Boye Brogeland

After a successful junior career, he won three Bermuda Bowl medals with the Norwegian team, including the gold in Shanghai 2007, and several North American Bridge Championships.

[4] With Norwegian Open team and Erik Sælensminde as the partner, Brogeland took the bronze medal in the 1997 Bermuda Bowl in Hammamet, followed by silver in Paris 2001 and culminating with the gold in Shanghai 2007.

The campaign started when Brogeland learned that Israeli players Lotan Fisher and Ron Schwartz, his former teammates at several North American Bridge Championships, were widely rumoured to use illegal methods to exchange information about their hands, which gave them unfair advantage over the opponents.

With Schwartz and Fisher as teammates Brogeland had won July 2014 Spingold, November 2014 Reisinger and Jacoby Open Swiss Teams in March 2015.

[8] In August 2015 he registered a domain, bridgecheaters.com, on which he subsequently provided evidence that Schwartz and Fisher colluded to exchange information by specific placement of board and tray, one of only few pieces of equipment visible behind the screen visually separating the partners.

Maaijke Mevius, an amateur Dutch player and a scientist, noticed a correlation between horizontal or vertical orientation of the card they played and their honour holdings in the suit.

She emailed the evidence to Brogeland, who, upon consultation with Ishmael Del'Monte, an expert on cheating, and American player Brad Moss, decided to issue an ultimatum to Fantoni, a personal acquaintance of his, to come forward with a confession before the findings are published.

On 13 September 2016, American expert Kit Woolsey published an article on Bridge Winners demonstrating a sound statistical proof of Mevius's findings.

[11] In several articles titled "The Videos Shout: Balicki-Zmudzinski", posted in October and November 2015, Kit Woolsey published an extensive evidence found by the crowdsourcing team and cross-checked by a panel of experts, that they used narrow or wide placement of cards from the bidding box to communicate the relative strength of their hand.