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District 8 is home to 3000 members of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). Our District  covers parts of three Midwest states and includes four ACBL Units:

    Northwestern Illinois - Unit 139 (northern third of Illinois outside Chicago metro area)

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 On to Memphis for District 8 NAP Winners 

District 8 North American Pairs - November 11, 2018


Congratulations to the winners and runners-up in District 8's annual North American Pairs (NAP) finals. The event, conducted in three separate flights, was open to all District 8 members who qualified in club-level NAP games this summer.

Overall winners are listed below. The top two pairs in each flight won ACBL travel awards to Memphis TN in March 2019 to represent District 8 in the national finals of their respective flights. The third-place pair in Flight A and the third- and fourth-place pairs in Flights B and C also qualified for the national finals.

Thanks to all for playing.  The event awarded 497.32 masterpoints to 72 players. A full list of point winners is here.


FLIGHT A (Open) -- 10 tables

1 - (left) Rod Beery - Rich Haacke, St. Louis

2 - (center) Nate Ward - Karen Walker, Champaign IL

3 - (right) Tom Oppenheimer - Milt Zlatic, St. Louis

4 - Mark Kessler, Springfield IL - Colby Vernay, Lacon IL

5 - Alan & Nancy Popkin, St. Louis

6 - Mike Halvorsen, Champaign IL - Tod Moses, St. Louis

FLIGHT B (0-2500) -- 9.5 tables

1 - (left) Lori Moore - Cindy Moore, Bloomington IL

2 - (center) Fritz Gebhard - John Levis, St. Louis

3 - (right) Mark Daily - Grant Sterling, Charleston IL

4 - Bob & Sherry Steigmann, Urbana IL

5 - John & Jerry Kraemer, Ballwin MO

6 - Mark Beattie, Sherman IL - Bob Derber, Mission TX

FLIGHT C (0-500 non-LM) -- 9 tables

 1 -  (left) Patricia Lloyd - Virginia Lang, Springfield IL

 2 -  (center) Marilou Landes, Savoy IL - Claudette Gonsiorowski, Champaign IL

 3 -  (right) Ken & Susan Eiger, St. Louis

 4 -  Len Steffen, El Paso IL - Patricia Lebeck, Normal IL

 5 -  Ken & Diane Deutch, St. Louis