The Rand Cup is a transnational Seniors team event held during the World Bridge Series. It was named in the honour of Nissan Rand, also known as “Mr Senior Bridge”, as he gave life to this category of Bridge.
1. VYTAS: Wojciech Olański, Vytautas Vainikonis (Lithuania) Apolinary Kowalski, Michał Kwiecień, Jacek Romański, Włodzimierz Starkowski (Poland)
2. GOODMAN: David Berkowitz, Andy Goodman, Mark Lair, Jeff Meckstroth, Mike Passell (USA)
3. PENFOLD: Paul Hackett, John Holland, Alan Mould, Kay Preddy, Norman Selway, Brian Senior (England)
3. ZIMMERMANN: Marc Bompis, Philippe Soulet (France), Krzysztof Martens (Monaco), Piotr Gawryś, Piotr Tuszyński (Poland), Pierre Zimmermann (Switzerland), Fernando Piedra (NPC)
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1. MILNER: Steve Garner (USA), Michal Kwiecien (Poland), Mark Lair (USA), Hemant Lall (USA), Krzysztof Martens (Monaco), Reese Milner (USA), Petra Hamman (npc) (USA), Jacek Pszczola (coach) (USA).
2. CHINA EVERTRUST: Rongqiang Lin, Mingkun Shen, Xiaonong Shen, Ming Sun, Jian Hua Tao (China).
3. SILVERMAN: Robert Lebi (Canada), Barnet J Shenkin (USA), Neil Silverman (USA), Fred Stewart (USA).
3. WOLFSON: David Berkowitz, Bart Bramley, Bob Hamman, Michael Rosenberg, Jeff Wolfson, Kit Woolsey (USA).
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1. MILNER: Reese Milner (Captain), Hemant Lall (USA), Michel Bessis, Philippe Cronier (France), Apolinary Kowalski, Jacek Romanski (Poland).
2. STERNBERG: James Marsh Sternberg (Captain), Neil Chambers, Billy Eisenberg, Arnold Fisher, Fred Hamilton, John Schermer (USA).
3. HACKETT: Paul Hackett (Captain), John Holland, John Sansom (England), Christian Mari (France).
3. LEWIS: Paul Lewis (Captain), Ross Grabel, Mark Itabashi, Linda Lewis (USA), Jurek Czyzowicz, Dan Jacob (Canada).
23 teams entered the Rand Cup.
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1. HACKETT: Paul Hackett, Gunnar Hallberg, Garey Hayden, John Holland, Reese Milner.
2. TEAM MARKOWICZ: Julian Klukowski, Victor Melman, Roald Ramer, Jerzy Russian, Shalom Zeligman, Victor Markovicz.
3. GABRIAL UI: Michael B. Hartono, Henky Lasut, Eddy Manoppo, Denny Sacu, Munawar Sawiruddin.
The 39 teams in the Rand Senior Cup played the same format event as the McConnell.
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1. MARKOWICZ: Shalom Zeligman, Victor Markowicz, Victor Melman, Jerzy Zaremba, Julian Klukowski, Aleksander Jezioro.
2. FINKEL: John Sutherlin, Lew Finkel, Gaylor Kasle, John Mohan.
3. NETHERLANDS 1: Jaap Trouwborst, Willem Boegem, Nico Doremans, Onno Janssens, Nico Klaver, Roald Ramer.
There were 42 entries in the Senior Teams, a four-day event, with the first two-and-half days devoted to a 10-round Swiss Qualifying stage of 10-board matches. The top eight teams would survive to the knockout phase.
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1. Diana Holt – Boris Baran – Joe Godefrin – George Mittelman – Ed Schulte (USA/Canada).
2. Gene Freed – Nels Erickson – Lew Finkel – Joe Kivel – Chris Larson – Bernie Miller (USA).
3. Elly Schippers – Jan-Willem Bomhof – Roald Ramer – Henk Schippers (The Netherlands).
31 Seniors teams entered the Seniors teams.
This was Swiss event with four daily matches of 12 boards. After 3 days, the first four teams played a semi final and a final/play off of 32 boards.
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1. ROHAN: Nissan Rand, Moshe Katz (Israel), Christo Drumev (Bulgaria), Karl Rohan and Franz Baratta (Austria).
2. SZENBERG (Poland).
3. ORLOW (Poland).
The Elf Transnational Senior Teams drew an entry of 38 teams.
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1. Franz Baratta – Karl Rohan (Austria) – Kees Kaiser – Bob Kaiser (The Netherlands) – Moshe Katz – Nissan Rand (Israel).
2. Russell Arnolds – Bill Eisenberg – Fred Hamilton – Zeke Jabbour – Mike Levine – Tom Sanders (USA).
3. Howard Hertzberg – Duncan Phillips – Robert Ryder – Bill Solomon (USA).
35 teams entered the NEC Seniors Teams.