The Gold Coast Congress was a major success and this has (hopefully!) led to a return of confidence in F2F bridge. However, because of contractual obligations etc, the Congress ran at a loss. Therefore, a fundraising Rescue Series is being run on RealBridge. The first events were widely supported by congress players from all over the country. If you missed out, the online Rescue Series 2 will be held on 9th - 10th April and Rescue Series 3 on 7th - 8th May.

The next two National Congresses are also scheduled to be face-to-face:

Please find the details on MyABF.

Beginning with this issue, we will interview our NSW Team representatives who are going to compete in the ANC (Australian National Championships) in Adelaide in July. In this issue, we have interviewed Giselle Mundell, Rena Kaplan and Avril Zets from the Women's Team.

The 2nd stage of the Open Interstate Team Selection (OITS) concluded on 14th March. The top 10 pairs (Tony Nunn-Paul Dalley, Warren Lazer-Pauline Gumby, David Weston-Julian Foster, Maurits Van Der Vlugt-Andre Korenhof, Peter Gill-Martin Bloom, Simon Zhang-Wayne Zhu, Liam Milne-Sophie Ashton, and Stephen Williams-Susan Humphries, Nicoleta Giura-Nick Hughes and Nigel Rosendorff-Helen Lowry) will now compete in the F2F Final on 7th - 8th May. May the best pairs triumph!

Some of our Women's Team members took the opportunity to practice in the ITS Swiss Pairs which was held in parallel. Giselle Mundell (playing with Michael Courtney) was the winner, while Women's Team representatives Avril Zets and Helena Dawson came second. Congratulations! 

Now here is a brand new tournament, brought to you by the NSWBA! The NSW Online Pairs League is open to all bridge players, with separate divisions for players at every level. It is particularly aimed at non-metropolitan players and will be played on the RealBridge platform. We plan to start the full-fledged competition on 7th July. Meanwhile, here is a trial event:

The trial will be four 12-board matches, one match per week, separate NS and EW fields, scored as cross IMPs, commencing Thursday 28th April at 7:30pm. Registration fee $5 per player. Please enter via MyABF. Get in on the ground floor for this event!

The NSWBA Tournament Calendar now allows you to filter the list of congresses so that you can see which are face-to-face and which are online - the online congresses can be filtered by platform.