Vanderbilt Round-of-16

[mrdct]

Personally I'd like to see Tuszynski v. Feldman. Both teams appear to be in fine form having knocked off several higher seeded teams and there will be plenty of opportunity to watch the "usual suspects" in the next three rounds.

[MickyB]

I voted for O'Rourke-Moss. Thought I'd copy and paste the teams -

 

Nick Nickell, New York NY; Richard Freeman,

Atlanta GA; Paul Soloway, Mill Creek WA; Bob

Hamman, Dallas TX; Jeff Meckstroth, Tampa FL;

Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL

vs

Reese Milner, Los Angeles CA; Sam Lev, New York

NY; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Chris

Compton, Dallas TX; Andrew Gromov - Aleksander

Dubinin, Moscow Russia

 

 

George Jacobs - Ralph Katz, Hinsdale IL; Robert

Levin, Bronx NY; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Zia

Mahmood, New York NY; Michael Rosenberg, New

Rochelle NY

vs

Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Mark Feldman - Martin

Fleisher, New York NY; Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ

 

 

James Cayne, New York NY; Michael Seamon,

Hollywood FL; Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria -

Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes, Rome Italy

vs

Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Mark Lair, Canyon

TX; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden; Fredrik Nystrom,

Stockholm Sweden; Fu Zhong, Beijing People's

Republic of China; Zhao Jie, Tianjin People's

Republic of China

 

 

Lou Ann O'Rourke, Scottsdale AZ; Marc Jacobus -

Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV; Eric Greco,

Philadelphia PA; Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy;

Norberto Bocchi, Milano Italy

vs

Michael Moss - Chris Willenken, New York NY;

Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Agustin Madala,

Buenos Aires Argentina

 

 

Rose Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; Kyle Larsen, San

Francisco CA; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD;

Roger Bates, Mesa AZ; Geir Helgemo, Trondheim

Ca Norway; Tor Helness, Oslo Norway

vs

Team Orange: Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk

Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Tilburg Netherlands;

Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands; Simon de Wijs,

Doorn Netherlands

 

 

Ron Rubin, Miami FL; Russ Ekeblad, Providence

RI; Chip Martel, Davis CA; Lew Stansby, Castro

Valley CA; Brad Moss, New York NY; Fred

Gitelman, Las Vegas NV

vs

Bill Cole, Silver Spring MD; Alan Schwartz, Fairfax

VA; Ai-Tai Lo, Reston VA; Mark Dahl, Richmond

VA; David Butler, Keswick VA

 

 

Christal Henner-Welland - Roy Welland - Bjorn

Fallenius, New York NY; Antonio Sementa, Parma

PR 43100 Italy; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice

Poland; Cezary Balicki, Wroclaw Poland

vs

Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Dennis Dawson,

Santa Fe NM; Larry Cohen - David Berkowitz, Boca

Raton FL; Joe Grue, New York NY; Curtis Cheek,

Huntsville AL

 

 

Piotr Tuszynski, Warsaw Poland; Apolinary

Kowalski, Warsaw Poland; Farid Assemi, Fresno

CA; Ed Wojewoda, Clovis CA; Srikanth Kodayam,

Fremont CA; Nick Bykov, Stockton CA

vs

Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; Steve De Roos,

Brasschaat Belgium; Rutger Van Mechelen,

Heverlee Belgium; Eric Debus, Leuven Belgium

[paulg]

I think Team Orange (21), Lynch (10) and (outsider) Mahaffey (14) have the best chance of upsetting their higher ranked opposition.

[MickyB]

I'm not sure Team Orange winning would be an upset :rolleyes:

 

Think I'd rather see the winner of Tuszynski vs Feldman face off against Nickell in the quarter-final and watch a different team in the round of 16.

[Walddk]

All wishful thinking, guys, fair enough. As usual, we don't decide anything. At this point, 6 hours and 10 minutes before the start, we don't even know how many tables we are getting.

 

As a result, commentators will be assigned on the spot. It would be waste of everybody's time to do anything in advance.

 

However, this time we haven't seen any advertisements for volunteer operators in the daily bulletins, so who knows, maybe the organisers are well covered and perhaps able to broadcast from more than one match.

 

Roland

[Aberlour10]

I voted for Lynch vs Henner-Welland, but looking at the line up's of this 1/16 round, every table promises the absolute world class bridge. To broadcast the closest match in 3rd & 4th quarter seems to be the best solution.

 

Robert