[qwery_hi]

Your predictions for the Vanderbilt. I'm asking for The top 8, if this thread gathers enough replies I'll make a spreadsheet to use to determine the winner. Anyone know of a good scoring method for predictions?

[CarlRitner]

Take a look at what they do for NCAA March Madness.

[Gerben42]

I'm waiting for Zia vs Rosenberg. I'm on Rosenberg's side here

My prediction for the final 8 will be.

#16 Rosenberg
#2 Cayne
#14 Pczszola
#13 Mahaffey
#5 Rubin
#6 Katz
#7 Meltzer
#8 O'Rourke

The most horrible draw is #5, which includes:

#12 Diamond (starring Gitelman - Moss, Greco - Hampson)
#28 Ivatury (with Henner-Welland and 4 Dutch stars)
#53 Chinese Women Team

[Aberlour10]

I think, there will be the same procedure as every year = 6 star teams + 2 outsiders in QF's, and then will be deciding only the "day performance". I would bet a coke on team Gromov as I always do, but they gave up their strong 4-handed line up, so I dont think, they have a real chance this time.

Robert

[Ant590]

Where can I find the lineups?

[Aberlour10]

Ant590, on Mar 15 2009, 11:00 AM, said:

Where can I find the lineups?

http://www.acbl.org/...009/01/VANDPRS/

[hanp]

I will go out on a limb here and put my money on Nickell.

[y66]

Would love to see Rosenberg's team play and do well against Nickell's.

Would also like to see teams with Chris Willenken and Migry, Chip Martel, Joe Grue, Uday and Josh Sher do well.

[MarkDean]

My elite 8 guess:

1. Nickell
2. Cayne
3. (19) Onstott
4. Welland
5. (12) Diamond
6. (22) Deutsch
7. (10) Gromov
8. (25) Rosenthal

with final 4:
Nickell
Cayne
Onstott
Diamond

Finals: Nickell over Onstott

[mike777]

Team 46 is my wild card choice.

I will go out on a limb and pick teams 1-7 to get to final 8.

[JanM]

Which round of 32 match do you want to see on Vugraph? Round of 16? You might even have some influence, except for those of you who foolishly predicted that Strul would be upset Or is that highjacking and I should start a new thread?

[jdonn]

Well, I'll come out and say it. Of course people are picking Fred's team to advance far because, well I can be honest, two of the pairs are g0dly. But that third pair seems to me not up to the normal standards of the pairs he teams with, even for a third pair (nothing against them of course!)

Anyway of course I pick Nickell. And I root for team 29 while hoping they don't miss me too much.

Another team of interest to me is 10. Two of the strongest pairs there are, and a pair of ladies I have never heard of. I'm very curious to see how they do.

[Tomi2]

jdonn, on Mar 15 2009, 07:13 PM, said:

Another team of interest to me is 10. Two of the strongest pairs there are, and a pair of ladies I have never heard of. I'm very curious to see how they do.

Aberlour10 Posted on Mar 15 2009, 10:56 AM
[...]I would bet a coke on team Gromov as I always do, but they gave up their strong 4-handed line up, so I dont think, they have a real chance this time.

Robert



they have Gromovs wife and her partner in their team for years now. the ladies play far less boards then the others, but they were members of the team that won silver in transnationals 2007 in shanghai etc. also in the NABC events they officially were teammembers - so team 10 will be as strong as always

my favs outside the top 8 seeded are team (additional to 10) 11 with Fredin-Fallenius and Gawrys-Lesniewski and the Teams with the Dutch players in (17 and 28) - How can Brink-Drijver be seeded 28?

[jdonn]

Tomi2, on Mar 15 2009, 07:30 PM, said:

How can Brink-Drijver be seeded 28?

It's based on ACBL results only. And theirs haven't been anything special, at least not yet.

[Tomi2]

JanM, on Mar 15 2009, 07:07 PM, said:

Which round of 32 match do you want to see on Vugraph? Round of 16? You might even have some influence, except for those of you who foolishly predicted that Strul would be upset Or is that highjacking and I should start a new thread?

16-17 with Rosenbergs and Auken-Van Arnim against Dutch will be highlight in that wound of 32 IMO

[rogerclee]

Joe Grue, please.

[TimG]

JanM, on Mar 15 2009, 07:07 PM, said:

Which round of 32 match do you want to see on Vugraph? Round of 16? You might even have some influence, except for those of you who foolishly predicted that Strul would be upset Or is that highjacking and I should start a new thread?

What did they do with 71 teams? Seems like spending a whole day to reduce 71 to 64 isn't ideal. And, reducing to 32 involves some of those 3-ways with one survivor things (or similar). Byes?

[mike777]

TimG, on Mar 15 2009, 08:07 PM, said:

JanM, on Mar 15 2009, 07:07 PM, said:

Which round of 32 match do you want to see on Vugraph? Round of 16? You might even have some influence, except for those of you who foolishly predicted that Strul would be upset Or is that highjacking and I should start a new thread?

What did they do with 71 teams? Seems like spending a whole day to reduce 71 to 64 isn't ideal. And, reducing to 32 involves some of those 3-ways with one survivor things (or similar). Byes?

Tim, you are correct but in talking with several teams they really do not seem to mind that much. In fact I would guess that the bottom 50% are excited and look forward to playing.

btw side note I know several nontop teams play 32 bds on sunday afternoon..if they win they advance to 64 on monday. If they lose they play a new team of 32 bds sunday night to advance to monday.

[TimG]

mike777, on Mar 15 2009, 08:18 PM, said:

Tim, you are correct

I'm still not sure what the format was.

[hackenbush]

A guess here based on what I saw in earlier Spingold. Top 43 teams get a bye. The other 28 teams are divided into 7 groups of 4, and play 4-ways with 3 survivors?