There are three separate handicapped competitions to find the leading player on Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday evening Duplicate Pairs events.

• All the competitions have the same rules and take place from January to December inclusive.

• Merit Points are awarded to members on each session as follows:

• All open duplicate sessions are included, but special events such Ladies' Pairs, Men's Pairs, Christmas Parties, etc are excluded.
• At the end of the year the total points obtained by each player will be calculated and the player with the highest total will be the winner of each event.
• Any player who is placed in the top two positions will be handicapped for that event in the following two years as follow:

The Player of the Year is the player with the highest aggregate merit point total in the three Merit Point competitions (Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday evening).

• The merit point total includes any handicaps that are applicable in the individual competitions.

• The winner is not eligible to win this competition again for a period of five years.