I received a call from Jason two days ago informing me that I've oficially been added onto the USA1 roster for the World Junior Teams in Philadelphia, this October. Needless to say, I am happy and honored that my friends and peers would choose me to play in this important event.
Whether I will be able to play is still a little cloudy, but hopefully that will all be resolved very soon. In the meantime... maybe I should try to take it to the next level? That's what my brother Pat would advise anyway. This year is my last cycle as a Junior, and after having come so close to gold in Istanbul... I really want to run it back and put the US back on top.
Recently, Jason and I have been playing a series of matches against Val Kovachev on BBO. In general these matches keep me up really late since everyone is going by GMT-8 while I'm at GMT-5 (now -4 on account of daylight savings) so I don't play my best bridge. However... considering recent developments I'm going to put a renewed energy into them and really start to hammer out some definitive agreements with Jason -- limited though they may be.
Hopefully I'll be able to post a few of our more interesting problems on here as a run-up to Philly. Vugraph from the Vanderbilt begins today... so maybe I'll try to get back into the swing of blogging by posting some of the hands played by the best.
Cheers!
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