The Second Day of the Round Robins
At the 2/3 mark in the Round Robin with half the field to qualify almost no team is out of contention. So tomorrow should be very exciting. Still it is interesting to see who is doing well and not so well. You can see all the results in a couple of places.
The Swan Bridge site has many interesting things. The Butlers, every match, every board and all the results, even the lineups for each match. It also has running scores you can check all through the playing game. As a result at times it is so busy the server is overloaded. we have put a big button on the front page to make it easy for everyone to get to the site. Sadly the WBF seems to have abandoned the attempt to keep their website up to date with results. The other choice is the Bulletin, Thursday’s Bulletin.
In the McConnell there are two divisions with 8 qualifiers each. They are playing a round Robin with 15 10 board matches. In Group R there is one bye since they have only 15 teams.
GROUP R
| Rank | VP | Team |
| 1 | 186 |  Netherlands |
| 2 | 184 |  Fireman |
| 3 | 178 |  Westheimer |
| 4 | 161 | Joel |
| 5 | 159 |  Indonesia Djarum |
| 6 | 155 |  Fairy Tale |
| 7 | 154 | McGarry |
| 8 | 151 |  Venezuela |
| 9 | 149 | Woolsey |
| 10 | 148 |  Sombra e agua fresca |
| 11 | 147 |  CanUSA |
| 12 | 139 | Stewart |
| 13 | 131 |  Goodman |
| 14 | 122 | Reunion Island |
| 15 | 117 |  Tunisia |
| 16 | 102 |  Balkin |
The top 3 teams have pulled away from the field a bit. Here are the rosters for the those teams (Lots of red white and blue but not all of it American).
| Netherlands |
| REENEN Alex van (NPC) |
| KELDER Hans (Coach) |
| PASMAN Jet |
| SIMONS Anneke |
| ZWOL Wietske van |
| VERBEEK Martine |
| VRIEND Bep |
| ARNOLDS Carla |
| Fireman |
| FIREMAN Paul (Coach) |
| FIREMAN Phyllis |
| D’OVIDIO Catherine |
| GROMOVA Victoria |
| PONOMAREVA Tatiana |
| CAPPELLETTI Shannon |
| GAVIARD Daniele |
| Westheimer |
| ANDERSSON Pia |
| BREED Mildred |
| WESTHEIMER Valerie |
| RIMSTEDT Cecilia |
| EYTHORSDOTTIR Hjordis |
| LETIZIA Marinesa |
There are eight teams tightly bunched fighting for the remaining five positions although some teams further down have chances. The Fairy Tale team name caught my eye. They are four ladies playing under a Japanese flag.
| Fairy Tale |
| LIN Phoebe |
| TAN Gemma |
| SHIMAMURA Kyoko |
| SATO Makik |
In the S Division the Hampton team has a good lead on the rest and teams 2-7 are completely bunched up. Some good teams are near the bottom and perhaps they will be able to make up the needed ground in the final one third of the matches.
| Rank | VP | Team |
| 1 | 100 | Hampton |
| 2 | 86 | Eisenberg |
| 86 | Glasson |
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| 4 | 84 | Full Spectrum Auctions |
| 84 |  Mercosul |
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| 84 | Moss |
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| 7 | 83 |  Egypt |
| 8 | 77 | Italia |
| 77 |  Singapore |
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| 10 | 73 | Angus |
| 11 | 68 |  China Ladies Team |
| 12 | 66 |  Sweden |
| 13 | 63 | Canada |
| 14 | 62 | Bloom |
| 15 | 39 | Veladies |
| Hampton |
| MICHIELSEN Marion |
| WOLPERT Jenny |
| CRONIER Benedicte |
| WILLARD Sylvie |
| DEKKERS Laura |
| HAMPTON Joyce |
I was a bit curious about the name Full Spectrum Auctions so I did a bit of goggling and found that somebody called Sam Dinkin was:
Thus it was no surprise when he turned out to be the NPC.
| Full Spectrum Auctions |
| DINKIN Sam (NPC) |
| LEVITINA Irina |
| SANBORN Kerri |
| DEAS Lynn |
| PALMER Beth |
| BAKER Lynn |
| MCCALLUM Karen |
There are too many open divisions to list but let me highlight a few. Division C includes
| Rank | VP | Team |
| 1 | 118 |  Auken |
| 2 | 113 | Cayne |
| 3 | 99 | San3PDX1 |
| 4 | 98 |  Belgium Cooreman |
| 5 | 92 | Guangdong |
| 6 | 87 | Rumelhart |
| 7 | 86 |  Siwik BT |
| 8 | 80 | Bennett |
| 9 | 47 |  Colombia Bogotà |
Some of the BBO kibiitzers are keen to watch Cayne who plays many team games on BBO with many kibbitzers.
| Cayne |
| WEED Charlie (NPC) |
| SEAMON Michael |
| CAYNE Jimmy |
| LAURIA Lorenzo |
| BALICKI Cezary |
| ZMUDZINSKI Adam |
| VERSACE Alfredo |
Auken is leading the group and includes an MPP author Barnet Shenkin along with a friend Jan van Cleeff.
| Auken |
| TISLEVOLL Geir-Olav |
| AUKEN Jens |
| SVEINDAL Jon |
| SHENKIN Barnet J |
| CLEEFF Jan van |
| BERSET Ole |
The four man San3PDx1 squad has played very well whenever I have watched them.
At the end of play today Rayner was still leading Divison D and I couldn’t be happier.
| Rank | VP | Team |
| 1 | 114 | Rayner |
| 2 | 109 |  Alizee |
| 3 | 108 | China Open |
| 4 | 103 | D’Orsi |
| 5 | 102 | Lavazza |
| 6 | 96 | Kahn |
| 7 | 84 | Cortex |
| 8 | 64 |  St Clair |
| 9 | 62 |  Himani |
| 10 | 47 | Itaven |
Rayner consists of some fine and experienced players (and friends)
| Rayner |
| HARGREAVES Mike |
| ROCHE Michael |
| BAXTER Doug |
| MCAVOY James |
| RAYNER John |
| LINDOP David |
And of course Division E with a tight group bunched at the top
| Rank | VP | Team |
| 1 | 105 | Begijnt JE |
| 105 |  Bernardes |
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| 3 | 103 |  British Lions |
| 4 | 96 | Mahaffey |
| 5 | 91 | Koneru |
| 6 | 88 | Villa Fabbriche |
| 7 | 83 | Brazil34 |
| 8 | 78 | China Nangang Power |
| 78 | Priebe |
The British Lions include fellow blogger Paul Gipson. Glad to see you are doing so well Paul
| British Lions |
| PUNCH Sam |
| GIPSON Paul |
| GOODMAN Alan |
| GIPSON Alex |
| ASH Mike |
| REES Tim |
I am doing a charity walk tomorrow but I hope I will be able to watch all of the action first.
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Thanks Linda.
British Lions is just a group of friends too, a couple of whom have extensive international experience, to be fair mainly of losing in relatively weak national teams.
But we are having a good time which is most important!