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…WINNERS OF USBGF SPONSORED EVENTS…

 

USBGF Illinois State Quiz – Peoria, Illinois; October 16, 2011

                                            

Open Division –  Mary Hickey

 

       

 Advanced Division — Ben Friesen  

 

 

USBGF World Giants’ Challenge Quiz — Los Angeles, California; June 11, 2011

                                              Giants of Backgammon Division – Falafel Natanzon

          Open Division – Ed Rosenblum

          Advanced Division —  Irving Gold

USBGF National Championship – Los Angeles, June 12, 2011

     Neil Kazaross Champion; Carol Joy Cole Finalist

 

 

USBGF Tournament of Stars – Los Angeles,  June 10, 2011

     Perry Gartner and Bob Koca winning doubles team

 

 

USBGF MathFest 2011 – Lexington, Kentucky August 4, 2011

Paul Coe, 1st; John VanBuren Finalist

     

USBGF Chicago Open Quiz by Mochy – Chicago, IL, May 30, 2011

Open Division– Petko Kostadinov, Falafel Natazon, Kit Woolsey (tied)

Petko Kostadinov

“Dr. Falafel”

Kit Woolsey

Advanced Division — Lucas Bauer

USBGF 2011 National Collegiate Backgammon Championship — Proctored Online, April 23, 2011

1st Place Team: UCLA — Dan Ben-Moshe, Joe Roth, and Ashim Ahuja; 2nd Place Team: Northwestern University – Naveed Heydari, Uri Magaram, Kerem Taskin, and Michael Harper; 3rd/4th Place Teams:  Indiana University — Benjamin Hugon, Brian Rogers, Eric Wallace; Princeton — Kamron Saniee, Boris Alexeev, Onder Polat; 5th/8th Place Teams: Clemson — Ben Cousins, Justen Brewster, Christopher Corsi; Harvey Mudd College — Louis Ryan, Jeff Burkert,  Jonathan Schwartz, Emily Fischer; a second Northwestern team –Jesse Anderson-Leyman, Stephen Bock, and Michael Davis; and Yale — Ryan McKinnon, Yuval Bussi, Edward Shaer.

 

USBGF Ohio State Quiz — Last Man Standing – Cleveland, OH, March 2011

Mary Hickey

Mary Hickey

 

Open Division — Mary Hickey, 1st

Advanced Division — Ben Friesen, 1st

 

 

USBGF Al Tesoro Memorial Quiz and Lecture — Fort Lauderdale, FL; August 2010

Ray Fogerlund

 

Open Division — Ray Fogerlund, 1st

 

 

 

Advanced Division — Efim Liberman, 1st

 

 

USBGF Howard Ring Memorial Quiz – Van Nuys, CA., June 2010

Alex Eshaghian and John O’Hagan

Open Division — John O’Hagan, 1st; Richard Munitz, 2nd

Advanced Division — Alex Eshaghian, 1st; Cheryl Andersen, 2nd