The fourth round of the ABF Club Teams Knockout was played on RealBridge on Tuesday 13 October 2026. This was the semi-final round in the Knockout and the second month of the Consolation Swiss.

Congratulations to the TBA Under 750 MP team (Nigel Brookes, Jeremy Reid, Erica McCoull, Jane Edler, Simon Edler and Pam Murphy) who won their semi-final against Victorian. They will play the Under 750 finals against Parramatta next month.

The TBA Open Maroon team (Tania Lloyd, Hugh Grosvenor, Mardi Grosvenor and John Grosvenor) lost their semi-final against North Shore. North Shore and Newcastle will play the Open finals next month, and the TBA Maroon team will join the Consolation Swiss.

At the end of round 6 of the Consolation Swiss in a field of 38 the Tasmanian teams are placed:
- 14th: Hobart City Open (David Brooks, Darryl Smith, Maruta Boyd and Barbara Holland)
- 20th: TBA Under 300 MP (Geraldine Carey, Anne O'Rourke, Laura Bauermeister, Leonie Atkins and Paul Fredheim)
- 22nd: TBA Under 100 MP (Anne Travers, Steve Thollar, Roger Hooley, Judy Hooley, Catherine Catt and Jack Pashev)
- 32nd: TBA Open Green (Maggie Crawford, Julia Corr, Phil Beck and Jo Beck)

Full results and details are available here.

The final round of the competition will be on Tuesday November 17th. This will be the Knockout Finals and the final three matches in the Consolation Swiss.

The 2026 State Daytime Pairs were held over three Wednesday Mornings at the TBA ending 14 October. This was a walk-in multi session matchpoint pairs event. Contending pairs had to play all three sessions.

Congratulations to the overall winners, Julia Corr and Maruta Boyd. Julie Rhodes and Hilton Francis came second. Mardi Grosvenor and John Grosvenor came third. The full overall results are available here. The session results are here: [session 1(https://tas.bridgeaustralia.org/resultsbm.asp?id=691090&umbid=0)], [session 2(https://tas.bridgeaustralia.org/resultsbm.asp?id=691091&umbid=0)], session 3.

The 2026 Southern Graded Pairs was played across four Friday mornings in September. Players are grouped into two categories - A for players with more than 150 masterpoints and B for players with fewer than 150 Masterpoints. To be in contention a pair must play in at least three of the sessions. The overall results are based on the best three results from the four sessions.

The overall category A winners were Maria Gibbs and Bal Krishan. Second placed were Pam Murphy and Barbara Giizel. No pairs were contending in category B.

The details results are available here: Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, Overall

The Launceston Bridge Club held their 2026 Congress on the weekend of 10-11 October. Saturday was Matchpoint Pairs with separate Restricted and Open sections. Sunday was Swiss Pairs. Both events were at maximum capacity with 38 pairs playing in the Matchpoint Pairs (24 Open, 14 Restricted) and 40 pairs in the Swiss Pairs. It was good to see strong representation from the south with 12 players from sourthern clubs playing across the weekend. Sue Falkingham was the Director.

The Open Matchpoint Pairs was won by Margaret Robertson and Roger Swain (results here). The Restricted Matchpoint Pairs was won by Roger Hooley and Judy Hooley, in what must be one of their last outings in the Under 100 MP category (results here). The Swiss Pairs was won by Anne Fyfe and Floyd Suban (results here).

Congratulations to LBC for running such a successful congress.

Sunday 20 September 2026 was the final day of the GNOT Online Finals where the teams representing each region compete on RealBridge to qualify for the face-to-face finals to be held in late November in Brisbane. Sixty teams competed in the event.

Tasmania has three regions in the GNOT - North, South and Tasmania. The North and South teams were selected through the club qualifying sessions and the regional finals. The Tasmania team was selected through an online event. The three Tasmanian teams are:

• North: Catherine Elliott, Felicity Wivell, Anne Fyfe, Cvetko Suban
• South: Maria Gibbs, Bal Krishan, Merryl Darby, David Marshall, Julia Corr, Jo Beck
• Tasmania: Tania Lloyd, Hugh Grosvenor, Mardi Grosvenor, John Grosvenor

The Tasmania team won over Sunshine Coast 1 in the final knockout round and so are one of the four teams that qualify through the knockout for the National Finals. As Tasmania is classed as a non-metropolitan region the team had the choice of playing in either the National Finals or the National Non-Metropolitan Final. The team elected to play in the National Finals.

The Tasmania North and Tasmania South teams played eight rounds in the Swiss Repechage. The top four teams from the Repechage qualify for the National Finals, and the top 12 non-metropolitan teams qualify for the National Non-Metropolitan Final. Tasmania South came 42nd overall (4 wins, 1 draw) and 15th of the non-metropolitan regions. Tasmania North came 48th overall (4 wins) and 26th of the non-metropolitan regions.

Breaking News: Although not placed in the top 12 non-metropolitan teams, Tasmania South have qualified and will be playing in the National Non-Metropolitan Final. The top two non-metropolitan teams (Tasmania and Sunshine Coast 1) qualified to play in the National Finals and elected to play in that event, and one of the next 12 declined to play in the finals.

Full results for the event are available here.

The 2026 Southern / Handicap teams was held on Sunday 27 September. This is was a Swiss Teams event with an open and handicapped result. Sixteen teams competed with players of all experience levels.

The winners in the open competition were the Smith team (Darryl Smith, Chris Girvan, Gulum Kocak-Sunamak, Guray Sunamak). The Rhodes team (Julie Rhodes, Hilton Francis, Paul Fredheim, Laura Bauermeister) came second, and the McCoull team came third (Erica McCoull, Jeremy Reid, Maruta Boyd, Barbara Holland). The full results are available here.

The Calvert team (Nola Calvert, Rex Calvert, Jegs Nuttall, Jo Castillo) won on handicap. The Smith team came second and the Johnson team (Julia Johnson, Geoff Green, Toby Meredith, Pam Halton) came third. The Handicap result sheet is available here.

Thanks to Chris Carolan for directing, to Pam Murphy for helping put togther teams and organising the lunch, and to Helen O'Conor and Regina Share for coming in to help in the kitchen.

The second session of the 2026 Elsie Strickland Memorial Pairs was played in the Thursday morning session on 24 September 2026. This is a pairs event over two sessions for players with fewer than 150 Masterpoints. Congratulations to Ross Addison and Jack Pashev for winning the overall event. The results from the two sessions are here and here. The overall results are here.

Past winners of the event are listed on the TBA Honour Board, along with a short précis of the life of the life of Elsie Strickland provided by her daughter.

The finals of the 2026 Tassie Matchpoint Pairs was held at the Tamar Bridge Club on Sunday 13 September. Players qualified for the finals of this State event through qualifying sessions held at each club. Members of the 2026 Tasmanian Representative teams were given automatic qualification.

The finals were held over two sessions with 18 pairs competing. There was good representation from Launceston and Devonport, but disappointingly little representation from the south.

The winners were Margaret Roberton and Vere Van Ingen. Anne Fyfe and Floyd Suban came second. Ian Farmer and Haj Skilton came third. Full results are here.

Thanks to Hugh Grosvenor for directing the finals.