2016 Bay of Plenty Pairs.
The final round of the 2016 Bay of Plenty Championship Pairs was hosted by the Te Puke Bridge Club.
Going into the final round it was very tight at the top with less than an average of 4% separating the top four pairs and the top two pairs within 0.5% of each other. But with a magnificent final session score of 70% Stephen Francks and Allan Turner (Tauranga), taking out the overall Bay Pairs Title for 2016. Second overall was Kate Terry and Judy Pawson with Julie Sheridan and Karen Martelletti taking third spot.

Congratulations to Jo & Sam Simpson from Tauranga, who are the 2016 Waikato Bays Rubber Bridge Champions.

Thank you to all the other pairs who played this year and supported rubber bridge in our region. We had many more entries than in previous years, so I hope you all enjoyed it and will come to play again next year. Even better, bring another pair with you!

Good luck to Jo & Sam who will be now playing in the knock-out Dan Gifford National Rubber Bridge Championships, starting on Friday night at National Congress

The Thames Restricted was a seminal event for Heartland Bridge. Held at the Brown St rooms last Sunday it attracted 20 tables. Home club Thames was delighted to claim a top place in the Junior-Junior section.

NZB Member Count Aug 2015 to Sep 2016For over a year now this site has been tracking monthly totals of NZB affiliated members. One of many peripheral features of Compass Scoring provides an instantaneous count on demand. This screenshot is a summary of what may be seen in detail by clicking on NZB Members in the orange Numbers block to the bottom right of this screen.

Teams from each end of the region gathered at Cambridge on the last Sunday of August to sort out who would be taking home the three Grade Trophies. This was the final stanza of what started off as the Inter-Club Teams in the Waikato, and the Bay Teams in the Bay of Plenty. The winning and runner-up teams in each grade from each region met in Cambridge to play in three parallel round-robins of three 16-board matches. An Intermediate and a Junior team came all the way from Whakatane, and a couple of Intermediate teams traveled from Thames and Taupo.