http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Bowl

Personally I find this too cool to contain to just the bridge thread. The Bermuda Bowl is the main world championship in bridge, and is a feat just to make is there. As I posted in the pub a while back Justin qualified for the Bermuda Bowl by beating both the past Bermuda Bowl champs, and the Rosenblum Cup champions (the other main world championship in bridge). His team is the youngest USA team to ever qualify for the event, and winning this is the highest award in bridge.

If you want to spectate the event, they will cover the matches on www.bridgebase.com at 4:30 7:45 and 10:45 AM EST from Oct 16-29.

Justin's Team: http://www.bridgewinners.com/index.php/usa2

To give a brief rundown on how competitive bridge works, there will be a team of 4 playing against another team of 4. Justin's team is actually 6 people, so not all the team plays at once. Two people play against another pair, and the other members of your team play the other pair, except that you switch who gets what cards. So if Justin and Joe play two Italians, the Italians at the other table are given the same cards Justin and Joe get, and Justin's teammates get the Italians cards. Then you score based on well you did compared to your opponents at the other table. Scores on any hand range from -24 to +24. 5 is considered a decent score, 10 is a big score, 15 is a gigantic score, 24 is a once in a lifetime hand.

If you don't care to learn, I'll at least try to update this thread with his results each day. Also here is FMK's thoughts about playing in the Bermuda Bowl...

http://justinlall.com/2011/09/24/hop...ms-friendship/

If you want to learn bridge, I recommend this link http://www.acbl.org/learn/ltpb.html

GL Justin!

awesome

glgl

was just re-reading his thread in OOT now

you know that's a different kind of bridge right?

That's how I originally read that. Would make it a lot more intersting.

Good luck!

loled.

We play 3 matches today, the other USA team, netherlands, and japan (in that order). The other USA team is probably considered the 2nd best team, and the netherlands probably 3rd or 4th, so we can't be asleep to start the event

There is carryover from this match to the knockout phase if you play a team later, so that adds to the importance of the matches vs the favorites.

One time?

We would crush contact bridge since we're younger imo!

Go get'em Justin.

This is bigger than the WSOP.

In

gonna be epic

also **** you veldhoven. my sleep schedule is going to be ****ed.

Gl fmk!!

This is an awesome achievement

glglgl

Pretty lol first match, but we got 20 vs USA 1 (max 25), ship!

fmk is master of all bridges. He once jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge as a publicity stunt to try and attract sponsors for a reality show he's trying to produce - "Bridging with the Stars". The networks did not bite, but there was some interest from G4 and Investigation Discovery, but fmk doesn't get cable so he told them to go bridge themselves.

now that i think about it, he talks kinda like a smurf, except instead of replacing all verbs with 'smurf' he replaces them with 'bridge'.

GL FMK!

Solid first session

15 (tie) in the 2nd match. Obv we're happy with above average against 2 of the top teams. Sitting out the third vs japan.

Smurf you!

Gogogogogo Netherlands

are the cards predetermined or rand like a real shuffle

Rand like a real shuffle, in fact more random than a hand shuffle because a machine shuffles them.

+1

Despite whatever disagreements we may have had in the past, I wish you the best in this event!

Good luck man!

Good luck fmk.

Great start.

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