JLall1 After first Stage of Round Robin

Congratulations to the teams who qualified for the KO stage at the end of the first 3 days of Round Robin play (listed in order of bracket numbers, with shuffling still to come for 5-10):

1. Lebowitz (Lebowitz-A. Grossack, Grainger-Wooldridge, Z. Grossack-M. Rosenberg)

2. Levine (Levine-Wold, Lair-Passell, Rodwell-Meckstroth)

3. Nickell (Nickell-Katz, Greco-Hampson, B. Levin-Weinstein, J. Levin NPC)
4. Feldman (J. Feldman-Stamatov, M. Feldman-Wildavsky, W. Lee-Merblum)

5/6. Moss/Nadel (S. Moss-R. Lee, Cohen-Cohler, Ginossar-Del'Monte); (Nadel-Ferguson, Bell-Miller, Korbel)
7/8. Robinson/Spector (Robinson-Boyd, Bramley-Woolsey, Fleisher-Martel); (Spector-Wolpert, Bathurst-Hurd, Demuy-Kranyak)

9/10. Donner/Lall (Donner-Rimstedt, Grue-Moss, Nistor-Rotaru); (Lall-Milner, Diamond-Platnick, Hamman-Weichsel)

 

Also congratulations to the "bubble" teams who are playing on Monday to determine the remaining 6 teams in the Round of 16 (in alphabetic order):

Caprera (Caprera-Brenner, Beatty-Steward, D. Sprung-J. Sprung)

Gupta (A. Gupta-N. Gupta, V. Gupta-Zia, Moss-Thomson)

Hill (Hill-Lebioda, Dwyer-Huang, Tebha-J. Wolpert)

Hung (Hung-Liu, Carmichael-Greenberg, Kaplan-Smith)

Jacobs (Jacobs-Vogel, Becker-Robbins, Bruno-Gardner)

Lewis (P. Lewis-Itabashi, Baqai-Dunitz, L. Lewis-Eythorsdottir)

Lo (Lo-Luba, Baseggio-Stark, Gu-Kolesnik)

Rosenthal (Rosenthal-Silverstein, Berkowitz-Campanile, Morgan-Willenken)

Silin (Silin-Liu, Aquino-Hotamisgilil, Jain-Rasmussen)

Stoltz (Stoltz-McNay, Bishop-Day, Darin-Johnsen)

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JLall1 Round Robin Divisions

Teams entered list is now sorted by division,
but here are the divisions if that's easier to see
INDIANS

Bjerkan

Caprera

Dinkin

Harris

Hill

Lall

Lebowitz

Lewis

Meyers

Nadel

Nickell

Reynolds

Robinson

Silin

Simson

Stoltz
COWBOYS

Bishel

Bitterman

Donnelly

Donner

Feldman

Greenspan

Gupta

Hung

Jacobs

Levine

Lo

Moss

Rosenthal

Schireson

Spector

Winestock
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2020 Nominating Committee Slate

The Nominating Committee has nominated the following slate of candidates for the 2020 election to the USBF Board of Directors:

 

Aaron Silverstein
Sheri Winestock

 silverstein

Sheri Winestock 2016

Both of these nominations are for 3-year terms, ending on 12/31/2023 Additional candidates may be nominated until November 13, 2020 by petition, as set forth in the USBF Election Procedures. If no candidates are nominated by petition, the two candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee will be elected to the USBF Boards, with their terms of office commencing on January 1, 2021.

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2020 USBF Board Election

This Fall the USBF will conduct an election to fill 2 seats on its Board of Directors. The seats are for three-year terms commencing January 1, 2021. 

USBF Board members must be Active USBF members, having paid the 2020 annual active or resident member dues of $50.

If you are interested in being nominated, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Chair of the Nominating Committee. we have also sought nominations through Bridge Winners, and the USBF Nominating Committee will meet and interview potential Board candidates. The Nominating Committee slate will be posted no later than November 1.

In addition to those candidates nominated by the nominating committee, candidates may be nominated by petition. Twenty-five or more Active or Resident Members of USBF may nominate an Active or Resident Member for a Board position. To file a petition nominating a candidate, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the name of the candidate and the names and email addresses of the people making the nomination on or before November 22, 2020. If there are no petition candidates, the candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee will either be elected without the need for an election (if there are only three nominees), or will be the entire slate of nominees for the election.

See the election timeline below for when things happen. Download the Election Procedures and Board Member Expectiations for more complete information about the election

Any Active USBF member interested in being on the ballot who has not been nominated by the Nominating Committee should go to About USBF and read the final paragraph on the page (Election Information), which directs you to the relevant documents. 

ACTION Relation to BMD* Date Week Day
 Nominating Committee reports to
  Elections Committee		  31 Days before BMD  11/2/20  Monday
 Nominations Close  30 Days before BMD  11/3/20  Tuesday
 Last Day for Petition Candidates  20 days before BMD  11/13/20  Friday
 Eligible Voter List Posted on Web site**  15 days before BMD  11//18/20  Wednesday
 Last day to protest voter list**  7 days before BMD  11/26/20  Thursday
 Ballot Mailing Date (BMD)**    12/3/20  Thursday
 End of voting period**    12/12/20  Saturday
Announce Results    12/19/20  Saturday
 Last Day for protest of election

 10 days after results  announced

 * BMD = Ballot Mailing Date

** Necessary only if more candidates are nominated than there are positions open.

Details
  1. US Wins World Online University Team Championship
  2. USBF Board Appoints Ethics Investigation Committee
  3. Welcome Steve Garner, Newest USBF Board Member
  4. Nominating Committee Slate for Special Election

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