Congratulations to USBF Board Member and Treasurer Cheri Bjerkan, who won the Individual Gold Medal at the 2013 SportAccord Mind Games. {mosimage}
The US Women's team finished third in the Women's team competition; the Open team finished fourth.
US pairs finished 8th, 9th & 10th in the Open and 4th, 8th & 10th in the Women's.
For complete results click here and then on the final stage of each competition. Daily Bulletins from the event are available here.
Carole Miner and Cindy Balderson have replaced Mildred Breed and Disa Eythorsdottir on the USBF Women's team for the 2013 SportAccord tournament to be held in December in Beijing. Breed is unable to travel to Beijing in December, so in accordance with USBF procedure, the pair was replaced by the fourth highest pair in the voting for the SportAccord team. USBF teams for the SportAccord event (listed alphabetically by pair) are:
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Congratulations to the USA2 Venice Cup team, who won the Gold in the Venice Cup, to USA2 in the Seniors on a very close second place finish for Silver and to the all-US Gordon team, who won Gold in the Transnational Teams. Well done all!
Jenny Wolpert, Sue Picus, Disa Eythorsdottir, Jill Levin, Janice Seamon-Molson, Jill Meyers, Migry Zur-Campanile
Garey Hayden, Marc Jacobus, Eddie Wold, Mike Passell, Carolyin Lynch, Roger Bates, Donna Compton
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 David Berkowitz, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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 Michael Seamon, photo by Peg Kaplan |
Six teams will represent the United States in the 2013 World Championships in Bali, Indonesia. The teams are:
| Kevin Bathurst - Kevin Dwyer John Kranyak - Gavin Wolpert Bobby Levin - Steve Weinstein NPC: Shane Blanchard |
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 Gavin Wolpert, John Kranyak, Kevin Bathurst & Kevin Dwyer, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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 Bobby Levin, photo by Peg Kaplan |
 Steve Weinstein, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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| Marty Fleisher - Michael Kamil Zia Mahmood - Chip Martel Michael Rosenberg - Chris Willenken NPC: Jan Martel |
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 Chris Willenken, Michael Rosenberg, Zia Mahmood, Marty Fleisher, Chip Martel & Michael Kamil, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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| Lynn Deas - Beth Palmer Irina Levitina - Kerri Sanborn Judi Radin - Barbara Sonsini NPC: Rozanne Pollack |
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 Kerri Sanborn, Lynn Deas (seated), Barbara Sonsini, Judi Radin, Beth Palmer, Irina Levitina |
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Disa Eythorsdottir - Janice Seamon-Molson |
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 Jenny Wolpert, Valerie Westheimer, Disa Eythorsdottir, Jill Levin, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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 Jill Meyers |
 Janice Seamon-Molson, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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 Migry zur Campanile, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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| Neil Chambers - John Schermer Allan Graves - Richard Schwartz Bob Hamman - Sam Lev NPC: Paul Street |
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 Bob Hamman, Richie Schwartz, Allan Graves, Neil Chambers, John Schermer & Sam Lev, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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| Roger Bates - Garey Hayden Marc Jacobus - Eddie Wold Carolyn Lynch - Mike Passell NPC: Donna Compton |
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 Roger Bates, Garey Hayden, Carolyn Lynch, Eddie Wold, Mike Passell and Marc Jacobus, photo by Peg Kaplan |
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We all wish all of our teams the very best of luck in Bali!
I will try to post reports each day from Bali, but please don't hold me to it!! Click here to get to those reports as soon as I write the first one 
on our "departure day."