2023 USBCs Scheduled

The face to face stages of the 2023 Open, Mixed, Senior and Women's USBCs will be held from May 1 to May 25, 2023.

Here's the calendar for face to face play:


Face to Face Calendar 2023
If more than 16 teams enter the Open USBC, there will be an online Round Robin to reduce the field to 16 for face to face play, which will probably start on March 31st. If more than 8 teams enter the Mixed USBC, there will be an online Round Robin to reduce the field to 8 for face to face play, which will probably start on April 13th. If more than 8 teams enter the Senior USBC, there will be an online Round Robin to reduce the field to 8 for face to face play, which will probably start on April 25th. If more than 4 teams enter the Women's USBC, there will be an online Round Robin to reduce the field to 4 for face to face play, which will probably start on April 25th.


Players may enter any event for which they are eligible and may compete in more than one Round Robin. A player who qualifies for the World Championship in face to face play may not play in any subsequent USBC. For example, a player may enter both the Mixed and Senior USBCs and compete in both Round Robins. But if that player's Mixed team qualifies for the World Championship, the player must withdraw from their Senior team. Teams can replace players who have to withdraw for this reason or because they have died with any other eligible player, including one who played in the Round Robin for the same event but did not qualify for face to face play. Teams that wish to replace players who played in the Round Robin and have withdrawn for any other reason may do so only with permission of the USBF Board. No players may be added to teams between the Round Robin and face to face play.


Entries for all of the 2023 USBCs will open in July, and will close as follows:
Open - March 14;
Mixed - March 21;
Seniors & Women's - March 28;

In all cases, additional teams will be accepted for about a week after the close of entries if they would improve the format of the event.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO USBF 2021 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS

Congratulations to our Medalists in the 2021 World Championships, played in 2022:

Mixed Teams - Silver

USA1 earned the SILVER medal in the Mixed, despite having to play with a reduced roster, including one permanent substitute and 2 temporary substitutes, because players on the team tested positive for Covid-19. An amazing performance by Andrew Rosenthal, Eldad Ginossar, and Migry zur Campanile, all of whom played throughout the event, and Debbie Rosenberg, who played in the Round Robin, Dana Berkowitz and Chris Willenken, who played all of the Round Robin and part of the KO, Amber Lin who played most of the KO, and Cheri Bjerkan and Kevin Rosenberg, who substituted for part of the KO, as well as NPC Jeff Aker. We can all be proud of all of them!

Chris Willenken, Dana Berkowitz, Eldad Ginossar, Jeff Aker, Andrew Rosenthal, Kevin Rosenberg, Migry zur Campanile, Amber Lin. Photo by Claudio Fossati

 Debbie Rosenberg

Debbie Rosenberg

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Cheri Bjerkan
Bermuda Bowl - Bronze

USA1 (Nick Nickell-Ralph Katz, Bobby Levin-Steve Weinstein, Eric Greco-Geoff Hampson, NPC Jill Levin) lost a close Semifinal match to Switzerland, the winners of the Bermuda Bowl.

 Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Bobby Levin, Jill Levin, Steve Weinstein, Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson, Photo by Claudio Fossati

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Player Eligibility Rules for 2023 USBCs

At its meeting in Reno, the USBF Board considered the issues of players entered in multiple USBCs. Their decisions, for 2023, are:

  • There will be online qualifying stages for face-to-face Knockouts in all of the USBCs, with 16 teams qualifying for face-to face KO play in the Open, and 8 teams qualifying for face-to face KO play in the Mixed, Seniors, and Women’s, unless fewer than 8 teams enter an event, in which case 4 teams will qualify for the face-to-face KO stages.
  • Players may enter any USBC for which they are eligible.
  • A team that has qualified for the KO stage of an event is eligible to compete face-to-face so long as it meets these requirements:
       a. If it played 4-handed in the qualifying stage, at least 3 of the players who played in the qualifying stage play in the KO; if it played 5 or 6 handed in the qualifying stage, at least 4 of the players who met the play requirement in the qualifying stage play in the KO; AND
       b. For the Mixed USBC, at least 2 men and 2 women who met the play requirement in the qualifying stage play in the KO stage
  • A player on a team that qualifies for the World Championship in any event may not play in a subsequent USBC for a conflicting World Championship event.
  • If a team loses one or two players because the player(s) qualified for the World Championship in an earlier USBC or because the player(s) have died, and the team is eligible for face-to-face KO play, it may replace the lost player(s) with any player(s) it chooses, including player(s) who played in the qualifying stage on a team or teams that did not qualify.
  • If a team loses one or two player(s) for any other reason, it may replace the player(s) only with USBF Board approval.
  • Except for replacements as above, all players in the KO stage must have met the play requirements in the qualifying stage. No additional players may be added to a qualified team for the KO stages.
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Congratulations to Lusky Team on TSC Silver medal

After the second TransAtlantic Senior Cup Round Robin, the top 7 teams chose their opponents from the bottom 9 teams.

Team Argentina, which had won the Round Robin, chose the USA Reynolds team. Reynolds defeated Argentina in the Round of 16, but lost to Lithuania in the Quarterfinal.

Round Robin second place team Poland Amber Baltic chose the USA Lusky team (Lusky-Falk, Aker-Simson, Casen-Krekorian, Doub-Merblum, Milgrim-Rigal). Lusky not only defeated Poland Amber Baltic, but also defeated Austria in the Quarterfinal and Turkey in the Semifinal, before losing to Lithuania in the Final. Well done by both these USA teams, losing only to the eventual winners of the event!

It just goes to show you shouldn't underestimate USA teams!

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  1. CONGRATULATIONS TO JLALL5 WINNERS - DONNER
  2. UPDATE - 2021 Nominating Committee Slate Elected
  3. CONGRATULATIONS TO USBF 2021 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS
  4. CONGRATULATIONS TO SENIOR QUARTERFINALISTS