Congratulations Stephani and Xiao Teams
The two USA2 teams for the 2020 WYBTC were decided at the 2019 Michael Seamon United States Bridge Championships today.
In the Under 26 Division, Stephani (Beauchet-Chang, Berk-Soukup) defeated Fan (Wei, Si-Xiong) by 68 IMPs in the USA2 final today. They will join Kaplan (USA1) in the Patiño Cup this summer.
Louis Amaury Beauchet, Hakan Berk, Isaac Stephani, David Soukup, Nolan Chang. Photo by Min Bai.
In the Under 21 Division, Xiao (B. Xiao-Jeng, Hu-Zhou, Duffie-Wan) defeated Vohra (Smith, Lui-Liu, R. Xiao-Yue) by 72 IMPs. They will join Kolesnik (USA1) this summer in the Damiani Cup.
Richard Jeng, Brent Xiao, Cornelius Duffie, Arthur Zhou, Michael Hu, Stella Wan. Photo by Min Bai.
The Stephani team will be required to add a player so that the teams going to Salsomaggiore have 6 players.
Congratulations Cedrone, Kolesnik, and Lin Teams
The remaining 3 USA1 teams for the 2020 WYBTC were decided at the 2019 Michael Seamon United States Bridge Championships today.
In the Under 16 Division, who will contest for the Koç University Cup this summer, Cedrone (Pasternak, Haas-Pahk, Gong-Xiao) defeated Ge (B, Ge-Schireson, K, Ge-Chen, Zhang-Xie) by 1.83 IMPs - the U16 teams carried over 51% of their SemiFinal score to the Final).
Marley Cedrone, Zacharia Pasternak, Sam Pahk, Michael Haas, Eric Xiao, Arthur Gong. Photo by Min Bai
In the Under 21 Division, playing for the Damiani Cup, Kolesnik (F. Kolesnik-Xu, Luba-Youngquist) defeated Xiao (B. Xiao-Jeng, Hu-Zhou, Duffie-Wan) by 15 IMPs (the teams were tied at the end of 3 quarters of play).
Harrison Luba, Michael Xu, Finn Kolesnik, Sarah Youngquist, photo by Min Bai
In the Women Under 26 Division, the Lin team (Lin-E. Kolesnik, Chang-Zhang) earned the right to compete for the Rona Cup by defeating Hsieh (Hsieh-Cai, Fashingbauer-Miller).
Amber Lin, Emma Kolesnik, Lucy Zhang, Sophia Chang. Photo by Min Bai
The Kolesnik & Lin teams will be required to add a pair so that the teams going to Salsomaggiore have 6 players.
CONGRATULATIONS Kaplan Team, USA1 for the 2020 Patiño Cup
The team captained by Adam Kaplan (Ben Kristensen, Kevin Rosenberg-Zach Grossack, Arjun Dhir-Yichen Yin) led from start to finish in the 2019 Michael Seamon Junior United States Bridge Championship Under 26 division, winning the Round Robin by almost a full match and defeating the Xu team in the SemiFinals and the Hallerman team in the Final by over 80 IMPs. They will be USA1 for the Under 26 division at the 2020 World Youth Bridge Team Championships, to be contested in Salsomaggiore, Italy in August.
Arjun Dhir, Zach Grossack, Yichen Yin, Adam Kaplan, Kevin Rosenberg, and Ben Kristensen, photo by Min Bai