[mrdct]

Personally I'd like to see Tuszynski v. Feldman. Both teams appear to be in fine form having knocked off several higher seeded teams and there will be plenty of opportunity to watch the "usual suspects" in the next three rounds.

[MickyB]

I voted for O'Rourke-Moss. Thought I'd copy and paste the teams -

Nick Nickell, New York NY; Richard Freeman,
Atlanta GA; Paul Soloway, Mill Creek WA; Bob
Hamman, Dallas TX; Jeff Meckstroth, Tampa FL;
Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL
vs
Reese Milner, Los Angeles CA; Sam Lev, New York
NY; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Chris
Compton, Dallas TX; Andrew Gromov - Aleksander
Dubinin, Moscow Russia


George Jacobs - Ralph Katz, Hinsdale IL; Robert
Levin, Bronx NY; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY; Zia
Mahmood, New York NY; Michael Rosenberg, New
Rochelle NY
vs
Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Mark Feldman - Martin
Fleisher, New York NY; Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ


James Cayne, New York NY; Michael Seamon,
Hollywood FL; Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria -
Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes, Rome Italy
vs
Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Mark Lair, Canyon
TX; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden; Fredrik Nystrom,
Stockholm Sweden; Fu Zhong, Beijing People's
Republic of China; Zhao Jie, Tianjin People's
Republic of China


Lou Ann O'Rourke, Scottsdale AZ; Marc Jacobus -
Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV; Eric Greco,
Philadelphia PA; Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy;
Norberto Bocchi, Milano Italy
vs
Michael Moss - Chris Willenken, New York NY;
Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Agustin Madala,
Buenos Aires Argentina


Rose Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; Kyle Larsen, San
Francisco CA; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD;
Roger Bates, Mesa AZ; Geir Helgemo, Trondheim
Ca Norway; Tor Helness, Oslo Norway
vs
Team Orange: Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk
Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Tilburg Netherlands;
Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands; Simon de Wijs,
Doorn Netherlands


Ron Rubin, Miami FL; Russ Ekeblad, Providence
RI; Chip Martel, Davis CA; Lew Stansby, Castro
Valley CA; Brad Moss, New York NY; Fred
Gitelman, Las Vegas NV
vs
Bill Cole, Silver Spring MD; Alan Schwartz, Fairfax
VA; Ai-Tai Lo, Reston VA; Mark Dahl, Richmond
VA; David Butler, Keswick VA


Christal Henner-Welland - Roy Welland - Bjorn
Fallenius, New York NY; Antonio Sementa, Parma
PR 43100 Italy; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice
Poland; Cezary Balicki, Wroclaw Poland
vs
Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Dennis Dawson,
Santa Fe NM; Larry Cohen - David Berkowitz, Boca
Raton FL; Joe Grue, New York NY; Curtis Cheek,
Huntsville AL


Piotr Tuszynski, Warsaw Poland; Apolinary
Kowalski, Warsaw Poland; Farid Assemi, Fresno
CA; Ed Wojewoda, Clovis CA; Srikanth Kodayam,
Fremont CA; Nick Bykov, Stockton CA
vs
Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; Steve De Roos,
Brasschaat Belgium; Rutger Van Mechelen,
Heverlee Belgium; Eric Debus, Leuven Belgium

[paulg]

I think Team Orange (21), Lynch (10) and (outsider) Mahaffey (14) have the best chance of upsetting their higher ranked opposition.

[MickyB]

I'm not sure Team Orange winning would be an upset

Think I'd rather see the winner of Tuszynski vs Feldman face off against Nickell in the quarter-final and watch a different team in the round of 16.

[Walddk]

All wishful thinking, guys, fair enough. As usual, we don't decide anything. At this point, 6 hours and 10 minutes before the start, we don't even know how many tables we are getting.

As a result, commentators will be assigned on the spot. It would be waste of everybody's time to do anything in advance.

However, this time we haven't seen any advertisements for volunteer operators in the daily bulletins, so who knows, maybe the organisers are well covered and perhaps able to broadcast from more than one match.

Roland

[Aberlour10]

I voted for Lynch vs Henner-Welland, but looking at the line up's of this 1/16 round, every table promises the absolute world class bridge. To broadcast the closest match in 3rd & 4th quarter seems to be the best solution.

Robert