The World Transnational Open Teams Championship is a major side event conducted by the World Bridge Federation during the semifinal and final stages of its world championships for national teams at contract bridge —the Bermuda Bowl , Venice Cup , and Senior Bowl . New teams may enter the Transnational, as well as national teams eliminated before the semifinals of the main events—Open, Women, and Seniors respectively. It is not required that all team members be from one country, hence the term transnational . A series of Swiss matches qualifies eight teams for three knockout rounds which conclude during the finals of the main events.
7-564: The 15-day "World Team Championships" meet occurs in odd years and the first Transnational Open was added to the program in 1997. The eighth rendition was held in October 2011 in Veldhoven , Netherlands . Pierre Zimmermann's professional teams have won the last two renditions and "Zimmermann" will be the favorite again. Beginning 2011, the Italian pair Fantoni–Nunes and Norwegian pair Helgemo–Helness, from
14-467: A library and municipal and VVV offices. The yearly festival Cult en Tumult offers a varied program of art and culture in the broadest sense. Theatre De Schalm is near the City Centrum. The spoken language is Kempenlands (an East Brabantian dialect, which is very similar to colloquial Dutch ). The current town council of Veldhoven was elected at the 2022 local elections . Eindhoven Airport
21-478: Is a municipality and town on the Gender in the southern Netherlands , just southwest of Eindhoven , in the province of North Brabant . [REDACTED] Map of Veldhoven (town), Dec. 2013 The modern town of Veldhoven is an agglomeration of former rural villages that in the twentieth century grew together to form one large suburban area catering to Eindhoven commuter needs. The villages are: Veldhoven proper to
28-627: The 2007 and 2009 winners respectively, have been hired to join Zimmermann–Multon full-time, under contract expiring 2016. (From 2012 all six members will be citizens of Monaco and the team will be a prohibitive favorite to represent Monaco internationally.) The 2013 edition was won by the USA's Gordon team. The World Transnational has always been a major side event conducted alongside the Bermuda Bowl and Venice Cup. Recently it has been possible to enter
35-593: The Transnational Teams after elimination from the main events before their semifinals. Hammamet, Tunisia 74 teams Southampton, Bermuda 73 Paris, France 74 Monte Carlo, Monaco 74 Estoril, Portugal 134 Shanghai, China 148 São Paulo, Brazil 68 October 15–29 Veldhoven , Netherlands 151 teams September 24–29 Nusa Dua , Indonesia 102 teams Veldhoven Veldhoven ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈvɛltˌɦoːvə(n)] )
42-410: The southwest; Meerveldhoven to the southeast; Oerle to the west; and Zeelst to the northeast. A new city center was constructed between Zeelst and Veldhoven. Veldhoven is home to the headquarters of the manufacturer of high-tech ( semiconductor ) lithography equipment ASML . As of 2009, the company employed over 14,000 people—equivalent to nearly one eighth of the town's population. ASML occupies
49-546: The tallest building (83 meters) in Veldhoven. The municipality features a large industrial and office area along the Gender , which also includes the second-largest hospital in the Eindhoven urban region, Máxima Medisch Centrum . Veldhoven Centrum has over 100 shops with famous brands covering restaurants, groceries, fashion products, jewelry and banks, and a market every Monday for fruit and produce. It also has services such as
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