The Grand National Teams (GNT) North American bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC).

The Grand National Teams is a team knockout event. The event is broken into four flights (Championship, A, B, C). The event is restricted to those who have qualified in their local ACBL district. No player on a flight A team can have more than 6,000 masterpoints. No player on a flight B team can have more than 2,500 masterpoints. No player on a flight C team can have more than 500 masterpoints, or be a Life Master.

All flights typically begin play on Wednesday, two days before the main NABC events.

 

Qualification - Club Level

There are no organized Club-level GNT Qualification games in New England.

 

Qualification - District/Regional Level

Any interested team consisting of all New England (D25) players can compete in the GNT Finals, which will determine who will represent the Distrcit at the next GNT event at the following Summer NABC.

In 2025, the Distrct competiion will be held as part of of the Mansfield, MA Regional in February. Any interested team can can play in their level event and above,

The winning pairs will represent the New England District at the Summer, 2025 NABC in Philadelphia, PA.

 

Previous D25 Winners

New England has a long and storied history of GNT winners:

Championship Flight

Year	Dist	Winners	Dist	Runners-up
2008	9	Mike Becker, Warren Spector, Larry N. Cohen, David Berkowitz, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell	25	Doug Doub, Frank Merblum, John Stiefel, Lloyd Arvedon, Victor King, Sheila Gabay
2016	25	Douglas Doub, Franklin Merblum, Adam Grossack, Zachary Grossack	21	Chip Martel, Kit Woolsey, Lew Stansby, Jo Anna Stansby, Debbie Rosenberg, David Grainger

 

Flight A

Year	Dist	Winners	Dist	Runners-up
2023	19	Eric Sieg, Kim Eng, Kevin Bolan, Jeff Ford	25	Maxim Siline, Carrie Liu, Melody Bi, Anton Tsypkin

 

Flight B

Year	Dist	Winners	Dist	Runners-up
2006	25	Bernard Schneider, Frances Schneider, Allan Wolf, Russell Friedman	5	Dan Roseberry, John Bacon, John Tscholl, Jim Overcasher
2007	21	John Barth, Jiang Chen, Mike Develin, Nongyu Li	25	Robert McCaw, Florin Constantin, Gregory Ingolia, Lewis Gamerman

 

Flight C

Year	Dist	Winners	Dist	Runners-up
1996	25	Mark Edeburn, Susan Ostrowski, Dan Berlowitz, Joseph Seo		Mark DeGarcia, Marcus Rodhouse, Steven Erickson, Sheng-Hung Wang
2000		Zbigniew Musznyski, Marian Kowalewski, Pavel Boruta, Robert Boruta, Michael Omielski, Eugenisz Babiarz	25	Barry Margolin, Suresh Adina, Leo Zelevinsky, Otis Bricker
2012	6	Alexander Prairie, Sylvia Shi, Hakan Berk, David Soukup	25	Daniel Jablonski, Emily Shen, Reid Barton, Vincent Fish