March 30, 2024

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Louisville Kentucky NABC

Two Australian teams travelled to Kentucky in the USA to compete in the 2024 Spring NABC and particularly the Vandebilt Knockout Teams. In a very unfortunate draw the two teams had to play each other in the first Round of 32.

The Hans team of Sartaj Hans, Andy Hung, Nabil Edgtton and Michael Whibley beat the Milne Teals of Liam Milne, James Coutts, Finn Kolesnik, Asaf Yekutieli, Kevin Rosenberg and Brian Platnik 118 to 94.

Hans vs Team Switzerland Rd of 16 Session 3 of 4

In the first two sessions the Team Switzerland sponsor played and despite being an excellent player the Hans team led 54 to 44. However, in the third set Brink and Drijver and Kalita and Klukowski turned the scores around to lead 94 to 71.

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Hans vs Team Switzerland
Round of 16
4 of 4 Sessions

Down by 23 at the start of the last 15 board set the Hans team threw Hail Marys that Tom Brady would have been proud of but unfortunately they were not caught and the Aussies flamed out to lose 146 to 78.

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In the earlier Platinum Pairs event Sartaj and Andy made the finals and came 14th and Ishmael Delmonte and Finn Kolesnik came 19th. A very good performance.

Have a look at the write ups of the GCC by Marc Smith in the the LATEST NEWS BELOW



Dear BridgeTV Supporters
I have spent the last two years broadcasting BridgeTV from all around Australia and internationally including the World Championships from Marrakech. It was an exhausting process with up to 10 hours a day commentating and sometimes for fourteen days in a row.
When I started BridgeTV one of my major objectives was to promote top Australian and International players amd create champions like in other sports. My greatest concern was whether we would attract enough kibitzers and my experience with dealing with bridge players was that most really just want to play and not to watch our great game.
We did win over a very small but highly loyal following and I am very grateful for your support. However, similar to the international experience, the number of supporters did not just justify the cost to myself and the extremely hard working team of brilliant volunteer commentators. To the group of leading Australian players who commentated I will always be grateful for their long hours and personal support.
I have decided to spend some time this year playing in major events here and hopefully internationally, perhaps in the USA.
I am not sure what direction to take BridgeTV in the future but may broadcast some of the major events particularly if Australians are going well.
Vugraph is now an outdated technology, expensive and very hard to find operators all around the world. We badly need to move to a tablet system with the players inputting bidding and card play with cameras on all players which is demonstrated by the use of RealBridge for online tournaments.
Perhaps, we may also develop the teaching side or provide online games on BridgeTV.
We welcome ideas and feedback from everyone in our bridge community so please send your suggestions, and even interesting bridge problems and articles to us by email at petercox@ozemail.com.au or ring me on 0413676326.

Executive Producer - Peter Cox

BRIDGETV COMMENTARIES

BridgeTV has now broadcast live commentaries involving Australian Bridge players from the World Team Championships in Italy, The ANOT in Adelaide, The Australian National Championships in South Australia, The NABCs from Providence and Phoenix in the USA, the World Series from Poland, the Spring Nationals from Sydney,and the Playoffs and the SFOB from Canberra. The BridgeTV coverage has been for 3-6 hours a day for up to 13 days in a row for World Championships and our expert commentators have made a wonderful contribution. The coverage has included exciting matches with Australian players doing well against world leading teams in some matches.

BridgeTV regular commentators include Ron Klinger, Sartaj Hans, Maurits Van Der Vlugt, David Beauchamp, Barbara Travis and Phil Markey.

Guest commentators and interviewees include:
Ishmael Del’Monte, Paul Marston, Matt Mullamphy, Ian Thomson, Elizabeth Havas, Nabil Edgtton, Sophie Ashton, Robert Krochmalik, Giselle Mundell, Terry Brown, Kim Frazer, Barry Jones (NZ), James Coutts, Tony Leibowitz, Nick Jacob, Mike Doecke, Fraser Rew, Ron Cooper, Richard Brightling, David Stern and David Thompson.

46th World Bridge Teams Championships 2023 - Marrakech, Morocco



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Day 8 Results - Final Qualifying Day

The Open Team in the Bermuda Bowl lost to India and beat Italy in the final match to finish in 16th place.

New Zealand had a bad day and lost its final two matches to Canada and the Netherlands. This was 11th place which was the best performance of a team from Australia or New Zealand.

In the Women’s event Australia just beat Morocco and had a good win over Argentina to finish in 18th place.

The Seniors lost to Canada and defeated Chinese Taipei to be in 13th place.

The Australian Mixed Team threw everything at the last day to beat Canada 54-26 but lost the final match against Poland 41-69 to finish in 12th place.

The Mixed were the best performing Australian team.


FINAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023 RESULTS









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ALL RESULTS , DRAWS, BULLETINS, SYSTEMS, NEWS, RUNNING SCORES


PETE HOLLANDS DAILY SUMMARY
Pete Hollands is providing a daily video update on the performances of the top of the fields, Australia and New Zealand results and some interesting hands. Here is Pete's video files for Days 12 & 13 & Final
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New videos of matches are being listed in LATEST NEWS down below


PETER COX -
Executive Producer - read more
I am in Marrakech (at no expense to the ABF) and will Host the broadcast at least for the first round each day (7.00pm AEST) on BridgeTV of the World Championships. It’s a very long trip of about 39hours with layovers in Jakarta and Istanbul for 7 hrs. However, QF41 was stuck on the ground in Sydney for 9 hrs with mechanical problems. The good news was I got transferred to Emirates (which was great and direct to Dubai and then Casablanca) but unfortunately Qantas did not transfer my luggage to Emirates and I am still hoping it will arrive in Marrakech days later!! My luggage has now arrived after 3 days and having to buy some clothes. The WBF President Jan Kamras lost his luggage only coming from Switzerland but he told me today that it had also finally arrived.

The idea is to fly the flag for BridgeTV, hopefully get some interviews, photos of Australian players and see what is involved with the tablets which have to be the future of bridge. As an IBPA (International Bridge Press Association) member the WBF have agreed to me having access to the press room. Might even get a game at the end in the Transnationals. One of my crazier ideas but any suggestions would be welcome.

COMMENTATORS
Champions, Ron Klinger and Sartaj Hans, will be leading the commentary team but it is a very long event and all commentators are welcome to contribute. If you want to get some mates and come on with me, particularly, if an Australian team is on in the second match of the day after 10pm.

COME ON THE AUSSIES

Flying the Flag - inspired by John McIlrath who provides the Australian flags, caps and Joey as Captain of the Australian Seniors team.


Lets hope an Australian team can do a Matildas.

The Opening Ceremony was on Saturday night and the events started on Sunday.

The Australian teams are:

Andrew Robson's Tips

ANDREW ROBSON - LEADING ENGLISH BRIDGE PROFESSIONAL, AUTHOR, TEACHER, BRIDGE CLUB OWNER - learn more

Hans versus Switzerland Thursday morning at the Kentucky NABC