2026 College Bridge Bowl
Join us in Minneapolis, July 16–18, 2026, for the biggest collegiate bridge event of the year. Earn a travel package for your team or pair by competing in spring online tournaments and the CBO Daily Games.
Stratified Pairs Tournament
What’s Included:
- ♠ Airfare up to $600 per person
- ♠ Three nights of hotel accommodations (double occupancy)
- ♠ A $50 per diem per person
How to Qualify:
Each school may win one pair travel package during the Spring Online Pair Tournament or Participation Event.
Players who have already earned a travel package through the team events are welcome to compete in the pair event for masterpoints and the experience of play. However, they are not eligible to receive an additional travel package.
If a pair finishes in a qualifying position and one or both partners already hold a team travel package, the award will pass to the next eligible pair. A package holder and a non-package holder may play together, but the pair will not be eligible for a travel award.
Six pair packages will be awarded at this tournament.
Stratified Tournament: Sunday, April 12, 2026: Registration Deadline is April 6.
Pairs Participation Packages
What’s Included:
- ♠ Airfare up to $600 per person
- ♠ Three nights of hotel accommodations (double occupancy)
- ♠ A $50 per diem per person
How to Qualify:
Pairs must register by Friday, March 13, 2026. Participation points are earned by playing in CBO Daily Tournaments from March 15–April 30, 2026.
Note: Just Declare tournaments do not count toward participation points. Each school may win one pair travel package during the Spring Online Pair Tournament or Participation Event.
- ♠ One point per player per day
- ♠ Results calculated April 30 at midnight Pacific
- ♠ Winners announced Monday, May 4, 2026, excluding schools that have already won a pair package
- ♠ Ties broken by drawing
- ♠ Players who have already won a travel package in a team event are not eligible to play in the pairs event unless they forfeit their team travel package.
A total of six pair travel packages will be awarded based on participation.
Pairs Travel Packages are sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and the ACBL Educational Foundation (ACBLEF).
2025 Collegiate Bridge Championship Results
The 2025 Collegiate Bridge Championship in Philadelphia was the largest Collegiate Bridge Bowl yet, bringing together 140 college students from 29 schools for an exciting weekend of competitive and fun bridge. Congratulations to all our winners.
Mitch Dunitz Team Championship
- First: Princeton University
- Second: University of California Berkeley
- Third: New York University
- Fourth: Georgia Institute of Technology
Open Pairs
- First: Western University
- Second: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Third: University of Waterloo
99er Pairs
- First: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Second: Princeton University
See the action:
We are already looking forward to the next Collegiate Bridge Championship in Minneapolis, MN, July 16–18, 2026. It is the perfect summer destination with beautiful parks, fascinating museums, and of course plenty of bridge!
