952 tables, up from 908½ in 2015, a 4.8% increase! Sunday's attendance was lower, but exactly the same as it was in 2015; I'm guessing all of the people who chose to leave on Sunday were essential to the excellent turnout. Karen Rise and her volunteers will be hoping to continue growing and maybe in 2020 we can get into four-digit territory!

Masterpoints!

Kirkwood Trophy winner Jack Lee tops tournament standings!

We called the Kirkwood Trophy Race (most masterpoints in a calendar year at District 19 Regionals excluding Alaska's) for Jack Lee in yesterday's online Bulletin, and a second-place finish in the Open Swiss on Sunday put him atop the tournament standings! Bravo!

Overall Leaders thru Sunday (final)

1	Jack Lee, Richmond BC	65.57
2	Ray Miller, Seattle WA	65.42
3	Debbie Mineault, Victoria BC	64.85
3	Duncan Smith, Victoria BC	64.85
5	John Hurdle, Richmond BC	64.42
5	Trudy Hurdle, Richmond BC	64.42
7	Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	63.40
8	Barbara Nist, Seatac WA	63.38
8	Patti Hartley, Kenmore WA	63.38
10	Rebecca Clough, Culver City CA	59.34
10	Roger Clough, Culver City CA	59.34
12	Evelyn Holtz, Santa Rosa CA	55.91
12	Nick Wiebe, Oakland CA	55.91
12	Sara Rothmuller, Occidental CA	55.91
12	Sigrid Price, Napa CA	55.91
16	Ken Scholes, Bellevue WA	54.99
17	William Ge, Burnaby BC	52.83
18	Sidney Yang, Richmond BC	51.76
19	David Hu, Richmond BC	48.33
20	David Huang, Burnaby BC	43.46
21	Judy Harris, Salmon Arm BC	41.88
21	Peter Herold, Namaimo BC	41.88
23	Carl Wilson, Tacoma WA	40.19
24	Gene Fomin, Glacier WA	39.18
24	Sandra Robson, New Westminster BC	39.18
26	John Emmerson, Federal Way WA	38.97
26	Melinda Westgate, Mercer Island WA	38.97
28	Sandra Scholes, Bellevue WA	38.91
29	Paul Meerschaert, Long Lake MN	36.32
29	Sandy Fisher, Long Lake MN	36.32
31	Patrick Dunn, Bellevue WA	35.41
31	Polly Dunn, Bellevue WA	35.41
33	Jerry McVay, Lacey WA	34.71
34	Ken Christiansen, Bothell WA	33.61
34	Stanley Roberts, Kirkland WA	33.61
34	Sun-O Ho, Redmond WA	33.61
37	Ann Romeo, Seattle WA	33.25
38	Bonnie Broders, Port Townsend WA	32.77
39	Dudley Brown, Grandview WA	32.71
40	Eric Sieg, Seattle WA	31.81
41	Marv Norden, Peachland BC	31.79
41	Ralph Wilhelmi, Olympia WA	31.79
43	Terry Foster, Victoria BC	29.89
44	Howard Epley, Kent WA	29.77
44	Karen Epley, Kent WA	29.77
46	Tom Carmichael, Mill Creek WA	29.40
47	Wayne Stann, Kelowna BC	29.15
48	Marty McCune, Seattle WA	28.87
48	Mary McCune, Seattle WA	28.87
50	Jeanie Wolff, Spokane WA	28.77
50	Lea Rogers, Spokane WA	28.77

Non-Life Master Leaders thru Sunday (final)

1	Wayne Stann, Kelowna BC	29.15
2	Douglas Johnson, Gig Harbor WA	24.55
3	Lynda Lipe, Bellevue WA	24.12
3	Ralph Lipe, Bellevue WA	24.12
5	Brian Sims, Cultus Lake BC	21.19
6	Keith Carter, Sandpoint ID	20.00
7	Shael Smith, Richmond BC	18.52
8	Janet Woolgar, Parksville BC	18.00
8	Lorna Veitch, Qualicum Beach BC	18.00
10	Sharon Gecse, Osoyoos BC	17.44
11	Priscilla Sisson, Windsor CO	16.58
12	Chuck Reppas, Leavenworth WA	16.49
12	Kit Morse, San Mateo CA	16.49
14	James Vandergriff, Belfair WA	15.97
15	Glynn Sisson, Windsor CO	15.15
16	David Peeples, Moses Lake WA	14.95
17	Michael Clayton, Salmon Arm BC	14.35
17	Stephen Raffel, Salmon Arm BC	14.35
19	Joyce Roberts, Los Alamitos CA	13.97
20	Alan Whitman, Okanagan Falls BC	13.78
21	Catherine Goetz, Clarkston WA	13.50
22	Sharon Riddle, Kirkland WA	13.12
23	Joy Pearson, Oak Harbor WA	12.39
24	Janet Mori, Penticton BC	12.34
25	Margaret Skinner, Victoria BC	12.33

Check the masterpoints page for complete results so far, and everyone's breakdown of red and gold points, updated every night.

Thanks to Karen Rise and her team on another successful Leavenworth Regional! Not much else to say, but before we wrap this up we should finally translate the subheadlines on each daily page, for those interested (they were translated via Google and may be rather poor German, apologies if this is so.)

Monday: Opening Day! (This one was in English, but the German is: Eröffnungstag!)
Tuesday: Kannst du diesem Ort glauben? (Can you believe this place?)
Wednesday: Trick or Treat! (This one was in English, but the German is: Süβes oder Saures!)
Thursday: Hättest du schön genug Rotkohl? (Had enough red cabbage yet?) (My bad, missed a few umlauts here on the Thursday headline...)
Friday: Hier kommt das Wochenende! (Here comes the weekend!)
Saturday: Im Ernst, in der Stadt herumlaufen, Sie werden verzaubert sein! (Seriously, walking around town, you will be enchanted!)
Sunday: Nächste Leavenworth Regional ist im Jahr 2020! (Next Leavenworth Regional is in 2020!)

Sunday Open Swiss Teams

Winners: Carmichael, Pan, Yan

Except for their fourth round match against the X winners, Carmichael scored 99 VPs out of 100. Pan beat Carmichael by 14 IMPs in round five to make it close at the end; Pan got 13 VPs against Hurdle in the finale, while Carmichael scored up yet another blitz against, shall we say, another strat A team, for the close win! But as mentioned above, the undefeated day for team Pan put Jack Lee, who we said had clinched the Kirkwood Trophy, into the tournament lead by just 0.15! Another blitz, this one by Yan in round five, sealed the strat Y victory for team Yan and a few more gold slivers.

MPts	VPs	A	X	Y	Sunday Open Swiss Teams	(18 teams)
17.85	103	1			Tom Carmichael - Jenni Carmichael, Mill Creek WA; Bryan Delfs - Eric Sieg - Ray Miller, Seattle WA
13.39	101	2	1		Eric Pan - William Ge, Burnaby BC; Jack Lee - David Hu - Sidney Yang, Richmond BC
10.04	73	3			Debbie Mineault - Duncan Smith, Victoria BC; Judy Harris, Salmon Arm BC; Peter Herold, Namaimo BC
7.53	72	4			Trudy Hurdle - John Hurdle, Richmond BC; Pete Pluhta, Pullman WA; Jodi Kimbrell, Spokane WA
5.95	68	5			David Taylor - Marty McCune - Mary McCune, Seattle WA; Paul Schwaighart, Normandy Park WA
5.95	60		2		John Keech, Victoria BC; Kathy Bye, Burnaby BC; David Schmidt, Chilliwack BC; James Sache, Rosedale BC
3.91	56		3/4		David Huang, Burnaby BC; Richard D'Litzenberger - Brian Koblenz, Leavenworth WA; John Cox, Saint Maries ID
4.17	56		3/4	1	Dong Yan, Sammamish WA; Kevin Cline - Michael Christensen - Becky Stevens, Seattle WA
3.13	52			2	Barry Balof - Claire Valente, Walla Walla WA; Marty O'Malley - Kathy O'Malley, Pullman WA

Sun Bracketed 0-2000 Swiss Teams

Winners: Foster, Desbrisay

In Bracket One, the Foster team scored 87 VPs out of 100 in the first five rounds, then faced the teams that ended second and third; for good measure, they beat them as well (although the margins were smaller) to go undefeated! In Bracket Two, the key match between Desbrisay and Vazeux was in round four, and Desbrisay won handily, a good thing, for at the end of the day they were a mere single victory point ahead!

MPts	VPs	Bracket	Rank	Sun Bracketed 0-2000 Swiss Teams	(19 teams)
111	7.55	I	1	Terry Foster, Victoria BC; Charles Hulse, Vancouver WA; Wayne Stann, Kelowna BC; Karen Rise, Leavenworth WA
86	5.66		2	Sandi Link - Bonnie Christopherson, Nanoose Bay BC; Marylynn Ghitter - Al Stacey, Qualicum Beach BC
85	4.25		3	Donald Hanset - Keith Carter, Sandpoint ID; Bill Drayton, Naples ID; Martha Schwake, Hayden ID
85	5.96	II	1	Patricia Desbrisay - Janet Mori - Audrey Hancock, Penticton BC; Sharon Gecse, Osoyoos BC
84	4.47		2	Rosemay Vazeux - Tony Marshall, Seattle WA; Alexander Woo - Renee Petersen, Moscow ID
72	2.93		3/4	Rebecca Brown - Sharon Carpenter, Bellingham WA; Joy Pearson, Oak Harbor WA; Randy Erickson, Ferndale WA
72	2.93		3/4	Chuck Reppas, Leavenworth WA; Kit Morse, San Mateo CA; Ralph Lipe - Lynda Lipe, Bellevue WA

The 2018 Leavenworth Regional: Sunday, November 4

Nächste Leavenworth Regional ist im Jahr 2020!

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