GNT Dates for D24 2027

Posted on October 12, 2026 by Lee Lin

All flights begin at 10am at Honors in their new location, 126 East 49th Street

Feb 6th:  Open and Flight B (Open players continue on Feb 7th)
Feb 20th: Flight A Day 1
Feb 21st: Flight A Day 2 and Flight C

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Gold Points Online: NAP A and C This Sunday

Posted on October 11, 2026 by Lee Lin

Flight A and C of the North American Pairs (NAP) District 24 Finals are this Sunday, October 18, 10am, and this year everyone can play from the comfort of home!

The NAPs are one of the best opportunities for bridge players of all experience levels to compete for generous gold Masterpoints and the chance to represent District 24 at the national championships. Best of all, the event runs in four flights, with Flight C consisting only of other players in NYC and Long Island who are all non-life-masters with 0-750 Masterpoints. Flight A is in its second year, allowing players with 0-6000 Masterpoints.

Sunday, October 18 — Flights A and C

Flight A: Open to players with 0–6,000 masterpoints. First place is worth approximately 25.6 gold points, with 19.2 for second.
https://play.realbridge.online/ea.html?p=261018123105&q=FlightASession1

Flight C: Open to Non-Life Masters with fewer than 750 masterpoints. First place is worth approximately 12 gold/red points, with 8.8 for second.
https://play.realbridge.online/ea.html?p=261018123107&q=FlightCSession1

New this year: Play entirely online on RealBridge!

No need to commute to Manhattan or travel to a tournament venue. Play from your own laptop, desktop, or compatible tablet. RealBridge uses video and audio to recreate the experience of playing face-to-face bridge.

Event details:

  • Sunday, October 18, 2026
  • First session begins at 10:00 AM ET
  • Second session begins 2:30 PM ET
  • Entry fee: $60 per pair
    (You may join using the links above and ask for help RealBridge for help regarding payment)

Players must have qualified through an NAP club game during the summer qualifying period. Check your qualification here.

Compete for a trip to the Spring 2027 NABC in Dallas!

The top three pairs in Flight A and top four pairs in Flight C qualify to represent District 24 at the Spring 2027 North American Bridge Championships in Dallas, Texas. Flight A is March 10–11, 2027 while Flight C is March 20-21, 2027

The top winners also receive travel subsidies to eligible qualifying pairs who attend the national finals: $1,400 per pair for first place and $600 per pair for second place. Those who win but choose not to attend the national finals will keep the Masterpoints but will not be eligible for the travel subsidy.

For additional details, see the District 24 NAP flyer.

If you’ve qualified but have never played in a District Final, this is a wonderful year to try! The online format makes participation easier than ever, and the limited-masterpoint flights give everyone a meaningful opportunity to compete.

We hope to see you at the virtual tables this Sunday!

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NAP Championship Flight – Final Results

Posted on October 4, 2026 by Lee Lin

Preliminary Results of the D24 NAP

Gillian Miniter and John Hurd lead the pack after the morning session. Note, with 13 rounds of 2 boards each and 15 pairs, two of the pairs did not have a sit out round.

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Links for D24 NAP 2026 This Weekend

Posted on October 1, 2026 by Lee Lin

Here is a step by step guide to play in the D24 NAPs this year. The actual game links are:

Flight B: (Saturday Oct 3rd, join prior to 10am)
https://play.realbridge.online/ea.html?p=261003324851&q=FlightB

Championship: (Sunday Oct 4th, join prior to 10am)
https://play.realbridge.online/ea.html?p=261004324853&q=Championship

Use ACBL Login

By far the easiest way to use RealBridge is the “Login with ACBL” option. You just use the same exact ACBL number and password you’ve always used for ACBL and you have an account.


On the next screen, continue with ACBL. You will be taken to a familiar ACBL login page, and then use your normal ACBL number and online password. After that, you’ll be loggged into RealBridge! Now go to the links above or find the District 24 NAP game in the menu.

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Updated ProAm Flyer

Posted on August 22, 2026 by Lee Lin

Please see the updated Pro Am flyer. There is still time to register a team.

Join us for a fun team game! Each team needs three amateurs and one pro. We’ll find a
pro for you if you don’t have one in mind. You’ll play against people of similar skill level.
Three rounds of bridge will be played – in one, you will play with your pro; in the other
two, you will partner with each of your other teammates. Ask your friends how much fun
the last one was!

Honors Bridge Club is hosting at 110 East 55th Street, please arrive by 10:45am.

Email proam@gnyba.org to register as a group of one, two, or three ams. Tell us your
names, ACBL numbers, masterpoints, and a pro if you already have one. If not, we’ll
help make teams for you and find a pro for you.

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NAP Dates 2026

Posted on August 17, 2026 by Lee Lin

Please save the dates for the District 24 NAP Finals.

Flight B: Saturday, October 3
Championship Flight: Sunday, October 4
Flights A and C: Sunday, October 18

All events will be hosted this year on RealBridge and begin at 10am ET. More information to come shortly.

Updated D24 2026 NAP Flyer

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Pro-Am-Am-Am Sunday September 27th, 2026

Posted on August 3, 2026 by Lee Lin

Join us for a fun Pro-Am team game! Each team needs three amateurs and one pro. We’ll find a pro for you if you don’t have one in mind. You’ll play against people of similar skill level. Three rounds of bridge will be played – in one, you will play with your pro; in the other two, you will partner with each of your other teammates. Ask your friends how much fun the last one was! 

Honors 155 East 55th St. 
Play begins at 11:00 AM 
Please arrive by 10:45 AM 

Registration is required. Download Flyer.

Email proam@gnyba.org to register as a group of one, two, or three ams. Tell us your names, ACBL numbers, masterpoints, and a pro if you already have one. If not, we’ll help make teams for you and find a pro for you. 

Fee is $120 per team ($40 per amateur) 

When you sign up, we’ll send you a link to prepay your fee. Anyone with less than 750 points is eligible to play as an amateur.

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Regional Flyer Dec 26-29 2026

Posted on August 3, 2026 by Lee Lin

Please save the dates. As usual, the December regional begins the day after Christmas. This year that falls on Saturday, Dec 26th, ending Tuesday, December 29th. This year, we keep things very simple with the same daily schedule: 10am start time for all games: Open Pairs, Gold Rush Pairs, and Bracketed Round Robin Teams.

Big Simplifications

Those who joined us last year will note a few events missing. There will no longer be a bracketed pairs event. While some Districts run a very successful bracketed pairs, the main draw is having a large number of brackets and a concept that everyone plays in a field of players with similar experience. When we ran the event last year, we found having only 2-3 brackets isn’t quite enough.

Many of us enjoyed the 2-day, 4-session swiss teams from last year (and the Goldman Pairs from Astoria 2025). Unfortunately. this regional we will not be holding any four-session events. We received lots of feedback that the four-session event should be held on Saturday and Sunday, running the event on a weekend rather than split into say Sunday and Monday. However, over the years we’ve also learned that players prefer one-day brackted round robin, especially on the first day of the regional.

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D24 Strong Start to Summer NABC26

Posted on July 12, 2026 by Lee Lin

We’re off to an unusually strong start after the first four days of the summer 2026 NABC in Minneapolis.

GNT Round Robin Victories

First of all, the Grand National Teams in all flights kicked off the first day with a team photo shown below, then proceeded to dominate each of their respective flights. Team Frean in Flight A, Team Jonas-Silver in Flight B, and Team Long in Flight C all won the qualifying round robin swiss, giving themselves choice of opponent in the first KO (amusingly, a practice we eliminated at the local level. In the Championship Flight, Team Rothstein took 5th place out of 25 districts, well above average among qualifying teams. It’s safe to say no district in the history of GNTs has ever had such a strong start in all four flights!

Life Master Pairs and mini-LM Pairs Finalists

Moving into Session 5 and 6 of the von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs, Andrew Rosenthal and Zachary Grossack are in the leading carryover position! Of course, with 78 qualifying pairs, it is still anyone’s game. Over in the Bruce Pairs, in the top five qualifiers include Mark Blanchard and Amy Rhodes. And for the 0-3000 micro LM Pairs (aka Young Pairs), we have Dan Small and Lloyd Mandell.

Current D24 LM Finalists:
Andrew Rosenthal / Zachary Grossack
Joel Wooldridge / Kent Mignocchi
Margie Cole / Alejandro Bianchedi
Jacqueline Chang / Iulian Rotaru
Michael Lipkin / David Gurvich
Avery Silverstein / Aaron Silverstein
Lucy Zhang / David Soukup
Uday Ivatury / Christal Henner
Radu Nistor / Michael Gamble
Jordan Lampe / Wayne Ohlrich

D24 mini-LM Pairs Finalists:
Mark Blanchard / Amy Rhodes
Dan Small / Lloyd Mandell
Nancy Marshall / Bill Sigward
Melanie Appelbaum / Gina Davanzo
Cynthia Ogden / Jeffrey Schwartz

GNT Finalists in Flights B and C!

We have had unusually great results in the national finals of the GNT in recent years. Last year in Philadelphia Team Miniter won the entire Championship Flight national finals, with Team Li reaching the finals in Flight C as well. A few years prior in Chicago 2023, Team Jonas-Silver and Team Silverstein faced off in a subway series D24 Flight C national finals for 1st and 2nd place. This year, Jonas-Silver returns with identical roster as serious contenders for Flight B. And Team Long in their first GNT national finals is a finalist in Flight C. We wish them all good fortune!

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Regional Pre-Reg

Posted on March 22, 2026 by Lee Lin

Pre-registration is required for the April 24-26 2026 regional in Manhattan has been live for about two weeks.

Pre-Reg: https://forms.gle/Ry58v3egk3fqYTjZ7
Already pre-registered? Check to confirm your pre-reg
Tournament Flyer: Spring 2026 Regional

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