Mini-Spingold national bridge championships are held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). They were introduced in 2001 and are held at the same time as the main Spingold knockout team championship.
The Mini-Spingold comprises two simultaneous knockout team events. The Mini-Spingold I typically lasts 6 days(5 in 2013) with each day being a round consisting of two sessions of 28 boards. Since 2006 the Mini-Spingold II has been limited to 5 days, so teams may play two matches on the first day.
Mini-Spingold I (0-5000) (before 2017) (0-6000) (starting 2017) This event is restricted to those with less than 5,000 masterpoints. As of 2017, the masterpoint limit has been raised to 6000.
+Winners of Mini-Spingold I (0-5000) Year City Number of teams Winners Runners-up 2001 Toronto 72 Brian Johnston, John Lloyd, Bill Woodcock, Gary Whiteman, Brooke Nelles, Dale Freeman Howard Gianera, Barry Purrington, Vernon Evans, Monte Evans, John Koch, Tony Ames 2002 Washington 63 Howard Einberg, Michael Mikyska, Alan Myerson, Jim Glickman, David Sokolow John Hodges, Lynn Johannesen, Dale Johannesen, Franklin Lowenthal 2003 Long Beach 41 Barbara Wallace, Mark Yaeger, Lisa Kow, Rich Pavlicek Jr., Brian Gunnell Marjorie Michelin, David Anding, Kenneth Titow, Ed Ulman, Andrew Vinock 2004 New York 40 Larry Mohr, Alex Hong, Shi Yan, Hao Ge, Yi Liu Keith Connolly, Andrew de Sosa, Bob Rebelein, Morrie Kleinplatz 2005 Atlanta 51 Walt Murphy, Julie Murphy, Steve DeVico, Gayle Covey, Elliott Grubman, Ava Grubman Richard Wegman, Arnold Malasky, Gloria Silverman Bart, Jim Russell 2006 Chicago 51 Martin Harris, Jacob Morgan, Jim Melville, Will Engel Paul Stern, Daniel Levin, James O’Neil, Christopher Mansour 2007 Nashville 61 Brian Alexander, Karl Hicks, Jim Gordon, Mike Betts Randy Okubo, Nathan Glasser, Bud Biswas, Susan Winkler 2008 Las Vegas 99 Joyce Hampton, Lukasz Lebioda, Jon Rice, Mike Rice, David Grainger Warren Cederborg, Greg Michaels, Dayou Zhou, Stephen Tu 2009 Washington 59 Jay Whipple III, Kevin Dwyer, Owen Lien, Jon Rice, David Grainger McKenzie Myers, Garth Yettick, Peggy Ware, Spencer Jones, Jon Brandon, Michael Sherman 2010 New Orleans 38 Morrie Kleinplatz, Mark Leonard, Robert Stayman, John Boyer Jim Russell, Nancy Spear, Mark Jones, Stephen Stewart 2011 Toronto 62 John Lewis, David Sokolow, Howard Einberg, Maris Zilant, Susan Fuller, Saul Gross Gary Donner, Deborah Murphy, Lauren Friedman, Larry Lerner 2012 Philadelphia 38 Yan Wang, Edward Xu, Peter Wong, Jianfeng Luo, Nongyu Li George Krizel, Albert Shekhter, Oleg Rubinchik, Igor Milman 2013 Atlanta 29 Max Aeschbacher, Josh Parks, Arjun Dhir, Alex Dezieck Randall Rubenstein, Marc Sylvester, Bill Begert, Doug Herron, Lorraine Cable, Doug Anderson 2014 Las Vegas 51 Mark Friedlander, Richard Fellars, Howard Engle, Mark Weisman Wenbo Zhang, Jiawei Luo, Robert Hou, Yuan Chen 2015 Chicago 47 Steve Zolotow, Anam Tebha, Christian Jolly, Oren Kriegel, Sean Gannon Jonathan Fleischmann, Xu Wang, Brad Dracka, Jin Hu, Jordan Kaye 2016 Washington 52 Edmund Wu, Jesse Chao, Alex Dezieck, Zhuo Wang Robert Bernstein, Jay Barron, Doris Van Delft, Merel Bruijnsteen2017TorontoJohn McWhinnie, Henry Caspar, Debbie Feldman, Doug Barnes, Terry Richardson, Christopher CowanBrad Bart, Detlef Ladewig, Terrence Rego, Andy Stark2018AtlantaNeil Stern, James Weeks, Dorn Bishop, Jim JohnsenDavid Shepler, Marsha Platnick, Brad Vander Zanden, Keith Hungate2019Las VegasGreg Michaels, Martin Harris, John Botzum, Miriam Harris-Botzum Arti Bhargava, Ingi Agnarsson, Gudjon Sigurjonsson, Mark Leonard2021Online (Summer)Eric Gettleman, Paul Holmes, Richard Franklin, David Venetianer, A.J. Stephani, Isaac Stephani Charles Nemes, Edward Maier, David Bogolub, Rick Schoenfield2022ProvidenceLeon Yu, Winston Huang, Tsao-Tung Tsai, Bing LeDavid Yoon, Lorraine Cable, Jordan, Lampe, Jacqueline Chang2023ChicagoMark Kinzer, Martin Harris, Bob Marheine, Miriam Harris-BotzumDavid Yoon, Ryan Connors, Marc Sylvester, Randi Adelman2024TorontoLouis-Amaury Beauchet, Ana Kovacevic, Miroslav Kovacevic, Robert IvesStephane Turcotte, Bijoy Anand, Normand Houle, Janice Madsen2025PhiladelphiaMark Donovan, Ryan Connors, Randi Adelman, Shona DonovanJennifer Kuhn, Philip Kuhn, Charles Riffle, Douglas Grant
Mini-Spingold II (0-1500) (before 2017), (0-2500) (2017-2024), Mini-Spingold (0-3000)(starting 2025) This event is restricted to those with less than 1,500 masterpoints. In 2017, the masterpoint limit was raised to 2,500 masterpoints. In 2025, the masterpoint limit was raised to 3,000 masterpoints.
+Winners of Mini-Spingold (0-1500) Year City Number of teams Winners Runners-up 2001 Toronto 36 Bob Hollow, Motaz Farag, Jim Brickman, Bill Kertes, Leo Takefman, Irving Goodman Larry Friedman, Jennifer Gianera, Jerry Poliquin, Larry Delefs, Ala Sobol, Mileva Jobin 2002 Washington 53 Bob Hollow, Motaz Farag, Gabriel Tawil, Theo Lichtenstein Maeve Mahon, John Segal, Russell Friedman, Allan Wolf 2003 Long Beach 36 Matt Meckstroth, Rob Meckstroth, Rich Regan, James Hawkes, Andrew Hurd Bruce Blakely, Fred Stout, Nancy Ferguson, David Bryant 2004 New York 32 Mark Teaford, Norton Rimer, Myron Rimer, Ronald Resnick Doris Banks, Christine Woodring, Paul Lenoble, Lew Kroll 2005 Atlanta 34 Nancy Ferguson, David Bryant, Bruce Blakely, Dmitri Shabes Nicolas Hammond, Martin Nathan, Maureen McGuire, Edward Foran, John Hassett, Robert Ternosky 2006 Chicago 43 Steve Callaham, John Hassett, Edward Foran, Nicolas Hammond Eric Hendrickson, Richard Lawson, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Jason Bribitzer-Stull 2007 Nashville 41 Matt Meckstroth, Robert Glickman, Sam Katz, Daniel Goldfein Owen Lien, Eric Mayefsky, Eric Sieg, David Coberly, Zach Brescoll, Mike Develin 2008 Las Vegas 45 Brian Duran, Gloria Tsoi, Lon Sunshine, Ivanie Yeo John Scibelli, Thomas Shulman, Justine Hancock, Sali Ma 2009 Washington 61 Eric Hendrickson, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Jason Bribitzer-Stull, Andy Caranicas Victor Hsu, Ted Wilson, Paul Fagan, Sandy Johnson 2010 New Orleans 27 Jennifer Gu, Adam Portley, Belinda Gu, Jonathan Pines Steve Callaham, David Schulman, Patrick Corn, Megan Corn 2011 Toronto 31 Yuan Chen, Wenbo Zhang, Sam Yu, Kaiyu Qian Jean La Traverse, Josette Levesque, Richard Collette, Sylvie Levesque 2012 Philadelphia 30 Max Glick, Zach Scherr, Jin Hu, Zach Wasserman, Jonathan Fleischmann Claude Le Feuvre, Perry Poole, Stan Weiner, Ping Hu 2013 Atlanta 23 Buddy Landis, John Felker, Stephanie Felker, Rick Whitehead Barbara Newman, Don Turner, Hannah Tidman, Yaron Schweizer 2014 Las Vegas 33 Om Chokriwala, Fred Upton, Kevin Lane, Steve Ramos, Jr Mary Ose, Gary Ansok, Arti Bhargava, Todd Werby 2015 Chicago 23 Hunter McClain, Benjamin Kompa, Xiyuan Ge, Kenneth Ramaley Kenneth Hopke, Jerry Nolte, Elizabeth Nolte, Phil Feldman 2016 Washington 29 Curt Kristensen, Gregory Sellgren, Ti Davis, Brian Rink Winston Chang, Joe Albert Garcia, Wayne Gorski, Frank Lin, Kenny Pan2017Toronto40Tsao-Tung Tsai, Luen-Jyh Luo, Edward So, Jack UppalKerry Cotterell Bruce Williams, Curt Kristensen, Howard Montemurro2018Atlanta20Jim Liu, Tsao-Tung Tsai, Xuhua Lin, Leon YuLiu Xiang, Zhengwen Li, Yike Xie, Yuxuan Chen, Liang Min2019Las Vegas21Jordan Lampe, Jacqueline Chang, Christopher Moh, Siqing YuScott Nason, Jeff Dater, Nancy Heck, Alexander Wiles2020Online (Fall)36Kyle Rockoff, Daniel Weiss, Gan Yang, Derek Wong, Sarik Goyal, Ben Fisk Xin Ge, Sarah Chen, Serena Guo, Wanwan Ren, Brandon Ge, Brent Xiao2021 Online (Spring)40Howard Booth, Paul Hattis, James Orleans, David Edelson, Steven FoxWanwan Ren, Serena Guo, Jung Hu, Qing Lu2021Online (Summer)24James Dahlberg, Alan Munro, Colin Schloss, Nick MigliacciBrian Zhang, Eric Xiao, Serena Guo, Wanwan Ren, Victor Xiao, Jeff Xiao2022ProvidenceDenny Cahan, Alexander Woo, Guy Martin, Roy MartinRachael Gosling, Gertrude Barker, Stephan Juliusburger, John F W Glynn2023ChicagoJeffery Schwartz, Catherine Williams, Daniel Lev, Michael Xu, Sharon Phillips, Susan DavisonHenry Shi, Zhiqiang Hu, Li Miao, Ping Hu2024TorontoAndrew Lazarus, Elenalani Lam, Charles Riffle, Douglas GrantPatrick Thompson, Jill Plasteras, Richard Augmann, Madeleine Tremblay2025Philadelphia20Justin Young, Jason Grove, Jackson Wahl, Sarah WahlGeorge Mansour, John Altman, Richard Krauland, Russell Poppleton, Huang-Chia Chang
References
Sources List of previous winners, Page 7
2008 Mini-Spingold II winners, Page 1
2008 Mini-Spingold I winners, Page 1
2009 Mini-Spingold II results, Page 16
2009 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 10
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2010 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 12
2011 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 16
2011 Mini-Spingold II results, Page 18
External links ACBL official website