News from Around the Region

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/06/20 - 5:17pm

It's been a while, but follows a summary of earth-shattering items that have appeared on club websites around the region over the last couple of months:

Report from National Conference

Submitted by Rona D on Tue, 2017/06/13 - 11:46am

Last weekend was the annual NZ Bridge National Conference, where the Board members and the regional chairpersons get together in Wellington. We hear about what other regions are doing, listen to presentations from the board, and discuss remits from clubs and/or regional committees.

To all clubs re 2017 bridge laws

Submitted by Rona D on Wed, 2017/06/07 - 11:29am

To all clubs:

You will have recently received a bulletin from Murray Wiggins, NZ Bridge Chief Director, regarding the 2017 Laws of Contract Bridge.

The Waikato Bays seminar has now been confirmed as Sunday 2nd July at the Matamata Bridge Club.
Morning tea at 9:30am followed by the seminar at 10am, and estimated finish time is 12-12:30pm.

2nd Round BOP Pairs Tauranga 28th May 2017

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2017/06/04 - 12:54pm

Hi All,
The Tauranga Bridge Club hosted the second round of the Bay Pairs, Sunday the 28th of May. Winners on the day were our local Women’s International Pairing of Christine and Jenna Gibbons. Second place went to Bobbi and Ian Drysdale of the Whakatane Club with Pam and Ian Moore from Rotorua taking out third place.
After two rounds played we have first equal pairings of Bobbi and Ian Drysdale (Whakatane) with Rachelle Pelkman and Murray Wood (Tauranga). Taking third spot is Dorothy Skousgaard and Julie Sheridan (Tauranga and Mt Maunganui)

2017 Inter-provincial trials

Submitted by Rona D on Tue, 2017/05/16 - 11:23am

Thanks to all who participated in the inter-provincial trials over the weekend. As usual, it was very well organised by the Tauranga Club, and smoothly run by director Dallas Dagg and scorer Jan Spaans. We had 20 pairs participating in the open/women/seniors field, and 8 intermediate pairs which was a pleasing turnout.

New Season Gains Lift-Off

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2017/05/04 - 10:03am

The tournament scene at the start of a new year always seems to take a long time to get going. There's all those stat weekends and delays in the programme to allow for people attending likes of the Canberra and Gold Coast Congresses but FINALLY there comes a sense of buckling down and getting into it. The first of the Bay pairs took place at Whakatane last Sunday .. in tandem with the third round of the WAPs at Te Aroha. Links to results may be found under the tab in the top menu.

Big Round-Up Expected at Papatoetoe

Submitted by sitemaster on Thu, 2017/04/27 - 10:46am

Some Minor Miracles

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2017/04/19 - 4:16pm

There was a frisson of excitement throughout clubs in the Region as the quarterly Ranks Report was released just before Easter. If you've never heard of those before, they report the top ten most successful players by gender in each of the ten ranks (like in the army: Boot Camp to Brigadier corresponds with Unranked to Gold Grandmaster). You may download your own copy by clicking here.

Rubber-Dub-Dub

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/04/10 - 12:29pm

The Waikato-Bays section of the national Dan Gifford Rubber Bridge competition started at Putaruru last Sunday 9th April. There was a good turnout for Clare Coles' presentation on what it's all about and a number of first-round matches were completed either side of a very fine lunch organised by members of the host club. The ladder may be viewed under the Results tab on this site. The Cambridge club has gotten so enthusiastic about rubber bridge that they've organised a rubber competition for non-Juniors alongside the Junior Championship series starting this Wednesday.

Great New Concept from The Mount

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/28 - 2:09pm


Talk about multi-sport .. just add canoeing and this could be a triathlon! The Mount club have come up with a revolutionary concept to take place on the 15th of May .. golf in the morning, bridge after lunch! Read about it in this link.

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