2 Top 5 "Pleezers". Note that the 2018 Nebraska Regional will move to October 22-28 (NOT the first week of August)
3 Joan Paradeis & Tom Marsh, ACBL Tournament Directors
4 Free boxed lunches were provided every day
5 Brian Weikle, Manager Continuous Improvement ACBL Field Operations
6 Sunrise by William King, 2007, fabricated by 1" plates of aluminium, is an American Gothic take on a lanky pioneer couple in stride
7 Colourful balloons made it easy to find your section!
8 Excellent playing area in the Mid-America Convention Center
9 Mid-America Center
10 Molecule Man Sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky. The human forms are made from aluminum plates that are punched with holes to represent a molecular structure
11 Milton Petersen, Ron Smith, Adam Grossack, Oren Kriegel & Billy Miller won the Tues/Wed & Thurs/Fri KO (1);
12 Don Stack, Phil Becker, Linda Eakes, Jim Nash, Pierre Flatowicz & Craig Allen won the Kick Off KO (1) & Fri/Sat KO (1)
13 Jacob Morgan, Alex Hudson, Jonathan Steinberg & Jim Melville won the Wed/Thurs KO (1)
14 Jay Barron & Loretta Rivers won Thursday evening Swiss: Saturday KO (1); 2nd Kick Off KO (1)
15 Mark Itabashi, Sudhakar Divakaruni, Val Kovachev & Dave Schouweiler won the Sunday A/X Swiss
16 Ron Ashbacher won Thurs/Fri AM Swiss; 2nd Thurs/Fri KO (1)
17 R U Terajewicz won Thurs/Fri AM Swiss; 2nd Thurs/Fri KO (1)
18 Bill Marshall (& Ned Hager) won the Monday Charity Pairs; Friday Choice Pairs; 2nd Wed/Thurs KO (1)
19 Flo Newlin won Tuesday evening Swiss; 3rd Monday Charity Pairs. Likes to laugh a lot!