CONGRATULATIONS TO USA MEDALISTS IN MARRAKECH

Gold for USA2 (Rosenthal-Campanile, Lin-Willenken, Rosenberg-Rosenberg, NPC Jeff Aker) in the Wuhan Cup (Mixed Teams)

2023 Wuhan Cup Gold

Chris Willenken, Jeff Aker, Migry zur-Campanile, Debbie Rosenberg, Amber Lin, Michael Rosenberg, Andrew Rosenthal receiving their trophies.

Silver for USA1 (Goodman-Passell, Casen-Krekorian, Koneru-Rajadhyaksha, NPC Alex Kolesnik) in the D'Orsi Cup (Senior Teams)

2023 D'Orsi Silver

Alex Kolesnik, Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Mike Passell, Andy Goodman, Jim Krekorian, Venkatrao Koneru, and Drew Casen on the Victory Stand

Bronze for USA2 (Hamman-Weichsel, Chambers-Schermer, Dunitz-Grabel, NPC Petra Hamman) in the D'Orsi.

2023 D'Orsi Bronze

John Schermer, Peter Weichsel, Mitch Dunitz, Ross Grabel, Bob Hamman, Petra Hamman, and Neil Chambers on the Victory Stand.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO USBF JUNIORS

USBF Junior teams performed outstandingly in Veldhoven this week. Three teams will be bringing home medals and we've heard nothing but positive comments about all of the teams. Well done!

USA2 U21 & U16 teams won Silver, USA1 U16 won bronze!

U21 USA2 on the Victory Stand

2023 U21 USA2

WBF President Jan Kamras, Jonathan Yue, Rory Xiao, Michael Hu, Arthur Zhao, Michael Haas, Sam Pahk, NPC Aaron Silverstein, WBF Vice President Eric Laurent

U16 USA2 - Silver Medalists!

2023 U16 Silver (1)

Eric Laurent, Jack Boge, Avery Silverstein, Daniel Balof, Ethan Derman, Jeffrey Yin, Claire Cao, NPC Kent Mignocchi, Jan Kamras

U16 USA1 - Bronze Medalists

2023 U16 Bronze

Charlie Chen, Andrew Chen, Eric Xiao, Jeff Xiao, Kayden Ge, Brian Zhang, NPC Will Watson

 

TRANSNATIONAL MEDALISTS

USBF teams took home gold and silver medals from the final Transnational events held at the 2023 WYBTC. U21 USA1 earned Silver in the BAM A Final; U26 Women USA2, with a "ringer" from Canada replacing a departed player, earned gold in the BAM B Final. Congratulations!

BAM A Final Silver Medalists

2023 U21 USA1 BAM Silver

Bruce Zhu, Harrison Luba, Nathan Gong, Michael Xu, Arthur Gong, Olivia Schireson, NPC Roger Lee

BAM B Final Gold Medalists

2023 WTBTC BAMB Gold

Jan Kamras, Jessica Udomsrirungruang, Cecilia Ehrlichman, Morgan Johnstone, Jacob Freeman, Katie Sullivan, Khan Tran Nguyen, NPC Michael Shuster, Eric Laurent

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2024 UNITED STATES BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHEDULED

The 2024 USBCs will be held in May in Schaumburg, Illinois to select teams for the 2024 World Bridge Games, for which neither dates nor site have yet been announced. The USBF is entitled to one team in each division of the World Bridge Games, so the USBCs are all one‑winner events. Based on feedback from the 2023 USBCs, we will start the face to face stages of the 2024 Mixed and Senior USBCs with up to 16 teams, to be reduced to 8. If 9-13 teams enter, the first 2 days will be a Round Robin; if 14-16 teams enter, the first 2 days will be KO (with 15 or 14 teams, the top 1 or 2 teams based on seeding points will have a bye to the Quarterfinal). Other than that significant change and some tweaks to the LoveBridge environment and penalties for pairs that use too much time, the formats of the 2024 USBCs will be the same as the 2023 USBCs.

Dates for 2024 will be:

                2024 USBC Calendar

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More Strasbourg Congratulations

Congratulations to Janice Molson & Anam Tebha, whose team, TriPolar, with Janice & Anam from the US, Irene Baroni (Italy) & Catherine Bertheau (Sweden) from Europe, and Nevena Senior & Nicola Smith from Great Britain, defeated Baker in the Women's Team event. Also congratulations to Lynn Baker & Karen McCallum, who finished second with English teammates Sally Brock & Fiona Brown.

Also to the Milner team (Milner-Lall, Zia, with Nafiz Zorlu, Jorgen Hansen, and Steen Schou, who won the Silver medal in the Seniors, defeating Zimmermann before falling to the French Senior team.

 

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  1. Rosenbergs are European Transnational Mixed Pair Champions
  2. HAMMAN TEAM IS USA2 FOR THE SENIOR BOWL IN MARRAKECH
  3. BAKER IS USA2 FOR THE 2023 VENICE CUP
  4. GOODMAN is USA1 for the 2023 D'Orsi Senior Bowl