History (or scurrilous rumour) suggests that the tradition of teams matches between the sexes at the Deva came to an end because the ladies (whose teams regularly featured Welsh internationals) always won. The tradition was revived a few years ago when, following the death of Glyn Ellis (who had been the club's Principal TD for over 20 years), his wife Anne donated a trophy to the club. The committee decided that, as teams had been Glyn's favourite form of bridge, they would reinstitute the annual teams battle of the sexes.

The Glyn Ellis Teams Trophy is a charitable event held annually in aid of the President's chosen charity. It is played on the first Sunday in August.

The Glyn Ellis Teams Trophy is played between equal numbers of all-male and all-female teams (usually 10 of each sex over 9 x 3 board rounds).

Each side is organised by a captain who recruits team leaders who are then responsible for organising a team of four.

The results are shown on the club website as a "normal" teams competition with IMPs scoring and the overall result has usually been calculated by adding up the IMPs scored by all the male teams and all the female teams with the trophy being awarded to the captain of the winning side. In the 2022 competition the overall result was decided after application of a handicap based on NGS on the basis of one-point-a-board rather than imps. The 2023 competition used the NGS based handicap again but with the match decided on total imps net of handicap.

By tradition, each member of the highest scoring male and female teams are awarded a bottle of wine, and the winning side hold the trophy for a year (although it resides the club).

The 2023 competition was held in the club on Sunday 6 August Sunday. There were 5 ladies' teams and 5 men's teams, and like last year an NGS based handicap was applied so that each team had (in theory) an equal chance of winning. The ladies won on the handicap basis because the overall score before handicap was only 35 imps to the men. This is a relatively low score as for example, last year the 4 mens' teams scored +139 imps over a similar number of hands, and the time before that (2019) the 7 mens' teams scored +293 imps. Well done to the ladies for a much better performance this year! The highest men's team were Keith Shuttleworth, Seb Jones, Mark Weeks and Bob Mitchel and highest women's team were Ann Thompson, Vanessa James, Jean Hand and Mo Borley.

There was a plated tea at half time and prizes were presented at the end to the winning team, the highest men's team and the highest ladies' team (see photos below) and the event raised £380 for the Hospice of the Good Shepherd.

• 2023: Ladies
• 2022: Men
• 2021: not held
• 2020: not held
• 2019: Men
• 2018: Men
• 2017: Men
• 2016: Men
• 2015: Men
• 2014: Men
• 2013: Men
• 2012: Men
• 2011: Men
• 2010: Men