Gatlinburg Does It Again!!

The old record holder for the largest ever Regional Bridge Tournament in ACBL history is the new record holder for the largest ever Regional Bridge Tournament in ACBL history with an astounding total of 8208 tables over the 6-1/2 day event.
The new record beats last year's record breaker by 784 tables, an incredible 10.5% increase when many were forecasting a slight downward turn.

There were players from 45 states, the District of Columbia, 9 provinces of Canada, Mexico and from several non ACBL affiliated foreign countries.  All twenty five ACBL districts were represented by the 3477 players who played at least one session.

Masterpoints flowed, with a grand total of 64,232.65 being awarded to 3348 players.  There were sixty nine players who won one hundred or more points and an amazing 287 players topped the fifty masterpoint level.

We crowned over fifty new life masters and there were many other players who moved up one or more ranks in the masterpoint hierarchy during the week.  See below for photos of some of the new life masters.

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New Life Masters from Gatlinburg

Below are photos of some of the players who became life masters during the 2004 Gatlinburg Regional.  Some players who make their gold card did not get photographed, so if you became a life master during the tournament and your picture is not shown below send a picture and it will be added.

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Arlene Goldstine	Betty Roper	Betty Sue Farmer	David L McKenzie

 

Dr Harvey Elliott	Ed Snyder	Fred Rabinowe	Jacqualyn Newman

 

Jean M Ross	Jodie Lorberbaum	Judy Cobb	Judy Weldy

 

Larry Heavey	Linda King	Marilyn McGilvray	Ruth Crews

 

Toni Dew	Wayne C Henderson	William McGilvray