[JanM]

August 15-23, 2009, there will be a World Youth Bridge Championship in Istanbul, Turkey. It's open, anyone can play. There are Team and Pair events. The events are all Transnational - players from different countries can play on the same pair or team. For more information, go to <http://www.ecatsbridge.com/Documents/files/2009WYCIstanbul/1stannouncement.pdf>
to download a flyer which directs you to www.worldbridge.org (the WBF website) where I can't find any additional information, but I always have trouble navigating the WBF site so perhaps you can do better.

The USBF is currently considering whether to send an official US team to this event, whether to provide financial support for any US Junior who wants to go, or what else to do about it. In order to make that decision, the USBF Board wants to know how many US Juniors will be interested in going to Istanbul. It occurred to me that this forum might provide an opportunity to reach some US Juniors who might not know about the event, thus this post.

If you are a US Junior and are interested in going to the 2009 World Youth Bridge Championship, please email me (marteljan at gmail dot com) and I'll see that your name is on a list of people who are interested and with whom we should be discussing what will be done. I probably am not the person who will be in charge of this eventually, but since I don't know who will be...