 Awarded to the Open Board-a-Match Teams winners at the fall North American Bridge Championship (NABC), it was donated by the
Greater New York Bridge Association in 1965 in memory of Curt H. Reisinger, a great benefactor and official of the ACBL, and replaced the Chicago Trophy.Reisinger teams is the only major team competition with board-a-match scoring.It is an open team event scored with two qualifying sessions, two semifinal sessions and two final sessions

Announced in fall 2017 to be inaugurated at the fall 2019 North American Bridge Championship (NABC), the Soloway championship will begin as a two-day Swiss teams after which the top 32 teams with their placement as their seed will enter a knockout tournament to determine the winners.