BAINTON TROPHY SEMI-FINAL
DUNHOLME VILLAGE HALL
Sunday, 8th December 2024, 12noon
Entry Fee £5 each player
(to be collected in cash at the table)
The Bainton Trophy is the county's premier pairs event and entry to this semi-final is open to all pairs with Lincolnshire as their registered county with the EBU. The top 10 pairs will qualify for the final, which takes place on 2nd February 2025. In the final, all pairs will be awarded national ("green") master points and the top 3 pairs will be eligible to play in the national inter county pairs event the "Corwen Trophy".
There will be a mid-session break for those who wish to bring a packed lunch. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available FOC.
Pre-entry is required on the LCBA website
https://www.bridgewebs.com/lincolnshire/index.html
If you have entered but are unable to play, please inform us ASAP. Queries etc. to rodney@bridgenotes.co.uk.
Deadline 9am on Saturday 7th December 2024
LCBA TEAMS LEAGUES AND TEAMS KO COMPETITIONS 2024/25
We are looking for entries into this year’s teams of 4 competions which will be running from mid-October to the end of April 2025. Teams (IMPS scoring) play requires very different tactics compared to the usual pairs competitions (matchpoints scoring). Pairs bridge has been likened to the one-day forms of cricket, while teams is more like a test match. This EBU document has information on tactics for the different forms: https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/competitions/bulletins-and-newsletters/brighton/2014/tactics-at-different-forms-of-scoring.pdf
Match length is 24 boards. Last year, all matches were played online using the BBO platform. There are no barriers to using other platforms such as Realbridge if both teams are agreeable. Face to face matches are also a possibility if both sides agree.
Leagues
Last year’s competions was very successful but there was criticism of the one-sided nature of a significant number of matches. The matches involving the top 3 team in league 1 against the other teams in the league was an average result of 19-1 to the better team. We thought that a handicap system might help with making the matches more competitive. A vote at the AGM suggested that the leagues be run with both scratch and handicapped results. We considered ways to do this and the necessity of having just one league winer. It seemed that the handicap results could not be easily worked into the leagues without confusion. It is proposed that we forget handicapping and re-structure the leagues to achieve more competitive matches. This would involve placing teams in 3 leagues based on team NGS scores and position in the previous year’s leagues. With last year’s entries, the structure of leagues would have been:
Div 1 – Three teams playing each other twice.
Div 2 – Four teams playing each other twice
Div 3 - Seven teams playing each other once
The league structure for this year will depend on the entries we get and may be different to the above but will follow the basic principle. All comments on league organisation are welcome and will be considered.
Lincoln Gold Bowl
This is the premier teams competion for the county. It is played as a simple knock out competion. Match wins are rewarded with EBU green points and the overall winning team is eligible to play in the national inter-county teams of 4 championship, the Pachabo Cup.
If we have enough entries (as we did last year), the first-round losers will compete in a separate knock-out competion for the Lincs Gold Plate.
Please send entries for both competions to rodney@bridgenotes.co.uk
We will need the names and email addresses of at least 4 players, with one specified as captain.
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