SouthAmerican Youth Teams Championships

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17 mayo, 2014

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Santiago, Friday May 16

Uruguay is the 2014 SouthAmerican Youth Teams Championship in both categories: Juniors and Youngsters.

Uruguay Junior: R. Garcia da Rosa – I. Baptista – P. Hernandez – G. Minutti – M. Crusizio (CNJ: G.Chediack)

Uruguay Youngsters: Alvaro Sosa – Leonardo Vieira- Juan Pedro Tarigo – Ignacio Miguelez – Nazarena Batalla- Maria Fernanda Ochoa – Martin Salaverri

The Junior Final: Argentina-Uruguay

Argentina; weakened by the withdraw of one of his best players; showed great fortitude by five of its players who accepted the challenge and presented an uphill battle to Uruguay, the favorite team .

Finally Argentina lost by just 2 IMPs. Maybe the story would have been different if the Argentine team would have had a NPC with more authority.

The Semifinals:

Argentina-Venezuela and Uruguay-Brasil

In one match Uruguay easily defeated Brazil in the other Argentina the team that everybody thought would lose, finally defeated Venezuela by 0.33 IMP … The last round score was amazing.

Santiago, Thursday May 15, 2014

Today ended the SouthAmerican Youth Teams Championships qualifying stage and the Junior favorite team: Uruguay won the round robin so he was awarded with the right to choose his opponent from the other three ranked teams: Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela.After deliberating a while they decided to choose Brazil, so Argentina and Venezuela will play un the other semifinal, the winners of this instance will participate in the upcoming Junior World Championship to be held in Turkey.

In Youngsters ( U 21) the two participating teams played the final and Uruguay defeated Chile, both countries also will play in the next world championship.

In one of the Hotel lounges Mr. Maurizio di Sacco is teaching a Directors Course with significant participation from all over the continent. It begins at 10:00 and ends at 20:00…

Today was a splendid day, plenty of sunshine and great temperature, and in the hotel lobby you could hear people talking about bridge in the different South American tunes, tonight we are expecting the arrival of another important group of players, I will be telling all about it tomorrow.