This Just In... Justin Lall Online Teams 3
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Volume 17, Issue 8 April 17, 2021 USBF President Brad Moss 1 Merblum - wins tie 87 54 11 19 3 USBF Vice President 16 Rasmussen 117 0 58 20 39 Kate Aker USBF COO & Secretary Jan Martel 2 Levine 107 27 19 21 40 USBF CFO 15 Jacobs - wins tie 123 29 34 26 34 Stan Subeck USBF Recorder Jack Oest 3 Nickell - wins tie 157 56 25 25 51 Director 14 Dawson 95 23 47 25 0 McKenzie Myers Tournament Organizer Jan Martel Software Expert 4 Donner 104 24 22 29 29 Al Hollander 13 Kolesnik 122 28 34 48 12 Online VuGraph Organizer Chris Wiegand 5 Martel 85 25 4 44 12 Appeals 12 Onstott 106 37 41 9 19 Administrators Suzi Subeck, Chairman Bill Arlinghaus 6 Rosenthal 156 41 68 37 10 Appeals Panel: Cheri Bjerkan 11 Goodman 90 18 36 18 18 Rich DeMartino Ron Gerard Marty Hirschman 7 Moss - wins tie 131 11 46 54 20 Alan Sontag 10 Parker 113 32 20 21 40 Joanna Stansby Lew Stansby Josh Stark Stan Subeck 8 Lall 133 35 33 44 21 9 Smith - wins tie 90 14 39 15 22 Bulletin Editor Suzi Subeck Photographer Peg Kaplan This Just In...Just This 3 Teams Lall Online Justin UNITED STATES BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 Tournament Schedule Dennis Dawson, Capt Charlie Wilkins ROUND OF 16 Dawson Mark Itabashi Mitch Dunitz FRIDAY APRIL 16 1:00 - 2:45 SEGMENT 1 BOARDS 1-14 Roger McNay Eric Stoltz 3:00 - 4:45 SEGMENT 2 BOARDS 15-28 Donner Gary Donner, Capt Sandra Rimstedt BREAK Jacob Freeman Finn Kolesnik 5:30 - 7:15 SEGMENT 3 BOARDS 29-42 Radu Nistor Iulian Rotaru Goodman Andy Goodman Steve Zolotow 7:30 - 9:15 SEGMENT 4 BOARDS 43-56 Anam Tebha, Capt Kevin Dwyer QUARTERFINAL Shan Huang SATURDAY APRIL 17 1:00 - 2:45 SEGMENT 1 BOARDS 1-14 Jacobs George Jacobs, Capt Claude Vogel 3:00 - 4:45 SEGMENT 2 BOARDS 15-28 Dick Bruno Kerry Smith Steve Beatty Fred Stewart BREAK Kolesnik Alex Kolesnik, Capt Michael Xu 5:30 - 7:15 SEGMENT 3 BOARDS 29-42 Bob Etter Bill Harker 7:30 - 9:15 SEGMENT 4 BOARDS 43-56 Andrew Gumperz Phil Clayton SEMIFINAL Lall Hemant Lall Reese Milner 1:00 - 2:45 SEGMENT 1 BOARDS 1-14 Naren Gupta Zia Mahmood SUNDAY APRIL 18 Bob Hamman Peter Weichsel EGMENT OARDS 3:00 - 4:45 S 2 B 15-28 Petra Hamman, NPC BREAK Levine Mike Levine Eddie Wold 5:30 - 7:15 SEGMENT 3 BOARDS 29-42 Jeff Meckstroth Eric Rodwell 7:30 - 9:15 SEGMENT 4 BOARDS 43-56 Mark Lair Mike Passell Bob Morris, NPC FINAL (WILL CHANGE IF TEAMS WANT 60 OR 64 BOARDS) Martel Chip Martel, Capt Marty Fleisher MONDAY APRIL 19 1:00 - 2:45 SEGMENT 1 BOARDS 1-14 Bart Bramley Kit Woolsey 3:00 - 4:45 SEGMENT 2 BOARDS 15-28 Brian Platnick John Diamond BREAK Merblum Frank Merblum, Capt Walter Lee 5:30 - 7:15 SEGMENT 3 BOARDS 29-42 John Lusky Allan Falk Doug Simson Jeff Aker 7:30 - 9:15 SEGMENT 4 BOARDS 43-56 Moss Sylvia Moss, Capt Roger Lee Joe Grue Brad Moss System Regulations & Conditions of Contest Daniel Korbel Ish DelMonte Nickell Nick Nickell Ralph Katz • Normal USBF System regulations apply to this event. Bobby Levin Steve Weinstein Geoff Hampson Eric Greco • This event is governed by the USBF General Conditions of Jill Levin, NPC Contest and Special Conditions of Contest for this event. Onstott John Onstott, Capt Jacob Morgan Drew Casen Jim Krekorian • The ACBL Open+ Convention Chart applies to this event. Chris Compton Venkatrao Koneru Parker Stewart Rubenstein, Capt Christina Parker Joel Wooldridge David Grainger Ethics Statement Adam Grossack Zach Grossack Rasmussen Jim Rasmussen, Capt Anton Tsypkin Maxim Silin Carrie Liu Ethics - We’re not trying to provide the same security for this Rosenthal Andrew Rosenthal, Capt Aaron Silverstein event as we have for online events to select USBF Interna- Chris Willenken Eldad Ginossar tional teams. However, the provisions of the USBF General Migry Campanile David Berkowitz Smith Ron Smith Billy Cohen Conditions of Contest regarding ethical obligations and possi- Linda Lewis, Capt Disa Eythorsdottir ble penalties apply to this event. The USBF has appointed an Doug Doub Paul Lewis Ethics Investigation Committee that will review any com- plaints about ethics violations. If the EIC concludes that a player or pair was acting unethically, they will report to the Hope she doesn’t respond USBF Board of Directors, who may place a player on proba- negatively to that line!! tion, suspend, or expel a player for cause. 2021 Committee is:Dana Berkowitz, Eugene Hung, Roger Lee, Chip Martel, Steve Weinstein, Jenny Wolpert 2 THERE WILL BE DELAYED KIBITZING FOR ALL OF THE JLALL3 EVENT. KIBITZING SCHEDULE FOR THE ROUND ROBIN (EDT)… The schedule will be the same each day: Round 1: 2:30 pm Round 2: 4:05 pm Round 3: 5:30 pm Round 4: 7:50 pm Round 5: 9:25 pm KIBITZING SCHEDULE FOR THE KO (EDT) Watching online, Quarter 1: 1:15 pm Even delayed, Quarter 2: 3:15 pm Is the best way to see BREAK How a hand’s bid and played! Quarter 3: 7:15 Quarter 4: 9:15 To kibitz, go to kibitzrealbridge.online, enter your name and click on Log In. That will take you to a screen where you can select the event to kibitz. After you select Kibitz JLall Online Teams #3, you will be taken to a lobby where you will see a list of tables on the left and a chat box and list of people in the lobby on the right. The table listing shows the team & player names at each table, as well as the board and trick that table is playing (that's in the middle of the table, immediately under the table number). Click on a table to kibitz it. At the table, you will see a hand diagram, and the bidding and play as it happens. You do not get to hear or see the players yet (that's coming). There is a chat window on the right of the screen (if your browser window isn't large enough to show it, you can click on the "chat" icon immediately above the UNDO button to open the chat window. For now, anyone can type chat into the chat window. Some things you can do to get more information: If there is an asterisk next to a bid, that means it was Alerted or Explained. Click on the bid to see the explanation if there was one. -- "Rewind" the play using the slider underneath the "table" with hand diagram. just move the vertical handle on the slider to the left to go to earlier tricks. -- Click on the "Scores" button to the left of the South player's name, you will get a scorecard for the match so far. You can use this to get lots of information: ----Click on a board number to see the hand record and results at all the tables. ----You can also click on a number in a yellow box to get to the hand record from some screens. ----In the hand record screen, click on a result to see the bidding and play at a specific table. --In the upper left corner: ----Click on the yellow box with 4 little boxes to get the match scores for all the matches (that will be IMPs and for the Round Robin will not include scores from previous rounds). ----Click on the yellow box with 3 bulleted lines to get Cross-IMPs for the pairs (that will be just for this match). The Scores information is also available in the lobby using the button at the upper right in case you want to check on scores before deciding which table to watch. TIMING OF DELAY The Round Robin matches will be delayed until each round is completed. The first half KO matches will be delayed until each board has been played at all tables, so there may sometimes be a period when nothing new is being shown because one or two tables are slow to play the board. For the second half of the KO matches, the delay will be until the quarter has been completed. That means that the 3rd quarter kibitzing will start at 7:15 EDT. ALERT: We want to welcome Chris Wiegand to the USBF Tournament Team. Chris is taking over VuGraph Organiza- tion for this event and for future USBF Online Events. Starting today, Chris’s plans include voice commentary on the VuGraph broadcast. There will be 2 voice commentators at each of 1 or 2 tables (or even more depending on the re- sponse to this message). Look for Chris’s article on Bridge Winners explaining her plans in detail. Anyone who would like to participate in the Voice Commentary is requested to contact Chris at mrsbing2005 at gmail.com. 3 4 Blimey Yanks! When the one, two, four, and five seeds tumble, you know that something is bloody up. Limey Jack predicted three upsets and got four. He also sussed out that Levine could not take Jacobs for granted. Limey Jack will make you a tenner at the punter whilst Howie Dung is just bonkers and knows not his arse from a tea- kettle. Rasmussen-Lall: Rasmussen was the underdog in the round of 16 and began the proceedings with a nerves exposing 54 -0 deficit in the first quarter. Although trollied, they fought back to win. Well done lads and lassie.