2024 US vs. Italy Team Match

[John Acker]

Hi everyone,

Watson Franks (main referee) and I (assistant referee) are officiating next week's US vs. Italy team match (July 1-5). Here's how you can follow all the action!

The main match website is https://tinyurl.com/vidormatch, videos will be at https://www.youtube.com/@watpics/videos, and Facebook updates will be on the Vidor Checkers page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089166612913.

In addition to streaming match videos, I will be transcribing the scoresheets and posting games here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CmI ... sp=sharing.

John Acker

[John Acker]

Round 1 video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/EsAiqq ... tid=oFDknk. We are working on the YouTube stream.

[jimloy]

Notice that the games of the first two rounds have already been posted at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CmI ... xr5cr5lica (down the page a ways). Good work.

[Richard Pask]

This looks like being a great match! And well done to those who are posting the games so efficiently

[John Acker]

This looks like being a great match! And well done to those who are posting the games so efficiently

It is a team effort-- I scan the scoresheets as they come in, then Conor Nee and Jon Chappell transcribe them and put them in the Google Doc Jim mentioned. I have transcribed a few games myself, but my laptop is generally occupied with streaming games and updating scores.

[George Hay]

The final score of the USA vs Italy International Match 2024 is, USA 208, and Italy 192. Congratulations to team USA on winning the International Match. Congratulations to team Italy for keeping the score close within 16 points of a grand total of 400 possible points, a very close score! Special thanks to Watson Franks, and John Acker,...and all the people behind the scenes that made this International Match possible!

--George Hay