Huge congratulations to Kim and Karen who won the CB SIxes Intermediate competition.  The pressure was on from after round one when they obtained the lead. By the end of round 5 they had succeeded in five significant wins . So when they entered the last round they were 12 VPs ahead of their closest opponents and while they did have their first loss that round, they had done enough to hang on! They were particularly delighted as they came second last year. Photo to follow.

Congratulations to Mike and Ella who won the final WAPs  in Morrinsville today, which gave them enough to come second but not quite enough to win the overall trophy which was won by Lesley Quilty and Sonia Crawford of Morrinsville.  

Just an update on our membership. We have 211 members including 20 Affiliate members. Our 211 include:

126 Juniors

63 Intermediates

20 Opens

2 Social

This continuing growth in numbers really reflects a great commitment by many of our members who enjoy bridge and want to share the experience. Fantastic job everyone.

With such a valuable tool at the disposal of all our members it is perplexing to hear reports of members' difficulty in accessing Pianola Plus. I (Michael) have been asked to write an article on causes that I have investigated and solved.

Never logged in. I can see on my Admin screen that a member has never actually set up a login with Pianola. There are two reasons for this:

Check out this link. Our very own Jane Stearns is interviewed on Community Radio about all sorts of Cambridge things - amongst other items of interest to bridge players.

Click here to find out ... and here for some beaut pics of our friends at Tauranga.

... gets a mention on this week's The Bridge Zone. Barry and Mereana also mentioned The Cambridge Sixes which will be covered in greater detail in next week's show.

Wonderful to see Dayelle and Ruth take Silver in the Hamilton Intermediate today.  Congratulations to them!  They won the morning session and did enough in the second one, only squeezed by 0.6% from first position in the standings.

See this article for the results of last night's second session of The Great Boat Race. The result was really close with Cambridge easing just ahead of Tauranga.

• Top Cambridge Pair and 1st on X-Club with 68.99% - Eunice Eccles & Calum MacLean
• Top Tauranga Pair and 7th on X-Club with 64.25% -  Stephen Dorrington & Dale Peddie

Congratulations to Eunice and Malcolm who won the Tauranga Intermediate tournament today taking them to the top of the Intermediate league after 4 rounds. As noted below, this is well deserved with both taking every opportunity to develop their game.