RealBridge Bidding Contest - June 2024 Rankings

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This turned out to be one of the more difficult sets on which to record a premium score, with only around 65 competition entrants out of over 1200 recording scores in the 70s. We also set a new record with a five-way tie for top spot in this month’s competition. With a score of 78/80, the co-winners of the June competition are:

Chris J Depasquale from Darwin NT, Australia,
Nao Tabata from France,
Stephen L Kornegay from Arlington TX, USA,
Wubbo de Boer from Netherlands, and
Joao Barbosa from Portugal

Chris transitioned from chess to bridge when he moved to Darwin in 2011. He says, 'Playing with the redoubtable Michael Courtney, I won the Butler Pairs at the Australian National Championship in July 2023. I might be the only person in the world with national championship victories in both chess and bridge'.

Nao Tabata was a member of the French teams that won silver medals at the 2019 Under-21 European Teams and gold at the 2022 Under-26 Teams European Teams. He will be in the French team at the European Youth Championships in Poland this month and at the World Championships later this year.

Stephen is a regular player at the F2F club in Arlington, Texas, where he also directs three games a week. He typically plays with his partner of 40 years, his wife Nancy Kornegay. Both of them have over 10k MPs.

Also on the May Honour Roll are, with a score of 77/80…

Joe Clark from the UK

…and, with a score of 76/80:

Julian Wightwick from England,
Alistair Cook from Sydney NSW, Australia,
Delestre from France,
Joele from Netherlands.
David Boxley from USA, and
Simon Mostyn from UK

We have two Australians and two Americans on this month’s honour roll, but the rest are all from Europe, including two French, two Dutch, and three from the UK.

With barely 5% of competition entrants scoring 70/80 or higher this month, this was a tough set, so congratulations to all those scoring in the 60s or 70s.

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