North American Collegiate Bridge Championship

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North American Collegiate Bridge Championships are an intramural college competition run by the American Contract Bridge League. [1] The finals are held every summer in conjunction with the North American Bridge Championships. Any college in the United States, Canada, Mexico and/or Bermuda is eligible to participate in the event. Teams must consist of four to six players all from the same college.

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Competition

The first North American College Team Championship was held in 1987 at the Spring NABC in St. Louis and the winners (except Barry Goren, who was not eligible because of his age) represented ACBL in the first World Junior Championships in the Netherlands. Guy Doherty, Jon Heller and Asya Kamsky—joined by Bill Hsieh and Aaron Silverstein—finished third in the World Junior championships.

The championships were played at the Spring NABCs from 1988 to 1990. In 1990, after Harvard had won by what is still the largest margin in the history of the event, the competition was moved to ACBL headquarters in Memphis where it was co-sponsored by ACBL and the Association of College Unions-International. The competition moved back to the Spring NABC in 1991 but the following year, it returned to Memphis, where it became part of the annual Memphis in May activities.

The event was cancelled after the 1996 championships. Between 1997 and 2001, OKBridge and ACBL teamed up to sponsor the Internet College Team Championships. In 2000, the Collegiate Championships were reinstated and held at the Summer NABC in Toronto in 2001. It was cancelled in 2002 and reinstated in 2003.

The competition changed in 2006, with two parts of competition. Teams would play in a one-day online qualifier in January. The format was a bracketed round robin, with the top number of teams from each bracket, up to 8 total, qualifying to the finals. Players received lodging, airfare and spending money to attend. The finals were a two-day competition that took place at the summer North American Bridge Championship. The first day consisted of a complete round robin, with the top four teams qualifying to the second day. The second day was a semi-final and final bracketed knockout. The winning team received a $2,000 scholarship.

In 2014, the competition format changed. Rather than a one-day online qualifier in January, colleges were assigned two head-to-head online matches each month starting in October and concluding in March. Teams would accumulate victory points based on the results of each head-to-head match. The two teams with the highest victory points at the end of December earned the first two qualifying positions. The two teams with the highest victory points at the end of March earned the next two qualifying positions. Four teams total qualified for the two-day championship. Players received lodging, airfare and spending money to attend. The first day was a full-day semi-final round, with the second day being a full-day final round. The winning team received a $20,000 scholarship. [2]

In 2018, the championship was opened to all teams with no qualification required, with the online spring tournaments awarding only travel packages to the top finishers. In 2020, the championship was cancelled along with the Summer NABC due to COVID-19, though an unofficial online championship was held. In 2021, an official tournament was held on Bridge Base Online as part of the Summer NAOBC.

Championship winners

CityYearUniversityPlayersFinal Match ScoreRunner-upPlayers
St. Louis, MO1987New York UniversityGuy Doherty, Barry Goren, Jon Heller, Asya Kamsky
Buffalo, NY1988University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignBrian Blackmore, Dennis Carney, Justin Graver, Michael Steigmann
Reno, NV1989University of TennesseeJim Baker, Mike Cappelletti Jr., Michael White, David Williams
Fort Worth, TX1990Harvard UniversityBill Cole, Michael Mitzenmacher, Franco Basseggio, James Colen
Atlantic City, NJ1991University of VirginiaJohn Miller, John Prince, Hank Strauch, Scott Tumperi
Memphis, TN1992Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteScott Bieber, Brady Richter, Andrew Skolnick, Ron Sperber
Memphis, TN1993Yale UniversityMatt Hastings, Douglas Koltenuk, Malik Madon-Ismail, Tony Tang
Memphis, TN1994Harvard UniversityMark Paltrowitz, Barry Piafsky, Michael Steigmann, Tom Rozinski
Memphis, TN1995Stanford UniversitySteve Altus, Scott Benson, Bert Hackney, Joel Singer
Memphis, TN1996Texas A&MHank Eng, Eric Wolff, Patricia Lozano, Marc Whinery
OKbridge1997Harvard University (mixed)Barry Piafsky, Shawn Samuel, Jenni Hartsman, Joel Singer
OKbridge1998University of KentuckyDaniel Neill, Gilbert Busby, Ali Vaezy, Todd Anderson
OKbridge1999University of California, San DiegoEugene Hung, Jeremy Martin, Dan Harting, Michael Davis, Richard Wang
OKbridge2000University of Technology - Vienna, Austria
OKbridge2001mixedLi-Chung Chen (Harvard), Andrew Cotton (Harvard), Quixiang Sun (Stanford), Theodore Hwa (Stanford), Jason Woolever (MIT)
Toronto, ON2001University of California, San DiegoEugene Hung, Graham Hazel, Cameron Parker, Sriram Ramabhadran
Cancelled2002
Long Beach, CA2003Stanford UniversitySamuel Ieong, Ho-Lin Chen, Joon Pahk, Eric Mayefsky
New York City2004MITLjudmila Kamenova, Jason Chiu, John Hopkinson, Kevin Chu
Atlanta, GA2005Yale UniversityMarc Glickman, Christina Craige, Randall Rubinstein, Jonathan Bittner
Dallas, TX2006University of MichiganKevin Fay, Ilya Podolyako, Jeremy Vosko, Jonathan Zimbler
Nashville, TN2007University of California, Los AngelesJeffrey Schrader, Blake Haas, Jason Chu, Barry Ko
Las Vegas, NV2008California Institute of TechnologyRoger Lee, Chien-Yao Tseng, Hsi-Chun Liu, Cheng William Hong
Washington, D.C.2009Stanford UniversityEric Mayefsky, Zizhuo Wang, Elena Grewal, Alex Lovejoy
New Orleans, LA2010University of PennsylvaniaKendrick Chow, Zhuo Wang, Naijia Guo, Zhiyi Huang
Toronto, ON2011University of PennsylvaniaKendrick Chow, Zhuo Wang, Naijia Guo, Xi Chen
Philadelphia, PA2012University of North CarolinaPatrick Domico, Ovunc Yilmaz, Jinsheng Zhou, Xiyuan Ge
Atlanta, GA2013University of WashingtonBen Bomber, Greg Herman, Daniel Poore, Lee Holstein
Las Vegas, NV2014University of California, BerkeleyArmin Askari, Rebecca Wernis, Isha Thapa, Raymond von Mizener
Chicago, IL2015University of ChicagoOren Kriegel, Julian Manasse-Boetani, Kelly Mao, Ruth Ng, Alexander Okamoto
Washington, D.C.2016University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignPeter Yeh, Yewen Fan, Bradley Sevcik, Ziyang Liu
Toronto, ON2017Georgia Institute of TechnologyArjun Dhir, Santhosh Karnik, Charles Wang, Zhuangdi Xu80-37University of Chicago
Atlanta, GA2018University of California, BerkeleyChengwei Li, Kevin Rosenberg, Mingyang Zhou, Xinchen Zhu, Armin Askari78-37Georgia Institute of TechnologyCyrus Hettle, Richard Jeng, Santhosh Karnik, Arjun Dhir, Zhuangdi Xu
Las Vegas, NV2019University of California, BerkeleyStella Wan, Kevin Rosenberg, Jess Chao, Foster Tom, Armin Askari78-57University of ChicagoCynthia Huang, Ilan Wolff, Raphael Hallerman, Zihan Tan, Zhengyan Fang
Bridge Base Online (Unofficial)2020University of California, Santa BarbaraAndrew Rowberg, Philip Tian, Danning Lu, Nicholas Adamski, Ian Banta, Aaron Maharry, David McCarthy, Michael Zheng106-102The Claremont Colleges (mixed)Jake Williams (Harvey Mudd College), Emma Kolesnik (Scripps College), Elke Kiva (Scripps College), Nick Koskelo (Harvey Mudd College), Luke Williams (Pomona College)
Bridge Base Online2021Georgia Institute of TechnologyCyrus Hettle, Santhosh Karnik, Sean McNally, Shengding Sun, Zhuangdi Xu, Bo Han ZhuPrinceton UniversityNathan Finkle, Sam Berman, Aaron Balleisen, Yi Zhao, Sihui Dai
Providence, RI2022University of ChicagoCynthia Huang, Ilan Wolff, Zihan Tan, Raphael Hallerman54-24Washington University in St. LouisRohan Srivastava, Henry Shuster, Lucas Strammello, Jinhao Zhao

Participating colleges

CollegeYear(s) Won
Brandeis University
Brown University
California Institute of Technology 2008 [3]
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
College of William & Mary
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dalhousie University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Georgia Institute of Technology 2017, 2021
Hamilton College
Harvard University 1990, 1994, 1997
Harvey Mudd College
McGill University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004
Northwestern University
New York University 1987
Ohio State University
Princeton University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1992
Stanford University 1995, 2003, 2009 [4]
Swarthmore College
Texas A&M University 1996
University of California, Los Angeles 2007 [5]
University of California, Berkeley 2014, [6] 2018, 2019
University of California, San Diego 1999, 2001 [7]
University of Chicago 2015 [8]
University of Kentucky 1998
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1988, 2016 [9]
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan 2006 [10]
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2012 [11]
University of Oklahoma
University of Pennsylvania 2010, [12] 2011 [13]
University of Technology - Vienna, Austria 2000
University of Tennessee 1989
University of Texas at Austin
University of Toronto
University of Virginia 1991
University of Washington 2013 [14]
Washington University in St. Louis
Whitman College
Yale University 1993, 2005 (Overtime win)

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  2. ↑ "ACBL Collegiate Bridgebowl". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ (PDF) https://www.acbl.org/nabc/2008/02/bulletins/db2.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ (PDF) https://www.acbl.org/nabc/2009/02/bulletins/db4.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ (PDF) https://www.acbl.org/nabc/2007/02/bulletins/db4.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ (PDF) https://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db4.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ "Toronto Daily Bulletin - College team title goes to San Diego"
  8. ↑ (PDF) https://www.acbl.org/nabc/2015/02/bulletins/db4.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ "Daily Bulletin" (PDF). ACBL. July 25, 2016. p. 1. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Daily Bulletin" (PDF). web2.acbl.org. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
  11. ↑ (PDF) https://www.acbl.org/nabc/2012/02/bulletins/db4.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ (PDF) https://www.acbl.org/nabc/2010/02/bulletins/db4.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ↑ "American Contract Bridge League – ACBL | Your Best Partner in Bridge" (PDF).
  14. ↑ "American Contract Bridge League – ACBL | Your Best Partner in Bridge" (PDF).
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