Educational Foundation President Barbara Heller presents the winners of the Collegiate Bridge Bowl: (standing) Chengwei Li, Xinchen Zhu, Kevin Rosenberg; (kneeling) Minyang Zhou and Armin Askari.
Berkeley edged out Columbia by 6 IMPs in the semifinal to make it to the big game where, after a 40-IMP first half, they cruised to the win.
Georgia Tech, last year’s Bridge Bowl champ, beat Harvey Mudd College on their way to the final. In the playoff for third–fourth, it was Harvey Mudd by 10 IMPs: 57–47.
Playing for the victorious Berkeley Bears were Chengwei Li, Kevin Rosenberg, Mingyang Zhou, Xinchen Zhu and Armin Askari.
Andrew Rowberg, UC Santa Barbara, who won the Collegiate Individual, is presented a scholarship check by Ed Foundation President Barbara Heller.
Rowberg, who is in the third year of a doctoral program in material science at Santa Barbara, dropped into the Individual when his squad was eliminated from the team competition. His win netted him $2000 in scholarship money. Runner-up Hakan Berk of Potomac MD picked up $1000, while Ben Kristensen, from Duluth MN earned $500 scholarship funding for his third-place finish.
Georgia Tech Gold was the runner up in the Collegiae Bridge Bowl: Cyrus Hettle, Richard Jeng, Santhosh Karnik, Arjun Dhir, Zhuangdi Xu
Third in the Collegiate Bridge Bowl was Harvey Mudd College: Nicholas Koskelo, Jake Williams, Emma Kolesnik, Daniel Sonner
Columbia University was fourth in the Collegiate Bridge Bowl: Jing Zhang, Max Krawczyk, Jiaheng Hu, Yang Xu
Second in the Collegiate Individual was Hakan Berk of the University of Maryland, here with Barbara Heller, president of the Ed Foundation.