Thames and Waikato Bays threw a great tournament to herald in the New Year. Over 140 people turned up to compete in one or more of the four competitions taking place over the three days.

The main prize winners are pictured below - with results available here

NZ Bridge, loathe to allow the ship to sink for want of a ha'pworth of tar, is coming to the party in time for the new season by funding the screening of its excellent movie trailer in a number of theatres around the country. Leaving it up to individual clubs and the regions to initiate didn't work .. which was a shame as it's quite a good sequence. NZB is also encouraging clubs to pick up on Hamilton's radio jingle in advertising their lessons. Both items can be accessed under the Resources tab above.

The Board's Position:

Spreading the JOY to all newbies over Christmas ... open access has been provided to the acclaimed MINI-MOOS package. Details of what it's all about may be seen under the Resources tab above (Mini-Moos item). Anyone is invited to use any of the material which is freely available in Dropbox. If clubs were willing to deal the boards for anyone keen to continue learning over the holidays, it would be way better than random deals to play the Mini Moos deals with guided commentary on bidding and play.

Anna Kalma will be wearing yet another hat in 2017, having taken up the mantle of Waikato Area Pairs Manager vacated by Jane Stearns. Although Jane set the bar amazingly high, Anna has made a great start with this whimsical poster of a Mr Wappy van.

A reminder to all who may not have spotted it yet, that this site features a Virtual Notice Board (the blue square to the right) upon which we try to maintain posters for all tournaments in the whole region. This becomes much easier if clubs save their posters in dropbox/Waikato-Bays Clubs Info/Tournament Posters to which all clubs should have access.