District 16 News & Coming Attractions
San Antonio Holiday Regional
December 17th - December 23rd, 2021
San Antonio, Texas
cordially Invites you to:
Our HOLIDAY Regional
For more information, please view our Flyer San Antonio Holiday Regional December 2021 Flyer
December 17th - December 23rd, 2021
North American Pairs (2012-04-29)
Club-level qualification begins in June and runs through August. There is no unit-level qualification required. The district-level qualifier will be held at the San Antonio sectional January 13-16, 2022. The nationals will be held at the NABC in Reno in March, 2022.
Larry Davis, NAP Coordinator
0-20 Masterpoint Game every Monday at 4pm
Come Play with Us!
Are you one of our new players in District 16? Welcome to the bridge family! To show our excitement about you joining us and your learning experience; we have created a game just for YOU!
District 16 is offering to all 0-20 masterpoint players a 12 board game on BBO for $3 every Monday at 4:00. You can ask a partner to play or sign in at the partnership desk and pick up a new partner.
Practice, practice, practice -- your experiences at the table can be your best teacher. A director and assistants will be on hand to offer guidance during the game.
For more information, check out our Frequently Asked Questions D16 0-20 Game Frequently Asked Questions or email Beginner20Bridge@gmail.com.
Games for Newer Players - Please Join us!
Find the game that’s right for you and join other players at your level! Our district offers games at Masterpoint (MP) levels for newer players:
New to duplicate bridge? Try the 0-20 MPs game.
OK, I think I’m getting it. Stretch up to the 0-50 MPs game.
You’ve got this with the 0-99 MPs.
CLICK HERE for game schedules. Contact information is also provided, if you have questions.
D16 Monthly Zoom Beginner and Intermediate Lecture Series
All Lecture Videos and Handouts can be obtained by clicking on the tab at the left, “Intermediate/Newcomer” and then clicking on the dropdown menu, “Selecting Lessons Lecture Series”.
Our next Zoom Beginner Lecture is scheduled for Saturday, May 1, at 12:30 p.m. CDT. Norman Beck, U176 (Dallas), will speak on "What Counts and What Doesn't--When to Learn a New Convention."
Our next Zoom Intermediate Lecture is scheduled for Saturday, May 8, at 12:30 p.m. CDT.
For those who did attend the event, we are very interested in receiving your feedback. We would like to make these workshops as valuable as we can for our intermediate players. Please send any information or suggestions that you have to the District 16 Lecture Series Coordinator: Thomas Rush.
Director's Corner
District 16 is offering a monthly Director Refresher Workshop. Next session will be on Monday May 10 at 5pm (CST). Plan to attend these on the second Monday of the month until face-to-face play returns. If you have a topic that you would like to see covered, email questions or topics to melody.euler@acbl.org.
The second session was on April 12 covering the New Alert Procedures by Kevin Perkins. Click Here for the April 12 recording. Thank you Melody Euler, Kevin Perkins and other ACBL directors, for donating your invaluable services to District 16!
D16 Grand National Teams Finals
Scott Nason, GNT Coordinator
The District held its first big online event since the start of the pandemic, conducting the District’s GNT Finals on BBO in April. There was a lot that went into staging this event, coordinating with multiple sites and vendors to get people registered, seated, and paid up. Kevin Perkins put in many hours to organize the games, including the use of Zoom rooms to monitor play in the Finals on the last day.
Flight C (open to non-Life-Masters with fewer than 500 masterpoints, as of August 1, 2019) had 13 teams, who played a Swiss qualifier on Saturday, April 10, cutting the field to four. On Sunday, the Justman and Sharma teams won their semi-final matches, both earning their qualifications for the Nationals, online in July. And in the Finals, Justman (Lilly Justman, Kalyan Venkat, Aaron Denton, and Peter Naimoli) defeated Sharma (Arvind and Linnie Sharma, Sharon Harbach, and Ross Ramsey) to win the District.
Flight B (open to players with fewer than 2500 masterpoints) was the largest flight, with 16 teams competing. It began Friday night (4/9/21) with the first of two Swiss-qualifying sessions and the field was cut to eight, after the second session on Saturday morning. A two-session bracketed Swiss concluded on Sunday morning, with four teams competing for the title and the right to compete in Nationals. On Sunday afternoon, the Chu Team (Jin Chu, Pingshan Wen, Stuart Nelan, and Robert Bender) won by a wide margin, with the Pushkarsky Team (Stan Pushkarsky, Anita Albert, Sharon Dameron, and Thomas Smith) narrowly capturing second place and the second qual for Nationals.
Flight A (open to players with fewer than 6000 points) had 11 teams. They also started with a two-session Swiss and cut the field to four teams for Sunday. In the Finals, the Yang Team (Hua Yang, Yan Song, Danny Feng, and Linhui Lin) emerged victorious over the Einberg Team (Howard Einberg, Bill St. Clair, Robert Sandfield, and John Erickson).
Finally, the Championship Flight competition was delayed, due to scheduling conflicts. It will be competed in May between the teams of Bramley (Bart Bramley, Phil Clayton, Ira Hessel, and Dan Morse) and Lall (Hemant Lall, Mike Passell, Bob Hamman, and Eddie Wold.)
New Daily 0-99ers Games with Pre & Post Lessons and Analysis
New! District 16 has joined Districts 7’s 0-99er program, the "99er Nite Club", offering our 99ers a game just for them! These games are offered 7 days a week at 6pm. If you are a 99er, ask your Club if they are participating. Your Club has to "opt in" for these games to participate. If your Club has any questions, ask them to contact Nancy Strohmer, nastrohmer@yahoo.com.
District 16 wants every 99er to have the opportunity to play as much as possible and have the best experiences. There are extras perks of this game--Lynn Berg provides mini-lessons @ 5:30pm, a wide variety of professionals (including Larry Cohen) conduct a postmortem at about 7:30pm and these are bigger games offering more masterpoints!
District 16 Now on FACEBOOK
Don’t miss out on the fun! Here’s how to join and post on the D16 Facebook page. . .
1. First, join Facebook: Go to facebook.com and click Create New Account. Enter your name, email or mobile phone number, password, date of birth and gender. Click Sign Up. To finish setting up your account, confirm your email or mobile phone number.
2. Then, join the D16 group: Go to the ACBL District 16 Facebook page: Either search on "ACBL District 16" (look for the magnifying glass),
or go to this URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/361538851957494
Click + Join Group. It’s just below the cover photo.
3. Tell the group what's on your mind: Type over the text, "What's on your mind, your name?” Or paste in that field. You can enter text, paste text, graphics, or video
District 16 Appointees to the 2021 National Charity Committee
Mary J McGinnis, Dallas, TX
Kathleen McDougall, Richmond, TX
Congratulations !!
District 16 Appointees to the 2021 ACBL Goodwill committee
Joseph Gill, Richardson, TX
Sue Gerard, MEXICO
Thomas Trudeau, San Antonio, TX
Congratulations !!
