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Spring Forward
Congresses for Players at Every Level
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In July, NSWBA launched the NSW Online Pairs League, a state-wide IMPs Pairs competition particularly aimed at non-metropolitan players, which was played on the RealBridge platform every Thursday night for 8 weeks. The Winter season results are on the NSWBA website – the event was a real hit with those who participated! The Spring season commences on 6 October. This flyer has detailed information.
Here are some reasons you should really want to play:
- short (12 board) sessions (start at 7:30 pm, no more than 1.5 hours)
- separate divisions for players at every level
- a full round-robin with North-South and East-West winners in each division (a truly fair IMPs pairs event)
- lots of social interaction
- half-price entry (only $20/player for 8 weeks – what a bargain) for less experienced players (<100 masterpoints) whom NSWBA is keen to encourage
- Red masterpoints
- substitutes allowed for matches where life gets in the way
- NSWBA returns $10 to the NSW registered Home Club of each participant!
Go on, what are you waiting for? Enter via MyABF (if you haven't already joined up, do so here).
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Happy Rookies in the recent Central Coast Novice & Restricted Pairs - NOVICE 1st Kevin & Maureen Carson, 2nd Christine MacNicol and Deirdre Land. RESTRICTED 1st Robyn Rogers and Maeve Doyle, 2nd Sam Zilber and Sam York.
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Winning Teams in the recent Central Coast Novice & Restricted Teams - NOVICE 1st David Purkiss, Peter Cloughessy, Jan Lawson and Mark Mathews. RESTRICTED 1st Colin Speller, Jodie Gudaitis, Nerida Gillies and Sandy Carter; 2nd Robbie Feyder, Michael Hogan, Richard Carter and Jay Novak. The Best Under 50MPs Team - Kyna Foo, Steph Price, Marlene Velecky and Chris Hamam.
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Also note that there are events especially designed for players in the novice, restricted and intermediate categories as part of the Sydney Spring Nationals. This is the NSW-hosted national event, to be held in October at Canterbury Racecourse. Please check the program on MyABF and get your entries in!
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And after that comes the Under 100 Masterpoints Championship. This has 4 divisions for players with 0-10, 10-25, 25-50 and 50-100 masterpoints. Clubs have been invited to run qualifying events in September / October, then there will be a Local Final sometime in the week 21-27 November. All Local Finals will play the same boards and the results will be matchpointed across the state. |
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GNOT
The Metropolitan Final for the Grand National Open Teams was held F2F at the NSWBA on 17-18 September. The field comprised 22 teams from 12 metropolitan clubs and led to the selection of 4 more teams who will play in the National Final, see the photos above.
Meanwhile the Country Regional Finals are in progress. At the time of writing, 5 of 10 regions had completed their events, which will qualify a total of 15 teams to the National Final.
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Metropolitan region
Clubs from the Sydney region that have not yet run their qualifying events still have enough time to do so and thus be able to send a representative team to the Metropolitan Final on 16th October. Also note that players who miss out via a club qualifying event can enter directly to play in the Jacaranda Teams being held in parallel.
Clubs from regional NSW have been running club and zonal qualifying events - the Northern Zone has chosen teams to advance to the State Final, while other Zonal Finals are still in progress.
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Note that the next NSWBA Monday Night event is the NSW Mixed Teams Championships over 3 Mondays (10-31 October). This will be held online on RealBridge. Please find the details and enter via MyABF.
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STATE EVENTS
Nov 12-13 (Tue-Fri) Illawarra Bridge Association, NSW
State Novice and Restricted Teams
Nov 19-20 (Sat-Sun) NSWBA
State Open Pairs Championships
Nov 21-27 (Mon-Sun) NSW
State Under 100MP Finals
Dec 9-11 (Fri-Sun) NSWBA
State Open Teams Finals (TBC)
Dec 10-11 (Sat-Sun) NSWBA
State Youth Championships - Pairs and Teams
NSWBA EVENTS
Oct 10-31 (over 3 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
State Mixed Teams
Nov 7-21 (over 3 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
State Swiss Pairs
Nov 28-Dec 19 (over 4 Mondays) NSWBA on RealBridge
Schaufelberger Teams
CONGRESSES
Sep 24-25 (Sat-Sun) Central Coast Leagues Club Bridge Club
Swiss Pairs and Teams
Sep 25 (Sun) Wollstonecraft Bridge Club
Pairs
Oct 3 (Mon) NSBC@Lindfield
Labour Day Matchpoint Pairs
Oct 8-9 (Sat-Sun) Dubbo Bridge Club
Pairs and Teams
Oct 8-9 (Sat-Sun) Muswellbrook Bridge Club
30th Congress - Pairs and Teams
Oct 9 (Sun) Pennant Hills Bridge Club
Teams
Oct 15-16 (Sat-Sun) Cootamundra Bridge Club
Swiss Pairs and Teams
Oct 16 (Sun) Orange Bridge Club
Gwenda Garde's 100th Swiss Pairs
Oct 29-30 (Sat-Sun) Tomaree Bridge Club
Swiss IMP Pairs and Teams
Nov 5-6 (Sat-Sun) Southern Highlands Bridge Club
30th Annual Congress - Swiss Pairs Open and Restricted / Swiss Teams
Nov 6 (Sun) Parramatta Bridge Club
Teams
Nov 12-13 (Sat-Sun) Armidale Bridge Club
Teams
Nov 12-13 (Sat-Sun) Mudgee Bridge Club
Swiss Pairs and Teams
Nov 13 (Sun) Trumps Bridge Centre
Spring Teams
Nov 20 (Sun) NSWBA
Spring Swiss Pairs Congress
Dec 11 (Sun) Central Coast Bridge Club
Summer Teams
Dec 11 (Sun) NSWBA
SOT Swiss Pairs
Dec 11 (Sun) Wollstonecraft Bridge Club
Swiss Pairs
Dec 17-18 (Sat-Sun) North Shore Bridge Club
Festival Season Online Congress - Swiss Pairs and Teams
Dec 26-Jan 2 (Mon-Mon) Trumps Bridge Centre
Festival of Bridge
NATIONAL EVENTS
Sep 30- Oct 3 (Fri-Mon) Canberra, ACT
Canberra in Bloom Bridge Festival
Oct 19-28 (Wed-Fri) Sydney, NSW
Sydney Spring Nationals
Nov 12-13 (Sat-Sun) Mandurah, WA
Golden West Swiss Pairs
Nov 12-17 (Sat-Thu) Canberra, ACT
2023 Australian Open Team Playoff
Nov 25-28 (Fri-Sun) Brisbane, QLD
Grand National Open Teams Finals (GNOT)
Dec 3-8 (Sat-Thu) Canberra, ACT
2023 Australian Mixed Team Playoff
OTHER
Oct 6 (Thu) NSWBA
NSW Online Pairs League - Spring 22
Oct 30 (Sun) North Shore Bridge Club
Metro North Interclub Teams
Nov 27 (Sun) North Shore Bridge Club
Metro North Interclub Pairs
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