District 16 Logo Unveiled
By Evvie Gilbert
D16 Scorecard Editor/Contact Administrator
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It's official. District 16 now has its Logo.
We asked our District 16 artists to submit their concept regarding what a logo for this district might be. As you know, D16 encompasses most of Texas plus all of Mexico and this new logo is to represent our total membership. For this work, presented as a contest, the person submitting the winning entry to receive one free play day at a D16 tournament of their choice.
The artists' works were submitted to the D16 Contact Administrator who then forwarded each one, identified by number only, to the D16 Executive Committee. This committee is comprised of the current district president, first vice president, second vice president, executive treasurer, executive secretary and immediate past president.
After the committee reviewed all the entries, the one selected was submitted by Susanne (Sue) Cauflield of Hutto in Unit 207. This logo will be used on D16 publications including Scorecard and here on our new district website.
Thank you, Sue, for your winning work! We also thank each of the other D16 artists and friends who submitted their ideas.
District 16's flagship tournament, Houston’s Lone Star Regional, returns to its annual late January-early February slot: year 2025 is February 3-9. Game times are 10:00 & 2:30 except Sunday 9:00 & 1:30. See the flyer for full game and event schedules.
2025 Grand National Teams
By Scott Nason​
The GNT 2025 is coming. There is no unit qualifying required, so you can proceed straight to district finals. Get your team together and meet us in Houston or Dallas in the Spring. There are four levels that will compete in the GNT District Finals. The four winners of that event (and possibly more – see below) go on to compete at the GNT finals in Philadelphia in July 2025. The top flight – the Championship Flight – is open to anyone who is an ACBL member in good standing and who resided in District 16 as of September 1, 2024. In order to play in Flight A, each member of the team must also have had fewer than 6000 masterpoints as of the August 6, 2024 posting. For Flight B the cutoff is 3000 points, and Flight C is limited to Non-Life Masters with fewer than 750 points. Each team may consist of four, five or six players, but each player must be eligible for the flight in which the team is competing.
By Larry Davis
D16 NAP Coordinator
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The 2024-2025 North American Pairs (NAP) held club qualifying games during June, July and August. All who qualified at the club level may now play in the District 16 NAP final held January 11-12 in Austin. This prestigious grass roots event is staged in qualifying rounds at the club and district levels culminating in a National Final held in conjunction with the 2025 Spring NABC in Memphis, Tennessee.
The NAP games are flighted. Flight eligibility is based on the June 2024 masterpoint cycle which is run May 6, 2024.
• Flight A open to all D16 players
• Flight B 0-2500 masterpoints
• Flight C 0-500 Non-Life Master
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Daily Bulletins
New Recruitment Games from ACBL
By Lauri Laufman, Membership Chair
ACBL has designed three new programs to entice your community to become bridge players: Bridge Ambassador Program, Come Play Cards with Us and PickleBridge. Click on the program’s name to learn more about each of these – they’ve been designed to help you with your recruitment efforts.
If you initiate any of the new programs or hold some cool event for your members and/or to boost membership, please share the details and feedback received.
Dallas NABC 2027
By Tomi Storey, 2027 NABC Chair
In a previous Scorecard Paul Cuneo said in his Regional Director’s report from Atlanta that Dallas was approved as the location for the Spring 2027 NABC. I hope everyone saw that, but just in case you missed it, let me repeat – Dallas will host an NABC again for the first time since 2014!