The North American Pairs is your event - a grassroots effort starting at your club and leading all the way to a North American Championship!  The ACBL has made changes to make the NAOP more affordable and accessible for players at all levels.  Be sure to check with your club managers for dates of qualifying games.  Your NAOP partner can be any other club-qualified player from your district. 

Masterpoints won in other bridge organizations, such as the ABA and foreign organizations, must be taken into account for placement in the appropriate flights.

Flight A Open to any player
Flight B Players with less than 2000 MPs as of the June masterpoint cycle. *
Flight C Non-Life Masters with fewer than 500 MPs as of the June masterpoint cycle.*

* The June masterpoint cycle is run by ACBL data processing between May 1 and May 15. Any points won but not included in this cycle do not affect masterpoint eligibility.

First place winners of the D19 Final for Flights A, B, and C will receive $700 per person and the 2nd place winners will recieve $300 per person to offset the expenses of attending the National Finals at the ACBL’s NABC. Third-Place Winners are invited to participate.

Club Qualifying Games are held in June, July, and August. 

The Unit final follows the club qualifying games after Sept 1st.  Your local Unit NAP chairman will determine the Unit final date. 

District Final is usually held towards the end of the year, November or December. 

The 2007 District Final will be held November 3, at the Holiday Inn in Everett in conjunction with the Puget Sound Regional. It will be two sessions. Click here for website and information.

Click Here for ACBL 2007 Conditions of Contest
In addition to the ACBL Conditions the following are District Options added:

1. 60% of the field may be qualifed as opposed to the usual 50%.
2. If a player is a member of a unit that does not hold a unit final they may ask to play in the District Final. Permission is granted if they are qualified at the club level.
3. The District will allow the ACBL-midchart at the District A final.

Tom Hansen
D19 NAP Coordinator
thansen2<at>mindspring.com

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2007 Winners District Final

North American Pairs District Final, Flight A
1. Kevin Bolan, Snohomish Wa; Rose Bolson, Lake Forest Park WA
2. Dan Jacob, Vancouver, BC; Cam Doner, Richmond BC
3. Bill O'Brien, Mountlake Terr WA; Neil Ballard, Seattle WA
4. Ray Miller, Seattle WA; Craig Barkhouse, Redmond WA
5. Ken Scholes, Bellevue WA; Dick Yarington, Seattle WA

North American Pairs District Final, Flight B
1. Tom Devine, Ferndale WA; Josh Sinnett, Bellingham WA
2. Dave Hildebrand, Lake Forest Park WA; David Roselle, Kirkland WA
3. Jeff Ford, Redmond WA; Bob Seki, Seattle WA
4. Vicki Moffatt, Surrey BC; Andrew Lee, Richmond BC
5. Tom Hansen, Redmond WA; Marion Nelson, Woodinville WA

North American Pairs District Final, Flight C
1. Long Xie, Burnaby BC; Baixiang Liu, Vancouver BC
2. Becky Chapman, Redmond WA;Christine Ding, Redmond WA
3. Ronald Kuiper, Surrey BC; Zoran Peca, Vancouver, BC
4. Yong Cao, Redmond WA; Roy Li, Burnaby BC
5. Howard Liu, Redmond WA; Eugene Tan, Kenmore, WA

 

2006 Winners District Final

Flight A:
1. Rod Caldwell and Stan Christie
2. Dan Jacob and Cam Doner   
3. Ken Scholes and Dick Yarington
4. Ron Tracy and Tom Hammond

Flight B:
1.  Josh Sinnett and Tom Devine
2. Pat White and Dave Roselle
3. Chris Moore and Jennifer Chalfan
4. Alan Hendrickson and Carol Schroeder

Flight C:
1. Kenneth Freeman and David Rush
2. Marty Jeide and Jeremy Gulley
3. Brain Zaugg and Jingsong Liu
4. Frances Evans and David Wright

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2005 Winners District Final

Congratulations to all the winners.

Flight A
 
1.  Wayne Ohlrich and Henry Lortz
2.  Kevin Bolan and Sharon Colson
3.  Dan Jacob and Bryan Maksymetz
4.  Ron Tracy and Tom Hammond
5.  Rod Caldwell and Stan Christie
 
Flight B.
 
1.  Edward Hui and Kenneth Ramsay
2.  Chris Moore and Jennifer Chalfan
3.  Nigel Fullbrook and Pauline McClafferty
4.  Tom Hansen and Marion Nelson
5.  Don Keith and Ram Hira
 
Flight C
 
1.       Ovidiu Burlacu and Ilarie Letca
2.       David Wright and Shawn Abernethy
3/4.    Dong Yan and Wenjie Deng
3/4.    David Rush and Kenneth Freeman

 

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2004-2005

North American Pairs : Pittsburgh NABC - District 19 pair of Dan Jacob and Bryan Maksymetz, both of BC, placed 2nd overall in the 2005 NAP Flight A.

2004 District Final : December Tacoma, WA, USA

NAP FLIGHT A

1 236.50 AA 14 Steven Handley - Howard Epley
2 234.50 AA 2 Dan Jacob - Bryan Maksymetz
3 232.00 AA 11 Ken Scholes - Harry Steiner
4 225.00 AA 3 Sharon Colson - Neil Ballard
5 223.00 AA 5 Ole Godefroy - Julie Godefroy

NAP FLIGHT B

1 462.11 BB 19 Tom Hansen - Marion Nelson
2 454.63 BB 5 David Robert - James Counsell
3 450.19 BB 18 Anne Scott - Sandra Robson
4 441.25 BB 17 Molly Kerr - Jules Bue
5 431.65 BB 25 Andrew Lee - Jack Lee
6 419.40 BB 28 Suzanne Boruta - Susan Agramonte
7 417.09 BB 24 Dennis Clark - Ernst Staudt

NAP FLIGHT C

1 123.08 CC 5 Janet Donovan - Sidney Turner
2 122.49 CC 12 John Kehoe - Maxine Linial
3 118.55 CC 11 Yong Cao - Jingsong Liu
4 115.85 CC 6 Lee Turnbull - John Johnston

Check your results! Here are text files for session by session results for those of you who are interested. You will find the board by board matchpoint results as well:
NAP A 1| NAP A 2 | NAP B 1 | NAP B 2 | NAP C 1 | NAP C 2
 

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2003-2004 NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS

District 19 wins razor-close NAP National Final
Spring NABC, March 2004

The Seattle-based duo of Henry Lortz and Wayne Ohlrich are the new Flight A North American Pairs champions.

Click Here for More

 

2003 District 19 Finals

NAOP FLIGHT A PAIRS
20 Pairs

1 Wayne Ohlrich - Henry Lortz, Seattle WA 325.00
2 Ray Miller, Seattle WA; Ken Christiansen, Bothell WA 300.00
3 Dave Corn, Spokane WA; Gard Hays, Veradale WA 295.50
4 Ken Scholes, Bellevue WA; Harry Steiner, Seattle WA 278.00
5 John Moffat, Bellingham WA; Dave Westfall, Spokane WA 267.00
6 Neil Ballard, Mercer Island WA; Sharon Colson, Kirkland WA 265.00

NAOP FLIGHT B PAIRS
30 Pairs

1 Dennis McMahon, Burnaby BC; John Reay, Vancouver BC 363.96
2 Mike Moffatt - Vicki Croome, Surrey BC 363.04
3 David Breton - Samantha Nystrom, Burnaby BC 354.38
4 Eugene Chan, Vancouver BC; Shi Yan, Burnaby BC 350.46
5 Ping Ding - Jane Fyfe, Kamloops BC 349.71
6 Josh Sinnett, Bellingham WA; Tom Devine, Ferndale WA 346.46
7 Suzanne Boruta, Anacortes WA; Sue Agramonte, La Conner WA 345.63

NAOP NON LM PAIRS
12 Pairs

1 Min Zheng - Fan Zhang, Redmond WA 163.00
2 Bill Sayer - Laurie Sayer, Renton WA 153.00
3/4 Pat White, Sammamish WA; Dave Roselle, Kirkland WA 146.00
3/4 Hayri Kuterdem - David Kempe, Seattle WA 146.00

:: Click here for results page

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Dan Jacob, Burnaby BC and Gordon McOrmond, Vancouver BC tied Steven Handley, Edmonds WA and Howard Epley, Kent WA for first in the NAP Flight A, with a score of 229.79. McOrmond may well be heading for a repeat of his National NAP-A Win in 1997, partnered by Aidan Ballantyne.

The DISTRICT 19 2002 North American Pairs (NAP) Finals, all flights, was held at the Surrey Sectional in Burnaby B.C. on Saturday November 9, 2002. Click Here for complete results.

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2001-2002 NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS