Congratulations to Luwen Koh (XReborned on BBO), winner of the 2021 competition along with 200 BB$!
In the exciting battle between the two leaders, Luwen Koh from Singapore returned his third consecutive score of 76/80 to win the 2021 ‘BBO Prime Top Bidders’ title by a margin of just 7 points. Commiserations go to our silver medalist, Hanoi Rondon from Santiago, Chile, who was one of only two players to score a perfect 80/80 during the year.
In the race for third place, Fergus chose an unfortunate time to return his worst score of the year, which left Dave Williams to squeak ahead of Douglas by just 2 points for the final place on the podium.
With a top four from Asia, South America, Europe and USA, the remainder of the Top 10 was made up of three Canadians and three more Europeans. Our leaderboard has at least one player from five of the six inhabited continents. Bradley is the leading representative from Oceania, whilst Luwen is the only Asian on the leaderboard despite plenty of entries throughout the year from players in China, India and Indonesia.
The leaderboard includes all players with at least eight scores who averaged more than 50/80. With more than 500 players entering the competition this year, these are the top 30 scores, so congratulations to everyone who makes the leaderboard. A special mention goes to those who made the leaderboard with less than nine scores (marked with an * in the list below). Worthy of particular note is Pete Law, who finished seventh overall despite only playing the last eight months. Had those players entered every month and maintained their average score, they would surely have been contenders for the title. We hope that many more players will make a point of entering every month in next year’s contest. Here’s a link to the January Bidders Challenge hands.
| Luwen Koh (BBO: XReborned) from Singapore | 638 |
| Hanoi Rondon (BBO: hanoi5) from Santiago, Chile | 631 |
| Dave Williams (BBO: dave251164) from Wales | 618 |
| Douglas Schmickrath (BBO: P0STM0RTEM) from San Francisco CA | 616 |
| Earle Ferguson (BBO: Fergus) from Halifax NS, Canada | 608 |
| Ian Findlay (BBO: findles) from Banff AL, Canada | 604 |
| Peter Law (BBO: PETELAW) from Broadstairs, Kent, England | 596* |
| Patrick Shields (BBO: patr1cks) from Cheltenham, England | 591 |
| Barbara Giesbrecht (BBO: BabsG) from Qualicum Beach BC, Canada | 584 |
| GjivoTikvica(BBO: KhazadDoom) from Dubrovnik, Croatia | 581 |
| Anne-Sybil Bragadir (BBO: asb10) from Lausanne, Switzerland | 572 |
| Milko Slavov (BBO: milko_sl) from Varna, Bulgaria | 572 |
| Kresten Sandager Kristensen (BBO: kesse) from Copenhagen, Denmark | 572 |
| Thomas Gardner (BBO: thomasg_16) from England | 562 |
| Bradley Johnston (BBO: Nohk) from Dunedin, New Zealand | 550 |
| Harry Gordon (BBO: hflsh) from Lexington KY, USA | 542 |
| Csaba Daday (BBO: gwnn) from Gottingen, Germany | 538 |
| Tony Burt (BBO: Tone999) from Vancouver BC, Canada | 530 |
| Stephen Kwan (BBO: sk1958) from Canada | 529 |
| Alexander Cook (BBO: spade7) from Australia | 512* |
| Peter Hudson (BBO: p_t_red) from Coppell TX, USA | 512 |
| Karle Joys (BBO: KJOY) from Dartmouth NS, Canada | 510 |
| Judy Morissette (BBO: juju4) from Saint Colomban PQ, Canada | 507 |
| Raj Agarwal (BBO: badesh) from Cambridge MA, USA | 506 |
| Paul Dubois (BBO: Pottsca) from El Cajon CA, USA | 504 |
| Jarek Langer (BBO: jarek444) from Austin TX, USA | 493* |
| Kathrine Loh (BBO: nicnat) from Walnut Creek CA, USA | 491 |
| Ashot Harutyunyan (BBO: ashoth_14) from Montreal PQ, Canada | 468 |
| Rishabh Singh (BBO: rishabh) from San Jose CA, USA | 462* |
Congratulations to all who made it onto this year’s honors’ board.
Related Links
Play the first hands of the 2022 Bidders Challenge here
See the Bidders Challenge December 2021 winners here
Check out Prime membership features and how to join here