Welcome to the 2021 bridge year, may it be ever so uninterrupted. Kevin, Vicki, and Michael have been busy ensuring everything is ok with your Compa$$ accounts after the levying of subscriptions for 2021. All members, except those exempt or those who had already paid, should have received a subs invoice in the last week of December. This was followed by a statement of each member's Compa$$ account as at 2-Jan. Allowing that this is a new process - certainly new to our club in the wake of our time with HelloClub - we think it has gone extremely well.

A change of format for us this year.

The AGM and Prizegiving will be on the 7th December at the new time of 7pm.

When you arrive you will be given a complimentary glass of bubbles or juice. We will then have the AGM and short prizegiving( due to Covid.)

After this, dessert and a hot drink will be served and a chance to mingle and mix.

The cost for the evening is $10. We need numbers for catering so please put your name on the clip board at the club room if you can come. Partners welcome.

Hope to see you there.

It's no small honour to reach the final of the annual National Rubber Bridge competition. You must get through four or five matches then the quarter finals and the semis ... it was a long road that ran out on Thursday night. The gods that deal the cards on BBO gave them mostly all to East-West who were Stuart Grant and Tony Quinlivan of Christchurch. It was a bit of a bad dream for our pair who had very little to work with. It took until the 21st board of 30 for them to notch up their first game. Two hands later they had their first rubber.

Plenty of Cambridge members drove to the town of Roses for the annual festive Christmas bridge where the best tournament meal is enjoyed!

Mike and partner got off to a great start finishing Top of the pops N-S In the morning.

Lynette and Ian came 4th overall

Beth and Kate finished 9th overall.

Allison V and Diane B were the best junior pairing

Congratulations to them all.

COMPA$$ - A change in how the club manages subs and table money payments.

Our Compass scoring system has an integrated financial system (Compa$$) currently in use by other Compass clubs including our neighbours at Te Awamutu, Hamilton, and Morrinsville. We have made the switch as we no longer need HelloClub to manage payments of table money and subs. From Saturday 14th Nov Compa$$ will be keeping our records of attendance, payments and prizes in a manner similar to Hello Club.

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%.

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!