The 2025 Tassie Board-a-Match Teams was held at the TBA on the weekend of 14-15 June. Board-a-Match scoring is simple. It is essentially matchpoint scoring with each board being played twice within a match. If you score better than your opponents at the other table you get 2 points for the board (they get none). If the scores are equal you each get 1 point. If the opponents get a better score you get no points (they get 2). No mucking around with IMPs or VP tables! Some people believe Board-a-Match teams is the purest form of the game.

Six teams (including a couple of fly-in celebrities) competed in a round robin of 24 board matches. The winners were the Lloyd team (Tania Lloyd, Hugh Grosvenor, Sandra & Andrew Richman). Second place went to the Gibbs team (Maria Gibbs, Pam Murphy, Phil Timmins, Duncan Abercromby). Full results are here.

Thanks to Simon for organising and directing the event.

If you are interested in giving Board-a-Match teams a go, the TBA Club Board-a-Match teams is coming up on Sunday 27 July. Entries are open on My ABF.

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The TBA Committee met on June 10th from 2.45pm. Present were Julie Rhodes (P), John Grosvenor (VP) Leigh Blizzard (T) Pam Murphy, Leonie Atkins, Chris Girvan, Sue Falkingham, Paul Fredheim, Simon Edler and Hugh Grosvenor. The following matters were discussed:

Congratulations Hugh Fundraiser!

Hugh has returned triumphant from China with the Seniors’ team winning the Gold medal! The Open team also did well, coming in third. Hugh is also travelling to Denmark in August to play for Australia again in the Senior’s Team.

In order to celebrate his win, and to assist him financially to travel to Denmark, the TBA will hold a fund raising event on Sunday June 29th starting at 10.00am. It will take the form of an individual tournament where as many people as possible will be able to play with Hugh. In addition we will be running a raffle on that day for Hugh with the full list of prizes available closer to the event. If you are unable to attend on that day, but would like to assist Hugh, we will turn the suggestion box into a donation box a week prior to the event.

Australia Wide Club Championship

The next ABF Club Knockout Teams event is starting in just a few weeks. It will be held online using the excellent Real Bridge platform. Play is on Tuesday evenings at 7:30pm one match a month over 5 months. The first match is Tuesday July 22nd.

The TBA has been very successful winning the open teams in 2023 and the under 750 in 2024. Now in 2025 let’s do even better. There are 5 Masterpoints categories: Under 50, Under 100, Under 300, Under 750 and Open.

The TBA pays for your entry fees, but any prize money won by a team is placed in the entry fee pool for next year’s teams.

If you would like to represent your club please email the TBA for yourself, your pair or your team. Sue Falkingham will be organizing our teams and needs to hear from you now (email tba@tasbridge.com.au).

Laugh and Learn

Laugh and Learn has started on Wednesday afternoons from 2.00pm. It is a fun and informal way to improve your bridge, with discussion of the hands after they have been bid and played.

More On Pianola

As mentioned last month, the TBA has decided to cancel its blanket subscription to Pianola Plus, thereby saving thousands of dollars. You can subscribe personally to Pianola Plus if you wish (via the Pianola website), but most of the previously available hand analysis etc can still be done via the TBA website.

Bridge Etiquette – Tip of the Month

Since it is the cold and flu season, please stay away from bridge if you are unwell. Also, please remember to sneeze or cough into your arm, and not on the playing cards. There are masks available at the TBA if you need one, or think another player needs one.

Julie Rhodes

President

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Victorian Festival of Bridge 2025 - Day 3

From Hugh Grosvenor

All posts: Vic Festival of Bridge - Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. APBF Hefei - Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7.

A rainy day in Melbourne for the start of the Victor Champion Cup. The name of this event has always amused me since ‘Victor’ and ‘Champion’ are synonyms. In fact, Victor Champion was a notable Victorian bridge player (1908-1974). He captained 16 Victorian Teams between 1934 and 1961 winning seven Australian championships. He was a bridge writer and theorist and one of the best players of his generation.

There are 90 teams in this year’s event. George and I are playing with David Appleton and Brad Coles from Canberra. Brad is the editor of Australian Bridge, Australia’s premier bridge magazine. They play a highly artificial system the details of which are not clear to me. One of the advantages of having them as teammates is that we don’t have to play against them!

There are many strong teams in the field and again the luck of the draw will have some effect. The first round is a random draw. We are seeded 7 and play team 29. Tomer and Lavy Libman are a father and son pair from Sydney who recently qualified to play in the NSW Open Team at this year’s ANC in Brisbane. Tomer has represented Australia in Youth bridge several times and is one of Australia’s top young bridge talents. They are experienced and tough and have a lot of system agreement. Their teammates are Fraser Rew and Lakshmi Sunderasan. Fraser is a talented player from Sydney, Lakshmi played for Tasmania on the Open Team last year. Not the easiest draw.

George and I played Tomer and Lavy.

Board 1 was a light game or a heavy partscore.

At our table George opened 1H, Tomer (the kid) doubled and Lavy bid 2D which ended the auction. Lavy commented that 2D had been his best contract during the pairs. I suggested that if I had to choose a contract to be successful it probably wouldn’t be 2D!

Lavy played this contract conservatively, probably the best plan if you have not bid game, and made 10 tricks. At the other table teammates played 3NT and with the pointed suits lying favourably made 10 tricks. 10 IMPs to us. Double dummy they could make 6D and 3NT was easy.

Teammates had an accident bidding a slam off two aces but apart from this scored well. A fair win against useful opponents.

Match 2 we played Team 11. Andrew Peake and Giselle Mundell are a strong pair from Sydney that I frequently play with as teammates, particularly in online events. For this event they are playing with Kate McCallum and Axel Johannsson from Adelaide. Kate is from the USA and has won 7 World Championships and 16 North American Titles – not a bad CV!

George and I played Andrew and Giselle. The other table saw the battle of two strong club relay systems. Don’t expect me to explain their bidding!

The first hand, Board 15, was a curiosity.

We bid to 2S and they pushed on to 3C. With the cards lying very favourably Giselle guessed well to make 11 tricks (guessed the CQ, finessed the SK and led the HQ from hand pinning the J to play the suit for no losers). 2 IMPs to them as 2S went one off at the other table.

North opens 1S. Would you bid 2NT showing 5-5 in the minors? Andrew did at our table, George bid 3D showing an invitational or better spade raise and Giselle bid 5D. Neither of us could realistically bid on at the 5 level so we doubled and collected 300. At the other table David chose to pass so that the opponents had a free run to 4H. I would bid 2NT with this hand but have sympathy with the choice not to – poor suit quality, more defence than offence.

George opened 1D, too strong for 1NT, planning to rebid 2NT. Giselle doubled. I passed and Andrew bid 1H. George chose to pass (1NT was an alternative – this would show 18-19 since I had not responded). Instead, Giselle bid 1NT showing 18-19. Andrew bid 2H showing 5+ hearts and a weak hand, preferring to play hearts rather than NT. Giselle raised this to 4H. This seems like too much to me since partner had not promised any values – I would be choosing between pass and 3H. George doubled and had to find a lead – what would be your choice? Maybe the DA looks safe but look what happened. I played the 9 discouraging and George switched to HA and another H. Andrew could now trump three diamonds in his hand, establishing the last D. The third heart in the dummy drew the last trump for 10 tricks and 790. A nice example of a dummy reversal. George needed to lead a heart to win 7 IMPs instead of losing 12 IMPs.

Giselle did a lot of bidding on this hand as well. I opened 1C, Andrew doubled and George bid 1S. Giselle is never backward in coming forward so bid 4H. Three was probably enough to describe her hand. This was passed back to George who doubled. I led the SK and continued with another spade. When George won this, he had to decide what to do next. He led another spade and Giselle was able to ruff high, draw trumps and discard one of her diamond losers on the SJ. Ace and another diamond from George would have beaten the contract 2 tricks for 500. 200 was worth 2 IMPs when NS made 9 tricks in spades at the other table.

I opened 1S, Andrew passed on a hand that I think I would have tried 1NT on. George responded 1N. I bid 2D and he had some choices. He told me afterwards that his first instinct was to bid 5D, then he thought maybe 4D was better. Eventually he decided on 3D. I was happy to pass that. Andrew led a low H. Giselle had to decide whether to play the 9 or the Q. The 9 would be right if partner held the J, the Q was probably right if he had the K (notice if he had both the K and the J it didn’t matter which she played). The 9 lost to my J, I gave up a club, won the D return with the Ace, cashed the SA pitching a heart, then cross ruffed spades and clubs. A defensive slip from Andrew at the end saw me making 11 tricks.

At the other table they got to 5D which our guys doubled. The play to the first trick was the same but the higher stakes sharpened the concentration and they beat it a trick.

Match 3 was against a Canberra based team of Christy Geromboux and Sebastian Yuen, playing with the father and daughter pair of Peter and Jane Reynolds. We are playing Christy and Sebastian, a very good pair who have had consistently good results in recent years. They play a highly evolved form of 2 over 1 with many agreements.

There were a lot of flat boards in this match but 2 tough decisions that we got right.

Christy opened 1H and Sebastian bid 1NT which they play as forcing with spades. Christy showed diamonds. Sebastian bid 3C fourth suit forcing. Christy bid 3NT showing her club stoppers. After some thought Sebastian jumped to 6S.

I led the DK, George contributed the 9 and Sebastian the Q. If the Q was singleton I needed to shift to something else. If he had two the Q was the obvious card to play and I might well need to continue with the ace. Was George’s 9 a count card showing 3 or an attitude card saying he didn’t like diamonds? After some consideration I cashed the A. If I had switched the diamond loser would have disappeared on the HA.

This is probably a situation where the lead of the Ace should ask for attitude and the lead of the King should ask for count.

Sebastian opened 2D which included a variety of strong hands but was most likely to be a weak 2 bid in hearts. At this vulnerability it could be very weak, as indeed it was! I passed and Christy bid 2S which was natural, constructive but not forcing. George bid 2NT, natural and it was over to me. Anything could be right but I decided on a pragmatic bid of 3NT.

Sebastian led a S to Christie’s K. She switched to a H which George won with the Ace. Now he played a low D to the J which Christy ducked, then the CJ covered and won. When the CT dropped this created an entry to the dummy to enjoy the diamonds after the Ace was knocked out. A little lucky but nicely played.

The last match of the day wasn’t a particularly lucky draw. Warren Lazer and Pauline Gumby playing with Michael Ware and Pam Livingston. Michael is one of New Zealand’s best players. Pam is a highly regarded teacher and coach. Both have represented New Zealand many times.

Pam opened 1D, I overcalled 1H, Michael bid 2H showing a diamond raise, at least invitational to game. Pam discovered that they were missing a keycard and the DQ. Undeterred she bid 6D. I guess that she thought their fit might be better. With both black queens favourably positioned the only remaining problem was the trump suit. Pam took two finesses, losing to both the K and the Q. This is obviously the best percentage play in the suit in isolation but given the bidding playing for the drop must have been tempting. Teammates played in 3NT with no opposition bidding and went down on a heart lead and the same double finesse in diamonds.

An interesting hand. Pam opened 1C, Michael responded 1H and Pam rebid 2D, a natural reverse showing a good hand typically with 5+ clubs and 4 diamonds. Michael bid 2NT natural and forcing to game which was raised to 3. George led the S7. Declarer has 8 likely tricks (barring a 4-0 club break). The question is how to get the ninth trick. On the face of it hearts appears to be the best chance. The best chance for 2 tricks there is to play a low one to the 9. Presuming that this forces either the K or the Q you can then finesse the J the next time. This will work if North holds KTx(x) or QTx(x). Michael saw another possibility. The play to the first trick and our silence in the bidding suggested that the spades were probably 4-4. In this case he might be able to establish a D trick. Backing his judgment as good players do he played a diamond to the 9. This would work if North held the ten (presuming that the spades broke 4-4). When the 9 lost to the ten he was in trouble.

George thought about this for quite a while and eventually returned a diamond. A mistake but a well-considered one!

At the other table our teammates chose 5C. This basically needed the DA onside and when it wasn’t went one down.

A disappointing way to finish the day.

At the end of day one of the teams we are running 38th out of 90. We played 4 good teams. A lot of work to be done. Jeremy Reid and Seb Wright are doing fantastically running second. The Richmans are in 13th place. Sue and Marg are 70th.

Sue reminded me of two other Tasmanian players who have been here. Anne Travers played in the Novice events with great results finishing second in the two session pairs event. Well done and great to see you here. Jenny Adey also played in the Open Pairs finishing 91st.

All the scores are here.

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The final of the Tassie Matchpoint Pairs was held at Tamar Bridge Club on Sunday 1st June. Seven tables of pairs that had qualified through heats at various clubs around the state competed over two sessions. The winners were Pam Murphy and Bal Krishan from the TBA averaging about 59.5% over the two sessions. Second were Sally Clarke and Catherine Elliott from the Tamar Club averaging just under 58%. They also won the title of best womens pair. Third just a few matchpoints back were Roger Swain and Felicity Wivell also from Tamar. Full results are here.

Many thanks to the Tamar Club for their hospitality.

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The 2025 TBA Club Open and Handicap Teams was held over two Monday evenings in May. Nine teams competed. The open winners were the Murphy Team (Pam Murphy, Barbara Giizel, Jo and Phil Beck). The handicap winners were the Giles team (Rosemary and Brian Giles, Betty Pilgrim and Paul Fredheim). Full results are available here.

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The TBA Congress is the most significant club event held by the TBA each year. This year the congress was held on the weekend of 3rd and 4th May.

Saturday was Matchpoint Pairs over two sessions. The competion was divided into three categories - Open, Restricted and Novice. The overall winners of the Open were Guray Sunamak & Darryl Smith, with Annie Bartlett & Julie Rhodes coming second, and Barbara Giizel & Pam Murphy third. Full results for the Open are at: Overall, Session 1, Session 2.

The Restricted and Novice categories played in a combined section for the Matchpoint Pairs. Overall winners in the Restricted category were Mary George & Mary Hawthorne. Overall winners in the Novice category were Keong Chen & Leonie Atkins. Full results for the combined section are at: Overall, Session 1, Session 2.

Sunday was Swiss Pairs with 40 pairs competing. The overall winners were Fiona Hickey & Alaine Macmorran. Wynne Webber & Hilton Francis came second, and David Robinson & Phil Beck came third. The highest placed restricted pair were Jeremy Reid & Erica McCoull. The highest placed novice pair were Pam Halton & Toby Meredith. Full results are availabe here.

Thanks to the many volunteers who helped make the weekend a success, and to all who brought food to share. Thanks to Chris Carolan for Directing.

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Thanks to everyone - players, organisers, directors, caddies, volunteers and sponsors - who made the 2025 Tasmanian Festival of Bridge a successful and exciting event. The Festival was held from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 of March 2025. This was the third time that the event has been held at the MyState Bank Arena in Hobart on the banks of the Derwent river.

400 entrants, including some of Australia's top players competed across 6 events. This is an impressive 25% increase over last year. Half of the entrants were from interstate or overseas. About 75 Australian clubs were represented, with a growing contingent of New Zealand players joining us.

Thursday and Friday saw the TFoB Restricted Swiss Pairs, the Roger Penny Senior Swiss Pairs and the Fixed Income Solutions Australian Mixed Swiss Pairs. The TBIB Australian Swiss Pairs was run on Saturday and Sunday. The TFoB Rookie Swiss Pairs was held on Sunday. The inaugural Jenny Penny Novice Swiss Pairs was also added to the schedule, running on Saturday.

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The TBIB Australian Swiss Pairs had a field of 114 pairs, an increase of 25% over last year. Start of play was preceeded by a few words from Ron Klinger and a minutes silence in memory of Avinash Kanetkar. The winners of the event were Warren Lazer and Pauline Gumby. Ashley Bach and Arlene Dalley came second. Maurits Van Der Vlugt and David Beauchamp came third. The Warren Walker Memorial trophy for the highest placed Tasmanian pair was won by Guray Sunamak and Darryl Smith. Full results are here.

The Fixed Income Solutions Australian Mixed Swiss Pairs also saw a signifcant increase over last year's field with 42 pairs playing. The event was won by Ashley Back and Arlene Dalley. Hugh McGann and Candice Smith came second. Andrew Peake and Giselle Mundell came third. Full results are here.

50 pairs played in the Roger Penny Senior Swiss Pairs which was won by Nigel Rosendorff and Peter Reynolds. Ian Robinson and Neil Ewart came second. Phillip Fent and Dee Harley came third. Full results are here.

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The TFoB Restricted Swiss Pairs saw 66 pairs with fewer than 300 masterpoints competing. It was won by Louise Cowan and Susan Bezette from the Tamar Bridge Club. They also won the inaugural Ron Spencer Memorial Prize for the highest placed Tasmanian pair. This prize is in memory of Ron Spencer, a member and generous beneficator of the TBA. Margaret Cusack and Rhonda Khong came second. Joann Theriault and Eamonn McCabe came third. Full results are here.

The inaugural Jenny Penny Novice Swiss Pairs was played on Saturday with 22 pairs with fewer than 100 masterpoints competing. The event is named in memory of Jenny Penny, a much loved bridge teacher and director who introduced many Tasmanians to the game over a very long career. The winners were Jan Van Riel and Margaret Grant. Second placed were Nat Wright and Jo Wright. Robyn Russell and Anne Donnelly came third. Full results are here.

This was the third running of the TFoB Rookie Swiss Pairs with 22 pairs with fewer than 25 masterpoints competing. It was won by Nat Wright and Jo Wright. Ann Burnett and Anne McEntee came second. Helen Hebblethwaite and Chris Arnott came third. Full results are here.

Thanks to TBIB for their continuing sponsorship.

Thanks to Fixed Income Solutions for becoming a major sponsorship.

Thanks to Fella Hamilton for their sponsorship. Two $100 Fella Hamilton gift vouchers were awarded to the top place women's pair in the Restricted, Senior and Open events.

The Tasmanian Festival of Bridge is supported by the Tasmanian Government through Events Tasmania

The 2026 Tasmanian Festival of Bridge will be from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 March 2026 at the MyState Bank Arena. There is plenty of room for more tables and it is a lovely time of year to visit Tasmania. Save the date, and we hope to see you in 2026!

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Congratulations to the TBA Under 750 team for winning their final!

This was the third year of this event and once again the TBA entered teams in each of the handicap divisions. The club paid the $200 entry fee for each team to participate. The first match was in August and then once each month until the final night in December.

The TBA teams were:

• Open - Tania Lloyd, Hugh Grosvenor, Mardi Grosvenor, John Grosvenor. They were defeated in the Quarter Finals by the Beaumont team from South Australia. Who then annoyingly went on to beat them in the last match of the Consolation Swiss. Congratulations though to our Open team for finishing second with such a strong performance. After having won the Open last year I am sure they may have been disappointed. But as I am the Organiser of the event it may have started conspiracy theories if we won 2 years in a row!
• Under 750 MP - David Brooks, Darryl Smith, Maruta Boyd, Barbara Holland and David Marshall. Glory goes to our team who triumphed winning their Final and being the Champion Team. A stellar performance winning every match. A nerve-racking final against Moonee Valley saw me kibitzing and chewing my fingernails. However, a superb last couple of boards and they were convincing winners by 19 imps.
• Under 300 MP - Erica McCoull, Jeremy Reid, Gek Low and Katherine Marsden. At the end of 3 months of play, totalling 19 matches, they were sitting in 3rd position and into the semi finals. Erica and Jeremy were also sitting in first position in the pair datums out of 52 pairs. Katherine and Gek were a creditable 22 out of 52. Unfortunately losing their semi put our team into the consolation swisswhere they finished 15th out of 29.
• Under 100 MP - Keong Chen, Leonie Atkins, Paul Fredheim and Wayne Seabrook. They were the top ranked U100 team at the end of the Qualifying rounds. Unfortunately they lost their Semi Final to Ballina who were the eventual winners for this division. They went on to finish a fantastic fifth in the consolation Swiss!
• Under 50 MP - Christina Buell, Laura Best, Laura Bauermeister, Sharlene Campbell and Catherine Catt. Finally our brave U50 players. They felt rather bashed around but in the qualifying rounds even though they had to play all the teams from the U300 and U100 divisions as well. They beat all but one of the other U50 teams playing. They did not make the finals but went to the consolation swiss. I would like to note that their second last match saw them beat the Kenmore U750 team by 12 imps.

We could have as many players as wanted to play in the matches but perhaps because it is an online event we were not inundated with queues of people wishing to play. The Club is most grateful to all of the players that played in any of the matches. Do think about being part of the event next year. Why not familiarise yourself with the RealBridge platform and play in our weekly online Wednesday night session? Red masterpoints on offer!

Full results and details are available here. Congratulations to everybody who played. Thanks to Sue Falkinhgam for coordinating the TBA teams. Sue also had a role in organising this event nationally.

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The 2024 TBA club Christmas Party was held at the TBA on Saturday afternoon 14th December. A packed house enjoyed the sumptuous spread that we all brought and shared. The President, Pam Murphy, thanked some of our indefatigable volunteers with wine, flowers and free game vouchers. 24.5 tables of bridge just topped last year's record of 24 tables.

The winners NS were Sarah Howard and Maria Gibbs and EW were Jane and Simon Edler.

Full results are available here.

Many thanks to all who contributed to the success of the event. Thanks to Sue Falkingham for directing.

Thanks to Erica McCoull for the photos

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The 2024 Tasmanian Swiss Pairs was held at the TBA on the weekend of 16-17 November. This was the last of the island-wide events for the year. A field of 18 pairs played eight matches over the two days.

The winners were Hugh Grosvenor and Tania Lloyd, second were Julie Rhodes and Leigh Blizzard and Julia Corr and Barbara Giizel came third. The full results are here.

Thanks to Simon Edler for directing and to the Tamar Bridge Club for hosting the event.

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The TBA club rooms were packed on Sunday 29 September for the 2024 Spring Pairs, renamed this year to the Ron Spencer Spring Pairs in honour of long time TBA member and benefactor. Forty pairs played in the two session Swiss Pairs event. They were then joined by other TBA members for drinks, nibbles and classical music in celebration of Ron's life. As part of this celebration Julie Rhodes announced Ron's generous bequest to the TBA. In acknowledgement a perpetual trophy will be established in his name, to be awarded to the top placed Tasmanian pair in the Restricted Swiss Pairs at the Tasmanian Festival of Bridge each year.

First place went to Bal Krishan and Maria Gibbs. Wynne Webber and Hilton Francis came second. David Robinson and Phil Beck came third. The full results are here.

Thanks to Sue Falkingham for directing, and to Julie Rhodes for organising lunch and the celebration.

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The Grand National Open Teams (GNOT) Online 64 team knockout phase was played from Friday 20th September to Sunday 22nd September on the Realbridge platform. In fact there were only 63 teams so one team had a bye in the first round.

Tasmania was represented by three teams:

Our three GNOT teams did Tasmania proud, competing for three days on-line winning several matches each. They report positive experiences.

The top 4 teams and the next 8 regional teams proceed to the final phase of the event which will be held face-to-face over a weekend in Sydney (23rd and 24th November).

Full results are here.

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The Tassie Board A Match Teams was held on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September at the Launceston Bridge Club with 6 teams participating. The winners were the Richman team consisting of Andrew and Sandra Richman, Jane Routley and Pam Lidl. Second place went to the Grosvenor team - John and Mardi Grosvenor, Julie Rhodes and Leigh Blizzard.

Full results are available here.

Thanks to the LBC for their hospitality and to Hugh Grosvenor for directing.

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The 2024 Eastcoaster Swiss Pairs was held at the Eastcoaster Resort in Orford on the weekend of 24-25 August. This year the event attracted 36 pairs from all over the state. Many people stayed overnight at the Eastcoaster and there was an event dinner on the Saturday night at the Eastcoaster's restaurant.

The field covered the full range of experience, with some people playing in their first Swiss Pairs competition. The field played nine matches of nine boards across three sessions, two on Saturday and one on Sunday morning. Prizes were awarded for the overall field and for novice and restricted categories (less than 50 and 150 masterpoints respectively). Pleasingly all players earned some red masterpoints for their weekend's efforts.

The winners overall were Tania Lloyd and Hugh Grosvenor, Andrew and Sandra Richman were second with Julie Rhodes and Leigh Blizzard finishing Third.

Winners of the restricted category (and 7th overall) were Rose Rowell and Marleen Lynch. Second in the restricted category were Julia Johnson and Sharn Davies. Winners in the novice category (and 9th overall) were Helen Hebblethwaite and Debbie Martyn. Second in the novice category were Dennis and Wendy Butler.

Full results for the event are available here.

Many thanks to the Eastcoaster for their generous support of the event, and for all of their efforts in making the weekend a success. The Eastcoaster donated a free accommodation package as a lucky door prize, which was won by Trish Colles and provided the venue free of charge.

Thank you to Julie Rhodes for her work as event convenor. Thanks to Annette Keen and Jegs Nuttall for stepping in at the last minute to replace a pair who had to withdraw. Thanks also to Simon Edler for directing and acting as caddy when sickness disrupted our plans. And, of course, thank you to everybody who played ...

Thanks to Maria Gibbs for the dinner photos

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The TBA is is the largest bridge club in the state with over 400 members and is the administrative body for the game of bridge in Tasmania. The TBA is responsible for running national and state events including the Australian Swiss Pairs championships and the Roger Penny Senior Swiss Pairs competition. The TBA also administers the Masterpoints system for the ABF and endeavours to promote the growth and teaching of bridge throughout Tasmania via its affiliated clubs.

The TBA's purpose-designed Centre at 5 Marine Esplanade, New Town Bay serves as both our local Clubrooms and the headquarters for bridge in the state. The TBA premises are available for hire by community groups for suitable activities by arrangement with the TBA Committee. Please complete a booking request form (available here) and email it to the TBA at tba@tasbridge.com.au.