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Results of the 2022-2023 District 6 GNT Competition Open, Flight A (0-6000), Flight B (0-2500) and NLM (Flight C)

Open Flight

January 7-8, 2023

Rosters:

William Neumann, Mark Dahl, Fred King, Bob Bell
Michael Berard, Peter Van Zijl, Rick Bingham, Mel Yudkin
Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd, Bill Cole, Ai-Tai Lo, Noble Shore, Mike Gill
Jason Meyer, Lloyd Rawley, Clyde Kruskal, Jim Geist

Linda Marshall, Vince Wilmot, David Genne, Sven Pride
Lyle Poe, Alan Tenenbaum, Andy Gofreed, Jay Kelkar, Mark Chen, Brad Theurer
Ron Kral, Mike Spooner, Hank Meyer, Don Berman
Ron Zucker, Monique Smith, Mike Richey, Merrill Hirsh
John McAllister, Hakan Berk, Jennifer Lin, Eric Mayefsky

Flight A

Hindman 72 VP
Meyer 63 VP
Bao 49 VP
Abushakra 40 VP
Negulescu 26 VP

 

The semi-final matchups were Hindman-Abushakra and Meyer-Bao.

In Flight A, Hal Hindman’s team defeated Hadi Abushakra’s team by 2 IMPs, and Weizhong Bao’s team beat Jason Meyer’s team by 37. The Hindman and Bao teams met on February 25

Final Results:

Bao is the winner in Flight A and will represent the District at the GNT Flight A Finals in Chicago.

 

Flight A Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
Bao 34 22 20 33 109
Hindman 14 24 9 26 73

Rosters:

Hadi Abushakra, Al Lauber, Shawn Stringer, Hank Meyer
Jason Meyer, Lloyd Rawley, Ron Zucker, Ted Ying
Sorina Negulescu, Witold Palosz, Carole Banks,
 Kenton Schoen
Hal Hindman, Eric Branfman, Jay Cherlow, Tracy Brines, Mike Lane
Weizhong Bao, Shihong You, Jian-Ping Chen, Huailin Chen, Jim Zhong

Flight B

The Fox team is the winner in Flight B and the Althouse team is second; both teams qualify to represent the District at the Flight B finals in Chicago.

 

Flight A Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
Fox 31 25 24 17 167
Althouse 37 48 38 44 97

 

Group X Group Y Group Z

Bingham 77 VP Klein 68 VP Herbst 72 VP
Fox 63 VP Wertman 63 VP Althouse 48 VP
Devaney 60 VP Fleeson 43 VP Aldrich 44 VP
McGlynn 36 VP Cartlidge 42 VP Hafen 43 VP
Gemmer 14 VP Kolody 34 VP Potter 43 VP

 

The top 2 in each group qualified, as did Devaney and Aldrich. Wertman won the tiebreak with Fox and finished 4th.

Quarterfinal matchups:

In Flight B, 8 teams were in action on Sunday, February 5, 2023

Bingham defeated Aldrich by 58
Althouse defeated Herbst by 6
Klein defeated Devaney by 8
Fox defeated Wertman by 13

In the semi finals:
Fox defeated Bingham by 9
Althouse defeated Klein by 18

Fox and Althouse played on February 25 and the Fox team won.

Rosters:

Harry Potter, James Mosley, Richard Padgett, Mike Corrigan
Patrick Herbst, Jamie Dahlberg, Terry Jones, David Goldfrank
Terry Klein, Chuck Dearolf, Leon Masiewicki, Guillaume DeDecker

Rick Bingham, Michael Berard, Peter Van Zijl, Mel Yudkin
Jill Kolody, Ruth Shilkret, Odessa Morton, Reggie Ray
George Fleeson, Alan Munro, Bud Morgan, David Street

Doug Althouse, Alex Marshall, Nancy Smagala, Craig Pritzker
Daniel Aldrich, Jacob Baron, Jim Dickson, Nadejda Drenska
Tom McGlynn, Janet McGlynn, Martha Riviere, Marcia Gossans
John Wertman, Joia Hertz, Bob Ives, Bob Robinson
Steven Fox, Sam Ruth, Anne Derbes, Bob Schwab
Keith Hafen, John Pegues, Warren Beeton, Walt Taschek
Robert Gemmer, Cheryl Schafer, Mike Vanous, David Cissel
Jim Cartlidge, Nicole Swain, Donna Stoker, Linda Torres
Barbara Devaney, Alex Stille, Neil Cowie, Danijel Zenko

In Flight C, 5 teams played a round-robin to determine the winner on Sunday, February 5, 2023.

The results:

Helfman 69 VP
Collins 56 VP
Philbrick 48 VP
Morton 46 VP
Silver 31 VP

 

Rosters:
John Philbrick , Fred Hayden, Michael Murphy, Jean Murphy
Nancy Morton, Jeanne Loving, John Zhou, Michael Aquilino
Preston Collins, Kurt Guelzow, Lewis Singer, David Nova, Pankaj Mody, Pete Peterson
Doug Helfman, Elisa Donohoe, Elizabeth Lomas, Dave Dunston
Betsy Silver, Barney Silver, Hank Jiles, Joan Riggs   

 

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