Update - on Friday 12 Apr 2019 we had a new record 34.5 tables in play - see the photo. It would have been 35 tables but we had to send one of our five unpartnered players home when no fill-in player could be found.
Without any fanfare or expectation, the club broke its record number of tables in play for a standard session on Friday 1 February 2019 with 34 tables. This broke the previous record of 33.5 on a Wednesday in March 2018 and 33 on a Friday in February 2018.
On Monday 1 April, the President announced a new honour board special event focused on the 40% of our membership with less than 15 masterpoints.
The event will be named the Cath Whiddon Cup, honouring the huge contribution made by Cath to the club as a whole and in particular to the club's education program that has been its significant source of new members since 2010. More than 400 of our current members joined the club during that time.
The new pairs event will be played in 2019 over three Mondays - on 20 and 27 May and 3 June. This is a red point, members-only event. Entrants must have less than 15MP as at the end of March 2019.
We are a volunteer-run not-for-profit club - this supports our friendly culture and keeps our table money levels below many other clubs. Of course it means we also regularly look for volunteers to take on roles in the club.
Currently we are looking for - drink servers at our major functions, office support for events, additional dealers, fill-in players, Facebook support - see below to see if one of these roles might suit you.
We expect the size of the red section to grow on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons, as an increasing number of players graduate from the green section.
Members will remember discussions among interested members have occurred over the last three months to work out the best ways of dealing with the need to progress experienced players from the green section and how to manage the impacts on other sections in the best way for our club's members.
The green section's primary goal is to provide a suitable environment for supervised session and beginner players looking to play in a regular duplicate for the first time. It accommodates a slower rate of play and allows growing familiarisation with duplicate session play, laws and etiquette.
Dear members,
April sees the start of the Autumn Individual Competition on Mondays which is a great opportunity to play with different partners over 4 Mondays (only three scores count so you can start on Monday 8 April).
On Sunday 28 April, Peninsula hosts the annual Swiss Teams Congress - a great day for players of every level of experience. Swiss Teams means that you quickly find yourself playing with similarly experienced players and it is a lot of fun. The sign- up sheet is on the noticeboard and you can sign up as a team of four, or as a pair to be matched up.
Players often ask about alerting requirements.
This summary constitutes part of the ABF Alerting Regulations, and is intended as a brief guide to players.
Players should be familiar with the full regulations, and should try to support the fairness and enjoyment of our game by complying with both the letter and spirit of these guidelines.
Twelve pairs completed the three week State Mixed Pairs Qualifier event played in March.
Cath Whiddon and David Farmer triumphed over Barbara Gassman and Patrick Starck with Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge in third place.
Check the full results from our website. The top four pairs able to play in the State Final will have their entries paid by the Club.
Ten teams competed in the 2019 Gold Point Teams (GNOT qualifier) event over three weeks in March.
Congratulations to the Davies team (Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, Alexander Cook and Tony Allen) who triumphed with a win over second placed Farmer team (David Farmer, Cath Whiddon, Jocelyn Bertram, Lyn Smith) in the last round - we played a 9 match round robin so all teams played all of the other teams.
Check the full results on our website. The top two teams able to play in the Metro Final will have their entries paid for by the Club.
