Congratulations to the winners and runners-up in District 8's annual North American Pairs (NAP) finals. The event, conducted in three separate flights, was open to all District 8 members who qualified in club-level NAP games this summer.

Overall winners are listed below. The top two pairs in each flight won ACBL travel awards to Kansas City MO in March 2017 to represent District 8 in the national finals of their respective flights. The third-place pair in Flight A and the third- and fourth-place pairs in Flights B and C also qualified for the national finals.

In addition to the ACBL travel awards, District 8 is offering extra funds to the second- and third-place pairs. Here are the total awards for each member of the qualifying pairs:

  1st place: $700 from ACBL

  2nd place: $300 from ACBL and $100 from District 8

  3rd place: $200 from District 8

  4th place in Flights B and C qualify for the national finals but receive no travel awards.

FLIGHT A (Open) -- 9 tables

1 - Jonathan Weinstein - Thomas Kniest, St. Louis

2 - Milt Zlatic - Tom Oppenheimer, St. Louis  

3 - Nate Ward, Champaign IL - Tod Moses, St. Louis

4 - Mark Boswell, Clarkson Valley MO - Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL

5 - En Xie, St. Louis - Debra Romero, Clarkson Valley MO

FLIGHT B (0-2500) -- 10.5 tables 

1 - Gary Chaney, Woodburn IN - Kimberly Grant, Ft. Wayne IN    

2 - Mark Daily - Grant Sterling, Charleston IL

3 - Terry Goodykoontz, Champaign IL - Marilyn Stickel, Lacon IL

4 - Alin Olaru - Rich Pestien, Peoria IL

5 - Phyllis Siegel, Ballwin MO - Jay Shah, St. Louis

6 - Alan Yngve, Chesterton IN - Michael Brissette, Gary IN

7 - Bob Shair - Gary Dell, Champaign IL

8 - Cameron Barbian - Donna Barbian, Springfield IL

FLIGHT C (0-500 non-LM) -- 7 tables

 1 -  Ziyang Liu, Champaign IL - Yewen Fan, Urbana IL

 2 -  Joyce Kirby, Glen Carbon IL - Donna Murphy, Worden IL 

 3 -  John Hagedorn - Kathy Hagedorn, St. Louis

 4 -   Robert Shoop, Normal IL - Robert Ragland, Mapleton IL

 5 -  Gary Rotert, Carlyle IL - Paul Bridges, Swansea IL

The event awarded 381.68 masterpoints to 70 players. A full list of point winners is here.

2nd in A: Milt Zlatic & Tom Oppenheimer

1st in B: Kim Grant & Gary Chaney

2nd in B: Mark Daily & Grant Sterling

1st in C: Yewen Fan & Zihang Liu

2nd in C: Donna Murphy & Joyce Kirby