Author: Marc Smith

Marc Smith visits the Swiss qualifying stage of the MontreAlt Last week, we left MontreAlt at the midway point in the Swiss Teams qualifier. With five straight victories, GUPTA, winners of the first Major Alt and the most dominant team in the Open Alt series, had established a substantial (more than 17 VP) lead over…

Marc Smith visits the round robin at MontreAlt The second Major Alt event of the year (dubbed MontreAlt) effectively replaced the Spingold, which was originally scheduled to be held in Montreal as part of the North American Summer Nationals. With only online tournaments available, this was the next best thing, and thousands tuned into BBO…

Marc Smith visits the late stages of the first Major Alt Invitational A total of 36 star-studded teams began the quest to win the first Major Alt Invitational. Now just four remained standing. One semi-final pitted the team that had won the Swiss qualifier, GOLDBERG (USA, Finland and Singapore), against the team that had just…