Wednesday 30 April 2008

Bonn Nations Cup

There is more international action coming up in the form of the Bonn Nations Cup, which will take place on Wed 30 Apr & Thu 1 May.

The tournament will consist of 20 (national) teams. They will be drawn at the beginning into 2 groups of 10 each, such that 2 German teams will be drawn in each group. Within each group there will be a complete Round Robin, which means 9 matches of 10 boards each. After the conclusion of the Round Robin the leading team from each group will play a final of 3 segments of 8 boards.

England will be represented this time by the team that were runners-up in this year's Open Trials, David Gold, Tom Townsend, Gunner Hallberg and Andrew McIntosh.
Information about the event, including a list of all participants and the playing schedule, can be found here

Up to the minute scores from all matches can be viewed using Liveticker.

The event will be broadcast on Bridge Base Online. You can download Bridge Base Online from their website http://online.bridgebase.com/ or view it without downloading anything, from the BBOTV website http://www.bbotv.com/vugraph/

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