Board 1 Jeff and Scooter start well, landing in a safe partscore, 2 Clubs, after a negative free bid.  +90 Small plus position for Frukacz
Win 5 (+90 in 2 Diamonds by Piotr)

Board 2 Jeff and Scooter roll into 3N on 26 high. +600 Flat
Push

Board 3 Jeff and Scooter rolled into 6 Diamonds when Scooter was dealt a fat 5-1-6-1 hand (AK986 / 4/ KQJT96 / Q)
Push

Board 4 Jeff and Scooter said 'I don't think so' to a greedy uncontested 1NT 3NT sequence with 12 opposite 11.  Down 1. -100  Plus position for Frukacz
Win 6 (+140 As expected, Waldemar and Piotr played at the 2 level.( in a 5-2 Heart fit))

Board 5 I was otherwise occupied for a bit so the next few have an immediate comparison.  Jeff and Scooter found a great defense against 3 Clubs while Waldemar and Piotr were in 3NT making 5.
Win 11 (+460 and +50)

Board 6 Jeff and Scooter sold to 2 Spades when they had 24 high.  Thurston and Delogu bid 3NT, which was cold on the lie of the cards.
Lose 11 (-110 and -400)

Board 7 was a flat 3NT making 4 on 25 high.
Push

Board 8 was a flat 3NT making 6 (very friendly lie of the cards) on 28 high.
Push

Board 9 Balcombe and Colbert bid 3NT on 27 high missing a Diamond stopper after Jeff opened 1 Diamond.  They took the last 7 tricks. -200 Plus position for Frukacz
Win 13 (+600, 5 Clubs)

Board 10 Jeff and Scooter got to 3NT on 25 high.  +600 A little bit thin, so small plus position for Frukacz.
Lose 1 (-630)

Board 11 Balcombe and Colbert bid 3NT on 23 high missing a Heart stopper.  They took the last 6 tricks. -150 Plus position for Frukacz
Lose 2 (Piotr only took the last 5 tricks in the same contract)

Board 12 Balcombe and Colbert got carried away and ended in 5 Hearts, which was slated to go down, off AK of Diamonds and the King of trumps offside.  Scooter led a Spade, which Balcombe could have ridden around to his stiff Q, but Jeff had preempted with 2 Spades and he instead played for Jeff to have the King of trumps.  -100  Big plus position for Frukacz
Win 10 (+420)

Board 13 Jeff and Scooter got to 4 Hearts in a 4-4 fit with 28 high.  3NT also makes (in spite of the lack of a Club stopper.  Flat
Push

Board 14 Jeff and Scooter got to a WHITE 4 Hearts on 23 high in an 8 card fit that has almost no play (maybe not almost) on a diamond lead.  They led a trump.  +420 Plus position for Frukacz
Win 1 (Delogu in 3NT, -400)

Board 15 Waldemar bid to a pretty normal, slightly pushy 4 Spades that had no play on a ruff. -50 Small plus position for Thurston.
Lose 6 (Jeff and Scooter got a little overboard, in 5 Clubs (10 card fit, 21 points) down 2, -200)

Board 16 Delogu and Thurston got to 2 Diamonds in their 8 card fit with 21 high and it got ruffed to pieces. Down 2 -100 Small plus position for Frukacz.
Push (Scooter was in 3 Diamonds doubled and luckily the defense wasn't quite as deadly, down 1 for the same -100)

Segment result 46-20 Frukacz  Overall Match Score 280-205 Frukacz

Jeff and Scooter played great.  They won 3 of their 4 sets and arguably their best set was the one they lost when they pulled their teammates out of 90% of the hole they'd dug.  I'm really happy they ended on such a positive note.  They earned this win.  What an accomplishment.

So, for the last set I think I'll kibitz the pair on the team who qualified for this event, Chatagnier and Pelletier (they ADDED Jeff, Waldemar and Piotr when those 3 failed to qualify and Scooter, who didn't attempt to qualify.)  They've been the most solid pair all event, from my perspective.  Once again Thurston has conjured up IMPs out of thin air and the 'official' score is 280-207 Frukacz.

Board 17 Chatagnier bought it for 3 Spades with AQ97652 / AT / 9732 / - when Nick had jumped to 4 Spades on the same cards.  Both took 8 tricks. 
Win 2

Board 18 Waldemar and Piotr got whipped in 5 Hearts and wrapped it in the other room.  Thurston played in a routine 4 Hearts making 5. 
Win 5

Board 19 Waldemar and Piotr had a bidding misunderstanding (well, Piotr did, anyway) and ended in 4NT.  They took the last 4 tricks -300 when they were cold for 5 Clubs and 6 Clubs was on a guess. Big plus position for Thurston.
Lose 16 (-1090 Don't you love it when you collapse your nightmare results? 6 Clubs doubled after Pelletier doubled Delogu in 5 Diamonds and he ran to the best spot.)

Board 20 Waldemar and Piotr got to 3NT on 26 high.  Pretty normal, 5 Clubs makes too.  Flat
Push

Board 21 Judy and Nick bid to a thin 3NT and Waldemar led an Ace from AQx to 'take a look'.  He saw that his chances of beating the contract had disappeared with that lead. -400  Plus position for Thurston
Lose 10 (-50 Pelletier was in 4 Spades, which had no play.)

Board 22 Waldemar and Piotr bid 3 Diamonds in a 4-4 fit with 24 high and each with a void in the other's major +150.  Making 5.  Lots of swing potential, I'd say net plus position for Thurston.
Push (-140, Delogu played 3 Spades in his 7-0 fit headed by the Ten)

Board 23 Judy was in 1NT with 19 high and went down 2. -200  Small plus position for Frukacz.
Win 5 (Passed Out)

Board 24 Waldemar was in 1NT with 20 high and made 4 on a favorable lead. +180  Small plus position for Frukacz.
Win 3 (-110 in 3 Diamonds)

Board 25 Waldemar took a phantom dive in 5 Diamonds at favorable over Nick and Judy's 4 Spades (a Moyse off 3 top tricks and the offside King of Spades) -300 Big plus position for Thurston.
Lose 6 (Delogu and Thurston got all the way to 2 Hearts at the other table, +50)

Board 26 Waldemar and Piotr missed a red game on 24 High (it's on a hook if they lead the right suit, it's cold if they don't.  The hook was on.) Big plus position for Thurston.
Lose 10 (-630, as expected)

Board 27  Nick and Judy ran to 4 Clubs after bidding 3N on 23 high with a 6-3 Club fit and getting whipped by Piotr.  Trumps were 4-0. Down 2 (3NT is hard to evaluate, but not making, probably down 2.) -100 Small plus position for Frukacz.
Push (Chatagnier was in the same 3NT whipped and didn't run, was down 1.)

Board 28 Nick and Judy took a 5 Diamond favorable advance save and went for 500.  4 Spades is cold and probably will be bid.  Small plus position for Thurston.
Win 12 (I almost changed my evaluation to no net plus position, oh well.  Delogu and Thurston bid slam in a state-of-the-match situation (this was their third last board.)+200)

Board 29 Nick and Judy bid a thin and cold 4 Spades with 12 opposite 12 and a 6-2 fit.  Small plus position for Thurston.
Push

Board 30 Piotr took a bad inference from the auction and misguessed trumps in 2 Hearts (AKJT9 opposite 3 small he tried to drop double queen offside) -50 Small plus position for Thurston
Push (Delogu hanged Thurston, who opened 2 Hearts with AKJT9 of Hearts and not much else.  Delogu had AK A and not much else and thought 4 Hearts looked right.  Delogu managed to take 2 more tricks than Piotr, but he was 2 levels higher.  This was their last board, so a certain amount of desperation is forgivable.)

Board 31  This was the first board of the set I kibitzed. Delogu was in 4 Hearts, slated for down 1, when Pelletier underled his King of clubs around into declarer's AQ halfway through the hand and all of a sudden it was ginger ale.  Not the most auspicious of starts.  Big plus position for Thurston.
Lose 10 (Waldemar was in 3 Hearts making, +140)

Board 32 Delogu was in a razor-thin 3NT that makes double dummy.  He took the wrong line and went down 2.
Plus position for Frukacz.
Win 11 (Waldemar was in the same contract making 4.)

Segment result 52-38 Thurston, Final Match Result 318-259 Frukacz

Nice win by team Frukacz: Waldemar Frukacz, Piotr Klimowicz, Hervé Chatagnier, Rene Pelletier, David Sabourin and Jeff Smith.  What a tournament for these guys.  And for Jeff and Isabelle Smith and Hervé Chatagnier and his fiancée, Pamela Nisbet, the tournament was especially sweet as both members of the couple won Canadian championships in separate events.  Congratulations to all!  Oh, and if you think playing is exhausting, try blogging every hand of a 128 board event sometime.