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Spingold KO Teams 74 Tables Draw Spingold KO Teams 74 Tables Draw Pierre Zimmermann - Franck Multon - Geir Helgemo - Tor Helness, Monaco; Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes, Monaco vs Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; Monique Smith, Arlington VA; Merril Hirsh, Washington DC; Tiger Li Li Williams, Elk Point SD Nick Nickell, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Eric Rodwell - Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL vs Stephen Drodge, McLean VA; Sean Gannon, Decatur GA; Zizhuo Wang, Minneapolis MN; Zhuo Wang, Philadelphia PA John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL; Geoff Hampson - Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV; Eric Greco, Wynnewood PA; Brad Moss, San Anselmo CA vs Geoff Hopcraft, Piedmont CA; Michael Bodell - Elianna Meyerson, Santa Clara CA; Jannes van 't Oever, Berkeley CA James Cayne, New York NY; Michael Seamon, Dania FL; Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria, Rome Italy; Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; Antonio Sementa, Parma Italy vs D Dong, Chicago IL; Pat Galligan, San Mateo CA; Qiang Zhang, Mountain House CA; Ethan Yi Liu, Downers Grove IL Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; Aleksander Dubinin - Andrew Gromov, Moscow Russia; Cezary Balicki, Smolec Poland; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice Poland vs Dougin Walker, Princeton NJ; David Rowntree, Pennington NJ; Michael Prahin, Irvington NY; Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ Lou Ann O'Rourke, Portola Valley CA; Eddie Wold, Houston TX; Roger Bates, Mesa AZ; Marc Jacobus - Joe Grue - Curtis Cheek, Las Vegas NV vs Walter Lee, Sudbury MA; Anton Tsypkin, Ashland MA; Alan Applebaum, Brookline MA; Adam Grossack, Newton MA Jeffrey Wolfson - Steve Garner, Chicago IL; Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Howard Weinstein, San Diego CA; Tarek Sadek - Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt vs Donald Berman - Rose Berman, Laurel MD; Clyde Kruskal, Hyattsville MD; Michael Richey, Springfield VA Martin Fleisher - Chris Willenken - Zia Mahmood, New York NY; Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Michael Rosenberg, Cupertino CA; Chip Martel, Davis CA vs Randall Rubinstein - David Gurvich - Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY; Ron Haack - Cathy Nathan - Marc Nathan, New York NY Aaron Silverstein - Bjorn Fallenius, New York NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Fredrik Nystrom - Johan Upmark, Stockholm Sweden vs Dean Panagopoulos, Lynn MA; Robert Woodard, Dover NH; Howard Piltch - Bud Hinckley, South Bend IN; Lou Reich, Wheaton MD; Andrew Markowitz, Lahaska PA Sjoert Brink, Rotterdam Netherlands; Daniel Zagorin, Chicago IL; Kevin Bathurst, Palm Beach Gdns FL; Bas Drijver, Capelle Aan Den Netherlands; Louk Verhees, Netherlands; Rico Van Prooijen, Nieuw Vennep Netherlands vs Allen Kahn - Ira Herman - Jeff Rothstein, New York NY; David Rosenberg, Jackson Heights NY Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Venice FL; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin Poland vs Marshall Miles, Redlands CA; Bill Staats, Southlake TX; William Hall, Thousand Oaks CA; Andrew Vinock, Woodland Hills CA Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON; Darren Wolpert, Thornhill ON; Ishmael Delmonte, New South Wales Australia; Fu Zhong, Beijing People's Republic of China; Thomas Bessis, Paris France; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden vs John McAllister - Greg Humphreys, Charlottesville VA; Alexander Hadzhiev - Kalin Karaivanov, Varna Bulgaria Richard Schwartz, Hawley PA; Allan Graves, Halifax NS; Boye Brogeland, Norway; Frode Nybo, Namsos Norway; Jon Baldursson, Reykoavik Iceland; Thorlakur Jonsson, Kopavogur Iceland vs Barry Piafsky, New York NY; Don Piafsky, Toronto ON; Karlis Rubins - Maija Romanovska, Riga Region Latvia Lew Stansby, Dublin CA; William Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ; Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; Jie Zhao, Boca Raton FL; Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Mark Feldman, Austin TX vs Rick Binder, Waltham MA; Alan Watson, Lexington MA; Mark Aquino, Jamaica Plain MA; Melody Bi, Ashland MA Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Tony Forrester, Herefordshire England; Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina; Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland; Sam Lev, New York NY vs Douglas Simson - Kenneth Eichenbaum, Columbus OH; Rick Roeder, La Mesa CA; David Siebert, Little Rock AR; Michael Kopera, Brooklyn NY; Eric Robinson, New York NY Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands; Simon De Wijs, Doorn Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Tilburg Netherlands; Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands vs Jessica Piafsky, New York NY; Jacek Jerzy Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Michael Wilkinson, Denistone Australia; Tadashi Yoshida, Tokyo Japan Stan Tulin, Highland Beach FL; Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Ron Smith, San Francisco CA; Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA; Alon Birman - Dror Padon, Tel Aviv Israel vs Weishu Wu, Irvine CA; Hailong Ao, Ashburn VA; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ; Jian-Jian Wang, Clarksville MD Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; Justin Lall, Henderson NV; Shane Blanchard - Robert Blanchard - John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY vs Michael Schreiber, Memphis TN; 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