July 2018 - 18

A Bigger Bridge Bowl
More teams compete for more money in collegiate event
The 2018 Collegiate Bridge Bowl promises to be bigger
and offer better prizes than in the past. In yet another new
format for the event, at least 12 teams will compete for
$36,000 in scholarships in Atlanta. The event takes place
during the second weekend of the Summer NABC, Aug. 2-4.
It is an open event for teams of eligible players attending the
same college, so no pre-qualification is necessary.
There were, however, two qualifying online tournaments
to determine eight of the 10 travel package winners. Teams
from Georgia Tech, Berkeley, Princeton and Columbia won
travel subsidies in the first tournament. Carleton, Harvey
Mudd, Minnesota and Northwestern did in the second.
The ACBL Educational Foundation increased funding
to offer two more teams travel subsidies, and these were
based on participation in College Bridge Online games, with
12 points awarded for friendly team matches and 1 point
awarded for individual robot games. UC Santa Barbara and
Maryland won these activity awards.
Because the event is being held in Atlanta - local for
Georgia Tech, which has a large bridge club - Georgia Tech
plans to send three teams to the Bridge Bowl.
The three-day, six-session event begins with a three-session Swiss qualifying event, from which the top eight teams
will advance. There will be one-session knockout rounds for
the quarterfinals, semifinals and final.
Another new feature is a three-session individual event
following the Swiss. Members of teams that don't advance
from the Swiss can enter this, and those who are knocked
out in the quarterfinal round can also drop into it in the
second session.

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Scholarships will be awarded to all players on the top four
teams and to the top three players in the individual event.
The scholarship pool has increased by 80 percent. Team
awards are $15,000, $10,000, $5000 and $2500; individual
awards are $2000, $1000 and $500.
Travel awards are $1000 per person for up to six people
per team. Teams are allowed to replace members and give
the travel subsidies to players other than those who played
in the tournaments.
Teams entering include:
California-Berkeley - Armin Askari, Kevin Rosenberg,
Chengwei Li, Mingyang Zhou, Xinchen Zhu
California-Santa Barbara - Andrew Rowberg, Jon Martin,
Michael Swift, Nicholas Adamski, Danning Lu, Carol Tsai
Carleton College - Alexander Frieden, Thomas Scruggs,
Sophia Maymudes, Jeffrey Boitnott, Jackson Wahl
Columbia - Yang Zu, Jianheng Hu, Max Krawczyk, Jing
Zhang
Georgia Tech - Arjun Dhir, Richard Jeng, Michael
Moschella, Vijay Nambi, Justin Shiao, Kendrick Wong
Harvey Mudd College - Emma Kolesnik, Jake Williams,
Daniel Sonner, Nicholas Koskelo
Maryland - Hakan Berk, Teddy Corrales, Brian Scheff,
Alexandra Servey, Zachary Star, Kevin DiCola
Minnesota - Sean McNally, Matt Hoffman, Zeren Shui,
Ben Popken, Sarah Eyer and Augustine Redington
Northwestern - Kyle Rockoff, Luke Robinson, Joey
Lieberman, David Cheng, Sarik Goyal
Princeton - Nathan Finkle, Sam Berman, Amber Lin,
Aaron Balleisen.

http://www.acbl.org/bridgebowl

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