First Day Results in the Open

The USA leads their Group A with a big score.

Canada in second place in Group A behind Denmark.

Norway leads Group B.

A close race in Group C,

Group A

Rank	Team	VP Total
1	Denmark	68
2	Canada	61
3	Italy	59
4	Estonia	58
5	South Africa	52
6	Brazil	51
7	Romania	50
8	Ireland	45
9/10	Japan	45
9/10	Trinidad and Tobago	45
11	Pakistan	44
12	China Macau	42
13	France	37
14	Kenya	36
15	Slovakia	34
16	Finland	30
17	Albania	6

Canada’s First 3 matches

Round1 vs Albania         25VP

Round 2 vs Italy            16VP

Round 3 vs Ireland        20 VP

The Canadian Open team had an awesome start winning all three of their matches and narrowly defeated the strong Italian team.  See my Blog on the second round match.

The division leader Denmark decisively won all of their matches defeating South Africa Trinidad and Tobago and their strongest opponent of the day South Africa.

The powerful Italian team is in third place after defeating Trinidad and Tobago decisively, blitzing Finland and narrowly losing to Canada.

Estonia is in fourth place after winning their matches against France and Slovakia and receiving 18 for their bye.

Group D

Rank	Team	VP Total
1	USA	71
2	Germany	63
3	Turkey	61
4-5	Belarus	57
4-5	England	57
6	Reunion	54
7	Indonesia	53
8	Serbia	51
9	Lebanon	50
10	Thailand	48
11	Switzerland	42
12	Greece	40
13	Jordan	35
14	Botswana	30
15	Philipines	29
16	Australia	28
17	Lithuania	15
18	Venezuela	9

Surprising to no one the powerful USA team rocked on Saturday winning their first 3 matches with 3 near blitzes against Jordan, Botswana and the Philipines.

Second place Germany had strong results against Switzerland, Greece and Venezuela.

Turkey in third place blitzed Lithuania, getting 20 VP from Lebanon but getting only a winning tie against Switzerland.

Tied with England for 4/5 Belarus had a losing tie against Switzerland, defeated Indonesia and blitzed Lithuania

England blitzed Australia had a good win against Lithuania but a narrow lost to Lebanon.

 

Group B and Group C

 

The top 5 in Group B after 3 matches are Hungary, Israel, Portugal, India/Netherlands (tied 4/5).  Group B is very tight right now.

The top 5 in Group C are Norway (well ahead), Bulgaria, Poland and Spain (tied 3.4) and New Zealand.