D19 Came to Play at the Fall 2025 NABC

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D19 Came to Play at the Fall 2025 NABC

The members of District 19 made an impressive showing at the Fall 2025 NABC in San Francisco.

At the Nail Life Master Pairs on November 28-29, Tom Carmichael (Marysville, WA) and Dan Jacob (Vancouver, BC) placed 7th overall.  Dan also placed 19th in the Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs with a separate partnership.

In the 0-3000 Pairs (Nov 29-30), JC & Scott Chupack (Seattle, WA) placed 5th.  They then followed that up by taking second in the 0-3000 Teams (Dec 1-2) with teammates Arthur Resnick (Seattle, WA) and Rosemay Vazeux (Seattle, WA).

Photo of 0-3000 Teams winners wearing medals

Mike Develin (Kirkland, WA) and Robert Glickman (Seattle, WA) both placed 4th and 9th respectively in the 10K Fast Pairs (Dec 3-4).  Robert also placed 11th in the 10K IMP Pairs (Dec 1-2).

Shawn Abernethy (Seattle, WA) took 4th in the Whitehead Womens Pairs (Dec 2-3).  She also achieved the rank of Gold Life Master via her win in that event.

A brief article snipped discusses Shawn Abernethy's rank achievement with a photo of Shawn

In the Mini Blue Ribbons (Dec 2-4), several D19 players made the overalls:  David Taylor (Seattle, WA) placed 8th; Robert Bell (Gig Harbor, WA) and Ben Tucker (Vashon, WA) placed 16th; Kevin Cline (Seattle, WA) and Aaron Mohrman (Seattle, WA) placed 17th; and James & Lily Andre (Allyn, WA) placed 23rd.

D19 had several players place highly in the Mitchell Open Board-A-Match Teams (Nov 30-Dec 1) while on teams spanning multiple districts. Tom Carmichael (Marysville, WA), Stan Christie (Kirkland, WA), and Bryan Delfs (Vancouver, WA) placed 8th. Ben Bomber (Grandview, WA) and Ray Miller (Seattle, WA) placed 12th. Arthur Gong (Sammamish, WA) placed 16th. Brad Bart (Coquitlam, BC) and Matthew Weingarten (Seattle, WA) placed 21/22nd (tied with another team).  Alex Hong (West Vancouver, BC) placed 25th.  Last but far from least, Dan Jacob (Vancouver, BC) placed 28th. 

Alex Hong (West Vancouver, BC) also took 2nd in the Keohane North American Swiss Teams (Dec 5-7).

In the NABC+ Mixed Pairs (Dec 4-5), Jenni Carmichael (Marysville, WA) and Bryan Delfs (Vancouver, WA) led the charge at 12th place. Michael Christensen (Seattle, WA) and Becky Stevens (Seattle, WA) took 35th. Kim Eng (Issaquah, WA) and Eric Sieg (Issaquah, WA) took 47th.  James Rasmussen (Seattle, WA) finished 48th.  James also took 18th in the NABC+ Mixed Swiss (Dec 6-7), and Shelley Burns (North Vancouver, BC) took 21st in that event.

Beyond these wins at the National level, over a hundred players from D19 won masterpoints at this NABC.  The full list of masterpoint winners from the event is below:

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🎉Congrats to the D19 NAP Winners!

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Our District 19 North American Pairs qualifiers were held November 22-23, 2025.  🎉Congratulations🎉 to the pairs who qualified and will be representing our district in St. Louis this spring!

Note: Pairs listed in italics are unable to represent for the listed flight in St. Louis; the next pairs in rank order will represent in their stead and will be awarded the associated travel stipend.

Championship (Open)

  1. Michael Christensen and Stan Christie
  2. Bryan Delfs and James Holzhauer
  3. Jeff Ford and Kim Eng

Flight A (0-6000)

  1. Ben Tucker and Robert Bell
  2. Bryan Delfs and Scott Chupack
  3. Qinqin Zhang and Genie May
  4. Peggy Moen and Ann Romeo
  5. Lak Lakshmanan and Joe Grill

Flight B (0-3000)

  1. John Krah and Nathan Kasperkiewicz
  2. Nick Tipton and Leyi Chen
  3. Art Resnick and Rosemay Vazeux
  4. Oyvind Tafjord and Shawn Abernethy
  5. Hugh Hendrckson and Christine Chai

Flight C (NLMs who are 0-750)

  1. Arjun Chaunal and Mudit Chaunal
  2. Hua Ying Wan and Yan Luo
  3. Yiyang Zhao and Zhenghong Sun
  4. Sulu Nisargand and Jim Dowling
  5. Jessica Yao and Leyi Chen
  6. Laurence Newell and Kenneth Schultz

If you have any questions about the results or the event, please contact our NAP and GNT coordinator, Ann Romeo.

Re-launch of Bridge Northwest!

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Today, we re-launched our e-newsletter to District 19 members, Bridge Northwest!

If you are a current member of District 19 but didn’t see an email from us today (July 8th), check your spam folder and make sure you have added “d19.org” and/or “bridgenorthwest@d19.org” to your email provider’s whitelist (here’s how to do it).  You can also manually add yourself to our newsletter by subscribing here:

Subscribe to Bridge Northwest  (note that this link takes you to m-pages.com; this is our email provider’s website)

You can contact our editing team or learn more about the newsletter on the Bridge Northwest page of this website.

Victoria Regional Daily Bulletin

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The 2025 Victoria Regional is held from April 7 to 13.

As with all District 19 Regionals, for every day of the tournament, McBruce publishes a Daily Bulletin with up-to-date information on results, masterpoints, schedules and more. Here’s the link: mcbruce.ca/25vic/welcome.html

You might want to add it as a shortcut on your phone’s home screen so you can get to it quickly and easily during the tournament.

Here’s a link explaining how to do it.

Remembering Dudley Brown

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Dudley Brown (1935 – 2025)

A legacy of service.


We are grieving the loss of our friend, partner, teacher and mentor.
Dudley Brown, a founder of District 19, served on the District Board of Directors for over 50 years until stepping down recently due to health issues. District records date back to 1973, and he was a continuous presence.

Dudley served on the ACBL National Board of Directors from 1989 to 1998 and was the President of the National Board in 1996.
He was a Platinum Life Master holding 14,764.93 masterpoints; he finished second in the Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs in 1998.

After a career with the military, he remained very active in the American Legion serving as Commander of the post in his area.

For decades he attended every regional in the District and every sectional in eastern Washington, perhaps missing a day only when there was a conflict with a symphony for which he had season tickets.

Dudley was a superior player and among his peers a fierce competitor, but he would partner with a new player with great kindness and gentle encouragement.

He touched hundreds of lives and left us better for having known him.

Remembrances:

• Dudley had many, many partners over the years. A few of his favorites include Tom Edwards, Dick Maison, Matt Koltnow, Edith DeShaw, Mary Egan, Leonard McGrath, Carol and Duane Christensen, Gard Hays, Marilyn Steele and Jane Hunt, though I’m sure some names are missing here.

• Along with championing bridge for so many years he was a very large part of my bridge development. Cannot say enough about what he meant to me.

• He was responsible for my renewed interest in Bridge – taking lessons from him

• So sorry he’s gone. I liked him a lot.

• I am new to the club but the first member of our club I met was Dudley. His kindness allowed me to learn a game he supported and played so well.

• He was a very special man.

• When I moved to the area in 2005, I was advised to get in touch with Dudley – the bridge “master” of the Yakima Valley. He opened me to friendships and Symphony. I can’t say enough about his generosity and kindness.

• Dudley was generous with sharing his insights to our game. It seemed I learned something new every time I played with him. Admittedly, I was in awe of the man’s intellect. Now he is gone but never forgotten.

• We were so fortunate to have had his expertise of and devotion to bridge for so long.

• I have enjoyed his presence at the bridge table for the past 60+/- years. I will miss him.

• Dudley not only helped me enjoy duplicate, but he was a good friend. Last year he came to our church for my husband’s memorial. I will miss him.

• Dudley is playing bridge at the BIG table – sitting North.

• Dudley was so incredibly kind to me when I first started going to tournaments and was always encouraging and would give me advice and tips when he thought it would help my game. He will be missed.

• He was always kind and had a good word to say. I’m sure all will miss him.

• So sorry about Dudley, he was a Rockstar.

• Dudley served this district so well for so many years. He was also a fearless and accomplished competitor, willing to accommodate all who played with him.