Immediately after the Swiss event ended, players adjourned to a large room, where, on Vu-Graph, they were able to see the same set of hands played live by contestants in the USBC.
In every odd number year, the winners of the USBC Open division get to compete in the Bermuda Bowl that has existed since 1950.
Nickell (Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Bobby Levin, Steve Weinstein, Jeff Meckstroth, and Eric Rodwell)[1] team won the 120 board final against Diamond (John Diamond, Brain Platnick, Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson, Kevin Bathurst, and Justin Lall).
Nickell (Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Steve Weinstein, Bobby Levin, Jeff Meckstroth, and Eric Rodwell) beat Diamond (John Diamond, Brian Platnick, Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson, Kevin Bathurst, and Brad Moss) by 8 imps over 120 boards.
The eventual winners Fleisher (Marty Fleisher, Chris Willenken, Michael Rosenberg, Zia Mahmood, Chip Martel, and Michael Kamil) bested Nickell (Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Steve Weinstein, Bobby Levin, Eric Rodwell, and Jeff Meckstroth) 194–146.
Team Nickell (Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Bob Hamman, Zia Mahmood, Jeff Meckstroth, and Eric Rodwell) beat Diamond (John Diamond, Brad Moss, Fred Gitelman, Geoff Hampson, and Brian Platnick) in the final.
Team Bathurst (Kevin Bathurst, Dan Zagorin, Joe Grue, Justin Lall, Joel Wooldridge, and John Hurd) defeated Diamond (John Diamond, Eric Greco, Brad Moss, Brian Platnick, Geoff Hampson, and Fred Gitelman) 288–257.
Team Fleisher (Marty Fleisher, Michael Kamil, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, Bobby Levin, and Steve Weinstein) defeated Diamond (John Diamond, Eric Greco, Brad Moss, Brian Platnick, Geoff Hampson, and Fred Gitelman) 260–218 to earn USA1 honors.
Two teams would emerge from this USBC in order to represent the United States at the 2009 Bermuda Bowl in São Paulo.
USA1 went to Robinson (Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd, Fred Stewart, Adam Wildavsky, Doug Doub, and Kit Woolsey) in their victory over Fleisher (Marty Fleisher, Russell Ekeblad, Ron Rubin, Michael Kamil, Peter Weichsel, and Matthew Granovetter).
The eventual champions of the 2005 trials were Brad Moss, Ron Rubin, Eric Greco, Fred Gitelman, Geoff Hampson, Russ Ekeblad, Steve Landen NPC, Sheri Winestock Coach.
[5] 2003 Open USBC The Cohen team (Steve Landen, Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Dan Morse, Robert Wolff, Doug Doub, Adam Wildavsky, Ralph Cohen NPC) defeated the Welland squad (Roy Welland, Bjorn Fallenius, Steve Garner, Howard Weinstein) in the final, 287-222.
[6] [7] 2002 Open USBC The Nickell team (Nick Nickell, Dick Freeman, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jeff Meckstroth, and Eric Rodwell) defeated Schwartz (Richard Schwartz, Michael Becker, Zia Mahmood, Michael Rosenberg, David Berkowitz, and Larry Cohen) to earn the right to compete in the 2003 Bermuda Bowl.
The finals were between Nickell (Nick Nickell, Dick Freeman, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell) and Ekeblad (Russ Ekeblad, Bob Lipsitz, Ron Rubin, Matt Granovetter, Mark Molson, and Barnett Shenkin).