 Pre-game on opening night...pairs on the lower level, teams up above.
|  The main knockout teams area, on the upper level at the North end.
|  The upper level, directly above the entrance, with Partnerships/Hospitality on the right hand side, overlooking Douglas St.
|  Section Q from above...
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 The Crystal Tea Garden at the south end.
|  Opening night 199ers and open pairs at the far end.
|  Taken from the second level, south side. (The diver is a statue.)
|  Taken from the lower level pairs playing area.
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 Robert Tucker of Bellevue WA and Dale Leischner of Issaquah WA won the Monday Evening Charity 199er Pairs with nearly 64%!
|  Winners of the Monday Evening
Charity Pairs: Christina Siemer
of Lewistown MT, and Ralph Cole
of Anacortes WA. With a posted
score of 51% going into the last
round, Ralph went out to get the
car. But some of the names had
apparently been entered into the
wrong section and they ended up
with the win. We had to go out
into the middle of Douglas Street
like a desparate paparazzo to get
the photograph of Ralph!
|  Winners of the Monday Evening
Charity Pairs: Christina Siemer
of Lewistown MT, and Ralph Cole
of Anacortes WA. With a posted
score of 51% going into the last
round, Ralph went out to get the
car. But some of the names had
apparently been entered into the
wrong section and they ended up
with the win. We had to go out
into the middle of Douglas Street
like a desparate paparazzo to get
the photograph of Ralph!
|  Greg Lam of Vancouver BC
became a new Silver Life
Master (1,000 MP) in
the same Bracket Two of the
Monday-Tuesday knockouts.
Congratulations!
|
 Ellie Clarkson, Pacific
Grove CA and Barbara
Deasy, Salinas CA, the
winners of the Tuesday
Morning 199ers game.
Nice trophies!
|  Monday-Tuesday Knockouts, Bracket Three Winners: Bonnie Christopherson, Nanoose
Bay BC; Bill Wilson ‐ Helen
Dunham, Qualicum Beach BC;
Berry Gubbins, Parksville BC
|  Bill Wilson of Qualicum Beach BC (originally misidentified as someone else by a tired editor) became a new Life Master when his
team won Bracket Three of the Monday-Tuesday knockouts. (See team photo also.)
Congratulations (again)!
|  Monday-Tuesday Knockouts, Bracket Two Winners: Eileen Maclean, Comox BC; Louise Bustard, Royston BC; Carole Bradshaw ‐ Jack Bradshaw,
Courtenay BC
|
 Monday-Tuesday Knockouts Bracket One Winners: Linda Wiener, Vancouver WA;
Dave Brower, Portland OR;
Connie Coquillette ‐ Sherwin
Moscow, Vancouver WA
|  Norma Doucette, Vancouver BC; Martin
Henneberger, Coquitlam BC; Chloe Clark,
Burnaby BC; and Dianne Isfeld, Coquitlam BC.
They finished a strong third in the Tuesday
Evening Swiss Teams with three wins out of four,
but saw a ‘1’ beside their names, so they had their
picture taken. (It was their team number…)
|  Dorothy Madden of
Cowichan Bay BC, playing with
Piper Smith of Lincoln CA, had
the best East-West score
(63.69%) in Section J in the
big 22-table Tuesday
Afternoon 199ers game.
|  The left side of the model of Crystal Gardens in its heyday.
|
 The middle section of the model of Crystal Gardens in its heyday.
|  The right side of the model of Crystal Gardens in its heyday.
|  Robert Mackinnon ‐ David De Kezel ‐ Robert Bradford ‐ Debbie Wastle, Victoria BC, winners of Bracket Two of the Tuesday-Wednesday Knockouts.
|  Rosemary Makelki ‐ Gail Charles, Regina SK; Roger Staneslow ‐ Carol Staneslow, Victoria BC; winners of Bracket Four of the Tuesday-Wednesday Knockouts. Rosemary and Gail also won the Wednesday Morning Side Game!
|
 Daily Bulletin editor McBruce submits to a new photo (taken by Samantha Nystrom) to replace the one he's been using on the back page of Daily Bulletins since about 2000...
|  Nita Dalal of Vancouver BC and Joyce Dalal of Burlington WA won the Wednesday Afternoon 199ers Game, with 70.24%!
|  Wednesday Evening Swiss teams winners: Jack Bradshaw - Carole Bradshaw, Courtenay BC; Elana Anderson - William Anderson, Seattle WA.
|  Sharon Eddy of Victoria BC is a new Life Master, and her team didn’t stop to celebrate until they won the Morning Compact Knockouts!
Congratulations!
|
 Upper level, east side of the site.
|  Thursday was the first day that all of the playing areas were mostly full. (Still more room for weekend players though!)
|  Thursday afternoon and the lower level is mostly full (so are the upper levels).
|  Winners of strat C in the Wednesady Evening Swiss Teams (and third overall):
Bruce Hill - Norma Hill, Victoria BC;
Leslie Tenta - Erwin Tenta, Squamish BC
|
 Winners of Bracket Four of the Wednesday-Thursday Knockouts: Marilyn Swadron -
Camille Collver, Calgary AB; Jane Youngberg,
Surrey BC; who are surrounding Ed L'Heureux, White Rock BC. (L’Heureux is French for “the happy one” but I think that applies to all four.)
|  Wenda Hopp and Marilyn Knipp of Delta BC won the Thursday Afternoon 199er Swiss Teams (playing with Christine McKay, Calgary AB and Fraser McKinnon, Surrey BC.)
|  Winners of the under-100 strat of the Thursday Evening 199er Swiss Teams: John Ellis - Jan Ellis - Myrtis Holdren - Larry Holdren, Bellevue WA
|  John and Jan Ellis of
Bellevue WA also won the
Monday Evening
Newcomers Pairs
|
 Thursday Evening 199er Swiss Teams Winners: Naida Gubbins, Parksville BC; Nancy Wilson, Qualicum Beach BC; Janet Woolgar, Parksville BC; Tony Sharp, Qualicum Beach BC.
|  “Rapid Robbie” Robertson, co-sponsor of the Sunday Fast Pairs, has become a Bronze Life Master (500 MP)!
Congratulations!
|  Larry Holdren and Myrtis Holdren of Bellevue WA won the Friday Evening 199er Pairs.
|  Their win in the Thursday-Friday Knockouts put them into the tournament masterpoint lead!
Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Diane Shannon, Saratoga CA; Gene Simpson, San Rafael CA; Hamish Bennett, Menlo Park CA
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