The Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs North American bridge championship is held at the Fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC).
The Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs is a six-session matchpoint pairs event with two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the first Tuesday of the Fall NABC. The event is restricted to players with fewer than 6,000 masterpoints who have earned a Blue Ribbon qualification.
History The inaugural Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs was held in 2005 at the Fall NABC in Denver. There is a pre-qualification requirement: players must have earned a Blue Ribbon qualification to participate. This is done by placing first or second in certain competitions.
Winners
+Winners of Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs Year Winners Runners-up 2005 Marty Harris, Jacob Morgan Frank Wharton, Paul Walker 2006 Joe Houde, Divakar Bhargava John Klayman, Lawrence Lau 2007 Patricia Menefee, Andre De Leon Metin Gokcen, Sadik Arf 2008 Roger Coffman, Chris Coffman Arne Maki, Gene Maki 2009 Harold Huffaker, Ronald Huffaker Gerrie Owen, Leonard Schaen 2010 Mark Jones, Doug Levene Dean Panagopoulos, Yiji Starr 2011 Susan Fulton, John Hogan William Grant, Andrew Loh 2012 Peter Worby, Kevin Young Vic Quiros, Harvinder Sidhu 2013 Suman Agarwal, Harjinder Ajmani Terry Schleppegrell, Marion Kelly 2014 Ina Demme, Bill Kertes David MacRae, Christina van Leeuwen2015Grant Robinson, Teresa BoydOm Chokriwala, Joan Rubin2016Radu Nistor, Joan BrodyMichael Schrage, Edward Rauch2017Juan Castillo, Saul GrossMargie Cole, Leonardo Fruscoloni2018Virgil Massey, Charlene SandsBarry Margolin, Mark Krusemeyer
Sources
"ACBL Live" acbl.org. ACBL. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
List of previous winners, Page 9
2008 winners, Page 1
External links ACBL official website