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Congratulations to Nerida Gillies and Sandy Carter who won the Ivy Dahler Butler Swiss Pairs Restricted competition at the ABF Gold Coast Congress in February.  This is a huge achievement with stiff competition and a gruelling 10 Rounds of Bridge.

Congratulations to Lyn Baker and Jim Stewart who came first in Division A of the Metro North Inter-Club Pairs.

 Congratulations to Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies who won the club Teams Championship.

 Congratulations to Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies who, together with Colin Speller and Jodie Gudaitis from the Central Coast, won the 2022 State Novice and Restricted Teams in Wollongong.  Also to John Simmonds, Sachiko Cathcart, Trish Berry and Sue Evershed who came fifth.

The Australia-Wide Restricted (U300) Pairs results are available here.   Congratulations to Noleen Cregan and Suzanne Cole who placed FIRST with a score of 70.9%!

The Cath Whiddon Cup was very much interrupted this year by Covid.  Despite this the Club was very motivated to persevere and was determined to hold this important Honour Board event.

The event commenced at the Clubhouse in June. We initially had strong interest, however almost immediately we went into lockdown and the competition had to be moved to be played on BBO.  Unfortunately the number of entrants dropped from this point, as some members were unable, for various reasons, to play online.

The final results and congratulations to the following members are:

1st Debbie Sate and Sachiko Cathcart
2nd Jane Cummings and Anne Moulston
3rd Kay Armstrong and Dianne Sidoti
4th Neil Mitchell and John O’Riordan

Well done Debbie and Sachiko.  Thank you to Simon Hunter, John Rogers and David Farmer for their combined efforts in directing the event.

Trish Berry, Convenor

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The Metro North Interclub pairs event was held on Sunday 31st, online on RealBridge.  For the full results see here.

Overall, North Shore were the winners.  For Peninsula, a special mention of Patrick Starck  and Barbara Gassman who came 1st in the U750 and Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies and Susan Jensen and Annegrete Kolding who came 2nd and 3rd in the U300 sections.

The number of participants was very disappointing, EG only 9 pairs in the U100.  I have heard people say they don't like RealBridge but i thought it was fine.  BBO, StepBridge and RealBridge are quite similar; the distinctive feature of RealBridge is that it enables video and audio during the play.  Personally i am not interested in the video but the audio allowed people to chat.  In fact in the U100 section it was a very relaxed and friendly day.

RealBridge is likely to be used in serious competitions as the audio-visuals help reduce the possibility of cheating.  If you are interested in trying it, they run free 8 board taster sessions.

2 Peninsula teams participated in the State Open Teams Metro Final run in conjunction with the Spring Nationals Jacaranda Teams. Unfortunately participation by other clubs was very disappointing and there were only 5 teams in the running for the SOT. There were 28 teams in the event.

The Devries Team with Robin Devries, Alan Davies, Peter Bendelstein and Vivien Eldridge had a very good finish and overtook the other teams to qualify for the actual State Open Teams.

The other team comprised Patrick Starck, Lyn Smith, Jocelyn Bertram and Cath Whiddon.

10 Teams from the NSWBA, the Sydney Metropolitan zone, the Outer Metropolitan, Northern, Southern and Western zones will play in the John Arkinstall State Teams Round Robin on Friday and Saturday 10-11 December. On Sunday 12 December the top two teams will play in the Final and the top two Country Teams will play in the Country Teams final.

Peninsula Bridge Club will run the State Open Pairs qualifiers online on BBO for three weeks starting next week.

The dates are Thursdays 14th, 21st and 28th October at 1:15pm. One substitute is permitted.  See the NSWBA site for more information.

Percentages for the 3 sessions will be aggregated and the top 3 qualifying and willing pairs will be partially and conditionally sponsored by the club to attend the Metro Final (online possibly?) on Saturday and Sunday November 20 & 21.

Anyone who doesn't qualify may attend at their own expense ($120) and be entered through the club.

Please find a partner and turn up to the session next week.  Red points will be awarded to all participants whether they attend the final or not.

The last of our lockdown cumulative events came to an end on Tuesday.  As usual, there were some surprise finishes and the only division which did not see a change of leader was the Open and that was because only three pairs turned up so the event was cancelled. After three rounds the winners were Anne Small and Hans van Weeren with Cath Whiddon and David Farmer as runners-up.

The Competition was much hotter in the U300 division. Bill Davis and Mike Gibb had a very strong finishing round to pip Di Agostino and Leofric Kingsford-Smith with Christine Banham and Grahame Elith not far away in third.

It was a similar story in the U50s. Janelle Halliwell and Jan Grant had a brilliant last round to leap from fifth place to the top of the ladder. Peter Wilson and Jeremy Trahair snuck ahead of Leah and David Boyd for the minor placings.

Tuesdays online will now give way to a resumption of the Tuesday morning (10.00 a.m. start) session in the clubhouse.  Cumulative results can be found here.

[Ed: the committee would like to thank John for his work in organising and directing these competitions and for generously donating the prizes]

What a finish!!   After three weeks during which the leaders had not changed, the Tuesday Cumulative Red Point and Red Wine Tournament came to a dramatic climax with surprise winners in all three divisions.

In the Green (U50) Division, Rick Bloore and Peter Collings followed last week’s win with another stellar performance to snatch a win from Sachiko Cathcart and Debbie Sate with Jill Bridgman and Denise Tomkins coming in third.

In the Reds (U300), it was a similar story with Vickie Busteed and Sandie Rooke finishing strongly to overtake Savitri Newman and Sylvia Volkmer on the home straight. In a photo finish, Andrew Ikin and Lynne Talmont just pipped Bill Davis and Mike Gibb for third place.

In the Blue (Open) Division, Cath Whiddon and David Farmer saved the best for last and finished with the highest score of the entire tournament, both on the day and overall. Bad luck for Jocelyn Bertram and Lyn Smith who had looked unbeatable after the first couple of rounds. Anne Small and Hans van Weeren held on to third place ahead of fast-finishing Jenny Ardill and Alan Davies.

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