BBO Prime bidders challenge: results and winners – February

The Top Bidders for Set 2022-02

This is the second month of the 2022 annual competition, and we will start publishing the leaderboard in the annual competition alongside the monthly results next month. This month’s winner, matching the leaders of the expert panel with a score of 75/80 on what turned out to be another difficult set, is:

Francois Duffour (BBO: toutmo) from Paris, France

Francois is 65 and from Paris. He has been playing for many years with some good results in national events (“but too many second places” he admits). He stopped playing 12 years ago for professional reasons and has come back to the game in the past year (“thanks to Covid and BBO,” he says).

Also on the February ‘Roll of Honour’:

With a score 74/80:

Luwen Koh (BBO: XReborned) from Singapore,
Douglas Schmickrath (BBO P0STM0RTEM) from San Francisco CA, USA,
Elsa Regner (BBO: elsargenta) from Santiago, Chile,
Martins Lorencs (BBO: malorencs) from Riga, Latvia and
Venkatesh Ramaratnam (BBO: rv) from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Congratulations to everyone who made it onto this month’s honors’ board with a score of at least 60/80:

73/80
Brad Johnston (BBO nohk) from Dunedin, New Zealand	73
Brad Johnston (BBO nohk) from Dunedin, New Zealand	73
Laura Mancini (BBO 801dna) from Paris, France	73
72/80
Hanoi A Rondon (BBO hanoi5) from Providencia, Santiago, Chile	72
Brian Ross (BBO BCRPro) from Jeffersontown, KY, USA	72
Babs Giesbrecht (BBO bABsG) from Qualicum Beach, Canada	72
Peter Law (BBO Petelaw) from Broadstairs, UK	72
Stephen Merriman (BBO smerriman) from Auckland, New Zealand	72
Omer Ekinci (BBO ekinci) from Stamford CT, USA	72
Ian Thomas Findlay (BBO findles) from Banff AB, Canada	72
Claude Candillier (BBO capri13) from Peyrolles en Provence, France	72
71/80
Alexander Cook (BBO spade7) from Sydney, Australia	71
David Williams (BBO dave251164) from Llangollen, Wales	71
70/80
Pär Ol-Mårs (BBO olmar) from Stockholm, Sweden	70
Herstein Liu (BBO herstein) from Chinese Taipei	70
69/80
Juliano Barbosa (BBO JBarbosa) from Lisbon, Portugal	69
Bernie Miller (BBO BARTMILL) from Boca Raton FL, USA	69
Tobias Bern (BBO xtober) from Sweden	69
68/80
Samuel Arber (BBO Zoozsam) from Melbourne, Australia	68
Olli Perkio (BBO OlliP) from Varkaus, Finland	68
Stephen D Goldstein (BBO sdvdg) from Anaheim CA, USA	68
Bert Hackney (BBO toast1) from Vienna VA, USA	68
G.J.K. Fleischeuer (BBO ggoulash) from Tilburg, Netherlands	68
67/80
Daniel Klein (BBO drdnmnk) from Victoria BC, Canada	67
Thibault Wolf (BBO thwolf) from Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France	67
John R Mayne (BBO JRMayne) from Modesto CA, USA	67
Gregory LeBlanc (BBO gnlblnc151) from Charlotte NC, USA	67
Tomasz Modrzejewski (BBO tommodrzej) from Poland	67
Jacob Freeman (BBO Jacob04) from Toronto ONT, Canada	67
Bert Geens (BBO bert1986) from Belgium	67
Dennis E Metcalf (BBO dcalf) from Vancouver WA, USA	67
Paula Kron (BBO vivitak) from Santiago, Chile	67
66/80
Petar Petrov (BBO Pesho_1975) from Bulgaria	66
Niklas Carlsson (BBO 19niklas69) from Grums, Sweden	66
Michael van Gulik (BBO Bananatree) from Belleville, Canada	66
Erin Archer (BBO ea2521) from NY, USA	66
Yongjun Lu (BBO ottawa2008) from Nepean ONT, Canada	66
Amitabh Raturi (BBO raturias) from Cincinnati OH, USA	66
Akin Koclar (BBO koclar) from Ankara, Turkey	66
Raghunath P Tripathi (BBO r_tripathi) from Bhopal (MP) INDIA	66
Bert Toar Polii (BBO Bert_Polii) from Indonesia	66
65/80
Chen-Dann Lu (BBO: CDLU) from East Brunswick NJ, USA	65
Paul Amer (BBO Pamer) from Wilmington DE, USA	65
Kevin Dybvig (BBO kfd) from Alabaster AL USA	65
Robert Donathan (BBO rdonathan) from Austin TX, USA	65
Arve (BBO navicom) from Kleppe, Norway	65
Vasily Filippov (BBO vf73) from Moscow	65
Mark Laken (BBO TEAGUER) from Baltimore MD, USA	65
64/80
Onno Eskes (BBO Onno) from Leiden The Netherlands	64
Loukas Kokotos (BBO Loukas435) from Agrinio, Greece	64
Hugh M. McSheffrey (BBO ookpik1966) from Nelson BC, Canada	64
Lawrence Cheetham (BBO cheesy) from Bedford NH, USA	64
Dan Gheorghiu (BBO DanG4503) from Victoria BC, Canada	64
David Cole (BBO davidcole) from Grasbrunn, Munich, Germany	64
Howard Strausz (BBO Kamari3) from Cape Town, South Africa	64
Paul F. Dubois (BBO pottsca) from El Cajon CA, USA	64
Jarek Langer (BBO jarek444) from Austin TX, USA	64
63/80
Kerry L Cotterell (BBO KerryCot) from Freeland	63
Andreas Persson (BBO Rosengatan) from Mullsjö, Jönköping, Sweden	63
Gaston Mejane (BBO decour) from Paris, France	63
Rasmus Maide (BBO dst463) from Espoo, Finland	63
Dafydd Jones (BBO Dafydd) from London, UK	63
Jon Cooke (BBO mugsmate) from Cambridge, UK	63
Michael Xu (BBO michaelimp) from Palo Alto CA, USA	63
Doug Schulte (BBO anaspapa99) from Olathe KS, USA	63
Maria Eugenia Florez (BBO Marigenia) from Madrif spain	63
Capri Bucci (BBO atp13) from Rome, Italy & Amsterdam, The Netherlands	63
Anis ur Rahman (BBO AnisR) from Karachi	63
62/80
Fangcheng Yu (BBO xiaoqi ) from China	62
Eamon Galligan (BBO eamongall) from Dublin Ireland	62
Jim Ritts (BBO rtscracker) from Knoxville Tn, USA	62
Glenn Oliver (BBO Glenn101) from Southport, UK	62
Uday Ivatury (BBO uday) from New York NY, USA	62
Michael Cockerell (BBO Yam Gnow) from Victoria BC, Canada	62
Mahesh Rohera (BBO mahesh r) from Mumbai India	62
Veli Tok (BBO: sgbk) from Sinop, Turkey,	62
Steve Hamaoui (BBO: eslomismo) from Milan, Italy	62
Blaevoet (BBO Lebelabel) from Villeneuve, France	62
61/80
Krishnan R Thondukolam (BBO KRT) from San Ramon CA, USA	61
Franck Guerrero (BBO ffgth) from Toulouse France	61
Daniel Thouvignon (BBO: danielth) from Chiang Mai, Thailand	61
Miroslaw Tryba (BBO 1_Miroslav) from Barnsley, UK	61
Suman Banerjee (BBO sumanb) from Kolkata/ India	61
Harry gordon (BBO hflsh) from Lexington	61
Peter Lakatos (BBO: nyul11) from Budapest, Hungary	61
Wiguna Gony (BBO: ganesha956) from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia	61
Galtier (BBO eyquem) from Aix en Provence, France	61
Kevin Wu (BBO kevinwu777) from Taipei, Taiwan	61
Manuel Oliveira (BBO m oliveira) from Livramento, Estoril, Portugal	61
Ravi Venkitaraman (BBO Ravivenk) from Dallas TX, USA	61
Howard H. Kestin (BBO howakes) from Wayne NJ, USA	61
Nancy Edsparr (BBO Happygirlj) from St Jean Cap Ferrat France	61
Tracey Weller (BBO tweller) from Woodbridge UK	61
Robin Adey (BBO robinadey) from Stafford, UK	61
Tomer Yavetz (BBO tyavetz) from Brooklyn NY, USA	61
Ed Girdler (BBO edge_) from London, England	61
Wayne Burrows (BBO cascade) from Palmerston North, New Zealand	61
Sarah Barry (BBO Sarbarr) from Kingston ONT, Canada	61
60/80
Peter Hardyment (BBO sajip) from Cobham, Surrey, England	60
Shahar Zack (BBO shaharz) from Kiryat Motzkin, Haifa, Israel	60
Jukka Moilanen (BBO jukmoi) from Finland	60
Nancy MCAnnally (BBO cactuscoat) from The Villages Fl, USA	60
Va Ena (BBO fachiru) from Taos NM, USA	60
George Jacobs (BBO georgej) from Puerta Vallarta Mexico	60
Michael Berkowitz (BBO berkmb5) from Salt Lake City UT, USA	60
Rajan Jeyakumar (BBO rjeyakumar) from Fremont, USA	60
Marcel Maris (BBO hvac) from Bucharest, Romania	60
Jim Griffin (BBO TLC) from Greenville SC, USA	60
Charles Lawson (BBO G-Bear) from Huntsville TX, USA	60
Milko Slavov (BBO milko_sl) from Varna, Bulgaria	60
Svetlin Manov (BBO George_63) from Sofia, Bulgaria	60
Ke Jia (BBO kejia) from Singapore	60
Harold Baba (BBO ichiban2) from Thornhill, Canada	60

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