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Big Round-Up Expected at Papatoetoe

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2017/04/27 - 10:46am

Some Minor Miracles

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2017/04/19 - 4:16pm

There was a frisson of excitement throughout clubs in the Region as the quarterly Ranks Report was released just before Easter. If you've never heard of those before, they report the top ten most successful players by gender in each of the ten ranks (like in the army: Boot Camp to Brigadier corresponds with Unranked to Gold Grandmaster). You may download your own copy by clicking here.

Rubber-Dub-Dub

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/04/10 - 12:29pm

The Waikato-Bays section of the national Dan Gifford Rubber Bridge competition started at Putaruru last Sunday 9th April. There was a good turnout for Clare Coles' presentation on what it's all about and a number of first-round matches were completed either side of a very fine lunch organised by members of the host club. The ladder may be viewed under the Results tab on this site. The Cambridge club has gotten so enthusiastic about rubber bridge that they've organised a rubber competition for non-Juniors alongside the Junior Championship series starting this Wednesday.

Great New Concept from The Mount

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/28 - 2:09pm


Talk about multi-sport .. just add canoeing and this could be a triathlon! The Mount club have come up with a revolutionary concept to take place on the 15th of May .. golf in the morning, bridge after lunch! Read about it in this link.

Bill Gates a Winner .. at Bridge

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/21 - 9:47am

Bill Gates in 2015Bill Gates in 2015There's a report in the Kansas City Star of billionaire Bill Gates' winning team at the North American Nationals - a huge event of over 5000 players - currently taking place in Kansas City. This news comes via the Tauranga site and is good fodder for this weekly column which saves you the hassle of whipping round all websites in the region to find out what's going on.

This Friday night ... it's the first round of the inaugural TWITs (The Waikato Interclub Teams) in Hamilton. Numbers are looking good but there's still time until 5pm Wednesday 29th to make an entry in any grade from your club. Don't miss out on the fun!!

Introducing The TWITs

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/03/20 - 11:19am

Di Emms has made these three cuties to be presented as trophies to the best-performed teams in each grade on each of the seven nights of the inaugural TWITs series (The Waikato Interclub Teams). The object for any club fielding teams in all grades is, of course, to take home three of them after each session. Possession of even one confers bragging rights on that club for one month.

Junior, Indi, and OscarJunior, Indi, and Oscar

Bridge Babes Hit the Highest Levels of NZ Bridge!

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/14 - 5:59pm

Standing as a tag team, Cambridge's Clare Coles and Jane Stearns have been elected to the two vacant positions on the Board of New Zealand Bridge!! The new chairman will be Alan Dormer of Auckland.

Cambridge has long been a prime beneficiary of the talents of these two ladies. Both hugely talented, accomplished, entrepreneurial, they declared themselves as standing on neither side in the current arguments within the Board.

Their manifesto declared their underlying values to be:

A Little Trouble in the Big Smoke

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/07 - 10:35am

The North Island Teams 20A tournament took place in Auckland over the weekend just gone. Congratulations to Hamilton pair Jenny Millington and Barry Jones who, with long-time team-mates Patrick Carter and Julie Atkinson came second in this marathon of bridge. Full results may be seen by clicking here.

One amusing tale from the weekend ..

Around the Region we go ...

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2017/02/22 - 1:45pm

Kathy Yule is doing great things over at her new home club in Matamata. She has been running a series of half-hour lessons from 6:45 on Thursday nights Her topics are:

Oh Jane - You've Done It Again!

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/02/13 - 10:07am

Jane, Ayako, & BookJane, Ayako, & BookCambridge's pocket rocket Jane Stearns has embarked on an unusual endeavour with support from the Waikato-Bays Regional Committee. Part of Jane's wide range of involvement is working out of the Migrant Centre in Hamilton with migrants and refugees, many of whom have little or no English when they arrive in New Zealand.

But some of them have played cards - some of them have even played Bridge in their own countries.

Looking at the generic of the Cambridge club at least, there would be a considerable drop in numbers should all the foreign-born members not play. One of our most valued members, Ayako Imahashi from Japan, actually came to us from exactly this situation. She had played a little bridge with her family in Japan and was encouraged by the Migrant Centre in Leamington to come along to lessons in Cambridge.

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