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Roundup - Week 35

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2016/09/06 - 6:00pm

It was the Mini-Moo's day at Cambridge last Sunday. You can read several success stories celebrating the prowess of the Region's newest players - the winners came from the Matamata club, Cambridge took second placing while newbies from Huntly and Hamilton shared third on the day.

Bridge PoliceBridge PoliceRotorua are announcing that they've finally come over to The Dark Side by joining the 27 other clubs that play the X-Clubs deals and, by the look of things, Mount Maunganui are picking up where Caroline and Murray Wiggins left off at the Cambridge Sixes.

Hamilton celebrates a couple of HUGE successes by Ian Clayton and others - 82%!! - totally amazing!

Fascinating Pattern to Player Numbers

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2016/09/01 - 8:18am

NZB Member Count Aug 2015 to Sep 2016NZB Member Count Aug 2015 to Sep 2016For over a year now this site has been tracking monthly totals of NZB affiliated members. One of many peripheral features of Compass Scoring provides an instantaneous count on demand. This screenshot is a summary of what may be seen in detail by clicking on NZB Members in the orange Numbers block to the bottom right of this screen.

Roundup - Week 34

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2016/08/30 - 11:52am

The Piako site carries the announcement of an evening's seminar for Junior players on the 16th of September at 7pm. This will be presented by gold grandmaster Richard Solomon, Bridge Development Officer for NZ Bridge. Click here to register.

Grade Teams Final thrashed out at Cambridge

Submitted by sitemaster on Sun, 2016/08/28 - 8:11pm

Teams from each end of the region gathered at Cambridge on the last Sunday of August to sort out who would be taking home the three Grade Trophies. This was the final stanza of what started off as the Inter-Club Teams in the Waikato, and the Bay Teams in the Bay of Plenty. The winning and runner-up teams in each grade from each region met in Cambridge to play in three parallel round-robins of three 16-board matches. An Intermediate and a Junior team came all the way from Whakatane, and a couple of Intermediate teams traveled from Thames and Taupo.

Roundup - Week 33

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2016/08/23 - 8:34am

The two major happenings of the week were the 7th round of the WB Intermediate League held at Te Awamutu and the announcement of three new directors for the region - both reported on this site.

In other news .. read about Jane Stearns' experience of bridge in Hawaii or Thames' Greg & Nancy Daveport's visit to the Singapore Bridge Club. You can read a lovely tribute to Mona Corlett of the Hamilton Bridge Club - Mona turned 99 last Tuesday. Check out the results of last Sunday's Waikato Soup & Bun or Wednesday's Tauranga Ladies Pairs.

Waikato-Bays gets THREE new Club Directors

Submitted by sitemaster on Sat, 2016/08/20 - 9:00pm

Congratulations to:

  • Greg Davenport of Thames
  • Allan Maine of Thames
  • Jane Stearns of Cambridge

The full list of fourteen successful candidates can be found on the NZ Bridge website.

Latest Round of the WB Intermediate Championship

Submitted by sitemaster on Sat, 2016/08/20 - 8:59pm

The seventh round of the Waikato-Bays Championship League for Intermediate players took place at Te Awamutu on Saturday the 12th. Winning both sessions and the overall earned Mark Thomson and Jeffrey Chang of Hamilton the maximum score of nine points for the day. They also regained the lead in the competition from their co-IP-reps, Hattie Curtiss and Bruce Ballard of Waihi/Katikati to edge ahead on the ladder. With just two more rounds to go on 9th and 30th of October this competition could be pretty close.

Roundup - Week 32

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2016/08/17 - 2:06pm

Sparked by the outpouring of joy over the Cambridge Sixes your correspondent has had the bright idea of collating links to articles on the Region's websites in a weekly digest of what has been making the headlines. This should, perhaps, be compiled on a Tuesday to give the reporters time to wax lyrical over the weekend's victories and other causes celebres. If your club has something of moment you'd like others to see please please let us know by way of the Contact tab above.

As intimated above, the huge happening of Week 32 was the Cambridge Sixes. You can read about it from different perspectives here:

or .. take a look at the Huntly Bridge Club's site where Jane Stearns has been working her special brand of magic this season.

"Bridge is the wave, catch it or wipe out!" - Sapphire Mercer

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2016/08/10 - 3:45pm

Bay News 4-AugBay News 4-Aug

Deal 24 Boards in Under 5 Minutes

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2016/08/04 - 10:24am

Check out this YouTube video on how to get through that dealing assignment real quick!

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