Summary
Mini-Spingold national bridge championships are held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). They were introduced in 2001 and are held at the same time as the main Spingold knockout team championship.
The Mini-Spingold comprises two simultaneous knockout team events. The Mini-Spingold I typically lasts 6 days(5 in 2013) with each day being a round consisting of two sessions of 28 boards. Since 2006 the Mini-Spingold II has been limited to 5 days, so teams may play two matches on the first day.
Mini-Spingold I (0-5000) (before 2017) (0-6000) (starting 2017) edit
This event is restricted to those with less than 5,000 masterpoints. As of 2017, the masterpoint limit has been raised to 6000.
| Year | City | Number of teams | Winners | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Toronto | 72 | Brian Johnston, John Lloyd, Bill Woodcock, Gary Whiteman, Brooke Nelles, Dale Freeman | Howard Gianera, Barry Purrington, Vernon Evans, Monte Evans, John Koch, Tony Ames |
| 2002 | Washington | 63 | Howard Einberg, Michael Mikyska, Alan Myerson, Jim Glickman, David Sokolow | John Hodges, Lynn Johannesen, Dale Johannesen, Franklin Lowenthal |
| 2003 | Long Beach | 41 | Barbara Wallace, Mark Yaeger, Lisa Kow, Rich Pavlicek Jr., Brian Gunnell | Marjorie Michelin, David Anding, Kenneth Titow, Ed Ulman, Andrew Vinock |
| 2004 | New York | 40 | Larry Mohr, Alex Hong, Shi Yan, Hao Ge, Yi Liu | Keith Connolly, Andrew de Sosa, Bob Rebelein, Morrie Kleinplatz |
| 2005 | Atlanta | 51 | Walt Murphy, Julie Murphy, Steve DeVico, Gayle Covey, Elliott Grubman, Ava Grubman | Richard Wegman, Arnold Malasky, Gloria Silverman Bart, Jim Russell |
| 2006 | Chicago | 51 | Martin Harris, Jacob Morgan, Jim Melville, Will Engel | Paul Stern, Daniel Levin, James O’Neil, Christopher Mansour |
| 2007 | Nashville | 61 | Brian Alexander, Karl Hicks, Jim Gordon, Mike Betts | Randy Okubo, Nathan Glasser, Bud Biswas, Susan Winkler |
| 2008 | Las Vegas | 99 | Joyce Hampton, Lukasz Lebioda, Jon Rice, Mike Rice, David Grainger | Warren Cederborg, Greg Michaels, Dayou Zhou, Stephen Tu |
| 2009 | Washington | 59 | Jay Whipple III, Kevin Dwyer, Owen Lien, Jon Rice, David Grainger | McKenzie Myers, Garth Yettick, Peggy Ware, Spencer Jones, Jon Brandon, Michael Sherman |
| 2010 | New Orleans | 38 | Morrie Kleinplatz, Mark Leonard, Robert Stayman, John Boyer | Jim Russell, Nancy Spear, Mark Jones, Stephen Stewart |
| 2011 | Toronto | 62 | John Lewis, David Sokolow, Howard Einberg, Maris Zilant, Susan Fuller, Saul Gross | Gary Donner, Deborah Murphy, Lauren Friedman, Larry Lerner |
| 2012 | Philadelphia | 38 | Yan Wang, Edward Xu, Peter Wong, Jianfeng Luo, Nongyu Li | George Krizel, Albert Shekhter, Oleg Rubinchik, Igor Milman |
| 2013 | Atlanta | 29 | Max Aeschbacher, Josh Parks, Arjun Dhir, Alex Dezieck | Randall Rubenstein, Marc Sylvester, Bill Begert, Doug Herron, Lorraine Cable, Doug Anderson |
| 2014 | Las Vegas | 51 | Mark Friedlander, Richard Fellars, Howard Engle, Mark Weisman | Wenbo Zhang, Jiawei Luo, Robert Hou, Yuan Chen[1] |
| 2015 | Chicago | 47 | Steve Zolotow, Anam Tebha, Christian Jolly, Oren Kriegel, Sean Gannon | Jonathan Fleischmann, Xu Wang, Brad Dracka, Jin Hu, Jordan Kaye[2] |
| 2016 | Washington | 52 | Edmund Wu, Jesse Chao, Alex Dezieck, Zhuo Wang | Robert Bernstein, Jay Barron, Doris Van Delft, Merel Bruijnsteen[3] |
| 2017 | Toronto | John McWhinnie, Henry Caspar, Debbie Feldman, Doug Barnes, Terry Richardson, Christopher Cowan | Brad Bart, Detlef Ladewig, Terrence Rego, Andy Stark | |
| 2018 | Atlanta | Neil Stern, James Weeks, Dorn Bishop, Jim Johnsen | David Shepler, Marsha Platnick, Brad Vander Zanden, Keith Hungate | |
| 2019 | Las Vegas | Greg Michaels, Martin Harris, John Botzum, Miriam Harris-Botzum | Arti Bhargava, Ingi Agnarsson, Gudjon Sigurjonsson, Mark Leonard | |
| 2022 | Providence | Leon Yu, Winston Huang, Tsao-Tung Tsai, Bing Le | David Yoon, Lorraine Cable, Jordan, Lampe, Jacqueline Chang |
Mini-Spingold II (0-1500) edit
This event is restricted to those with less than 1,500 masterpoints. In 2017, the masterpoint limit was raised to 2,500 masterpoints.
| Year | City | Number of teams | Winners | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Toronto | 36 | Bob Hollow, Motaz Farag, Jim Brickman, Bill Kertes, Leo Takefman, Irving Goodman | Larry Friedman, Jennifer Gianera, Jerry Poliquin, Larry Delefs, Ala Sobol, Mileva Jobin |
| 2002 | Washington | 53 | Bob Hollow, Motaz Farag, Gabriel Tawil, Theo Lichtenstein | Maeve Mahon, John Segal, Russell Friedman, Allan Wolf |
| 2003 | Long Beach | 36 | Matt Meckstroth, Rob Meckstroth, Rich Regan, James Hawkes, Andrew Hurd | Bruce Blakely, Fred Stout, Nancy Ferguson, David Bryant |
| 2004 | New York | 32 | Mark Teaford, Norton Rimer, Myron Rimer, Ronald Resnick | Doris Banks, Christine Woodring, Paul Lenoble, Lew Kroll |
| 2005 | Atlanta | 34 | Nancy Ferguson, David Bryant, Bruce Blakely, Dmitri Shabes | Nicolas Hammond, Martin Nathan, Maureen McGuire, Edward Foran, John Hassett, Robert Ternosky |
| 2006 | Chicago | 43 | Steve Callaham, John Hassett, Edward Foran, Nicolas Hammond | Eric Hendrickson, Richard Lawson, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Jason Bribitzer-Stull |
| 2007 | Nashville | 41 | Matt Meckstroth, Robert Glickman, Sam Katz, Daniel Goldfein | Owen Lien, Eric Mayefsky, Eric Sieg, David Coberly, Zach Brescoll, Mike Develin |
| 2008 | Las Vegas | 45 | Brian Duran, Gloria Tsoi, Lon Sunshine, Ivanie Yeo | John Scibelli, Thomas Shulman, Justine Hancock, Sali Ma |
| 2009 | Washington | 61 | Eric Hendrickson, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Jason Bribitzer-Stull, Andy Caranicas | Victor Hsu, Ted Wilson, Paul Fagan, Sandy Johnson |
| 2010 | New Orleans | 27 | Jennifer Gu, Adam Portley, Belinda Gu, Jonathan Pines | Steve Callaham, David Schulman, Patrick Corn, Megan Corn |
| 2011 | Toronto | 31 | Yuan Chen, Wenbo Zhang, Sam Yu, Kaiyu Qian | Jean La Traverse, Josette Levesque, Richard Collette, Sylvie Levesque |
| 2012 | Philadelphia | 30 | Max Glick, Zach Scherr, Jin Hu, Zach Wasserman, Jonathan Fleischmann | Claude Le Feuvre, Perry Poole, Stan Weiner, Ping Hu |
| 2013 | Atlanta | 23 | Buddy Landis, John Felker, Stephanie Felker, Rick Whitehead | Barbara Newman, Don Turner, Hannah Tidman, Yaron Schweizer |
| 2014 | Las Vegas | 33 | Om Chokriwala, Fred Upton, Kevin Lane, Steve Ramos, Jr | Mary Ose, Gary Ansok, Arti Bhargava, Todd Werby[4] |
| 2015 | Chicago | 23 | Hunter McClain, Benjamin Kompa, Xiyuan Ge, Kenneth Ramaley | Kenneth Hopke, Jerry Nolte, Elizabeth Nolte, Phil Feldman[5] |
| 2016 | Washington | 29 | Curt Kristensen, Gregory Sellgren, Ti Davis, Brian Rink | Winston Chang, Joe Albert Garcia, Wayne Gorski, Frank Lin, Kenny Pan[6] |
| 2017 | Toronto | 40 | Tsao-Tung Tsai, Luen-Jyh Luo, Edward So, Jack Uppal | Kerry Cotterell Bruce Williams, Curt Kristensen, Howard Montemurro |
| 2018 | Atlanta | 20 | Jim Liu, Tsao-Tung Tsai, Xuhua Lin, Leon Yu | Liu Xiang, Zhengwen Li, Yike Xie, Yuxuan Chen, Liang Min |
| 2019 | Las Vegas | 21 | Jordan Lampe, Jacqueline Chang, Christopher Moh, Siqing Yu | Scott Nason, Jeff Dater, Nancy Heck, Alexander Wiles |
| 2020 | Online (Fall) | 36 | Kyle Rockoff, Daniel Weiss, Gan Yang, Derek Wong, Sarik Goyal, Ben Fisk | Xin Ge, Sarah Chen, Serena Guo, Wanwan Ren, Brandon Ge, Brent Xiao |
| 2021 | Online (Spring) | 40 | Howard Booth, Paul Hattis, James Orleans, David Edelson, Steven Fox | Wanwan Ren, Serena Guo, Jung Hu, Qing Lu |
| 2021 | Online (Summer) | 24 | James Dahlberg, Alan Munro, Colin Schloss, Nick Migliacci | Brian Zhang, Eric Xiao, Serena Guo, Wanwan Ren, Victor Xiao, Jeff Xiao |
References edit
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-30. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
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Sources edit
List of previous winners, Page 7 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 80–4, July 21, 2008, archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2015
2008 Mini-Spingold II winners, Page 1 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 80–9, July 26, 2008[permanent dead link]
2008 Mini-Spingold I winners, Page 1 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 80, July 28, 2008, archived from the original (PDF) on April 11, 2014
2009 Mini-Spingold II results, Page 16 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 81, August 1, 2009[permanent dead link]
2009 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 10 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 81, August 2, 2009[permanent dead link]
Page 3, District 8 Advocate (PDF), December 2005
2010 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 12 Daily Bulletin, vol. 82, August 1, 2010, archived from the original (PDF) on July 13, 2012
2011 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 16 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 83, July 31, 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2012
2011 Mini-Spingold II results, Page 18 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 83, July 30, 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2012
External links edit
- ACBL official website