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Whip Around the Traps

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/07/18 - 11:29am

Let's see what's been happening around the websites of the region:

Cambridge .. two Juniors made it through to the semifinals of the WB Rubber competition and went down gracefully to last year's winning GM's ... seminar from HeartSafe on the use of the AED (defibrillator) stored at the neighbouring St John's station. One is noticing a marked raising in awareness of these devices - saw Hamilton Bridge Club has its very own one.

Free Entry to Congress Anyone?

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2017/07/06 - 1:41pm

To encourage people who aren't regular congress goers, the Waikato Bays Regional Committee are sponsoring up to four people to NZ Congress to the value of $200 each. You can either self nominate to go into the draw ... or your club can nominate worthy recipients. Check out Anna's blog on the Piako site.

New Laws .. Matamata .. 9:30 Sunday 2-July

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2017/06/28 - 9:00pm


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News from Around the Region

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/06/20 - 5:17pm

It's been a while, but follows a summary of earth-shattering items that have appeared on club websites around the region over the last couple of months:

New Season Gains Lift-Off

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2017/05/04 - 10:03am

The tournament scene at the start of a new year always seems to take a long time to get going. There's all those stat weekends and delays in the programme to allow for people attending likes of the Canberra and Gold Coast Congresses but FINALLY there comes a sense of buckling down and getting into it. The first of the Bay pairs took place at Whakatane last Sunday .. in tandem with the third round of the WAPs at Te Aroha. Links to results may be found under the tab in the top menu.

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!!

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