Mini-Spingold national bridge championships are held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). They were introduced in 2001 and are held at the same time as the main Spingold knockout team championship.

The Mini-Spingold comprises two simultaneous knockout team events. The Mini-Spingold I typically lasts 6 days(5 in 2013) with each day being a round consisting of two sessions of 28 boards. Since 2006 the Mini-Spingold II has been limited to 5 days, so teams may play two matches on the first day.

Mini-Spingold I (0-5000) (before 2017) (0-6000) (starting 2017)

This event is restricted to those with less than 5,000 masterpoints. As of 2017, the masterpoint limit has been raised to 6000.

Winners of Mini-Spingold I (0-5000)
Year City Number of teams Winners Runners-up
2001 Toronto 72 Brian Johnston, John Lloyd, Bill Woodcock, Gary Whiteman, Brooke Nelles, Dale Freeman Howard Gianera, Barry Purrington, Vernon Evans, Monte Evans, John Koch, Tony Ames
2002 Washington 63 Howard Einberg, Michael Mikyska, Alan Myerson, Jim Glickman, David Sokolow John Hodges, Lynn Johannesen, Dale Johannesen, Franklin Lowenthal
2003 Long Beach 41 Barbara Wallace, Mark Yaeger, Lisa Kow, Rich Pavlicek Jr., Brian Gunnell Marjorie Michelin, David Anding, Kenneth Titow, Ed Ulman, Andrew Vinock
2004 New York 40 Larry Mohr, Alex Hong, Shi Yan, Hao Ge, Yi Liu Keith Connolly, Andrew de Sosa, Bob Rebelein, Morrie Kleinplatz
2005 Atlanta 51 Walt Murphy, Julie Murphy, Steve DeVico, Gayle Covey, Elliott Grubman, Ava Grubman Richard Wegman, Arnold Malasky, Gloria Silverman Bart, Jim Russell
2006 Chicago 51 Martin Harris, Jacob Morgan, Jim Melville, Will Engel Paul Stern, Daniel Levin, James O’Neil, Christopher Mansour
2007 Nashville 61 Brian Alexander, Karl Hicks, Jim Gordon, Mike Betts Randy Okubo, Nathan Glasser, Bud Biswas, Susan Winkler
2008 Las Vegas 99 Joyce Hampton, Lukasz Lebioda, Jon Rice, Mike Rice, David Grainger Warren Cederborg, Greg Michaels, Dayou Zhou, Stephen Tu
2009 Washington 59 Jay Whipple III, Kevin Dwyer, Owen Lien, Jon Rice, David Grainger McKenzie Myers, Garth Yettick, Peggy Ware, Spencer Jones, Jon Brandon, Michael Sherman
2010 New Orleans 38 Morrie Kleinplatz, Mark Leonard, Robert Stayman, John Boyer Jim Russell, Nancy Spear, Mark Jones, Stephen Stewart
2011 Toronto 62 John Lewis, David Sokolow, Howard Einberg, Maris Zilant, Susan Fuller, Saul Gross Gary Donner, Deborah Murphy, Lauren Friedman, Larry Lerner
2012 Philadelphia 38 Yan Wang, Edward Xu, Peter Wong, Jianfeng Luo, Nongyu Li George Krizel, Albert Shekhter, Oleg Rubinchik, Igor Milman
2013 Atlanta 29 Max Aeschbacher, Josh Parks, Arjun Dhir, Alex Dezieck Randall Rubenstein, Marc Sylvester, Bill Begert, Doug Herron, Lorraine Cable, Doug Anderson
2014 Las Vegas 51 Mark Friedlander, Richard Fellars, Howard Engle, Mark Weisman Wenbo Zhang, Jiawei Luo, Robert Hou, Yuan Chen[1]
2015 Chicago 47 Steve Zolotow, Anam Tebha, Christian Jolly, Oren Kriegel, Sean Gannon Jonathan Fleischmann, Xu Wang, Brad Dracka, Jin Hu, Jordan Kaye[2]
2016 Washington 52 Edmund Wu, Jesse Chao, Alex Dezieck, Zhuo Wang Robert Bernstein, Jay Barron, Doris Van Delft, Merel Bruijnsteen[3]
2017 Toronto John McWhinnie, Henry Caspar, Debbie Feldman, Doug Barnes, Terry Richardson, Christopher Cowan Brad Bart, Detlef Ladewig, Terrence Rego, Andy Stark
2018 Atlanta Neil Stern, James Weeks, Dorn Bishop, Jim Johnsen David Shepler, Marsha Platnick, Brad Vander Zanden, Keith Hungate
2019 Las Vegas Greg Michaels, Martin Harris, John Botzum, Miriam Harris-Botzum Arti Bhargava, Ingi Agnarsson, Gudjon Sigurjonsson, Mark Leonard
2022 Providence Leon Yu, Winston Huang, Tsao-Tung Tsai, Bing Le David Yoon, Lorraine Cable, Jordan, Lampe, Jacqueline Chang

Mini-Spingold II (0-1500)

This event is restricted to those with less than 1,500 masterpoints. In 2017, the masterpoint limit was raised to 2,500 masterpoints.

Winners of Mini-Spingold (0-1500)
Year City Number of teams Winners Runners-up
2001 Toronto 36 Bob Hollow, Motaz Farag, Jim Brickman, Bill Kertes, Leo Takefman, Irving Goodman Larry Friedman, Jennifer Gianera, Jerry Poliquin, Larry Delefs, Ala Sobol, Mileva Jobin
2002 Washington 53 Bob Hollow, Motaz Farag, Gabriel Tawil, Theo Lichtenstein Maeve Mahon, John Segal, Russell Friedman, Allan Wolf
2003 Long Beach 36 Matt Meckstroth, Rob Meckstroth, Rich Regan, James Hawkes, Andrew Hurd Bruce Blakely, Fred Stout, Nancy Ferguson, David Bryant
2004 New York 32 Mark Teaford, Norton Rimer, Myron Rimer, Ronald Resnick Doris Banks, Christine Woodring, Paul Lenoble, Lew Kroll
2005 Atlanta 34 Nancy Ferguson, David Bryant, Bruce Blakely, Dmitri Shabes Nicolas Hammond, Martin Nathan, Maureen McGuire, Edward Foran, John Hassett, Robert Ternosky
2006 Chicago 43 Steve Callaham, John Hassett, Edward Foran, Nicolas Hammond Eric Hendrickson, Richard Lawson, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Jason Bribitzer-Stull
2007 Nashville 41 Matt Meckstroth, Robert Glickman, Sam Katz, Daniel Goldfein Owen Lien, Eric Mayefsky, Eric Sieg, David Coberly, Zach Brescoll, Mike Develin
2008 Las Vegas 45 Brian Duran, Gloria Tsoi, Lon Sunshine, Ivanie Yeo John Scibelli, Thomas Shulman, Justine Hancock, Sali Ma
2009 Washington 61 Eric Hendrickson, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, Jason Bribitzer-Stull, Andy Caranicas Victor Hsu, Ted Wilson, Paul Fagan, Sandy Johnson
2010 New Orleans 27 Jennifer Gu, Adam Portley, Belinda Gu, Jonathan Pines Steve Callaham, David Schulman, Patrick Corn, Megan Corn
2011 Toronto 31 Yuan Chen, Wenbo Zhang, Sam Yu, Kaiyu Qian Jean La Traverse, Josette Levesque, Richard Collette, Sylvie Levesque
2012 Philadelphia 30 Max Glick, Zach Scherr, Jin Hu, Zach Wasserman, Jonathan Fleischmann Claude Le Feuvre, Perry Poole, Stan Weiner, Ping Hu
2013 Atlanta 23 Buddy Landis, John Felker, Stephanie Felker, Rick Whitehead Barbara Newman, Don Turner, Hannah Tidman, Yaron Schweizer
2014 Las Vegas 33 Om Chokriwala, Fred Upton, Kevin Lane, Steve Ramos, Jr Mary Ose, Gary Ansok, Arti Bhargava, Todd Werby[4]
2015 Chicago 23 Hunter McClain, Benjamin Kompa, Xiyuan Ge, Kenneth Ramaley Kenneth Hopke, Jerry Nolte, Elizabeth Nolte, Phil Feldman[5]
2016 Washington 29 Curt Kristensen, Gregory Sellgren, Ti Davis, Brian Rink Winston Chang, Joe Albert Garcia, Wayne Gorski, Frank Lin, Kenny Pan[6]
2017 Toronto 40 Tsao-Tung Tsai, Luen-Jyh Luo, Edward So, Jack Uppal Kerry Cotterell Bruce Williams, Curt Kristensen, Howard Montemurro
2018 Atlanta 20 Jim Liu, Tsao-Tung Tsai, Xuhua Lin, Leon Yu Liu Xiang, Zhengwen Li, Yike Xie, Yuxuan Chen, Liang Min
2019 Las Vegas 21 Jordan Lampe, Jacqueline Chang, Christopher Moh, Siqing Yu Scott Nason, Jeff Dater, Nancy Heck, Alexander Wiles
2020 Online (Fall) 36 Kyle Rockoff, Daniel Weiss, Gan Yang, Derek Wong, Sarik Goyal, Ben Fisk Xin Ge, Sarah Chen, Serena Guo, Wanwan Ren, Brandon Ge, Brent Xiao
2021 Online (Spring) 40 Howard Booth, Paul Hattis, James Orleans, David Edelson, Steven Fox Wanwan Ren, Serena Guo, Jung Hu, Qing Lu
2021 Online (Summer) 24 James Dahlberg, Alan Munro, Colin Schloss, Nick Migliacci Brian Zhang, Eric Xiao, Serena Guo, Wanwan Ren, Victor Xiao, Jeff Xiao

References

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Sources

List of previous winners, Page 7 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 80–4, July 21, 2008, archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2015

2008 Mini-Spingold II winners, Page 1 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 80–9, July 26, 2008[permanent dead link]

2008 Mini-Spingold I winners, Page 1 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 80, July 28, 2008, archived from the original (PDF) on April 11, 2014

2009 Mini-Spingold II results, Page 16 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 81, August 1, 2009[permanent dead link]

2009 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 10 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 81, August 2, 2009[permanent dead link]

Page 3, District 8 Advocate (PDF), December 2005

2010 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 12 Daily Bulletin, vol. 82, August 1, 2010, archived from the original (PDF) on July 13, 2012

2011 Mini-Spingold I results, Page 16 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 83, July 31, 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2012

2011 Mini-Spingold II results, Page 18 Daily Bulletin (PDF), vol. 83, July 30, 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2012

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