F Kolesnik
Sprung		145
87		 8
25		Tulin
McClendon		136
W
9
24		Onstott
Bettadapura		90
99		 10
23		Gupta
Vance		139
116
11
22		Hill
Boyd-Bowman		141
131		 12
21		Lev
Ahmed		150
101
13
20		Hoyos
Nadel		107
133		 14
19		Baseggio
Sloofman		121
89
15
18		Lall
Moss		147
W		 16
17		Passell
Vulcan		128
93

Comments

13 responses to “2020 Summer NAOBC: Daily Updates”

  1. Anonymous

    Is there some place the members of the teams are listed?

    1. ronsmithsf

      Bridgewinners! Top of the page

  2. Joe_Old

    There’s probably a faster way, but try logging onto the ACBL website. Under “Tournaments” select “NABC”, then “Endless Summer Tournament Results”, then “Scoreboard”, then “Rosters”. You should now have a list of the team captains. Hover over a name and you get the players.

  3. laphelps

    Try clicking on team rosters above ur comment 🙂

  4. tjk9294

    Why aren’t past matches from Vugraph posted in Archives? Also, I was unable to access Vugraph except through Video; why?

    1. Diana

      There are no real vugraphs. All the matches that are featured at vugraph since the crisis started are online games. You can find the results in hand records, like any regular team match.

      Only video is available for security reasons. The video feed is delayed, and the actual team match does not allow kibitzers.

  5. Anonymous

    why can’t anything be done about deliberately slow players with the result that you get no points for the third game. This is hardly sportmanship!!!

  6. shdinkin

    What’s the procedure for getting cleared to play the pairs if you are not in the teams?

  7. razorsharp

    Unblievable. Me & my partner were “BLOCKED” from entering the NAOBC Pairs on Sat. even though we both are fully funded and eminently qualified ACBL Platinums. There was no reason given, no rule broken, no code. ACBL was incommunicado on Sat. I sent BBO tweets to ACBL Operations Manager, and 6 separate tweets to ACBLt1 and ACBLt2 between noon & 1PM, and all were delivered, but no response by e-mail, BBO or phone. Many other pairs were DQ’d. This is an outrage. No back-up plan, no failsafes.

  8. legweak

    Congrats to both teams
    What a finish to watch!

  9. Razorsharp

    Bart Bramley’s 3 NT +600 on the penultimate board, considering the opponents (Meckwell), the state-of-the-match (down 20 imps with 2 boards to go), the importance ( first ever ACBL/BBO Online National Finals), the outcome (a dead tie that the players refused to playoff), and Bart’s line featuring a D gambit a C Q-guess, a district readout, then a black-suit squeeze vs. Meckstroth, for the throw-in endplay, IMHO is perhaps the greatest hand in the annals of bridge history 🤪

  10. pdmunro

    I similarly was enthralled with the final.

    From a hand records search, using Meckwell’s username, bumportant, I found this:
    http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=1961-1596412869&u=bumportant
    The key play on Bd 13, using GIB for analysis, was Bramley attacking clubs on trick two, and Meckwell ducking.

    Kit Woolsey sums it up this way:
    “It didn’t look good when North doubled my artificial 2♠ call getting his side off to the best lead. Bart did well to lead a diamond towards dummy at trick 2. After the queen held and he played on clubs the hand was an open book, and he easily found the end-play to make. At the other table 3NT was doubled, and the same spade lead was found. Here declarer attacked clubs immediately, and went down 2, for 15 IMPs.”
    https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/hands-from-the-finals/

    1. pdmunro

      oops …. meant to write: “The key play on Bd 13, using GIB for analysis, was Bramley attacking DIAMONDS on trick two, and Meckwell ducking.”