KAWERAU HOSPITALITY

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2017/10/20 - 10:42am

Newly appointed Regional Bridge Mate Eunice Eccles travelled with NZB Board member Jane Stearns over to the Kawerau Bridge Club on Tuesday. The hospitality shown to them will now become legendary - the members provided a feast for us to enjoy while discussing their club and its future. As Kawerau rarely feature on the Waikato Bays website - here are a few pictures to put them firmly on the map.
View from Kawerau ClubroomsView from Kawerau Clubrooms

Babich Upon Us

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2017/10/18 - 6:24am

The Babich NZ-Wide pairs is to be held at various centres around the country on Friday 3rd of November. To date the only Waikato clubs that appear to have registered are Cambridge, Hamilton, Huntly, Morrinsville, Taupo, Thames, and Tokoroa. This is a fun evening with everyone playing the same cards at the same time. Last year it attracted over 1000 pairs. Some clubs arrange to gather for a meal of pizza, curry, or the like and a glass of the sponsor's product beforehand. This year the event is going international with one section playing a couple of hours after they fly to Rarotonga on a bridge holiday. Register at the host club.

Winners of the Junior League decided

Submitted by Anna on Sun, 2017/10/15 - 7:53pm

It was a Te Aroha 1,2 & 4 (equal) in the Junior League decided today at Te Awamutu after 6 junior tournaments held throughout the region.

Well done to Charlotte Jager from Te Aroha who played in every event and topped the field in half of them to give her a convincing win with 38 points.

Charlotte and Anna: Charlotte Jager (left) receiving her prize from Anna Kalma WBRCCharlotte and Anna: Charlotte Jager (left) receiving her prize from Anna Kalma WBRC

Second place went to Victor Kooter, Charlotte's regular partner who missed one event to hand the overall result to Charlotte.

AGM Presentations

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/10/10 - 7:07am

Click here to download the presentations made by members of the Board on their portfolios at the AGM on 30th of September. They cover papers by Clare Coles on the Board's Strategy 2018-2021, Allan Morris on Communications and Relationship Management, Jane Stearns on Bridge Development, Karen Martelletti on aspects of the new website, and Alan Turner on Constitution Review.

Dear Jan ..

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/10/09 - 11:06am

... & the Waikato Bays Regional Committee,
Just a wee note to say – thank you so much for sponsoring me to Congress this year.
I really appreciated the opportunity to participate in the Intermediate Pairs, Teams & Swiss Pairs. It was an amazing experience, & inspiring to participate in such challenging card-play.

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.

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