Brunton Bridge Club
Competition Rules
Competitions and Rules
Competitions and Rules

Brunton holds heats of all the NEBA events and the EBU national pairs;  for these the organisation's rules apply.

Club championships are open only to paid-up Brunton members.

The main club award is the Marathon Pairs. This competition lasts the whole year (January to December), and every result a pair scores over the year is included.  
15 sessions in the year is the minimum qualifying mark, and the highest average percentage wins.  This is then truly the gauge of the club champions. 


The Marathon Individual lasts the whole year (January to December), and is based on individual performance.  The player with the highest number of points is the winner.  Only the best 30 results are included.  30 sessions in the year is the minimum qualifying mark.

The Hurst Rose Bowl is awarded to the highest pairs percentage achieved over the course of the year (January to December).

The Golding Salver is a one-off event, where to qualify (as a partnership) you must at any time in the previous year come top.  Naturally, you will qualify with more than one partner, so the rule is that the partnership which qualified most times is the one playing in the final, and if the same number of times, the partnership that qualified first.  In other words, if your most qualified partner has himself qualified more often with someone else, your partnership is eliminated, leaving you available to play with your next most qualified partner ... etc.

The Steve Ray Cups is a one-off event for mixed pairs.  There is also the Manny Silver Trophy for same sex pairs.

The Captain's Cup is a one-off event for multiple teams of four.

The Gerald Baker Quaich is a one-off event for pairs of whom neither player has yet won 10 green points.  Overqualified pairs play at the same time for the Ian Spoors Quaich.

The Deane Salver is a one-off handicap event.