Waikato Bays Region | Recognising Dark Energy

WB Newsletter #2

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 2025/03/14 - 11:35am

Click on the attached Newsletters to download and read secretary Nick's excellent coverage of what's going on in Waikato-Bays bridge

WAP3 16 tables at Cambridge - generous hospitality from the host club, able directing by Pam Moore and a good atmosphere all round. Outstanding performances on the day include Sue and Steve who not only were the best non-open pair but also came second overall - they were consistently good all day coming third both sessions with 60.4% and 58.59%. And Yuzhong and Gary the overall winners.

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Preparing for and Running a Tournament

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 2025/01/03 - 2:05pm

Scoring a tournament on the day is just the tip of the iceberg. All the real work is done beforehand. In this video we discuss:

Preparing Compass for the New Year

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 2024/12/06 - 1:10pm

This is a list of points covered in the Zoom presentation using desktop sharing. More complete notes are attached below. There were two sections - Year Rollover and Tidiness of the Database

Year Rollover presented 8-Dec 2024

Always READ THE HELP - relevant PDFs attached below
Demo of the three methods .. 1) Enter from scratch .. 2) Use Add-A-Year .. 3) Export to edit in Excel then re-import - can be done any time, eg late October

Waikato-Bays Regional Championship Experience

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 2024/12/06 - 7:17am

Regional Championships 2024
This year’s Regional Championships, previously known as the Inter-Provincials, was completed, face to face, in Wellington. Your Waikato–Bays (W-B) Team did well, and very much enjoyed the experience. This is a brief report for the benefit of members in the W-B region.
Our Team:
OPEN – Michael Ware/Hugh McGann; Liz and Blair Fisher; Jo and Sam Simpson
WOMEN – Jenna and Christine Gibbons; Kate Terry/Judy Pawson; Rebecca Osborne/Gillian Corbett
SENIORS – Rachelle Pelkman/Murray Wood; Yuzhong Chen/Gary Foidl; Di and Hugh McAlister

Richard Solomon - Emerald Grand Master

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2024/11/26 - 2:35pm

Letter of Congratulation to Richard Solomon

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Intermediate League Wraps Up

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2024/10/21 - 12:57pm

After seven rounds of the Waikato-Bays Intermediate League, last year's winners' names could have been engraved on the handsome (rapidly-turning-into) gold (but-it-used-to-be-silver) trophy before Sunday's final at Cambridge. Leanne Curry and Megan Jolly of Hamilton shared first-equal placings with 32 points earned over eight events. Third equal were John Little and Graeme Saunders from the Waikato club with 24 points narrowly ahead of Marcus Dudley on 23 and Bettina Dudley of Te Puke on 20. Although they are Individual series the Leagues certainly show up the values of practiced partnerships.

Leanne & Megan with WB Treasurer Kevin Whyte

And the Junior League Winners for 2024 are ..

Submitted by sitemaster on Sun, 2024/10/13 - 8:07pm

.. Lyudmyla Watts and Heather Sharp of Matamata. The final of six rounds was played at Te Awamutu on Sunday 13-Oct directed and scored by Nick Saunders. A country mile ahead in the League standings these two very keen ladies had a surprisingly average day finishing half way in a field of 16 pairs. Runner-up in third place of this Individual series was Anthea Mackintosh of Te Awamutu

Heather & Ludy