HAVE FUN PLAYING BRIDGE AT OUR CLUB !!

Duplicate Bridge Sessions Monday to Friday: please click here for further information

Our Club is located at 160 Walmley Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B76 2QA. Click here for Map

Based at: THE SUTTON COLDFIELD RUGBY CLUB.

Our Club Secretary is Janet Whittaker on 0121 353 2102 or you can email suttoncbc@hotmail.co.uk  with your query or you can leave a message on our message board via the left hand menu.

Thanks to everyone who took part at Sutton Coldfield BC in the heat of the WCBA Simultaneous Pairs on Thursday 25th April 2013.

£105 will be winging its way to the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance

You can look at your county wide scores by clicking on

http://www.ebu.co.uk/sims/?id=000067

More information can be found about the charity by clicking on this weblink: http://www.wnaa.co.uk/

Congratulations to Anne & Nick Woosnam who won the 2013 M.C. White Cup held at the Club on Thursday March 21st 2013.

The full ranking list can be found in the results section. 

Congratulations go to Gerald Nodding & Maureen Parker who won the Hallam Cup for Mixed Pairs at the club on Monday 4th February.

Some confusion arose on the night because arrowswitches were not being correctly computed but this has now been resolved and the full ranking list is available in the results section.

Mixed Pairs who indicated they wished to play in the WCBA Mixed Pairs on Wed. 29th May 2013 at West Midlands Bridge Club 7:00 p.m. qualified for this event if they scored 50% or more at SCBC. A full list of qualifiers is as follows:

From January 2012 we began recording Members Successes in External Competitions on this Website, so if you did well in an EBU, WCBA or holiday bridge event please email or let Nick Woosnam have the details for inclusion in the roll of honour which can be accessed from the left hand menu or by clicking here.

The TDs have repeated their request to the latest committee meeting that players should make every effort to arrive at the Club at least 10 minutes before the advertised start time.  This is mainly due to several late arrival instances in the last month.

As BridgePads are now in use for nearly all sessions it is time consuming and tiresome to reset everything to ensure a prompt start if players are arriving late. This is particularly so on busy nights such as Monday and Thursday when adequate time should be allowed by players for car parking.

Complaints have also been received about late evening finishes and incomplete hence unfair movements which a prompt start would somewhat alleviate.

The club's mobile telephone number 07749 410 362 is always switched on about half an hour before play is due to start if you want to notify late arrival.

Players who arrive after the movement has been set up without prior notification in most cases will not get a game!!!

Please remember that if you are having a Spring Clean following the seasonal festivities you can donate your no longer wanted books to the Club's Book Table.  

Funds raised go towards helping to buy new equipment and Special Projects within the Club, with books eventually being recycled to local Charity Shops if they have remained on the Book Table for a few months. 

Competition winners information is available under the Electronic Honours Board heading on the left hand menu. Just click on the appropriate menu item to view the winners from yesteryear (now up to date to the end of 2012).

Please click here for a link to conditions of Contest for SCBC Competitions 2013

Major Changes to ongoing competitions for 2013

Competitions will be run in half yearly stages except NTM Trophy which will be run for the whole year but now only on 3rd Wednesdays.

Each competition stratified with prizes for winners and runners-up (also 3rd place in John Holland Cup) in each category. Qualification into Expert, Club Player or Improver category based on current form on EBU National Grading System as at 31/12/12 and 30/06/13.

 Clark and Nash Plate now best 12 percentage scores in a stage. Whitehouse Cup now best 6 percentage scores in a stage.

 Nash Plate restricted to Club Player and Improver categories.

 John Holland Cup restricted to Improver category. 

Please click here for the latest WCBA newsletter

You may recall that in the ongoing competitions in 2012 we competed for the Clark Cup, Nash Plate and Duval Cup three times a year and the NTM Trophy, Whitehouse Cup and John Holland Cup twice a year

As we are now at the end of the year we can announce the prize winners for the six competitions:

Clark Cup 3

1st John Phillips 58.10%

2nd Steve Wood 58.03%

NE Mike Kingman 54.50%

Nash Plate 3 (NE competition)

1st John Clarke 52.47%

2nd David Grove 52.21%

3rd=Sheila Ward & Shirley Wylie 50.28%

Duval Cup 3

1st Jon Downing 117 MPs

2nd Ted Elsworth 108 MPs

NE= Carol Perkins & John Pratty 60 MPs

NTM Trophy 2

1st Anne Woosnam 156 MPs

2nd Nick Woosnam 146 MPs

NE Roger Campbell 54 MPs

Whitehouse Cup 2

1st Liz Fenwick & Anne Woosnam 60.16%

2nd Jeremy Fenwick & Nick Woosnam 59.64%

NE No non-expert pair qualified

John Holland Cup 2 (NE competition)

1st Mike Kingman 442 MPs

2nd David Wroe 304 MPs

3rd Joe Fagan 293 MPs

Prize certificates will be available to all winners next week

Full ranking lists can be found in the 2012 Competitions section via the left hand menu.

If you weren't successful this time the next series of competitions run from January1st 2013 to June 30^th 2013 inclusive.

Competitions in 2013 will be stratified into three sections Expert, Club Player and Improver based on a player’s National Grading System Ranking as at 31/12/12 and30/06/13. Further information will be available soon in the 2013 Conditions of Contest document.  

We have two large recently refurbished well-lit playing areas, one of which is equipped for teaching, the rooms both enjoy views across playing fields.

We have a bar, kitchen and plenty of parking space.

Pre-dealt boards with available hand records are used for all main bridge sessions along with ScoreBridge,  BridgePad and BridgeWebs technology enabling a fast results service.

Our Club Secretary is Janet Whittaker on 0121 353 2102 or you can email suttoncbc@hotmail.co.uk with your query or you can leave a message on our message board via the left hand menu.

 Link to EBU Master Point Reports to end of 2012 CLICK HERE

We are now in a position to publish the end of year National Grading System rankings and the categories into which players will be allocated for the Jan-Jun Ongoing Competitions in 2013.

Please click here to see the full list of players in ranked order.

N.B. large type in NGS % means a calculated grade based on last 12 months performance at the Club.

A new class specially designed for players who have recently completed a Bridge course and want to begin playing in the main club afternoon or evening sessions is starting on Thursday 24th January 2013.

Please click here for further information and contact details for enrollment.

Ed Laughton (0121 378 0202) has agreed that we can put his name on the website as a contact for MEMBERS looking for partners. 

There is also a list on the Club Noticeboard and you may like to try the new Message Board facility under the left hand menu.

NON-MEMBERS please click for Club Secretary contact details.

The function room in the main clubhouse is available for hire by members of the Bridge Club at £100.

It can be hired by friends of Bridge Club members at £130, providing a member of the club is present at the event.