[1][2] Corn was determined to return bridge supremacy to America after the domination of the formidable Italian Blue Team for more than a decade.
Corn hired coaches and provided a computer from one of his companies to assist analysis and to generate bridge deals to order.
[2] That year it represented North America in the Bermuda Bowl tournament, the nearly annual Teams world championship.
But the Aces placed third behind a team from Taiwan—an astonishing upset and the first time that a Bermuda Bowl final match did not include North America or the United States.
That year the Aces as defenders lost the Bermuda Bowl final to Italy, with three players from the later Blue Teams on its roster.