Region 3 Director Report – August 2026

I attended the ACBL Board Summer Meetings which were held prior to the NABC in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Minneapolis was a great location for the NABC.  The playing area was a convention center with several adjoining hotels.    Next month I will provide a complete summary of all the board actions that occurred during the meetings.  

Below is a list of all the Region 3 players who did well at the Minneapolis NABC.

Region 3 (District 3 and District 4) players who finished in the overalls in National events at the Minneapolis NABC:

Congratulations to Giannis Oikonomopoulos and Ron Gerard who were members of the winning team in the Roth Open Swiss Teams!!

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Special Congratulations to Lisa Mita and Bharat Rao who won the Bruce LM-6,000 Pairs!!

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Congratulations to Sarik Goyal who won the NABC Robot Individual!!

Grand National Teams – Flight C: 3/4 - Seulky McInneshin, Devika Chakraborty, Yaacov Garini, Lou Primavera

NABC Robot Individual:  1 – Sarik Goyal; 2 – Phillip Martin; 25 – Arthur Korth; 29 – Don Chillrud; 33 – Jacob Freeman; 38 – Gregory Rosoff; 50 - Jin-Ming Liao

Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs: 18 - Ioannis Oikonomopoulos, Will Ehlers; 31 - Tianyang Chen; 68 - David Soukup; 73 – Ron Gerard; 76 – Richard Zucker: 78 – John Hogan, Jr.

Bruce LM-6,000 Pairs: 1 – Lisa Mita, Bharat Rao; 13 - Barry Dehlin, Matt Sherman

Young 0-3000 Pairs: 4 - Pradip Gandhi, Sandy Johnson; 5 - Joel Steinberg, Robert Goldbloom; 10 - Qing Xia, Xuhua Lin; 14 - Nancy Marshall

NABC+ Open Pairs: 4 – Laura Brill; 6 – Jiang Gu; 23 – Daniel Boye; 30 - Melissa Baker, H. Jay Sloofman; 32 - Jennifer Richter, Brady Richter; 36 – Nancy Molesworth; 38 - Frank Feng, Jason Ji; 40 – Alexander Allen, Abe Pineles; 52 – Jacob Freeman

Wagar Women’s Pairs: 12 – Nancy Molesworth; 18 - Xiaowen Li

Truscott Senior Swiss Teams: 4 - Ralph Buchalter; 8 – Daniel Boye; 10 – Richard Zucker

Spingold: 17/32 – Connie Goldberg

Freeman Mixed BAM:  3 – Daniel Boye

Wernher Open Pairs: 7 - Richard Zucker, Richard Oshlag; 12 - Ioannis Oikonomopoulos, Will Ehlers; 30 – Richard Popper; 45 - Roberto Verthelyi; 59 – Abe Pineles, Alexander Allen

Oshlag Fast Pairs: 22 – Jiang Gu; 28 - David Soukup; 35 - H. Jay Sloofman; 36 - Don Chillrud

Roth Open Swiss Teams: 1 – Ron Gerard, Giannis Oikonomopoulos; 8 - Neil Chambers

Region 3 (District 3 and District 4) players who finished in the top ten in Regional events at the Minneapolis NABC:

Thursday Morning Side Pairs:   1 – Ellen Luchette

International/Educational Fund Pairs: 4 – Laura Brill

Educational Side Pairs: 1 – Joel Steinberg, Robert Goldbloom

International/Educational Bracketed Teams – Bkt 2: 1 - Frederick Linnemeyer, Patricia Linnemeyer, Joseph Pospis, Lynn Mackall; 2/3 - Jack Hund, Russell Poppleton, Andie Hawn, Benjamin Hawn

International/Educational Bracketed Teams – Bkt 3: 1 - Matt Sherman, Barry Dehlin, Jerry Jia, Todd Thorsen

International/Educational Bracketed Teams – Bkt 4: 1 -Sandy Johnson, Pradip Gandhi, Xuhua Lin, Qing Xia

International/Educational Bracketed Teams – Bkt 5: 2 - Brendan O’Malley, Linda O’Malley, Jeffrey Rohrbeck, Deborah Crisfield

International/Educational Bracketed Teams – Bkt 8: 2 - Andrew Chou

Friday Open Pairs: 1 – Jiang Gu; 7 – Laura Brill

Friday Morning 299er Pairs: 6/7 - Albert Ho, Andrew Chou

Friday Afternoon 299er Pairs: 3 - Chris Rasmussen

Friday Bracketed Round Robin Teams – Bkt 4: 4/5 - Deborah Crisfield, Brendan O’Malley, Linda O’Malley, Jeffrey Rohrbeck

Friday Evening Side Game: 2 – Barry Plotkin

Saturday Morning Side Game: 1 - Deborah Crisfield, Jeffrey Rohrbeck; 5 - Valerie Kazhdan

Saturday Top Flight Swiss Teams: 4 - Joseph Pospis, Lynn Mackal; 5 - Satya Rami

Saturday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams – Bkt 1:  2/3 - Dorel Livescu, Julie Anderson

Saturday Evening Side Game: 4 - Lynn Chapin

Sunday Afternoon Side Game: 3 - Gonzalo Guridi, Francisca Nacrur; 5 - Lou Primavera, Jeffrey Rohrbeck; 10 - Seulky McInneshin, Devika Chakraborty

Sunday Top-Flight Swiss Teams: 1 - Parag Saxena

Sunday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams – Bkt 2: 1 - Todd Thorsen; 2 - Jared Egerer, Tiger Lili Williams

Sunday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams – Bkt 3: 4 - Deborah Crisfield, Karen Haines,  Brendan O’Malley, Linda O’Malley

Monday Top-Flight Pairs: 1 – Neal Satten; 6 – Laura Brill; 7 – Ron Gerard; 8 – Michael Haas

Monday Mid-Flight Pairs: 1 - Robert Goldbloom, Joel Steinberg

Monday Afternoon Side Pairs: 8 - Marguerite Swope, James Bloom

Monday Mid-Flight Swiss Teams: 2 - Andrew Barlow, Leigh Walker, Brian Dicker, Simon Thomson

Monday/Tuesday Bracketed KO Bkt. 2: Jared Egerer, Tiger Lili Williams, Larry Gordon, Becky Levinson; 4 - Deborah Crisfield, Karen Haines. Jane Grewcock

Tuesday Top-Flight Pairs: 4 – Laura Brill

Tuesday Mid-Flight Pairs: 4 – Joel Steinberg, Robert Goldbloom; 5 - Dennis Glazer, Gail Cannold

Tuesday Morning Side Pairs: 1 – Joann Glasson, Bob Glasson

Tuesday Open Swiss Teams: 3 - Clifford Nebel

Tuesday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams Bkt 1: 4 - Robert Gray

Tuesday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams Bkt 2: 1 - Todd Thorsen, Bobette Thorsen

Tuesday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams Bkt 5:1 - Carol Pastushok

Tuesday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams Bkt 6: 4 - Linda O’Malley, Brendan O’Malley, Ellen Luchette, Marc Topaz

Wednesday Top-Flight Swiss Teams: 2 - Tianyang Chen

Thursday Morning Youth Pairs: 2 - James Fu, Sean Song; 7 - Steven Xing, Michael Yang

Thursday Afternoon Youth Swiss Teams: 7 - Nadaniel Cort; 8 - Sean Song, Michael Yang, Steven Xing, James Fu

Thursday Top-Flight Pairs: 3 - Barry Plotkin; 6 – Ron Gerard

Thursday Fast Pairs: 1 - Robert Rebelein, Jill Marshall; 4 - Jim McKeown, Ala Hamilton-Day

Thursday Morning Side Pairs: 7 - Karen Haines, Deborah Crisfield

Thursday Top-Flight Swiss Teams: 2 – Connie Goldberg; 9/11 - Ralph Buchalter

Thursday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams – Bkt 1: 1 - Todd Thorsen, Bobette Thorsen

Thursday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams – Bkt 2: 3 - Dennis Keefer, Janice Keefer, Andrew Barlow, Leigh Walker

Thursday Evening Collegiate Individual: 2 - Maxwell Gong

Friday Afternoon Cardrook Pairs: 1 - Sakina Konate, Bealiah Dolcine

Friday Collegiate Pairs: 1 - Michael Haas; 8 - Zhouzhou Gu, Tianyang Chen;
10 - Derrick Zhao

Friday Top-Flight Pairs: 7 - Ellen Luchette; 10 – Bharat Rao

Friday Bracketed Round Robin Teams – Bkt. 3: 1 - Paul Irvine – Margaret Irvine; 3 - Dennis Keefer, Janice Keefer, Andrew Barlow, Leigh Walker

Friday Bracketed Round Robin Teams – Bkt. 6: 1 -Debbie Russell

ACBL Educational Foundation Youth Swiss Teams: 4 - Steven Xing, Sean Song, Michael Yang, James Fu

Saturday Morning Cardrook Pairs: 1 - Sakina Konate – Bealiah Dolcine;
3 - Anna Xie

Saturday Afternoon Cardrook Pairs: 1 - Sakina Konate – Bealiah Dolcine

Collegiate Pairs Championship: 5 - Michael Haas

Saturday Open Pairs: 2 - Andrew Barlow, Leigh Walker

Saturday Top-Flight Swiss Teams: 4 - Parag Saxena

Saturday 0-4000 Bracketed Teams – Bkt 1: 2 - Todd Thorsen, Bobette Thorsen

Sunday Fast Pairs: 7 - Jason Ji

Sunday Morning 499er Pairs: 3 - Austin Sundstrom

Sunday Afternoon Side Game: 1 - Bob Cole, Betsy Cutler; 2 - Dennis Keefer, Janice Keefer

Friday/Sunday Side Series: 3 – Bob Cole, Betsy Cutler

Sunday Top-Flight Swiss Teams: 4/5 – Connie Goldberg; 8 - Parag Saxena 

Joann