This is THE opportunity for all District 14 players to win a trip to Las Vegas and compete in the 2019 Grand National Teams! Four flights are available: Superflight, A, B and C. Note that Flight B also has special discounts, too!
NEW opportunities are available this year so two teams from Flights B and C may be able to represent districts this year!
GNT Coordinator Mike Cassel has the details! Be sure you are qualified for the District finals - then head on down to the Des Moines area to try to be one of the teams that represents us this summer!
Per the ACBL BOD decision in Honolulu GNT Flights B and C will be eligible to send two teams to the National Finals in Las Vegas in July if their field size at the district final is 8 or more teams.
The executive committee of District 14 has directed a revision to the GNT Conditions of Contest for Flight B. Rather than applying a handicap to less experienced teams a decision has been made to encourage greater participation in Flight B by offering a 50% rebate of the Saturday entry fee to teams having no member over 1500 masterpoints (as of April 6, 2019 run).
Instead of $120, the Flight B team entry fee for these teams on Saturday will be $60. This fee, based on a 4-person team, $7.50/pp/session, is a great opportunity to compete in the Saturday Swiss Team event. The top four VP totals on Saturday will play 28 board KOs in the semifinal and final KO on Sunday.
We hope to see you in Des Moines, IA on May 4 and 5 for the Grand National Teams finals. The D14 BOD will extend an invitation to the NABC finals for the second place teams in Flight B & C at their board meeting in Bloomington in May. The amount of travel subsidy, if any, to the second place teams will be decided at that time.
Attached are the revised contest conditions and flyer. Please communicate this change and print flyers so that your players are aware. The link at acbl.org to D14 GNT conditions of contest will reflect the new CoC imminently.
Mike Cassel
D14 GNT Coordinator
COD and flyers are below the line
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