Keith Balcombe, Gordon Campbell, Nick and Judy Gartaganis

Click Here for 2001 CNTC Wrap-up and photos.

Bridge Week 2001was held in Montreal, Quebec.
Click here to visit the 2001 Bridge Week pages where
you'll find photos and winner listings of all the events.

• 2001 Bridge Week Daily Results
  
• Bridge Week Home Page
• CNTC-A Team Rosters HERE
• CNTC-B Team Rosters HERE
• CWTC Team Rosters HERE
• CBF Home Page

1. Judith Gartaganis, Gordon Campbell, Nicholas Gartaganis (Calgary, AB), Keith Balcombe (Oshawa, ON)

2. Paul Thurston (St. Catharines, ON), Rick Delogu (Waterloo, ON), Michael Roche (North York, ON), Gloria Silverman, Andy Altay (Toronto, ON), Ian McKinnon (Willowdale, ON)

3/4 Ronald Carrière, Greg Carroll, Dave Turner (Kirkland, QC), Zygmunt Marcinski (Westmount, QC)

3/4 Kamel Fergani, Jeff Blond (Montreal, QC), Jurek Czyzowicz (Aylrer, QC), Darren Wolpert (Toronto, ON), Douglas Fraser (Victoria, BC), Nicolas L'Ecuyer

2001 Flight A Canadian National Team Championship
by Judith and Nicholas Gartaganis

Every year the Canadian Bridge Federation hosts a bridge week for its members to determine Canada’s national champions. The competition includes Open Pairs, Women’s Teams, Open Teams (Flight A Canadian National Team Championship [CNTC]) and for the first time, a Flight B CNTC event.

Flight A CNTC Round Robin - Seventeen teams qualified to play in the Flight A CNTC. A complete round robin of thirteen-board matches was played over 3 1/2 days to determine four semifinalists. The World Bridge Federation 30 Victory Point (VP) scale was used with 25 VPs being the maximum a team could win and zero VPs, the minimum. Teams that tied each earned 15 VPs. The leaderboard was a bit deceptive, particularly in the latter stages of the competition, because teams were awarded zero VPs for their bye. Click here for story ...