[jonottawa]

I'm not in SF. I probably won't get to a Nationals until Vegas next year. But I'd love to hear some live reports from SF (what's the venue like, restaurants, turnout, interesting stories, bridge results from BBO regulars, whatever) and I suspect I'm not alone.

Nice to see BBOers kicking butt in the LM Pairs. Fred and Brad in 1st and Josh Sher & pard in 2nd after day 1.

http://www.acbl.org/...7/bulletins.php

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Edit: Sorry, I thought I might elicit a post with this (50 views, but no material.) If y'all want to delete it, it's fine by me.

[jonottawa]

Guess we'll have to settle for musings about SF rather than musings from SF.

My reactions from reading the Monday Bulletin:

Not sure about changing the player of the year award to the Paul Soloway trophy. I don't think he ever won that, did he? More fitting would have been an award for the player who wins the most masterpoints in a decade. Soloway was a year-in year-out masterpoints machine, you'd think that's what the award to honor him would reflect, no? (and yes, I know that he considered his masterpoint achievements to be little more than an attendance record, but the POY is based on masterpoints as well.)

Glad to see the Swedish girls (with some Dutch friends) kicking butt in the Women's BAM. Nice guys might finish last, but these nice girls usually end up on the podium.

Fred and Cayne are tied for second in the Open BAM. Fred's got Meckwell and Grue/Cheek. That squad doesn't suck.