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USBGF 2011 National Collegiate Backgammon Championship
Posted By: Karen Davis
Date: Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 1:12 p.m.
The U.S. Backgammon Federation (USBGF) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 USBGF National Collegiate Backgammon Championship: the University of California at Los Angeles defeated Northwestern University in the finals in a proctored online event on April 23rd. The UCLA team consisted of Dan Ben-Moshe, Joe Roth, and Ashim Ahuja, each of whom receive a $300 scholarship from the U.S. Backgammon Federation. Joe Russell, tournament organizer, commented that he was truly amazed at the high quality of play. Most of these students are new to tournament play, but they put in a lot of study and hard work the past few months preparing for this competition. Thanks go to USBGF members who organized the tournament, coached the students, proctored the online play, and funded the scholarship prizes. As a result, backgammon is now a growing attraction at colleges and universities across the U.S. Over two dozen schools have started backgammon clubs in the past year under the leadership of Phil Simborg, USBGF Education Advisor. The second place Northwestern University team included players Naveed Heydari, Uri Magaram, Kerem Taskin, and Michael Harper. Third and fourth place teams were: Indiana University (Benjamin Hugon, Brian Rogers, Eric Wallace), Princeton (Kamron Saniee, Boris Alexeev, Onder Polat). Fifth through eight place went to: Clemson (Ben Cousins, Justen Brewster, Christopher Corsi), Harvey Mudd College (Louis Ryan, Jeff Burkert, Jonathan Schwartz, and Emily Fischer), a second Northwestern team (Jesse Anderson-Leyman, Stephen Bock, and Michael Davis), and Yale (Ryan McKinnon, Yuval Bussi, Edward Shaer).
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