  
To add a little extra interest we award a series of annual trophies which, with the sole exception of the Eileen Webster Shield, are all based on cumulative performances at particular sessions over our Competition Year.
All members are eligible and will automatically be included in any competition when they play in a qualifying session. Nonetheless all of our sessions are themselves stand-alone events to be won or lost without regard to these competitions.
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Duplicate competitions for partnerships:
Each of these trophies is awarded to the partnership with the best six percentage scores in aggregate from the Duplicate Bridge sessions on the relevant evenings during the Competition Year.
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| Duplicate competitions with individual winners:
Kay Dow Trophy (first Friday of each month)
The trophy is awarded to the individual with the best six percentage scores in aggregate during the Competition Year. The total must include scores with more than one partner and only the first three scores with any one partner may be counted.
Norman Green Trophy (second Wednesday of each month)
The trophy is awarded to the individual with the best six percentage scores in aggregate during the Competition Year. The total must include scores with a minimum of two different partners more about the Norman Green Trophy
Handicap Trophy (first and third Wednesday of each month)
Awarded to the individual with the best ten handicapped scores in aggregate during the Competition Year. Handicaps recalculated after each session (lose 0.5 if under 45%, gain 0.5 if over 55%). Handicap adjustments reflect the average of the combined partnership handicaps.
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Rubber Bridge Competitions:
Carmichael Cup
Awarded to the player with the highest sum from their six best rubbers over the year at our Thursday evening Rubber Bridge (only rubbers of 1500 or more recorded)
Thomas Cut-In trophy
Awarded to the player with the highest sum from their six best rubbers over the year at our Monday evening cut-in Rubber Bridge (only rubbers of 1,000 or more are recorded).
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Eileen Webster Shield:
The Eileen Webster Shield is a one day duplicate pairs competition open to all members, normally held in January or February each year. The trophy is awarded in honour of our late chairman's wife.
Click here to be redirected to a series of pages about this competition.
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Important Changes for 2011-2012:
We have decided to make a number of changes to the club competitions for the year which commenced on 1st September 2011 and the subsequent year.
Shortening the Year:
We have had repeated problems because the club's Membership Year does not coincide with the Competitions Year. Only paid-up club members are eligible for the competitions and they can only count scores achieved when playing with other club members. Problems have arisen when members have partnered players whose membership has lapsed before the end of the Competitions Year. With most of our systems now being maintained electronically we have manually over-ridden the program defaults to deal with specific cases but we are all agreed it would be far simpler if everything was synchronized. To achieve this we need to move the end of the Competitions Year back by two months from 31st August to 30th June and we have decided to do this in two stages:
- The 2011-2012 Competitions Year will be shortened to 11 months. This means that the “year” which began on 1st September 2011 will now end on 31st July 2012.
- The 2012-2013 Competitions Year will similarly be shortened by one month. This means that the “year” which begins on 1st August 2012 will now end on 30th June 2013.
Tallon Handicap Trophy:
This is an individual competition. We include the duplicate events staged on both the first and third Wednesdays of each month, which means there are potentially 24 qualifying dates and we then take the best 10 scores to determine the winner of the trophy. Because of the number of different dates involved, players will almost inevitably be counting scores with several different partners so it was not envisaged that there would be a tie between two members who had played together throughout. In consequence there was never any formal stipulation requiring qualifying scores with more than one partner. Because the Trophy has produced just such a tie twice in recent years we have decided it would now be appropriate to amend the qualifying requirements so that with effect from the 2011-2012 Competition Year players must include scores with more than one player in their best 10 (i.e. no more than 9 scores with any one partner can be counted).
Substitute Events:
In the past we have arranged a substitute to replace any of the regular dates when an event counting towards a competition has been lost, such cancellations usually having been the result of Christmas holidays and or bad weather etc. To provide the replacement dates we have used the fifth Wednesday or fifth Friday dates that were available but this has meant that players have been unable to arrange regular partnerships for those “fifths” and/or have the opportunity to play with new partners. We have decided that,for the next two years we will not replace any date that is lost.
Where appropriate the qualifications for the relevant competition will be adjusted so that they will not exceed 50% of the available events, with fractions rounded up. This means that if the events actually held fall to 10 or less we will reduce the number of qualifying scores from 6 to 5.
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| The Small Print: |
Competitions Year:
For 2011/12 the club's competition year will commence at the beginning of September 2011 and run to the end of July 2012. The competition year for 2012/13 will commence at the beginning of August 2012 and run to the end of June 2013. Thereafter the club's competition year will run from 1st July to 30th June in the succeeding year.
Members Only: Only members are eligible for these competitions and members can only count scores achieved whilst playing with a fellow member.
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