Canberra 2016: Lavazza Won the Australian Open Teams Championship

Canberra 2016Australia’s 2016 Canberra Summer Festival of Bridge is an annual event that offers an ultimate bridge experience. From world-class players and events, celebrity speaker workshops and network meetings for directors and teachers, the event offers bridge at its finest for all levels of players.

Bocchi-Duboin-Di Sacco
Bocchi-Duboin-Di Sacco

The Festival includes the South-West Pacific Teams Championship, the qualifying tournament for the NOT: (NOT = Australian National Open teams) played by the 8 teams that arrived first at the SWPTC.

This year the Lavazza team won the South-West Pacific Teams Championship, the team dominated the event not losing a single match.

Agustin Madala and Alejandro Bianchedi won the pairs butler:

Rank Pair Imps Matches Per Board
1 Agustin Madala / Alejandro Bianchedi 224 8 1.5169
Lavazza-Bianchedi-Madala
Lavazza-Bianchedi-Madala

Finally Lavazza also won the 2016 NOT to the Milner team:

2016 NOT Final

Team C/Fwd Stanza 1 Stanza 2 Stanza 3 Stanza 4 Total
LAVAZZA (1) 0.1 47 28 38 37 150.1
MILNER (2) 0 34 24 3 63 124
Players Names
LAVAZZA (1) MARIA TERESA LAVAZZA – NORBERTO BOCCHI – GIORGIO DUBOIN – AGUSTIN MADALA – DENNIS BILDE – ALEJANDRO BIANCHEDI
MILNER (2) REESE MILNER – NICK JACOB – ISHMAEL DEL’MONTE – JUSTIN LALL – HERMAN LALL – JACEK PSZCZOLA

2016 NOT SF:

Team C/Fwd Stanza 1 Stanza 2 Stanza 3 Stanza 4 Total
LAVAZZA (1) 0.1 49 86 20 155.1
NEILL (2) 0 31 7 21 59

MILNER (3) 0.1 39 29 42 48 158.1
MILNE (4) 0 14 26 9 41 90

2016 NOT QF:

Team C/Fwd Stanza 1 Stanza 2 Stanza 3 Stanza 4 Total
LAVAZZA (1) 0.1 53 22 43 79 197.1
BLOOM (2) 0 17 29 32 12 90

APPLETON (3) 0.1 44 24 4 17 89.1
NEILL (4) 0 48 22 54 33 157

MILNER (5) 0.1 70 45 30 68 213.1
MARKEY (6) 0 18 39 12 33 102

MILNE (7) 0.1 48 43 29 58 178.1
LORENTZ (8) 0 21 28 36 31 116

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