2011 Brazilian Trials
By Ana
Roth y Fernando Lema for
www.confsudbridge.org
From
April 20
to
April 23, 2011,
in the
city of
Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil,
were played the 2011 Brazil Trials,
qualifying
the teams to represent Brazil in the next
LXI South
American
Championship,
Paraguay 2011.
Organized by
the
Brazilian
Bridge
Federation,
the
event
took place at the
Rio de Janeiro Bridge Club,
under the
strict
direction of Mrs.
Jacqueline
Meirelles.
11
teams confronted at the Open Category
and
the
qualifying system
was
as follows:
first
there was an
all
against
all
Round Robin
where
the
2
top teams
automatically qualified
for the
semifinals.
The
teams finishing
third through
the sixth
place,
played
the
Final
Quarters,
allowing the
team ranked
in the 3rd place
to choose
between the teams
ranked in
the fifth
and
sixth.
The
Round Robin
final standings
were:
|
Position |
Team |
VPs |
| 1º |
d'Orsi |
227 |
| 2º |
Brum |
220 |
| 3º |
Salomao |
204 |
| 4º |
Villas Boas |
201 |
| 5º |
Peirao |
185 |
| 6º |
Emilio |
165 |
In
the
quarterfinals
Salomao
team,
Masters from
Brasilia City:
Jeovani
Ferreira
Salomao,
Marcos
Paiva,
Miro
Andrade,
Eduardo
Felix,
Sergio
Brum,
won
the team,
"Emilio
". In
the
other
quarterfinal
the favorite team "Villas Boas":
Gabriel
Chagas,
Marcelo
Castello
Branco,
Diego
Brenner,
Miguel
Villas
Boas,
Joao
Paulo
Campos
and
Marcelo
Amaral,
won
the
team
Peirao.
In
the
semifinals
the
d'Orsi
team
easily defeated
the
team
from
Brasilia,
while the
Villas
Boas
team
struggled to
beat
the
powerhouse
Team Brum:
Roberto
Figueira de
Melo,
Pedro
Castello
Branco,
Roberto
Barbosa de
Oliveira,
Paulo
y Roberto
Brum.
In the final
Villas
Boas
team
won
the
team
d'Orsi:
Ernesto
d'Orsi,
Fabio
Sampaio,
Guilherme
Junqueira,
Claudio
Sampaio,
Sergio
Eduardo
Aranha
and
Eduardo Barcellos.
|
Team |
C-O |
Set1 |
Set2 |
Set3 |
Set4 |
Set5 |
Set6 |
Total |
|
VILLAS BOAS |
5,7 |
53 |
14 |
47 |
27 |
29 |
30 |
205.7 |
|
D'ORSI |
0 |
25 |
30 |
8 |
37 |
33 |
23 |
156 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
João Paulo Campos |
Miguel Villas Boas |
Gabriel Chagas |
Marcelo Amaral |
Diego Brenner |
Marcelo Branco |
Ernesto d'Orsi |
The
Ladies
Trials
was
a Pairs
contest. It began with
an
all against
all
two rounds and
only the
Top 8
rated
pairs
reached
the
final cycle.
Sylvia
Figueira de
Melo
and
Paula
Abranches
David
won
the
final stage,
second were
María das
Graças
Poncioni and
Heloisa
Nogueira.
According
to
regulations,
these two
couples
classified
to join the
team
Brazil
Ladies,
having the
right
to choose a
third pair,
between those located in
the third
and fifth
place.
They choose
Leda
Pain
and
Isabella
Vargas
de Andrade.
After
the
finals,
Joao
Paulo
Campos
told us
this
sad story,
but as
his
team
won
the
trials
we can say
it was
with a happy ending:
As
dealer I received:
x
A Q 9 x x 
10 9 x x 
A J x and opened 1...as
I felt a little thirsty I drink some water and when I looked
again the table I realized that my open bid was 1...instead
of 1...
My LHO (Guilherme
Junqueira) passed and as I couldnt do nothing
about it...pushed the bidding to the other side of the screen.
When the bidding returned my partner's bid was 3
= 12/15 with 4+ cards support and a singleton or a void.
I decided to continue with 3
asking for the short suit... hoping to hear 3NT=
short...to pass, but his answer was 4
=
void, so I continued with 4...hoping
he could bid a 4
cuebid...to pass, but his bid was 5,
without any hope I decided to pass expecting he could have 4
diamond cards.
My partner, Miguel Villas Boas, almost had
a heart attack after my pass...wondering what was going on...
Guilherme
Junqueira leaded and dummy appeared with:
A Q J x x x x
K J x x
A x
-
we paid 200. 6
was the other table contract, so the hand cost us 15 IMPs
instead of giving us 11 IMPs.