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 Welcome to the website of Bridge on the Edge, based in St James Church, 330 Elizabeth Ave, St. John's, NL, Canada. In 2016 we became a player owned bridge club. We support a respectful culture, both at the bridge table and in all BOTE communications, for the enjoyment and growth of all members.
Please contact info@bridgeontheedge.ca if you need additional information.
Members who want to use the member's functions (ie bookings etc), please ensure you've accessed the site using the bridgeweb link bridgewebs.com/onedge/.
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| Cats Away Game, AGM and Celebration Luncheon |
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Continuing with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations we have a couple of events to give you a heads up about.
Thursday 22nd October will be a ‘Cats Away’ game. This originated when most of our star players, the cats, went off to a tournament and the remaining ‘mice’ paired up for a special open game designed to encourage Supervised Play (SP) players to try duplicate. We paired up less experienced players with a more experienced one, had a great turnout (20 tables) and had a lot of fun. This year the ‘cats’ will be around but the rules of engagement will be the same. Players should sign up as individuals on our website and Deirdre (who knows everybody’s ability and personality) will arrange the partnerships. Regular Open Game players will not be allowed to play together, however if two SP players want to play together that is just fine. Numbers will be limited, so sign up early. Also parking will be an issue so car-pooling, walking and parking elsewhere will be necessary.
And then, Monday 23rd November will be our AGM and 10th Anniversary turkey luncheon at the Blackmarsh Legion. More on this later, but sign up is available now.
See you at the club!
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| Burke Bunch Breezes to Blockbuster Bracket Win in Ottawa |
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A team of Mary Moore, Michelle Walsh & Susan Follett, Captained by Nellie Burke won the BRACKET IV DIVISION on the first big session of the Tournament. This Round Robin Team Event is a 2-Day Swiss Qualifying ordeal with 9 Boards in play each sitting on Day 1. On Tuesday they won the first Round by 11 Victory Points, increased their lead to 28 on the next go Round, & kept on winning until they amassed a huge total of 54 VPs. That positioned them to lead off the next morning in the semifinals where the 4 Finalists did battle to see who would advance to the Playoff Round in the afternoon finale. After a few speed bumps, a couple of worrisome hiccups, & some seriously nervous setbacks, they roared back in fine fashion to beat the solid Van Gulick squad to advance to the Finals in the afternoon Winner-Take-All Terminus. They were set to take on the heavily favoured Lévesque foursome. But after a long hard-fought match, Nellie led her team to a well-earned victory, no easy task for sure for such a gruelling undertaking. Let the celebrations begin!
Reports so far, are that other of our Club representatives are also doing well, but so far not quite so as well as TEAM BURKE.
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| Welcome! |
BOTE welcomed visitors from away. Ingrid D’Souza and partner Eric Pinto from the Mobridge Club in Mississauga, Ontario and Cheryl Hawkes and partner Frederick Hackett from Bathurst Duplicate Bridge Club in New Brunswick. We certainly were happy to see them and hope they have a wonderful time visiting our province and enjoyed their time at our club.
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| September News and a Pop-up Celebration |
Looks like autumn is just around the corner and the calendar shows September so must be time to get back to the bridge table, for those that actually left it!
Our Anniversary
September marks ten years since Bridge on The Edge became a player owned club. Wahoooo!! We’ve come a long way in ten years, I’ve attached the first newsletter of the club put together by our then President Jonathan Cook. The first and second games for the new club were on 1st and 6th September 2016 so to mark that occasion we are having a pop-up celebration on Monday 7th. A few snacks, cake and scones. Join us if you can before the Open Game. We are planning lots of celebrations through out the year.
Supervised Play
Our very popular Supervised Play will resume on Monday 14th September Deirdre and Tom look forward to welcoming everyone back, HOWEVER there will be no SP on the 21st or 28th September as many of the would be supervisors are going to a bridge tournament in Ottawa. There will be Duplicate Lite available on the Thursday 24th. It’s been kinda quiet at the Duplicate Lite end of the hall during the summer , we’re hoping things liven up again there soon.
Housekeeping
A few reminders about our location, 1) you will need an up to date parking permit from September 1st. Try to carpool if possible. Regina will be giving those out at the games; 2) Indoor shoes are needed again as of Thursday 10th September, no outdoor shoes in the auditorium please and 3) we have had some disturbing reports of bank trouble from people trying to e-transfer money using the password Swilers, so we ask that going forward you use the password James26 if you are trying to send us money.
As always we will try to answer any questions you may have and solve any problems you may perceive, if we can, not always possible.
See you at the club!
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| Education Resumes for the Fall |
September is the time to get your brain fired up with new bridge information and improve your game, to help in that regard BOTE has several education offerings available for the fall.
First . .Roy and Sandra are offering a six week set of classes for the Beyond Beginner group . .. this from Roy . . .. . .
Check-Back 2026 - Better Bridge & Practiced Play
To shake off any rust, we will first check-back on some of the conventions we learned last year. We will also check out a few new ones, but the primary focus for this semester will be on practice, play & process.
It takes patience & repetition to advance at this game and we recognize & recommend addressing those concerns. To improve, each of us needs to review, repeat & reinforce both concepts & techniques & these sessions will pick up right where we left off in that respect.
BOTE is offering these special Fall Sessions for you, because we want to lessen your performance anxiety, help you to become a better player, and build your confidence levels, as you continue to grow in this fascinating game.
Starting this week, Thursday Sept. 10, classes will be at St. James Church on 6 consecutive Thursday mornings, 10-12, with a visual lecture, brief discussion & then an hour of Interactive play.
Cost - $150 for the full 6-week block, includes all materials and handouts.
Next we have Supervised Play on Monday mornings restarting on September 14th, 9:30am to noon with Tom and Deidre. A short lesson delivered by Tom followed by practice and random hands where you can ask for help at any time from our wonderful, knowledgable Supervisors. Cost is $10 per session, sign up on our website or contact superplay@bridgeontheedge.ca. Please note there’ll be no SP on Monday 21st or 28th September.
And then for complete Beginners Anne Hughes is offering an eight week Beginning Bridge course starting October 7th. This will run Wednesday evenings 6:30pm to 8:30pm at St. James’ Church on Elizabeth Avenue. Cost for the course is $200, payable on the first evening. Tell your friends, get them hooked like you are!
And finally (phew) don’t forget we run a mentoring program for those regular players who feel they could benefit from some individual coaching. Contact wandagail.wl@gmail.com.
We are also hoping to offer some intermediate level classes, if you have any topics you would like to see covered or any other suggestions or concerns about Education please contact education@bridgeontheedge.ca. We’ll do what we can to help.
See you at the club!
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