After winning with a perfect score last month, this month’s set was clearly more challenging as our champion repeated his winning performance with 74/80 this time around:

Hanoi Rondon (BBO: hanoi5) from Santiago, Chile

Hanoi Rondón is a bridge teacher who has been in love with the game from the moment he discovered his first bridge article in a newspaper some 27 years ago. Originally from Venezuela, he currently lives in Chile. He teaches bridge online and has a YouTube channel called ‘Bridge Entretenido’.

Congratulations to him, he wins 50 BB$ and a 1 month subscription to Prime!

But remember, we also randomly drew a winner from among the participants and…. tadaaaaa the winner is:

Kerstin Sjobom (cba987)

Congratulations to Kerstin Sjobom who wins a 3 month subscription to Prime!

Also on the August ‘Roll of Honor’

With an impressive score of 70/80:

Santiago Semberoiz (BBO: santisembe) from Buenos Aires, Argentina and,

And with another good score 68/80:

Alexander Cook (BBO: spade7) from Australia and Harry Gordon (BBO: hflsh) from Lexington KY, USA

Honourable mentions also go to those who at least matched a panel members’ score:

Congratulations to all of those who made it onto the honor roll.

67/80:	Peter Law (BBO: PETELAW) from Broadstairs, Kent, England
65/80:	Rishabh Singh (BBO: rishabh) from San Jose CA, USA
	Patrick Shields (BBO: patricks) from Cheltenham, England
64/80:	Douglas Schmickrath (BBO: P0STM0RTEM) from San Francisco CA, USA
63/80:	Judy Morissette (BBO: juju4) from Saint Colomban PQ, Canada
	David Neal (BBO: beachdave2) from Chapel Hill NC, USA
	Kamil Samra from Boca Raton FL, USA,
	Lincoln Pinsky (BBO: Lincolnpin) from Acton MA, USA
	Earle Ferguson (BBO: Fergus) from Halifax NS, Canada
62/80:	Anne-Sybil Bragadir (BBO: asb10) from Lausanne, Switzerland
	Jarek Langer (BBO: jarek444) from Austin TX, USA
	GjivoTikvica (BBO: KhazadDoom) from Dubrovnik, Croatia
	Kresten Sandager Kristensen (BBO: kesse) from Copenhagen, Denmark
61/80:	Stephen Kwan (BBO: sk1958) from Canada
	Csaba Daday (BBO: gwnn) from Gottingen, Germany

Annual Competition Leaders (after 8 months)

Remarkably, half of the top ten produced their lowest score of the year this month. This means that some of the gaps have closed up. Hanoi moves up into the top five with his second consecutive winning month.

Of those who missed one or more months earlier in the year, both Kresten (63.6 average) and Fergus (67.7) are both very much in contention. After next month, players will start dropping their worst scores but, of course, those who missed a month entirely will still have the most to gain.

The leaderboard includes all players with at least six scores who are averaging more than 50.

Thomas Gardner (BBO: thomasg_16) from England	501
Luwen Koh (BBO: XReborned) from Singapore	500
Ian Findlay (BBO: findles) from Canada	500
Hanoi Rondon (BBO: hanoi5) from Santiago, Chile	489
Csaba Daday (BBO: gwnn) from Gottingen, Germany	488
Anne-Sybil Bragadir (BBO: asb10) from Lausanne, Switzerland	477
Harry Gordon (BBO: hflsh) from Lexington KY, USA	477
Douglas Schmickrath (BBO: P0STM0RTEM) from San Francisco CA	472
Dave Williams (BBO: dave251164) from Wales	463
GjivoTikvica(BBO: KhazadDoom) from Dubrovnik, Croatia	457
Tony Burt (BBO: Tone999) from Vancouver BC, Canada	455
Bradley Johnston (BBO: Nohk) from Dunedin, New Zealand	453
Barbara Giesbrecht (BBO: BabsG) from Qualicum Beach BC, Canada	451
Peter Hudson (BBO: p_t_red) from Coppell TX, USA	451
Stephen Kwan (BBO: sk1958) from Canada	450
Kresten Sandager Kristensen (BBO: kesse) from Copenhagen, Denmark	455*
Milko Slavov (BBO: milko_sl)	417*
Kathrine Loh (BBO: nicnat) from Walnut Creek CA, USA	415
Earle Ferguson (BBO: Fergus) from Halifax NS, Canada	406**
Paul Dubois (BBO: Pottsca) from El Cajon CA, USA	402
Judy Morissette (BBO: juju4) from Saint Colomban PQ, Canada	383*
Ricardo Cardoni (BBO: Patan) from Buenos Aires, Argentina	353**
Kevin Wu from Taipei City, Taiwan	335*
Dave Horton (BBO: mfearth) from Calgary AB, Canada	332**
Ashot Harutyunyan (BBO ashoth_14) from Montreal PQ, Canada	321**
Patrick Shie	319***
Raj Agarwal (BBO: badesh) from Cambridge MA, USA	319**
Lincoln Pinsky (BBO: Lincolnpin) from Acton MA, USA	310**
H.R. Leong (BBO: lhrljr) from Singap	306**

Remember that only your best nine results during the year count towards the annual competition, so entering every month will allow you to drop your lowest scores at the end of the year.

Players with an asterisk (*) have only seven scores so far. (Those marked ** have only six counting scores, and *** only five).