Mixed Pair Winners!

The winner of the Mixed Pairs was Donna Compton of the USA and Fulvio Fantoni of Italy. Second place went to Kismet Fung of Canada playing with Brian Glubok of Italy. The top 10 had an international flavor with 9 Americans, a Canadian, 5 Italians, 2 Latvians, 2 Russia and a Chinese.

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Congratulations to the winners. My special congratulations to Kismet who has represented Canada a number of times in Womens competitions. Well done.

For all the results.

Once again Bulletin is online the night before.  I think I better check to make sure that all the bulletins haven’t been written already.  The cover has a smiling Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni with their medals meeting with various officials.  Wow Donna’s smile says it all.

The Rosenblum and McConnell start tomorrow but it will be a while (round of 64) before we see any of it on BBO.  The Bulletin shows provisional groupings for the Rosenblum.  There are 16 groups of apparently 9 teams with presumably 4 teams qualifying from each group.  There are some intriguing team names.  The Italian stallions are all Americans and the Texan aces are a ll Indian except for one player and the playing captain.   It’s interesting to see so many multinational teams as I go through the list.  It is sure to be an amazing event.

The ladies event had only 37 teams entered on the website but maybe more have joined since.  It appears that they will play a round robin to go to 32.  It seems a bit unlikely.  The Seniors teams is even smaller with only 27 teams entered including Canada Master Point Press.  I think they have quite a good chance of winning a medal.  Go guys: Boris Baran, John Carruthers, John Gowdy, Eric Murray, Michael Shoenborn and Joey Silver.

When I checked the Verona event in 2006 the entry was about the same.  I wonder if the organizer expected a bigger tournament with the competition being held in the USA?