It's all over for another year, folks. Tauranga had a clean sweep on all three nights of The Great Boat Race Pairs. See the summary on the Tauranga site.

Whoops - Tauranga has slipped its cable again by winning the second leg with a similar margin to last week's Great Boat Race victory. Check out this link to Karen Martelletti's analysis on the Tauranga site.

Congratulations to Beth and Barb who are Cambridge's leaders after the two rounds with an average of  62.11%. Overall leaders are Mike and Angela Johnson of Tauranga with an average of 64.90%.

Friday 30 October 7pm (6:20pm for pizza)

Please enter online or on the clipboard for this event. $12 table money includes a glass of wine. Please order pizza on the clipboard and arrive early to share.

This is a fun and relaxed event where pairs all over New Zealand play at exactly the same time and are scored across the country. At the end of the night you receive a booklet that explains each board in detail and what you should or should not have done!!! Come along and enjoy a night of bridge.

Clare and Kevin have had a magical run this year in the National Rubber Competition. Normally played face-to-face at Congress, all regional matches have been played on BBO this year.

From the Tauranga boat club.....

The starting gun has fired and the race is underway ! 

Tauranga has found its foils and is at the 54.23% mark with Cambridge Dragging its anchor and trailing slightly behind at the 51.19% Mark.

A slight change to the way this is calculated this year.  We are now using the X Club handicap system which takes into account the strength of the partnership, the opposition and the field. We average the handicap scores for each club and use that as the total for the club.

 On Sunday Beth Kingsley and Josie van Weerd won our Intermediate tournament. Many congratulations to them. A 70 percent score in the afternoon clinched the win for them!

It was lovely to see 12 tables of Junior members and their partners on Sunday afternoon.

We played Bringo and answered Clare's bridge questions for fun spot prizes.

Just an amendment to Anne's post:

Please enter on our Cambridge website (not NZB) on the Homepage under Upcoming Events. Click on Junior Restricted Fun Afternoon and enter your pair.

Come along and enjoy the fun, Liz

Sunday 1pm 26 July is our fun junior restricted afternoon.

A junior player can enter with another junior or intermediate or open player.  if you are an intermediate or Open player this is a chance for you to support our junior members.

This is open to members of our neighbouring clubs also and there is no charge to enter. 

Enter online at the NZ bridge website or contact Sue Mckenzie our tournament secretary.

Can one Cambridge member of each pair bring a plate for afternoon tea please.

Hope to see you there.

Members will have received an email today recommending we all get used to playing on-line at BBO (BridgeBase Online). Additional full instruction on what it's all about can be found on the Ashburton website .. thanks to Mary Buckland and others.