Inaugural TWITs a great success

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

Thank you to all those (85) who completed an evaluation form. The feedback was mostly positive and so we will be running the event again next year using some of your ideas if we can. Unfortunately we will be limited to hosting TWITs on a Friday night still though because there is no other week night where local clubs all don't play. This is why the equivalent event is run on a Friday night in Auckland and Wellington too. So while I acknowledge a number of you asked for a different night, we won't be able to do that without compromising some clubs being able to partake. There were other ideas however provided on the forms that we will be able to use thank you and great to see such a number of you chose to play TWITs because it was fun and helped develop your game.

Congratulations to the following winners:

JUNIORS: BIGGEST from TE AROHA

PAMELA CLYDESDALE, PETER DAFFURN, JAN BAKER. MALCOLM KIRKBY, JUNE ZHU, PETER TAIT-JAMIESON, SHIRLEY TOWNSEND, HANNAH FRISCHKNECHT

2nd Bright Sparks from Hamilton

INTERMEDIATES: HAMILTON MOSAIC

TRACEY HOFF, CATHERINE CAMERON, JOL GLYDE, CATHERINE GLYDE, TRINI LIN

2nd Int-Agers from Hamilton

OPENS: BLAIRWITCH from HAMILTON

CHERIE BARTON, DALLAS DAGG, BARRY JONES, JENNY MILLINGTON, ELLA GRAY, LIZ FISHER, ALAN PARKES

I failed on getting photos; any team photos gratefully received!

Full results are on the Hamilton Club webpage.

The winners all took home their respective TWIT adorned with a medal that we will get engraved.

A big thank you along with a TWIT bag was given to:

Ella Gray for all her behind the scenes help as well as directing

Gwyn Lobb for dealing all the boards

Di Emms for making Oscar, Indie and Junior

Kevin Whyte for managing the money

Michael Neels for overseeing the scoring

And a special shout out to Cambridge Club for doing the lion's share of organisation to get TWITs off the ground.

Clare Coles