• Two Session Inter-Club Teams of Eight
• Clubs may enter more than one team
• The Winners qualify for the Garden Cities Trophy
• The winners may not draw reserves/replacements from another club's team, although reserves/replacrements can come from another team in the same club

• Open Duplicate Pairs Event
• Restricted to players with a NGS rating of 5 or below
• The NGS is determined at the date of entry

• Open Duplicate Pairs event
• Restricted to players between the NGS grades of 6 and 9 inclusive
• The NGS is determined at the date of entry

• Two session Qualified Pairs event of a minimum of 36 boards
• Pairs qualify through heats held in clubs. Only club members may qualify in a heat
• Pairs may only qualify in one club, i.e. if they have already qualified they may not opt to try to qualify at another club
• Each club may hold one heat in each of its regular weekly sessions
• The number of qualifiers is one third of the total entry (can be rounded up)
• If some of the pairs in the top third are ineligible or do not wish to play, additional pairs (up to the number of qualifiers) may qualify provided they achieved 50% of matchpoints in the heat
• Double Master Points are to be issued for each heat

Supplementary rules October 2023 to apply for clubs that play regularly onilne

• A tandem event will be held online for clubs that play exclusively or hold regular scheduled sessions online
• Where a club hosts regular scheduled sessions at different times online as well as F2F then the online session can also be designated as a qualifier. For example a club holding one F2F session and one online session weekly can have qualifiers for each event
• A pair which plays in both forms of bridge can play in each qualifying session held by the club
• A pair that has qualified in both F2F and online must play F2F

Please note that each format will run independently and master points will be awarded accordingly in each format. A combined list will be published on the NCBA website for interest only and will not be master pointed.

• Open Duplicate Pairs competition
• The result will be handicapped using the EBU NGS ranking
• Pairs that are not members of the EBU will not be handicapped
• The Committee Cup wil be awarded to the club whose top three pairs have the best average
• 36 boards will be played over two sessions

• The competition will be a seeded double elimination knockout with matches of 24 boards
• Matches will be arranged privately by team captains
• Teams may consist of up to 6 players
• Teams which contain players who do not have Norfolk as their primary county may play in the qualifying event, but may not qualify for the final or play in the Pachabo Cup
• When entering team captains must inform the organiser of whether they wish to play in the Pachabo Cup
• The two winning semi-finalists will qualify for the final to be played over 36 Boards
• The team that wins the knockout, if they have so indicated, will qualify to represent Norfolk in the Pachabo Cup and will, if necessary, be able to add players from the team that were runner up

• Played over 36 boards
• The first three pairs qualify to play in the Corwen Trophy
• If there is sufficient entry, after the first session the lower half of the field will play for the Hudson Plate
• The competiton is restricted to EBU members whose primary county is Norfolk