Peninsula wo the trophy last year and we were hoping to hang on to it but in the end it was North Shore Bridge club who triumphed.
Thirty-six teams from seven bridge clubs battled it out against each other to see which club has the best talent across the range of Masterpoint categories. The three smaller club entries from Gordon Bridge Centre, Bridge Today (Narrabeen RSL), and Balgowlah-Dee Why combined into an All-Stars group to compete with strong entries from Peninsula, Trumps, North Shore and Manly Leagues. A successful club needed to enter teams of all levels of experience with each of the fields contributing to the club result.
Teams were divided into four fields (based on each team's player with the highest number of MP):
- Over 750 MP (8 teams)
- 300-750 MP (10 teams)
- 100-300 MP (10 teams)
- Less than 100 MP (8 teams)
The full results including pair datums for these four fields are published here.
North Shore won the 2015 Margaret Smale Sydney North Inter-Club Teams with 16 points ahead of Peninsula (13) and Trumps (11).
The big news from the Gold Coast is that Chris Duggin and Faye Carnovale won the Restricted Pairs. This is an amazing achievement! Very well done!
Kelly Barber and Leslie Treasure won the C section of the restricted pairs. Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge were 8th in the Intermediate pairs. There were lots of other good results.
The winners of the GNOT qualifier were the Loomes team of Maurice and Rachael Loomes, Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge. They had 9 wins which means they beat every other team. Second were the Small team with Michael and Margaret Draper, Anne Small and Ron Smith. The winners of this event and the evening GNOT (in August/September) will go to the Metropolitan final at the NSWBA in October.
The SMP club qualifier was won by Rachael and Maurice Loomes and in second place were Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge. Well done to all! The club will sponsor the top 4 pairs to be sent to the final which will be held at the NSWBA on the 23rd and 24th of May.
Joan Butts will present another of her very popular workshops on Saturday 9th May at 9.30am. Learn how to handle bad breaks and more! Click here for more details.
The winners of the PBC 2015 Congress was the team of Giza Fletcher, Sandra Milner, Judy Perl and Helen Borman. The runners up were were John Scotford, Witold Chylewski, Johnno Newman and Ian Lisle.
The best Peninsula Team were Lois and Terry Rothwell, Tim Mussared and Mike Pengelly. Second Peninsula team were Beryl Dawson, Maureen Cooksley, Pat Cummings and Sue Riley.
The Loomes team with Rachael and Maurice Loomes, Vivien Eldridge and Charles Klassen (75% Peninsula!) were 4th (equal) overall.
Well done to all! Thanks to Sue Riley, the director John McIlrath, the dealer Tim Mussared and everyone who contributed such marvellous food.
On Wednesday 27 May we will introduce an additional evening bridge session, starting at 7.30 pm. For this new session, you can come alone and be paired up on the night.
During the regular Wednesday afternoon session, from 15th July onwards, a separate section will be set up for Novice players with less than 10 Masterpoints. The Director for this section will be a member of the Bridge Education team.You can come without a partner and either be paired up with another person who has come alone or else play with the Director. You should be seated by 12:15, but it would be advisable to arrive by 12 if you have come without a partner.This could be an excellent opportunity to start playing in a regular Duplicate session with and against players of a similar standard and may also be a way of finding a compatible Bridge partner for the future.
