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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

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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!

Follow the North Island Pairs this weekend

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2016/08/03 - 11:24pm

Click here to view the results session by session as they get posted from the North Island Pairs in Hamilton over the first weekend of August.

WB Teams Grade Trophies Final at Cambridge on 28th August

Submitted by sitemaster on Sun, 2016/07/31 - 10:56pm

With the Bay Teams settled over the last weekend of July, the Waikato-Bays Grade Teams Final is all teed up. Click here to read Tauranga's well-deserved delight at doing so well at Rotorua.

Thank you to Pub Charity Ltd.

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2016/07/10 - 5:56pm

The Waikato Bays Regional Committee applied to Pub Charity Limited for funding to assist our Inter-Provincial representative team with accommodation in Dunedin at the end of the year. We are very pleased to announce that the application was successful, having receiving $6653.74, which was the amount we applied for, minus the GST component.

Our committee is extremely grateful to Pub Charity as their grant ensures we are able to fund other activities rather than siphon off our funding in this area.

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