Grand National Teams

The Grand National Teams (GNT) national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC).

The Grand National Teams is a team knockout event.The event is broken into 4 flights (Championship, A, B, C).The event is restricted to those who have qualified in their local ACBL district.No player on a flight A team can have more than 5,000 masterpoints.No player on a flight B team can have more than 2,000 masterpoints.No player on a flight C team can have more than 500 masterpoints.

All flights typically start on the Wednesday before the main NABC events.

History

The event began in 1973 as a grass-roots event. The initial stages are contested over the course of several months at the local levels (the exact conditions vary). The district winners play for the championship at the Summer NABC.

Originally, all 25 districts of the ACBL participated. Currently only the 23 U.S. districts compete.

In 1985, the event was divided into three separate flights - A, B, C.

In 2001, the Championship Flight (for players with more than 5,000 points) was added.

The winners in each event have their names engraved on the Morehead Trophy, donated by The New York Times in memory of its longtime bridge editor Albert Morehead.

Winners

ources

List of previous winners championship flight and flight A, Pages 4, 5Citation
title = Daily Bulletin
journal =
volume = 80-1
issue = 1
date = Friday, July 18, 2008
year = 2008
url = http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2008/02/bulletins/db1.pdf

List of previous winners championship flight B and flight C, Pages 4, 5Citation
title = Daily Bulletin
journal =
volume = 80-2
issue = 2
date = Saturday, July 19, 2008
year = 2008
url = http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2008/02/bulletins/db2.pdf

2008 winners, Page 1Citation
title = Daily Bulletin
journal =
volume = 80-4
issue = 4
date = Monday, July 21, 2008
year = 2008
url = http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2008/02/bulletins/db4.pdf

External links

* [http://www.acbl.org/ ACBL official website]