General

Congratulations to the team of Hal Hindman, Eric Branfman, Rick Bingham and Ryan Connors that came from behind to win the District’s Flight A GNT competition.

April 14

Hindman 10 30 55 114
Meyer 46 57 101 101

April 13

Abushakra         34 55 66 102
Meyer                  23 70 88 120

Hindman            13 55 100 127
Lane                     21 43   48   70

Congratulations to Alan Munro and Colin Schloss who won the Flight B North American Pairs (NAP) event at the 2024 Louisville, KY NABC. Another District 6 Pair, Ernie Schuler and Tom Peters, also did well in the event, finishing in the top 10 (5th).

In Flight C, Jacob Baron and Eliot Bernold finished in the top 10 (8th.)

1st Hindman Team (Hal Hindman, Eric Branfman, Rick Bingham, Ryan Connors)

2nd Meyer Team (Jason Meyer, Lloyd Rawley, Larry Khan, John Edmonds)

3rd Lane team (Michael Lane, Eric A. Henderson, Leah Shao, Kent Massie)

4th Abushakra Team (Hadi Abushakra, Albert Lauber, Jay Cherlow, Mel Yudkin)

Congratulations to William Neumann, Mark Dahl, Fred King, Bob Bell, John McAllister and Sophie Baldysz who won a close match against the team of Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd, Bill Cole, Alan Schwartz, Michael Gill and Noble Shore on February 18, 2024 and will represent District 6 in the GNT competition at the NABC in Toronto, CN in July.

Congratulations to GNT Flight B and Flight C Winners

The District Six GNT B and C flights have concluded.

The winners in Flight B are the Devaney team (Barbara Devaney, Alex Stille, Neil Cowie, Daniel Zenko, Rolf Swenson).

The second place team is Bingham (Rick Bingham, Mel Yudkin, Peter Van Zijl, Mike Berard).

These teams will represent the District in the Flight B GNT Finals at the NABC this summer in Toronto.

In Flight C, the winners are the Chen team ( Li Chen, Fanjun Kong, Lequin Shi, Lewis Hutchinson) who will represent District Six in the Flight C  GNT finals in Toronto.

Please join us in historic Williamsburg, Virginia for the Williamsburg Regional Monday, February 26 through Friday, March 1st.  The tournament will be held at the Williamsburg DoubleTree by Hilton, 50 Kingsmill Road, Williamsburg, VA 23185.  

If you’re an Intermediate or Newcomer player, our program includes Gold Point opportunities in all two-session events and expert speakers throughout the week.  

If you can’t join us in person you can join us online on Wednesday and Thursday evenings for a Regionally Rated online game on BBO.

For more information please check our our flyer, where you’ll find a schedule of events, contact information for the tournament chairs and partnership coordinators.

We hope to see you there!”

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The District Six North American Pairs Finals for Flight B and the NLM Flight were held September 30-October 1, 2023.

Congratulations to Flight B winners Tom and Janet McGlynn, who will be representing District 6 at the March 2024 NABC along with Jim Dickson and Najedja Drenska, Alan Munro and Colin Schloss, and Tom Peters and Ernie Schuler.

Congratulations to our NLM Flight winners Elliott Bernold and Jacob Baron, who will be representing District 6 at the March 2024 NABC along with Mark Valavanis and Robert Robinson, Ed Johnson and Ken Iobst, and Muhammad Zaidi and Stephen Collier.

The District 6 Finals for the Open Flight were held face-to-face November 11-12, 2023.

Congratulations to our Open Flight Winners – Jay Kelkar and Deb Dhar. Finishing 2nd were Andy Gofreed and Alan Tenenbaum, and finishing 3rd were David Genne and Sven Pride. These three pairs will represent our District at the NABC in Louisville, KY in March 2024.

  ***IMPORTANT INFORMATION***

In accordance with recently revised ACBL policy, District 6 has opted to amend its Covid protocols for the Richmond Regional in May 2023: 

District 6 will not require proof of Covid vaccination at the Richmond Regional in May.
District 6 will announce our Covid vaccination policy for our upcoming Reston and Baltimore Regionals within the coming month.

Masks will not be required in Richmond unless requested by opponents who are both wearing masks or unless the community transmission rate becomes high.