CSGibson Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 This is meant to be an all-encompassing thread for the St. Louis NABC - are you going to be there, did BBO Forumers do well in anything, etc. Personally I will be there for all of the tournament, playing in the flight A NAPs Wednesday, the under 10K swiss on Friday, the mixed pairs, the Silodors, and the North American Swiss - if you see me there, feel free to give me high 5's, what ups, tops, whatever. Chris Gibson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 gipsona and I are there from Saturday, playing in the Vanderbilt, North American Swiss and other stuff with puncher and spil. We are the ones with a pageful of pre-alerts who don't sound like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 I'll be there playing in the Platinum Pairs, Mixed Pairs, probably Red Ribbons, and hopefully NA Swiss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanM Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 I'll be there the whole time, playing in the Platinum and Mixed Pairs and then doing Vugraph from the Vanderbilt. Thanks to all of the people who have volunteered to operate, I think I have enough operators for all the planned broadcasts, but if you want to see how Vugraph works "behind the scenes" or just put names to faces, come by and say hi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSGibson Posted March 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 its fun to me to see that Michael is planning on playing both the platinum pairs and the red ribbons; in my opinion, the two events should be mutually exclusive :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasetb Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I'll be there, mostly for the KOs (if I wasn't playing with friends who are paying for everything, I wouldn't be going). I am also playing in the Red Ribbons, and trying to defend my Flight C NAP title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I am playing the mixed pairs Tuesday - Wednesday and with Michael in the Red Ribbon on Thursday - Fridayand something on Saturday before I fly home. :) yippee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 its fun to me to see that Michael is planning on playing both the platinum pairs and the red ribbons; in my opinion, the two events should be mutually exclusive :)I have a friend who's also eligible for both, I had the same feeling. A simple solution would be to run both events at the same time. So even if you qualify for both, you have to choose one or the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd71 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 A simple solution would be to run both events at the same time. So even if you qualify for both, you have to choose one or the other. If anybody with a voice in NABC scheduling is reading, please do NOT consider this suggestion. The Red Ribbon being consecutive with the NAP B/C events is PERFECT to let people play both such events over a long weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 If our team mates qualify from the pairs on Friday, then we'll be looking for team mates for the day on Saturday (for a Compact KO) - I'll post here late on Friday if this happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 its fun to me to see that Michael is planning on playing both the platinum pairs and the red ribbons; in my opinion, the two events should be mutually exclusive :) LOL but think about the mind games he gets to play in the Reds if he does well in the platinums. His opponents will shrivel if he brings it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 OTOH, think of the shame if he does poorly in the Reds. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalldonn Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 If anybody with a voice in NABC scheduling is reading, please do NOT consider this suggestion. The Red Ribbon being consecutive with the NAP B/C events is PERFECT to let people play both such events over a long weekend.Right, and obviously you want to run the reds opposite the blues, but the blues can't be opposite the platinums, so the suggestion of running reds opposite platinum would never work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 My NABC user name is "Kathryn Shannon" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 My NABC user name is "Kathryn Shannon"But as long as you enter the correct ACBL number, you can put Jillybean on the entry form anyway. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 But as long as you enter the correct ACBL number, you can put Jillybean on the entry form anyway. :rolleyes: Two of my friends got completely blotto over a dinner break. When they came back they filled out the entry with their player numbers but phony names. They were kicked out of the event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted March 16, 2013 Report Share Posted March 16, 2013 OTOH, think of the shame if he does poorly in the Reds. :)Nah, he can just blame me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted March 16, 2013 Report Share Posted March 16, 2013 If our team mates qualify from the pairs on Friday, then we'll be looking for team mates for the day on Saturday (for a Compact KO) - I'll post here late on Friday if this happens.They have made the imp pairs final so we're looking for a pair today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted March 16, 2013 Report Share Posted March 16, 2013 LOL but think about the mind games he gets to play in the Reds if he does well in the platinums. His opponents will shrivel if he brings it up. We certainly had our chances. You know when you get no gifts and are fixed left and right in a session? We had the opposite of that. We were in 14th overall in the afternoon with a 56+%, but then played really bad in the evening and were lucky to get our 45%. I think we were fixed once each session (including Grue and Moss having an accident to a 6H on a 4-2 fit missing a cashing outside A and the trump Q, but the Q was onside third as it needed to be to make) but had 5 or 6 gifts given to us each session to more than make up for it. Unfortunately even with that good luck, our total was only good enough for spot 57 with 56 qualifying today, so no worries on doing too well in the platinums. Good luck to everyone still playing PP, IMP, and 10K today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted March 16, 2013 Report Share Posted March 16, 2013 lol they did that against you? It has become a running joke since I heard of 2 pairs in 6H, and everyone in 6m that I talked to went down...but probably not as funny to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Nice thing about them putting the recaps online is you can look this stuff up from home. :) Board 9, second session. Looks like a small handful of 1370s (and one 1390), a 1440, those two 1430s, and a ton of -100s along with some game scores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSGibson Posted March 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Well, we got 4th in the 10K, and we tied the team that finished 1st when we played them, and beat the team that finished 2nd. It was a fun event, but it just felt like a good regional swiss, frankly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Well, we got 4th in the 10K, and we tied the team that finished 1st when we played them, and beat the team that finished 2nd. It was a fun event, but it just felt like a good regional swiss, frankly.Yeah, we came in 26th (out of 81 teams that entered, 42 qualifying to the 2nd day), even though my pick-up partner and I were not really very compatible. When I play with my regular partner back home in a sectional A/X Swiss, we end up in the bottom of the field. I feel guilty getting platinum points for this event, when all the tough competition was in the Platinum Pairs and IMP Pairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasetb Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 So far, my luck has been crap. Our teammates us down once or twice, but what's killing me is a 35% slam, another <40% slam, and several <35% games were made by opps (all but one make even with perfect D). Good news is I exchanged a few words with Zia in an elevator, been surrounded by all the top pros, and once this bad luck is out of the way, I should hopefully place high in the Reds and repeat in NAP Flight C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 So far I've played like crap bar one game in tbe 60'sPlaying too much, not sleeping enough but having a great time, meeting some bbfers and hopefully improving my game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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