The Kent committee met recently. The 9-High events will continue every week. The 10am event (open to all), will be run just once a month (15th January, 19th February, 26th March with a ladder [running from Oct - June]. LADDER SCORES

 The NS/EW winners / Howell winners get a free Saturday game. So please enter for a BBO event. 

To play in Kent Saturday events  all players must either be Primary Kent members or Associate Kent Members. Click for more information

NOTE: The EBU have changed the Master Point awards from 1st Jan, so the 9-High afternoon event will now receive Club level MP awards

The KCBA committee has decided not to run the Corbett Leagues in 2022 due to uncertainty of Covid. Hopefully back in January 2023.

But we plan to run a one day qualifier for the EBU Garden Cities (Regional Final is on Sunday 8th May)

All clubs affiliated to Kent are welcome to enter a team. Please collect the EBU numbers and decide seating positions and club captains please enter using ENTRY LINK

If you and your partner would like to be considered to represent Kent in the Home Counties League, please email Mike Hampton, who is organising the team.

The Home Counties League is an online Teams of 8 event that will be take place on the last Thursday evening of each month from January until May. The spirit of the competition is that players should not be regular Tollemache representatives.

The team can change each match, so it does not matter if you are only available for some of the dates (27 Jan. 24 Feb, 31 Mar, 28 Apr, 26 May).

The KCBA's green pointed Swiss Pairs is being held online on RealBridge on Sunday 6th March starting at 11am. 7 x 7 board matches with a break of approx 40 minutes after match 3. Please click here to enter, and here to download an entry form. 

The Kent Committee are looking for volunteer to join the KCBA committee as Publicity and Social Media officer. Do you have skills in this area and would like to help bridge in Kent. If so please either contact Norman Inniss (chair) or the Sharon Bayne (Secretary), or fell free to contact them for more information. 

The Larsky Cup is Kent's Premier Pairs event and is our qualifier for the Corwen Cup. We start with heats in every club, from which pairs qualify for four County-run semi-finals leading to a 13-table final.

Normally we would have asked clubs for dates for their heats by now but obviously things are still not normal and many clubs will be unsure whether they will be playing face-to-face or online or a combination of the two at the time the heats are normally held.

KCBA has therefore decided that for this year only all events held by affiliated clubs in the weeks commencing 15th Nov, 6th Dec and 10th Jan will be heats for the Larsky and that all pairs scoring 50% or more in these heats will qualify to play in the semi-final of their choice, also online in February on BBO: Wed 9th evening, Tues 15th Feb afternoon, Sun 20th Feb afternoon, Thu 24th Feb evening Dates are.  The final will be held online on Saturday 19th March on BBO.

Clubs need to do nothing except make sure that all their results whether face-to-face or online are posted on their website and qualified pairs will be contacted for their choice of semi-final.

Entries are now closed for the Arnold Cup.  22 Teams have entered: see list Online at of the online entry page.

There are four seeded teams who will not have a match in Round 1 (Collins, Hampton, Law, Soper) - last year's winners are Seeded 1, the others in order of Gold points. See Regulations for further details.

The draw is posted: EBU knockouts website. 

KCBA support and encourages Junior Bridge. £500 of our funds have been donated to the recent Junior Camp. The South Eastern Junior Bridge Camp was held successfully on 23rd/24th October with Kent, Surrey and Sussex sponsoring this. The aim is to increase numbers in 2022 and the SEJBC will form part of of a 5-event "Grand Prix" for Juniors, to try to increase numbers nationally and ensure that squad members participate as much as possible.

If any member wishes to contribute to junior funding, please contact Georgina Howe, our treasurer.