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TWITs Heating Up

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2018/07/16 - 5:07pm

The six-week series of The Waikato Inter-Club Teams is approaching its penultimate round to be held at the Hamilton Bridge Club on Friday 27th July. Things are tight at the top in the competition for Indie Twit. Radars Lot is stretching out in front in the Junior and Waikato Wonders looks to be unassailable in the Oscars.

As there have been five teams in the Juniors and seven in the Indies we have been having a guest appearance by a different Indie team in the Juniors each month. This time it will be Hamilton Mosaic sitting at Table 1 while Ringers will play at Table 11. Here are the current placings:

Moving Right Along ..

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2018/07/10 - 9:49am

It's about now that one gets the feeling that the season is at "shoulder" as we approach the main event of the year .. being NZ's own National Congress. This, of course, is still some way off at the end of September. Nevertheless, we have just this last weekend seen the completion of the Bay Pairs with Kate Terry and Judy Pawson of Tauranga coming out on top.

The Great Boat Race has Started

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2018/07/05 - 11:19am

Check out this article concerning an exciting new contest between clubs. Tauranga and Cambridge have a similar level of competition on Wednesday nights - fun/social/newbies type of thing. Karen Martelletti had an inspiration to compare scores using X-Clubs results. The first night was really close.

Mini Moos Day One at Morrinsville

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2018/07/02 - 5:07pm

A highly successful first outing in 2018 for Nick Whitten's Mini Moos programme. There is a new Mini Moos menu provided under the Initiatives tab above to provide a home for this invaluable programme. Along with the long-standing Bay Pairs and the Waikato Area Pairs, the Mini Moos and the TWITs are of great interest to many Waikato-Bays players at different stages of their bridge careers.

National Head-Count Looking Up

Submitted by sitemaster on Sun, 2018/07/01 - 10:28am

Comparisons with July head-counts over the past four years show an encouraging increase in numbers for this time of year.

  • July 2015 13750(est)
  • July 2016 13641
  • July 2017 13541
  • July 2018 13726

Aug 2015 to Jul 2018Aug 2015 to Jul 2018

New Radio Show for Waikato and New Zealand

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 2018/06/29 - 5:20pm

Barry Jones and Mereana CullenBarry Jones and Mereana CullenThe first ever broadcast of The Bridge Zone was aired on Wednesday 27 June. A team of eight bridge enthusiasts from Hamilton, Waikato and Cambridge clubs have teamed up to broadcast The Bridge Zone. They hope to raise awareness of the game and encourage people to take part whilst engaging existing bridge players in topics of interest.

Hosted by Community Access Radio and broadcast on Free FM89 the crew of volunteers have learned how to create and record a radio show. Barry Jones and Mereana Cullen co-presented the first show. If you missed it – you can catch it by clicking here

Letter #7 from The Chair of NZB

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2018/06/19 - 3:26pm

Allan Morris keeps us up to date with news from NZB. Click here to download a summary of recent happenings.

Innovative Inter-Club

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2018/06/19 - 9:32am

TrophyTrophyThe Tauranga and Cambridge clubs are about to face off in a novel cross-Kaimai competition dubbed The Great Boat Race. Wednesday nights at both clubs are of a similar nature - sociable with a fair turn-out of newer players. Both use Compass scoring which has the facility to produce competition results using players' scores from X-Clubs. By combining up the weekly club comp ladders from each club a remote inter-club event becomes possible. Perhaps this idea will catch on with other Compass clubs.

The Great Boat RaceThe Great Boat Race

What's been happening recently out there in our clubs?

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2018/05/29 - 10:23am

Apart from the usual plethora of localised celebrations of the successes of various players in club competitions we have:

The annual round of lessons in most clubs is coming to an end. Star performer this year has to have been the Omokoroa club who, like the kiwi, have hatched an egg almost as big as itself. They started the year with 35 full members and 5 affiliates. Working to prescription with Regional Bridge Mate Eunice Eccles they attracted 27!! beginners of whom 24 ran the course of lessons and 22 will likely join the club. A HUGE success story!

Good Works at the Settlement Centre

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2018/05/23 - 7:51pm

Isn't it totally amazing how much some people can accomplish? Not only is Jane Stearns devoting four whole days a week to her responsibilities as a board member of NZ Bridge but she has been taking on the tuition of migrants and refugees at the Settlement Centre in Hamilton.

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