DUBAI NATIONAL DAY BRIDGE TOURNAMENT THE TOURNAMENT WAS HELD IN THE MEMORY OF (LATE) MR. QASIM NOORANI WHO WAS THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT DUPLICATE BRIDGE IN UAE, LIKE (LATE) MR. KHAJA AZEEMUDDIN, WHO HELD THE SAME DISTINCTION IN PAKISTAN,. THE TOURNAMENT WAS HELD AT MEDIA ROTANA BARSHA, DUBAI, SITUATED IN THE INTERNET CITY, DUBAI. SOME ENTHUSIAST LIKE MR. AHMED AL MIDFA, MRS. DURRIYA VASI, MRS. NERMEEN QASEEM AND MR. AMR MEKKY FORMED AN ASSOCIATION ‘FOUR JACKS’ AND TOOK THE PAINS TO ORGANIZE SUCH A MEGA EVENT. TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNICAL EQUIPMENTS WERE OBTAINED FROM EGYPT BRIDGE ASSOCIATION AND MANUAL SUPPORT BY SHARJAH BRIDGE ASSOCIATION. THE PROGRAMME WAS SPREAD OVER THREE SESSIONS OF PAIRS, HELD AS MITCHEL MOVEMENT AND GROUPS WERE SHITED AFTER EACH ROUNDS, TOTAL PRIZE MONEY WAS US$ 40,000. ENTRY FEE us$ 130 PER PERSON IN PAIRS, us$80 PER PERSON FOR MIXED AND 520 PER TEAM. IN ALL 119 PAIRS PARTICIPATED IN THE OPEN PAIRS, 67 IN MIXED PAIRS AND 30 TEAMS CONTESTED THE MAIN TEAM EVENT. HOSPITALITY WAS AT ITS BEST AND ALL GUESTS WERE GREETED WITH GIFTS AND SNACKS, SOFT DRINKS, COFFES, TEA, MINERAL WATER WAS SERVED IN A MOST CORDIAL MANNER AND SKY WAS THE LIMIT FOR THESE REFRESHMENTS. ALL THE SIX DAYS OF THE EVENT, ARABIC, CONTINENTAL AND ENGLISH LUNCH WAS SERVED, BESIDES TWO GALA DINNERS, ONE BY HOTEL HOLIDAY INN AND THE OTHER BY THE HOST AFTER THE CLOSING CEREMONY. IN THE OPEN PAIRS, EIGHT POSITION HOLDERS WERE GIVEN CASH PRIZES, WHICH ARE AS UNDER; WINNER….. Rashidul Ghazi – Tehsin Gheewala (Pak) Runners-up MAUD – LILY – (Egypt) Third …… Chouri Sader – Michel Edi Fourth… Timur Edi – Elevin Edi Fifth Hooda S.k.- Sinha A.K. (India) Sixth Kemal Shoaib – Khurshid Hadi (Pak) Seventh Akil Mady – Amr Mekky (UAE) Eight to 10th Ziaullah Baig – Hamed Mohiuddin (Pak) US$ Ninus Boulehris-Melih Nermeen Qasim- Nafis Jafer (All Sectional winners and runners-up were given US$ 200 and 100 each. MIXED PAIR WAS LIMITED TO TWO SESSIONS AND WAS HELD ON SUNDAY 1ST DEC 2014 AND 67 PAIRS PARTICIPATED. FOLLOWING WERE THE TOP 10 POSITION HOLDERS First Nahia Hamdan – Giorgo 2ND May Refal – Hamayun 3rd Teeta – Javed Miran (Pak) 4th maria Kessis- Mansoor Habib(Pak) 5th Faten Farahat- Amr Farrag 6th to 10th Mona Mehriz – Michel Edi Huda Saket – AbdullaCheaban Nadia Al-arabi-Ahmed Mounir Vasu – Manju May Zaitoun – Akil Mady 30 teams participated in the main event and it was conducted on “Danish System”, quite unlike our traditional Swiss Movement, as we have seen that the ultimate winner, Azurie of India played thrice against runners-up Maud (twice in the qualifying round) and third time in the third set. After the conclusion of 8th Round, 8 teams were grouped into two, top four in one and 5th to 8th in the other group. In the final set, they played round robin league matches in their groups. Following were the groups and their ultimate positions GROUP A 1ST AZURIE OF INDIA (Subhash Gupta, SK Hooda etc) 2ND MAUD OF EGYPT (lily - Dr Hesham Atef - and Monir 3RD BILAL (Gulzar Bilal, Reena, Pervaiz Mirza, Farrukh Liaqat) 4TH PAKISTANIS (Rashidul Ghazi, Tehsin Gheewala, Ziaullah Hamed Mohiuddin, Mubashir & Junaid Said) GROUP B 5TH HODA 6TH HUMAYUN 7TH KAMRAN(Kamran Ibrahim, Azher Hameed, Shauq Hussain Masud Mazhar) 8TH AHSAN(Ahsan Zahir Rizvi, Anwer Kizilbash, Abdul Muqeet & Wajahat Suri) In the Plate Championship for the Non-qualifiers, (I was informed, since I had to hurry to catch the evening flight) that Khurshid Hadi’s team finished runners-up) SINCE NO BULLETINS WERE ISSUED, NEITHER NAMES OF TEAM MEMBERS WERE DISPLAYED AT ANY STAGE, IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO KNOW THE NAMES WITH CONFIDENCE.
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