2027 College Bridge Bowl

Las Vegas • July 22-24, 2027

Play Your Cards Right. Win a Trip to Vegas!

The 2027 Collegiate Bridge Bowl is headed to Las Vegas, and you could be going for free!

Compete in our spring online tournaments for a chance to win a travel package to the Collegiate Bridge Bowl, July 22–24, 2027.

Play against college students from across North America, test your skills and see if you've got what it takes to make it to Vegas!

2027 Tournament Dates

(Registration Opens Soon!)

Teams 1: Saturday, March 6
Teams 2: Sunday, April 4
Pairs: Saturday, April 10
Participation (Pairs): March 15- April 30

Team Travel Package Details

What’s Included:

♠ Airfare up to $600 per person for up to six players
♠ Four nights of hotel accommodations (double occupancy)
♠ A $50 per diem per person

Team Travel Packages are sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), and the ACBL Educational Foundation (ACBLEF)

How to Qualify:
Each college can win one Team Travel Package during the Spring Online Team Tournaments. three team travel packages will be awarded at each event.

Pair Travel Package Details

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: Saturday, April 10, 2027: Registration Deadline is April 5 (coming soon).
The first session will start at 11 a.m. and the second session will begin at 3:30 p.m. (Central Time)
Spring Pair Tournament Conditions of Contest coming soon

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 12, 2027 (coming soon). Participation points are earned by playing in CBO Daily Tournaments from March 15–April 30, 2027.
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, 2027, 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.

Eligibility Requirements and Documents

Teams Conditions of Contest
Each team and pair must designate a proctor to audit play, and that proctor must submit a signed proctor agreement after each event. Pairs Participation event does not require proctors.

Team Proctor Agreement,
Pair Proctor Agreement

Important:
All participants must:

♠ Be paid ACBL members in good standing. Guest members are not eligible and must join as a full member prior to the start of the tournament. Junior membership (under age 26) is only $5.
♠ Be registered members of the College Bridge Online (CBO) Program.
♠ Have completed at least two daily CBO games between August 2026 and the start of the tournament.
♠ Submit a signed Agreement of Fair and Sportsmanlike Participation before play begins.

New to online tournaments? Check out these
helpful hints.

Schools with Teams and Pairs Who Participated in the 2026 Bridge Bowl Events

Amherst College
Arizona State University
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Duke University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Lehigh University
New York University
Northwestern University
Pratt Institute
Princeton University
Purdue University
Queen's University

Trine University
Tufts University
University of Alberta
University of California Berkeley
University of California Davis
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Michigan
University of North Texas
University of Notre Dame
University of Virginia
University of Waterloo
Washington University in St. Louis
Western University

2026 Collegiate Bridge Championship Results

The 2026 Collegiate Bridge Championship in Minneapolis brought together 140 college students from 26 schools for an exciting weekend of competitive and fun bridge. Congratulations to all our winners. See photos in our Facebook album and recaps in the July 18-19 Daily Bulletins.

Mitch Dunitz Open Team Championship

First: University of California Berkeley - Weichen Tang, Zhenling Wang, Mihir Singhal and Ethan Xie
Second: Georgia Institute of Technology - Justin Shiao, Alex Han, Lior Weber and Chase Lefevre
Third: New York University - Jan Borowski, Marin Hirono, Quentin Liang, Ava Donnellan and Xingrui Wang
Fourth: University of Chicago - Sascha Gordon-Zolov, Richmond Yeung, Zheshen Li and Ian Dunbar

Mitch Dunitz Limited Team Championship

First: Duke University - Anthony Zhao, Surya Naresh, Plato Deliyannis and Erel Amit
Second: Purdue University - Alice Zhang, Nathaniel Miller, Connor Schmutz and Will Warms

Open Pairs

First: Northwestern University - Jiateng Sun and Zeyu “Steven” Wan
Second: Georgia Institute of Technology - Lior Weber and Chase Lefevre
Third: NYU - Ava Donnellan and Margot Donnellan

99er Pairs

First: Duke University - Anirudh Jain and Anthony Zhao
Second: University of Western Ontario - Rachel Penney and Matia Sinclair

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