{"id":15001,"date":"2026-03-09T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:04:36","slug":"meet-me-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/meet-me-in-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet me in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest edition of the ACBL\u2019s Spring Nationals saw a total attendance of 6745 tables. This was an increase from last years event in Memphis, but still short of pre pandemic figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The major event, the <strong>Vanderbilt Trophy<\/strong>, went to Pierre Zimmermann\u2019s team, Franck Multon, Michal Klukowski, Jacek Kalita, Kamil Nowak and &nbsp;Michal Nowosadzki, who comfortably defeated Marty Fleisher\u2019s holders in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Mott-Smith Trophy<\/strong>, awarded for earning&nbsp; the most masterpoints at the Spring NABC was won by Norway\u2019s Martin Andresen and Thor Erik Hoftaniska, their total of 319.89 including a win in the <strong>NABC+ Open Pairs<\/strong> and a second place finish in the <strong>Silodor Open Pairs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William <em>Deep Finesse<\/em> Bailey\u2019s team (Roger Lee, Alon Birman, Dror Padon, Daniel Korbel and Joshua Donn) won the main even on the final day, the <strong>Jacoby Open Swiss Teams<\/strong>, while the <strong>NABC+ Women\u2019s Swiss Teams<\/strong> resulted in a runaway victory for Arti Bhargava\u2019s team of Hjordis Eythorsdottir and the Dutch twins Lotte and Sarah de Wijs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest edition of the ACBL\u2019s Spring Nationals saw a total attendance of 6745 tables. This was an increase from last years event in Memphis,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":14784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1],"tags":[],"level":[],"class_list":["post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}