Unofficial Vanderbilt Scores

[sdoty]

Halftime results from the Round of 8:

 

Link to today's bulletin (team rosters, bracket sheet, etc): Daily Bulletin

 

Welland 39 76

Robinson 9 42

 

Baze 29 52

Chang 70 98

 

Nickell 42 53

Hollman 29 72

 

Shugart 69 114

Moss 30 73

 

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Round of 16 Results:

Nickell 26 89 125 169

Strul 32 47 80 105

 

Hollman 12 108 128 162

Lynch 26 27 59 92

 

Jacob 5 29 57 94

Shugart 31 70 97 145

 

Moss 24 77 92 118

O'Rourke 37 59 95 103

 

Welland 67 99 172

Marston 28 56 89 W/D

 

Rubin 29 53 74 91

Robinson 34 64 91 162

Team Orange 46 67 78 127

Baze 39 83 113 144

Chang 26 91 119 148

Schwartz 11 50 124 135

 

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Round of 32 Results:

Nickell 22 64 108 172

Hans 17 58 82 103

 

Roman 51 77 106 ??

Strul 41 65 98 ??

Strul advances. I'm not sure of the final score, but I believe the match was decided on an appeal.

 

Meltzer 38 54 69 111

Hollman 28 80 127 156

 

Lynch 48 76 204 137

Kasday 21 56 83 120

 

Team Robison 38 52 87 143

Baze 61 96 114 161

 

Weed 3 22 49 W/D

Team Orange 51 85 130

 

Schwartz 22 62 118 160

Johnson 42 77 103 120

 

Kamil 38 57 88 123

Chang 29 78 109 124

 

Welland 36 71 101 140

Schermer 37 48 72

 

Polowan 14 37 95 105

Marston 31 51 76 115

 

Robinson 49 96 154 200

Tucker 29 95 96 134

 

Rubin 29 59 89 126

Gordan 13 36 58 85

 

O'Rourke 25 55 115 148

Helman 34 60 83 117

 

Milner 10 37 55 107

Moss 36 64 130 156

 

Narasimhan 16 54 104 141

Shugart 31 69 128 169

 

Jacobs 10 33 70 102

Jacob 36 54 84 114

[glen]

wow this is wonderful - thanks thanks thanks for posting and updating!

 

Note that Fred is playing as part of this team: Ron Rubin, Miami FL; Russell Ekeblad, Providence RI; Brad Moss, New York NY; Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV; Geoff Hampson, Los Angeles CA; Eric Greco, Philadelphia PA

 

Justin is in this team: Melanie Tucker - John Kranyak, New York NY; Justin Lall - Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Guido Ferraro, Torino Italy; Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina - hopefully he will have a great 4th Q

[han]

This was nonsense, I got confused because of the two Robinson teams.

[glen]

Looks like Justin's team is called Baze, and is up 114-87, against Robinson. (according to the completely unofficial scores)

Team Baze is listed as Grant Baze, San Diego CA; Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA;

Michael Whitman, San Francisco CA; Krzystof Buras, Chorzow St. Lucia; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Bielsk

[Walddk]

Krzystof Buras, Chorzow St. Lucia

Interesting that the organisers seem to have relocated Chorzow in Poland to St. Lucia.

 

Roland

[Elianna]

They also relocated The Hague to Nebraska for one of the dutch contestants.

[Aberlour10]

Krzystof Buras, Chorzow St. Lucia

Interesting that the organisers seem to have relocated Chorzow in Poland to St. Lucia.

 

Roland

I wish it would be true , because I was born in the direct neighborhood

of Chorzow, the town of steel, coal, and dust :rolleyes:

 

 

One of the favorites, team Jacobs is so early out of the event, what a surprise!

 

Robert

[Walddk]

Well done Susan, compiling the results from Dallas, but shouldn't you be there as a vugraph operator? Maybe you are at the venue, and if so, why are you not operating?

 

USA has several excellent operators, and Susan is arguably the very best. What a shame that we're not showing anything from the event so far.

 

Roland

[Gerben42]

Thanks Susan for telling us the results. Looking forward to seeing the Vugraph of what could almost be called the world KO championship.

 

If the Bermuda Bowl is the Wimbledon of Bridge, this surely is the US Open.

 

Gerben (from wet and cold southern Germany)

[Gerben42]

Let's have a look at the RO16:

 

1. Nickell vs 17. Strul (with Tuszynski, Kowalski, Lesniewski and Peter Weichsel)

 

As usual foreign teams are underseeded so Nickell need to play their best to win this one.

 

8. Lynch vs 24. Hollman

 

Looks like Lynch has the better cards here - but never underestimate Joe Grue!

 

20. Baze vs 36. Team Orange

 

Team Orange will continue to show that seed 36 is a joke. And they must be hot since Helgemo and friends gave up with 16 boards to play!

Team Baze did well so far, includes Polish ex-juniors Buras - Narkiewicz but it will be the end of the line here.

 

5. Schwartz vs 44. Chang

 

Chang includes one of China's star pairs: Zhao Xie & Fu Zhong so clearly underseeded. But as a Dutchy I have to vote for the Schwartz all-star team here :ph34r:

 

3. Welland vs 46. Marston

 

I think Welland should win this, Marston was way underseeded (the Australian open team) but with BB finalists Balicki & Zmudzinski, Welland will be the favorite.

 

6. Robinson vs 11. Rubin

 

Clear vote for Fred here - so Rubin to go through.

 

7. O'Rourke vs 23. Moss

 

O'Rourke is going to win this one big is my guess. Did you see their lineup? Wow!

 

18. Shugart vs 34. Jacob

 

Team Jacob must have been VERY happy to get past the nr. 2 seeds so I will give them at least a chance here. Still Shugart will be favorite, though.

 

So my QF lineup is:

 

Nickell - Lynch

Team Orange - Schwartz

Welland - Rubin

O'Rourke - Shugart

 

And pretty pretty please with sugar on top... Vugraph?

[inquiry]

And pretty pretty please with sugar on top... Vugraph?

Uday report abiut semi-finals

[sdoty]

First post now updated with Round of 16 halftime results.

[luke warm]

i agree with roland... i kib a *lot* and susan is (and i mean no disrespect to the other operators, they all do a great job) the absolutely best i've ever seen

[Nadreck]

Is their any site or link with the running scores , hand records etc.

 

This information was easily obtained for the Bermuda Bowl but the ACBL site seems very limited apart from daily bulletins. The results for the Vanderbilt appear in the bulletin but not in the results link.

 

Based on the coverage (not the bridge standard) then if the Bermuda Bowl is the Wimbledon of Bridge, this surely is a local school competition :D

[uday]

After the 3rd quarter, unofficial scores, via a kindly spec

 

Moss up 95-92 vs orourke

Nickell up 125 to 80

Hollman up 128 to 59 vs lynch

Baze 113 to 78 vs team orange

Chang down 119 to 124 to Schwartz

welland won 172-89

rubin down 74 to 91 vs robinson

 

shugart up 91 to 57 vs jacob

 

 

 

btw: Karen walker and tom kneist won the mixed pairs

[Aberlour10]

Final scores taken from ACLB-site:

 

Nickell 169

Strul 105

 

Lynch 92

Hollman 162

 

Orange 127

Baze 144

 

Schwartz 135

Chang 148

 

Welland 172

Marston 89 WD

 

Robinson 162

Rubin 91

 

O'Rourke 103

Moss 118

 

Shugart 145

Jacob 94

[Walddk]

So my QF lineup is:

 

Nickell - Lynch

Team Orange - Schwartz

Welland - Rubin

O'Rourke - Shugart

Try the lottery instead, Gerben; that will give you better odds :huh:

 

The quarter-final pairings are:

Nickell vs. Hollman

Baze vs. Chang

Welland vs. Robinson

Moss vs. Shugart

 

Roland

[glen]

Repeating the above,

In yesterday’s round of 32, top seeds Nickell

(#1), Welland (#3) and Robinson (#6) cruised to

victory.

Hollman (original #24 seed) continued its

march, walloping the Lynch squad (#8) by 70

IMPs. In the second quarter, Hollman dished out a

96-1 punishment of Lynch.

Grant Baze’s team (#13) stopped Team

Orange (original #36) 144-127.

Chang continues to impress, defeating #5

Schwartz 148-135.

Moss ousted higher-ranked O’Rourke 118-

103, and Shugart (#18) handled giant-killer

Jacob 145-94.

http://web2.acbl.org/nabcbulletins/2006spring/db7.pdf

 

Of interest to Canadians is CNTC Silver Medalists Nicolas L’Ecuyer and Zygmunt Marcinski are in the round of 8, playing as a four bagger - you would think the CNTC 4 bagger experience would have been enough! Many years ago Bruce Ferguson (on the Hollman team) was asked if he was nervous playing in a CNTC final - he replied it was nothing compared to a Vandy.

 

In the bulletin article "Devious defense" the text mixes up a suit so says "You’ll need something good to happen in the minor suits, however, as you’re looking at two spade losers, and probably two diamond losers and two club losers" - however clubs are A9x opposite KQJTx.

 

Below that article we see:

Vugraph volunteers needed

ACBL Chief Tournament Director Rick Beye is looking for several experienced BridgeBase Online (BBO) users to help with the online broadcast of the Vanderbilt vugraph presentation.

[Gerben42]

Try the lottery instead, Gerben; that will give you better odds biggrin.gif

 

I will not write down my predictions for the Soccer World Cup then, because the team I will predict as winner will do best to withdraw right away since it will be knocked out in the group phase anyway :huh:

[MickyB]

They also relocated The Hague to Nebraska for one of the dutch contestants.

Worst of all, they relocated Glasgow to England for a contestant in one of the other events. Good way to annoy 50 million people at once.

[cherdano]

Worst of all, they relocated Glasgow to England for a contestant in one of the other events. Good way to annoy 50 million people at once.

Great! Didn't find an easier way yet to annoy 50 million Brits at once! :)

Even mentioning "World Cup" and "penalties" in one sentence annoys only the English. :(

[sdoty]

First post now updated with 1st quarter Round of 8 results.

 

and thanks for the earlier vugraph compliments. I'm in Dallas attending the Nationals, but I don't expect to be working the Vanderbilt vugraph this year. Its a demanding job, with sessions lasting close to five hours. As much as I enjoy the work, I've decided that I'm not willing to volunteer two exhausting 10+ hour days.

 

If a high quality broadcast is a priority for a sponsoring organization, it should be willing to invest resources accordingly. I understand the appeal of using volunteers, but I firmly believe that whenever possible the burden of the broadcasts should be picked up by the organization and not left for volunteers to shoulder.

 

Susan

[sdoty]

Round of 8 halftime scores updated in first post.

[DenisO]

After 3 quarters in the Rd of 8, Hollman leads Nickell by 39!, Chang leads Baze by 28, Welland heads Robinson by 40. After 2 quarters, Shugart ahead by 41 against Moss. Will Nickell make another of their great comebacks?

[Aberlour10]

Will Nickell make another of their great comebacks?

Not this time, team Hollman won by 5 imps, Welland by 38, Chang by 11