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You can find the complete results of all events on the www.abf.com.au website. The 2010 Gold Coast Congress was a great success. Kudos to Therese Tully, the Convenor, and the huge group of helpers, Laurire Kelso and all the Directors, Matthew McManus and all the scoring staff, plus David Stern and Barry Rigal for the Daily Bulletins.

Our run in the Open Teams ended today when we lost in the Round of 4 to the Polish Team, CONSUS OIL, by 48-78. In the other match, GOREN defeated the other Polish Team, CONSUS RED, 48-38. In the semi-finals  HANS defeated GOREN and CONSENSUS OIL defeated BELOGONOV.

After the great day yesterday, I figured we needed a bit above average today to make the final six. Our first round was great 25-5, but then we had a 7-23 loss to Hans-Nunn-Ware, Hanlon-McGann. A 17-13 win in Round 11 left us on track as long as we had a decent win in the last round. It was 20-10, enough to put us =3rd.

After the eight rounds of the teams the leader is HANS on 167, with GOREN second on 156 and CORNELL on 155

After the first four rounds of the teams the twelve leading teams had score over 80 Victory Points out of 100. The leaders were on 88.

In the 2010 Gold Coast Pairs Final, the winners were. Krzysztof Martens – Dominik Filipowicz of Poland, with Jeanette Reitzer – Kieran Dyke second and Bob Scott – John Wignall, New Zealand, third. Winner’s average percentage: 57%

After two sessions of the 2010 Gold Coast Pairs Final, there were two overseas pairs in the lead: Krzysztof Martens – Dominik Filipowicz of Poland and Bob Scott – John Wignall, New Zealand. Jeanette Reitzer – Kieran Dyke are running third.

There were huge fields in the 2010 Gold Coast Pairs: 316 in the Open, 130 Restricted, 74 Novice and 102 in the Seniors, over 300 tables in total. The qualifying rounds of the Gold Coast Pairs were held yesterday.

The 2010 NEC Bridge Festival finished yesterday with the Asuka Cup, a match-pointed pairs with 84 Tables. The winners were Allon Apteker-Craig Gower of South Africa. Matt Mullamphy and I had an ordinary 52.7% first session, but 65.2% in the second set gave us an average of 59% to finish ninth.

The 64-board final of the NEC Cup yesterday was an exciting affair between LAVAZZA (Maria Teresa Lavazza, Norberto Bochi, Agustin Madala, Giorgio Duboin, Antonio Sementa, Guido Ferraro) and Zimmerman (Pierre Zimmerman, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes, Cezary Balicki, Adam Zmudzinski, Franck Multon).