After the Final Rounds on Sunday, October 31st, the Champions of the PCU Bridge Trophy 2021 were determined:
1. University of Liège (BEL)
2. Riga Technical University (LAT)
3. KU Leuven (BEL)
Full results of all rounds available here.
3 Group Rounds and the Semifinal Round were played on the first competition day of the PCU Bridge Trophy. 64 Rounds were played during a long day of Contract Bridge with some exciting and high-level games. Afterwards all participants enjoyed a late pizza-dinner in Antwerp city center to relax their mind.
Tomorrow at 10:00 CET the final round is played for the final ranking of the PCU Bridge Trophy 2021. The final for 1st place will be played between Riga Technical University (Latvia) and University of Liège (Belgium).
Good luck to all participants in tomorrows finals!
Results of the 1st competition day are available here.
After the Opening Ceremony and Reception at University of Antwerp “Hof van Liere” on Friday October 29 a Welcome Pairs Tournament were organized. For this
tournament also local Antwerp bridge players were invited, who will not participate in the main event. 12 couples competed in six rounds of 4 boards per round. Six rounds have determined the winners of the PCU Bridge Trophy’s first day:
🥇 Koenraad Keignaert & Magerman Geert
🥈 Depauw Frederic & Goubert Joost
🥉 Peeters Ivan & Volcke Philippe
Results of Welcome Pairs Tournament are available here.
The 3rd edition of the PCU Bridge Trophy kicked off today at the University of Antwerp’s Hof van Liere. It is the first live event organized by PCU Committee since the pandemic.
Honorary rector Francis baron Van Loon and Stefan Waegemans of DUA (Mind sports club of the University of Antwerp) welcomed all participants and guests after which Dr. Koenraad Keignaert, chairman of the PCU Bridge Trophy Organizing Committee, officially opened the tournament.
First on the program is the welcome tournament, followed by the PCU Bridge Trophy itself on Saturday and Sunday.
After a great night of online Bridge on BBO, the first tournament of the PCU Bridge Trophy 2021 has been played. After 12 rounds (24 boards), with a varying level between players, but a high level of Fair Play, the Champions of the PCU@HOME Online Pairs Tournament are known:
1. Wouter Van den hove & Ines Meersman (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
2. Jose Nuno Moraes & Rita Arraiano (ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)
3. Soham Sarkar (Indira Gandhi National Open University, India) & Prajjwal Mayur (University of Glascow, SCO)
Full results are available through this link.
Find here all boards played by the winning team of Wouter Van den hove (Woutte) and Ines Meersman (Nessie_89) from University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Starting Friday, University Bridge will be back on venue in Antwerp, during the PCU Bridge Trophy.
27 teams from 30 universities (17 countries, 4 continents) are announced to participate in the PCU Bridge@Home tournament on Wednesday 27 October 2021 at 19:00-22:00 CET.
1. Airlangga University, Indonesia
2. Brawijaya University, Indonesia
3. Cardiff University, Wales
4. Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
5. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland
6. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
7. IAIN Tulungagung, Indonesia
8. Indira Gandhi National Open University, India
9. ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
10. ISEC, Argentina
11. King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
12. La Salle Campus Barcelona, Spain
13. Leibniz University Hanover, Germany
14. Novosibirsk State University, Russia
15. Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
16. Senior High School Dampit, Indonesia
17. Toulouse Business School, France
18. Universidad del Salvador, Argentina
19. Universidad Tecnica Nacional, Argentina
20. University of Antwerp, Belgium
21. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
22. University of Freiburg, Germany
23. University of Genova, Italy
24. University of Glasgow, Scotland
25. University of Islam Malang, Indonesia
26. University of Milano, Italy
27. University of Novi Sad, Serbia
28. University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
29. University of Southampton, England
30. Voronezh State Technical University, Russia
Download the full list of participants here.
We will play 12 rounds of 2 boards. Variation: Pairs, Matchpoints
You can follow the online pairs Bridge tournament on BBO: http://www.bridgebase.com
🤝 We like to highlight the BBO-rule: “We ask that you be polite, kind, and treat others as you would wish to be treated.”
The 2nd PCU Bridge Trophy was organized – due to Covid 19 – online on the BBO platform from 27 to 29 November 2020. Despite the online setting, the host University of Antwerp facilitated the necessary logistic support to ensure again a succesful edition.
The 2020 edition welcomed a tremendous number of 170 students from 25 universities divided over 16 countries, with some of the most prestigious and well known universities in the world present.
On Friday 27 November, Organizing Committee President, Dr. Koenraad Keignaert of the University of Antwerp, opened the PCU Bridge Trophy with a motivating video message.
During the Qualification Round on Saturday 28 November all teams played three rounds (of 8 boards) in a group phase, with randomly assigned groups. Due to the different time zones in which teams were playing, the Chile team started their first game at 6AM. After this group phase 4 more rounds of qualifiers were played in a Swiss System (-1). With the ranking board changing continuously, it was a challenging race to the top-8 spots for Sunday’s Quarter Finals. At the end the following teams qualified: University of Zagreb (Croatia), University of Montpellier (France), University of Antwerp (Belgium), University of Technology of Compiègne (France), University of Leiden (Netherlands, last year’s silver medallists), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh), University of Angers/ENSAI (France) and NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal). Players from Indonesia and Thailand turned off their computer only after 2AM.
The teams not qualifying (ranked 9 and lower) started Sunday 29 November in the Consolation Round, with 5 more rounds to determine the final ranking. The Dutch Utrecht University – last year’s bronze medal winner – was the proud winner of the Consolation Cup. Meanwhile, University of Montpellier, UTC, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and NOVA University of Lisbon qualified for the Semi-finals, playing 2x 10 boards. After half of the boards played, both French teams were facing the necessary difficulties but the Montpellier team managed to overcome their deficit against the Lisbon team and qualified for the final. The team from Bangladesh held on to their lead and qualified at the expense of the Compiègne team. Final games led to a bronze medal for the University of Technology of Compiègne and, after an exciting last boards in the final, the first title for the University of Montpellier (France). Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology ensured the silver medal.
All results and rankings are available on the webpage of the PCU Bridge Trophy 2020. As it was not possible to award cups, medals and certificates physically, these items will be sent to all participants in the next weeks. A special thanks goes out to our Technical Team (international referee Kuba Kasprzak and Aleksander Krych) for insuring the smooth running of the online tournament!
“I’m very pleased with the Fair Play attitude during all competition interaction”, said PCU Committee Secretary General Gabriel Kotchofa. “Even online, students express their will to ensure Universal Friendship through sport. We thank all participants for their constructive contributions.”
With the finals just finished and exciting final boards in the competition final, we are proud to announce the podium of the 2020 PCU Bridge Trophy:
Congratulations to all 170 participants for their Fair Play during the competition!
Full results and standings of the entire competition available on our Results website.
After a day filled with 7 rounds and 56 boards of bridge played by each team, the Qualification Round of the PCU Bridge Trophy 2020 has ended, with the 8 best teams qualifying for the Quarter Finals, tomorrow morning. The teams ranked 9 and lower will play in a Swiss System for the Consolidation Cup. Host team University of Antwerp (Belgium) and tournament favourites University of Technology of Compiègne (France) are among the qualified teams, as is the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh). Other quarter finalists: University of Zagreb (Croatia), University of Leiden (Netherlands), University of Angers / ENSAI (France), NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal) and University of Montpellier (France).
Full results of all rounds and pairings for tomorrow’s games can be found on the PCU Bridge Trophy 2020 website.
The Chairman of the PCU Bridge Trophy, Dr. Koenraad Keignaert, welcomes all participants via the video below.
