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This weekend's event will come with a commentary on some of the more interest deals, prepared by Charlie Bucknell.  Visit this website (results) to read it after you finish.

This is the entry only for the 2nd March 2024 9-High Swiss Pairs.  The pair should have NGS grades which average at most 9 (if you have NGS as percentages then the max is 106, which could be 9+9 or 8+10 etc).  If someone drifts above the limit at the time of the event they can still play but will not be eligible for any prizes or their county score.

It runs on RealBridge and starts at 1400 hrs, and the link for the game will be placed on this webpage on the morning of the event.

Playing in this event is representing your county - the top three scores from a county combine to give the county score, so the more pairs a county has the better chance it has.

THE EVENT IS RUN AS SWISS PAIRS.  THERE WILL BE FIVE OR SIX ROUNDS IN EACH OF WHICH YOU WILL PLAY AGAINST A PAIR WHO, EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST ROUND, WILL HAVE A SIMILAR MATCHPOINT SCORE TO YOUR OWN.

The entry fee is £8 per pair.

Payment is by bank transfer to : account name "MCWG 9 High",  account number 30756938,  sort code 40-18-00

The inaugural MIDLANDS MIXED TEAMS Championship will take place on RealBridge on Sunday 9th July 2023. This is organised by the Midlands Counties WG, but teams from any county in the country are welcome to play. Entries are done via your county association, and if they have not offered a point of contact then you can express interest by contacting mcwg@gcba.org.uk by email.  The event will be Swiss Teams if we have enough entries and of about 28 boards in length, starting at 1400 hrs and finished before 1800 hrs. In this context a Mixed Team is a team with two Mixed Pairs, and the entry fee if £12 per team.  Counties can enter as many teams as they like, and in the results list teams will be given ranking points from the bottom (who get 1).  The county score is the sum of the three highest ranking point scores of their teams.

The RealBridge link for players in the event : https://play.realbridge.online/ds.html?p=230709126302&q=MMTjul23 

The event will be played with screens and self-announcing of bids. This means that throughout the hand you can chat to one of the opponents without disturbing the rest of the table or passing Unauthorised Information, and at the end of the hand and the end of the stanza, you can see and talk to the whole table.  Scoring will by by VPs and the event will be run with barometer scoring.

The concept adopted by the Midlands WG early in lockdown - running NGS 9-High events open across a number of counties - has been replicated by some others, notably Kent and Cumbria.

Work is underway to  coordinate the calendars for these different (all online) events and make this into a programme which allows a game of this nature in most months of the year.  Watch this space for news.