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Dust Settles After Congress 2017

Submitted by sitemaster on Sun, 2017/10/08 - 10:25am

For anyone who didn't already know it, the 32nd annual New Zealand Bridge Congress has just finished in Hamilton. Reporting of this country's biggest event is well-covered on the NZB website and Facebook so we shall restrict ourselves to singing the praises of Lauren Lehndorf of Taupo (left in the photo) who was one of the ones that Waikato Bays Region sponsored to Congress. She is standing next to her partner Christine Knowles (eyes closed - must have been a hard week) who is also a junior from Taupo, and their team-mates who are the pair that Richard Solomon matched them up with for the teams.

Best Team with three or more Juniors in the Intermediate Teams Lauren Lehndorf / Christine Knowles / Tonni Keijzer / Charmaine Churches (all Juniors).

WB Regional Conference

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/09/26 - 9:32am

The annual Waikato-Bays Regional Conference took place at the Matamata rooms on Sunday 24th September. A goodly turn-out of representatives from 13 of the 22 clubs in the region was present with apologies from two more. We had several presentations, mostly geared at ways to maintain and increase participation in our wonderful game:

Anna Kalma reviewed the State of the Nation comparing our region to the wider NZ Bridge population. In summary:

Inaugural TWITs a great success

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/09/25 - 1:57pm

On Friday 22 Sep we enjoyed our final round of The Waikato Interclub Teams more fondly known as TWITs.

New Tournament Entry Procedure

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2017/09/21 - 11:30am

We're moving to a new model of streamlined tournament entry. Your committee encourages everyone to make their entries for mostly all tournaments on the NZ Bridge site. The only exceptions would be certain special events played at various centres - eg the Babich NZ-Wide Simultaneous Pairs - which may require entry on the host club websites.

Message to all Waikato Bays Clubs re NZ Bridge AGM

Submitted by Rona D on Thu, 2017/09/14 - 12:17pm

To all Waikato Bays Clubs:

There are two important meetings coming up:

The Waikato Bays Regional Conference on Sunday 24 September

The New Zealand Bridge Annual General Meeting on Saturday 30 September

You will have previously received an agenda for the regional conference. Thanks to those clubs who have already sent in their RSVPs - we hope to see as many clubs as possible represented.

Items from the Skype meeting of WBRC on Friday 1st September

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/09/04 - 11:18am

Details of the agenda are settled for the upcoming Regional Conference at Matamata on the 24th of September. The full poster may be downloaded by clicking here.

Sponsorship to Congress
The secretary received 12 self-nominations and 1 club nomination for WBRC sponsorship to attend the National Congress at the end of the month. A random draw was made and the lucky winners are:

  • Sharon Barton (Taupo)
  • Tim Rigter (Te Aroha)
  • Lauren Lehndorf (Taupo)

The sponsorship, which is on offer every year, is to the value of $200 per player in entry fees.

WB Rubber Bridge Winners
Repeating last year's success, Jo and Sam Simpson of the Tauranga Club won the Waikato-Bays Rubber competition and will be representing us in the National Play Off during Congress.

Monthly Numbers Survey

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 2017/09/01 - 10:14am

Aug 2015 to Sep 2017Aug 2015 to Sep 2017For over two years your correspondent has been tracking the number of NZB-registered players as at the first of each month. By clicking on the orange Numbers block on the right side of our Home page you may see this series of screenshots. They each show breakdowns by region over the last four seasons. Here is a summary of the national totals over two years.

WB Rubber Bridge Champions have been found!

Submitted by Rona D on Tue, 2017/08/29 - 1:44pm

Congratulations to Sam and Jo Simpson from Tauranga who are the Waikato Bays Rubber Bridge Champions for the second year in a row. Their next step is to play against winners from the other regions for the Dan Gifford Trophy at National Congress.

WB Grade Teams Sorted

Submitted by sitemaster on Sun, 2017/08/27 - 5:30pm

A relaxed and happy day was had by all twelve teams contesting the Final of the Grade Teams at the Cambridge club. The attending teams were the two best-performed in each grade at the Ib Thulin Trophy (Bay-of-Plenty clubs) and the Waikato Inter-Club Teams event both held some time ago. To break the suspense of not knowing, click here for the summary results or go to the full detail on either this or the Cambridge site under the Results tab for proof that we have one and a half of the best club teams on THIS side of The Hill!!

BRIDGE BLACKS GET PRIME TIME TV SLOT

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2017/08/25 - 11:50am

Our sport featured on the Prime sports cafe news programme The Crowd Goes Wild courtesy of the stellar performance by the Bridge Blacks in Lyon, France at the Bermuda Bowl. Currently challenging for a bronze medal - whatever the outcome - they have done their country proud. If you missed the show live - the clips featuring the bridge items can be viewed on this YouTube link. Enjoy and Go the BBs!!
https://youtu.be/_7gfyzwcyOc

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