First day of March tomorrow - and an opportunity for those who are college bridge players to compete against students throughout ACBL land!
Instructions below; hope many of you are able to compete in this fun event and perhaps win prizes!
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First day of March tomorrow - and an opportunity for those who are college bridge players to compete against students throughout ACBL land!
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Posted by Peg on February 28, 2021 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Don't forget about the CBO Club Special Tournament
Monday, February 15!
Masterpoints and special prizes will be awarded!
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First through third place finishers will receive an Amazon gift card. Additionally, ACBL will draw the name of one random CBO tournament participant to receive a gift card.
You do need to be an ACBL member (only $5 for ages 25 and younger), have a BBO account (free) and be registered as a CBO member to participate in a CBO Tournament. Please note that it can take up to 24 hours to gain access to the CBO Club on BBO.
Our attendance in both the daily and special tournaments is down. Please encourage your friends to participate so that we can continue to offer these games if there is enough interest.
If you've never played in a CBO tournament before, simply log into BBO and click Competitive / Tournaments / All Tournaments or Free Tournaments / Collegiate. The CBO tournament should be first on the list.
If you have any bridge playing college friends, encourage them to join the CBO. Membership is open to any college undergrad or grad student age 35 and under. If you don’t have a student bridge org/club at your school, consider starting one.
We can help! www.acbl.org/college
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Posted by Peg on December 31, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Minneapolis Grand Slam Club will be honoring Peggy Kaplan at our weekly game this coming Friday, January 1st, 2021. We will donate $100, plus $1 for each person who plays in the game, to Peggy’s chosen charity, the ACBL Education Foundation (ACBLEF.org), whose mission is to “...introduce more people, of all ages and walks of life, to the game of bridge…”
Our club has been fortunate and proud to claim her as a member for many, many, (many!) years, but her influence and contributions to the game and world of bridge extends far beyond our borders. She has played at a high level for most of those years, both nationally and internationally. If you don’t recognize the name, you will certainly know the perky woman with the radiant smile and the camera who has been chronicling NABCs in photographs for decades.
Beyond her own success in bridge, I think Peggy would consider one of her proudest and most important accomplishments is to be a mentor to the Minneapolis-area youths who are beginning their bridge careers at Carleton College and the U of M.
My own words don’t do justice to the influence bridge has had on Peggy and the impact she has had on the world of bridge. I asked Peggy herself to say a few words (below) and I linked a couple of BW articles to this one for further reading.
We would like to welcome all players, young and old, experienced and newcomer, to our game this week. The game is $5 and game time is 7:15pm CENTRAL time and can be found on BBO’s Virtual Club section under the director ID VACB255646 (MGSC Friday). To respect IDs and email privacy, if you would like to play, reply to this email with your name and BBO ID (and your partner’s!) and I will have the director add you to the game’s player list. There will be a Zoom call after the game for participants. Please forward this note to anyone you think would like to play in this week's game in honor of Peggy Kaplan.
http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/help-us-honor-peggy-kaplan/
http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/nobituary-for-peg-kaplan/
https://www.acbleducationalfoundation.org/page/about-the-acbl-educational-foundation-1.html
My Love Affair with Bridge
As many MGSC players know, I've been ill for some time and unable to play bridge - but I can watch! And I am thrilled that Cookie Hoberman, my friend from Omaha who has built the Nebraska Regional (in Iowa - go figure) to tremendous standards, has been working with others to create the ACBL Educational Foundation Fund for Junior and Collegiate players, with a tournament in February. Cookie is honoring Bob Hamman, the player that many believe to be the best in the history of the game - and me, the person who isn't QUITE in Bob's league (hahahaha), but adores our game, the people from all around the world who play it - and who hope it thrives and grows for a great many decades to come.
The Minneapolis Grand Slam Club is hoping that those who can might donate something for this worthy cause - and come out and play on Friday! I’ve also been asked to list my national wins, so I have below. Please note that the Machlin Women's Teams was second by ONE IMP (none of us coulda found THAT!!) And I was proud and delighted that Minnesota stars were with me - Cindy Balderson, Carole Miner and Melody Bi.
I was asked to mention some highlights of my many years of competing. I'm afraid if I got going too much - you might miss Friday's game!!
But - I will add a few thoughts. One is from my bridge idol Bob H, and it is one of the wisest actions you can take to up your game. When a hand has ended - it is OVER!! If you want to contemplate when the event is finished how you could have made the hand you did NOT make, or how brilliant you were - DO NOT! Focus on the hand you are playing, and that is it. Not always easy, but this alone improves your game. I literally have been on teams where our opponents were significantly superior to our players - but they forgot Bob's brilliant advice.
More of my beliefs about bridge are these. Never stop learning. Try your best for you and your pard to have fun. Be nice to your pard AND your opponents (try!) The game is better if you do.
And if you can, help others. I was blessed beyond measure by tons of great friends and partners over the years, by truly wonderful mentors who took me under their wing and and taught me so much. Bridge IS the greatest game, can be played if you're 8 or 100!
My thanks to you all. You are THE BEST!!
Peggy Bundy (thank you, George Jacobs!!)
NABC Bridge 1sts & 2nd
2011 1 Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match NABC+
2009 1 NABC+ Fast Open Pairs NABC+
2005 1 Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match NABC+
2004 1 Rockwell Mixed Pairs NABC+
2007 2 Machlin Womens Swiss Teams NABC
Posted by Peg on December 30, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Posted by Peg on December 14, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Apologies in advance if you receive multiple invitations as you may be represented on more than one distribution list.
The Minneapolis Grand Slam Club (MGSC) is in its ninth decade of continuous play. The premier event of the annual cycle is an extended team event. Once a double elimination knockout in recent years the event has become a RRKO like this year’s premier online team events sponsored by the Online Contract Bridge League (OCBL) and the ALT.
The Grand National Teams are the ACBL’s premier live grass roots team events. They are configured in four flights. This year’s pandemic has completely thrown the competition a loop. Club play would have started in September and culminated in District Finals next Spring with a trip to the Summer NABC for the flight winners.
Many players enjoy team events including Swiss Teams and KOs. To promote team play MGSC is offering a series of Tuesday night, 24-bd matches scored on a 20pt VP scale beginning November 10. The more teams that sign up the more brackets we can offer and the more ‘even’ the competition will be. The top four teams after the round robin phase will compete in longer KO matches.
The sessions will be every Tuesday at 6:30pm online at BBO. A $100 fee will cover the entire Round Robin phase. If there are only 5 teams in your bracket, thus a 4 session RR, you will receive a refund.
The conditions of contest: MGSC 2020-2021 RRKO CoC Any U103 or U178 member or anyone who has played in the MGSC Virtual Club Friday night game.
You can sign up at: Team Signup, with as many as six players. Contact Dave Neiman if one of your team members doesn’t show on our rosterlist. Your registration is not complete unless you send $100 to MGSC c/o Barry Purrington 829 Overlook Place, Eagan, MN 55123 before November 10. Your team will be disqualified if the club has not received a check before November 17 (grace period).
Any team can choose to play up in higher bracket if doing so does not collapse the initial bracket assignation. You may choose to make your initial registration conditional if we have only one bracket and you do not wish to play against the strongest teams.
The event coordinator is Steve Gaynor mailto:stev1249@comcast.net. We can facilitate team formation if you are a pair looking for compatible teammates.
Those of who are not MGSC members are particularly welcome to form teams. It's a big plus to play a series of 24 board imp events against players you know or have some familiarity with rather than 12-bd IMP speedballs on BBO. You will see how other matches scored on the same boards, and have a chance to play "real" imp matches without time pressure. And there will be a nice masterpoint award if you are one of the four teams to reach the KO phase.
We are hoping for a big turnout. If we get enough teams for three brackets you will surely be playing against teams very similar in experience to your own.
Mike Cassel, MGSC Bulletin editor and former D14 GNT Coordinator
Posted by Peg on November 08, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Dear District Presidents, District GNT Coordinators and District 14 competitors,
This year in so many ways, bridge and life are different. Our thanks to the many people who contribute to our special events, and to our many competitors who are excited to compete against their peers at a national level.
We thank you all for your contributions to our game, and we thank Brian Weikle for his detailed information about GNT in these special times. Thank you for reading what Brian has shared with us, and we hope that many of you will be able to compete in GNT.
Dear District Presidents and District GNT Coordinators,
The 2021 Grand National Teams qualifying season began September 1. Given this year's unique circumstances, we are providing this summary of important details.
Club Qualifying
Club qualifying is optional. All players who qualified at the club level during the 2019-20 season are automatically qualified for Unit and District play in 2021. Districts may choose to permit club qualifying games to qualify additional players, although we expect that most Districts will not. Such games must be team games and submitted to ACBL Live for Clubs in an ACBLscore file.
District Finals
Districts which completed their GNT Finals in 2020 may choose to send those winners to the National Final in 2021. Districts whose Finals were not completed in 2020 must hold District Finals in 2021 to qualify teams for the National Finals.
Player Eligibility
Player eligibility status is "frozen" from the 2019-20 cycle. In other words, players are eligible for the same flight they were eligible for in 2019, no matter how many masterpoints they have won in the meantime. Similarly, players are eligible to play in the District in which they lived in August 2019. Players who have moved to a new District will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Action Required (by Oct 1, 2020 please)
Determine whether your District will be permitting club qualifying games. Notify ACBL (specialevents@acbl.org) and the clubs in your District.
Determine whether your District will hold District Finals in 2021, or whether the 2020 winners will represent your District at the National Finals. Notify ACBL (tournaments@acbl.org) and any affected players.
If you are holding District Finals in 2021, send the dates and sites to tournaments@acbl.org. Note that, as in past years, District Finals may be held online. If Finals are played face-to-face, they must be held after March 1, 2021.
Send your District's Conditions of Contest to specialevents@acbl.org.
2021 GNT National Finals
The GNT Finals will be played, in person, at the Summer NABC in Providence, RI.
Sincerely,
Brian Weikle
Manager, Bridge Operations
ACBL Field Operations
CC: ACBL Board of Directors
Posted by Peg on September 04, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Don't forget about the CBO Club Special Tournament this Tuesday, September 1, which will award masterpoints and special prizes.
First through third place finishers will receive an Amazon gift card. Additionally, ACBL will draw the name of one random CBO tournament participant to receive a gift card.
You do need to be an ACBL member (only $5 for ages 25 and younger), have a BBO account (free) and be registered as a CBO member to participate in a CBO Tournament. Please note that it can take up to 24 hours to gain access to the CBO Club on BBO.
If you've never played in a CBO tournament before, simply log into BBO and click Competitive / Tournaments / All Tournaments or Free Tournaments / Collegiate. The CBO tournament should be first on the list.
If you have any bridge playing college friends, encourage them to join the CBO. Membership is open to any college undergrad or grad student age 35 and under. If you don't have a student bridge org/club at your school, consider starting one. We can help! www.acbl.org/college
Discounts for Juniors playing in online tournaments!
Juniors playing in ACBL Sanctioned regionally rated online tournaments are eligible to have a portion of their entry fees rebated so that your final cost is only $5 per session.
Just email online.tournament@acbl.org and let them know when you played. Discounts will be applied for tournaments after 7/1/2020.
Posted by Peg on September 01, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Calling all CBO Club Special Tournament Players!
Don't forget about the CBO Club Special Tournament this Saturday, August 15, which will award masterpoints and special prizes.
Have Fun - Win Prizes - Play Today!
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Posted by Peg on August 15, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Posted by Peg on April 06, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Shared with all in District 14 from our District Director Sharon Anderson:
Motion: The 2020 NAP Finals will be held at the Montreal Summer 2020 NABC. The 2020 GNT Finals will be held at the Tampa Fall 2020 NABC. The details of the Finals, including the scheduling of those events, will be established by management at a later date.The deadline for the completion of District GNT Finals will be October 1, 2020.
Posted by Peg on March 20, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sadly, an announcement from Tom and Linda Grigoliet about the Rochester Spring Sectional scheduled for April.
As you can read below, unfortunately the tournament will have to be moved to another date, to be determined.
Big thanks to Tom and Linda and all the others who have worked so hard on the sectional plans.
We look forward to better times ahead, when it will once again be safe to play our favorite game, at clubs and tournaments.
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Posted by Peg on March 14, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Grand National Team Finals is always an exciting event for District 14. Not only are you able to compete against your peers in Flights Open, A, B or C. You also have the opportunity to win a subsidized trip to the Summer NABC. This year, the site is Montreal, one of Canada's most lovely cities.
In addition, our Minnesota competitors don't have to travel too far; the event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19 at the Edina Senior Center. (Please be sure to look at the flyer below; the schedule varies depending upon the flight in which you play.)
Additionally, if you are competing in GNT, you can play on Friday in the Spring IMP Sectional, again with details in our flyer.
Whether you are one of Minnesota's top competitors, fairly new to bridge OR somewhere inbetween - GNT is THE event for YOU! Organize your team and then look forward to fun and perhaps a trip to Montreal this summer! The details are below the line!
Continue reading "District 14 Grand National Teams Finals - April 18-19" »
Posted by Peg on February 25, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
So our weather has been way below zero, with strong winds and dangerously cold wind chill.
Take heart! In a mere 93 days, leaves will be on the trees, birds will be chirping, no snow or ice shall be seen - and - the Gopher Regional 2020 will be starting!
As always, a great schedule is planned, chock full of knockout and swiss team events, stratified and Gold rush pairs, and side games. Hospitality will be plentiful in our Bloomington venue, the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Enjoy free parking, with the hotel only a hop skip and a jump from Mall of America.
Plus, please remember that you can "name a game" for a special someone. Cost is $100 for a 2 session event. Contact Patti Stuhlman - pattistuhlman123@gmail.com - for more details.
Start warming up for May and the regional - make your plans and we'll see you at the Gopher!
The flyer with ALL the details is below the line!
Posted by Peg on February 14, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
GNT Swiss Team Qualifying Alert!
A funny (ho ho ho) thing happened on the way to the GNT Swiss Qualifier this past weekend.
SNOW! LOTS and LOTS of it!
So as many of you are aware, there was no event and NO PIZZA last Sunday :(
The very good news, however, is that Steve has rescheduled for Sunday March 1st! (Yay Yay Yay)
Reminder details below!
Steve Gaynor is holding a GNT Swiss Team Qualifying game at the TCBC this Sunday. This is YOUR opportunity to chomp on yummy pizza, gain tips on team game strategies, compete with your favorite teammates and ULTIMATELY perhaps even win a subsidized trip to the Summer NABC GNT event in Montreal!
Steve has the details below - just DO IT!
GRAND NATIONAL SWISS TEAM QUALIFYING
MARCH 1, 2020
TWIN CITY BRIDGE CENTER
6020 NICOLLET
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55419 - 612-861-4487
12:00 PIZZA LUNCH IS SERVED
12:30 TALK ON TEAM GAME STRATEGY
1:00 GAME TIME
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Superflight = open to all
Flight A = 0-6000
Flight B = 0-2500
Flight C = Non-life masters to 500
Flight C will play separately if at least 3 teams enter. Your flight eligibility is based on your Masterpoint holding as reported on your September, 2019 ACBL Bridge Bulletin. Masterpoint awards are ½ Red and ½ Black.
Entry fee is $8.00 per player. THIS INCLUDES LUNCH! Full-time students under 26 pay ½ price.
Call Steve for partnerships and teammates – 612-708-7563 – Mrturk@comcast.net.
Please report your team’s pizza topping preference. We will accommodate all requests.
Show your support for Swiss team games and the GNT event. This is your first step toward earning a generous ($2000/team) subsidy to play in the GNT national finals this July at the Summer North American Bridge Championships in Montreal, Canada!!!!
Somebody has to win! Why not you?
Posted by Peg on February 11, 2020 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Yet again, major thanks from all of us to Steve Gaynor for providing us with this excellent calendar. Upcoming tournaments, special events - from now to the great beyond!
Hope you can attend and enjoy many of the multitude of fine bridge offerings!
CALENDAR OF BRIDGE EVENTS FOR TWIN CITY AREA PLAYERS
from Steven Gaynor - (e-mail: mrturk@comcast.net)
(B): 763-494-3475 (C): 612-708-7563 (F): 763-431-0778
PLEASE USE THIS WHEN PLANNING YOUR BRIDGE EVENTS IN ORDER TO AVOID SCHEDULING CONFLICTS – THANKS!
NOVEMBER 10, 2019
If an event is not listed, it has not been sanctioned with the ACBL as of the date above. These events and dates are subject to being changed by the local regulating authorities.
This calendar is made up from information on the ACBL website. I do not have authority to schedule events, but I am willing to assist anyone trying to plan a bridge activity in finding the best dates to maximize potential attendance. Please contact me anytime for more information or if you have additions or corrections to this calendar.
A PDF of the calendar is below the line.
Thanks, Steve Gaynor
Posted by Peg on November 09, 2019 | Permalink | Comments (0)
September's Rochester Med City Regional is less than one week away! Enjoy fine hospitality, guaranteed hospitality, a fine venue, a great schedule and much more!
In addition to the superb tournament itself, autumn is glorious in Minnesota in late September. When you're not battling away at the table, you can appreciate the excellent opportunities for fine dining and the gorgeous colors outdoors. If you need a quickie check-up, renowned Mayo Clinic is a few minutes away (ONLY kidding - despite this temple of health care being one of the finest in the world!)
So many reasons to attend, you must make it to Rochester next week! Whether you are close by or in another state - please attend the Rochester Med City Regional and treat yourself to a fine tournament and fun bridge!
Tournament flyer and all details below.
Continue reading "Rochester Med City Regional - Sept 24-29" »
Posted by Peg on September 18, 2019 | Permalink | Comments (0)