| Monthly Club Statistics |
October at SDBC. We booked fifty-five tables during October including 19 tables in the Wednesday 299 game. Forty-eight individuals played during the month with Arlene Milbrodt being the most consistent with 10 games, Rob Davis, Barb Willis and Cathy Vellinga all played nine times. Club members also participated in Sectionals in Sioux Falls, Council Bluffs, and Davenport in addition to the N/I Regional held with the Bluffs Sectional. The 19 tables at the Wednesday morning game are a tribute to the support Leon gives this group. Thank you to everyone for the outstanding support of our club.
September while "losing" the first Monday game to the Labor Day holiday we finished strong on a fifth Monday STaC boasting six local tables. During the month, 52 individuals played at least once.. Rob Davis led the pack with 10 games and 8 players (Jean, Karen, Diane, Wayne, Charles, Monica, Molly, and Glenn) played eight times. By the way, the Wednesday 299 game racked up 18 tables during September, up from 16 1/2 in August.
Club statistics for the month of August. Fifty-four (54) different people played in one or more of our club games during the month of August. Three people played in eight games. Thank you, Karen Bourne, Jean Darrnell, and Rob Davis. Six people played seven times, five played six times and twelve played five times, all during August . This is what support for our club looks like!
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| Last updated : Nov 2, 2025 06:49 CST |
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| Council Bluffs N/I Reg & Open Sectional |
Council Bluffs hosts N/I Regional Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Jonie Rizk and Patricia Riemer strike Gold Wednesday morning with a 1st place finish overall in the opening sesion. Jane Pollard and Arlene Rodeen raked in Red points in the same section.. Jonie and Pat added a solid afternoon session in the play through event for a fourth overall finish.. Congratulations!
Thurday Morning and more Gold and Red coming home to Siouxland. Rob Davis and Arlene Milbrodt land Gold with a 3rd place finish overall (1st in their Flight!) and Molly Twohig and Karen Fry raking in the Red Points. Great showing for SDBC. Thursday afternoon it was time to talk Red Points! Cathy Vellinga, Patricia Riemer, Molly Twohig and Karen Fry all bringing home Red points. Molly and Karen double dipping the Reds for the day.
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| Last updated : Nov 2, 2025 04:33 CST |
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| STaC Alert: Jean and Wayne 4th OVERALL |
The Siouxland Bridge Club hosted a Sectional Tournament at Clubs (STaC) game on Monday, September 29, as part of a Districts 12 and 14 competition. The STaC drew six tables in Sioux City and 67 tables across both Districts In total134 pairs participated on Monday afternoon and (Drum Roll) Jean and Wayne placed FOURTH OVER ALL. Congratulations!! Full Results Link Here First, Second, and Third places overall went to pairs from the Quad Cities, Kalamazoo MI, and Omaha respectively. In all, 14 Siouxland players raked in Silver Master Points in the STaC. The weeklong event involved 35 Clubs in the combined districts. Locally those clubs included Sioux Falls, Omaha, and Fort Dodge. For the week long event, 1424.2 Silver Master points were awarded to 813 out of 1906 participants. It was fun to participate in such a broad event, Thank you to Kurt and Pat for the extra effort required for us to participate.
An interesting aside, here is a link to the Quad Cities' results.. They played a 13 table Mitchell movement. You may look at each board and see how the crowd there bid each board 13 times. Kind of interesting actually. Q C Slammer Results
🧮 How STaC Awards Work
STaC games are scored locally, but masterpoints are awarded across the entire field. That means:
- Local winners earn silver points based on their section.
- Overall winners—those with top scores across all participating clubs—receive additional silver points.
- Stratification is based on average masterpoints per pair,
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The Siouxland Bridge Club hosted a Sectional Tournament at Clubs (STaC) game on Monday, September 29, as part of a Districts 12 and 14 competition. The STaC drew six tables in Sioux City and 67 tables across both Districts In total134 pairs participated on Monday afternoon and (Drum Roll) Jean and Wayne placed FOURTH OVER ALL. Congratulations!! Full Results Link Here First, Second, and Third places overall went to pairs from the Quad Cities, Kalamazoo MI, and Omaha respectively. ..........
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| Last updated : Oct 1, 2025 17:18 CDT |
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| Statistics from the D14 Website |
I discovered the District 14 website. (Our District.) Geographically it is the “Ol’ Five State” which a long, long time Siouxland resident may remember was how KVTV (now KCAU) and maybe KTIV referred to their white board and grease pencil weather map. The D14 map shows all the clubs in D14.
Clearly someone has misplaced Ames but otherwise, I believe it is accurate. The website ACBLD14.com has a variety of information. You should certainly explore it all if you are interested. For this piece I thought I would reproduce the Iowa portion of one chart:
I am proud of Siouxland DBC showing growth in table count year over year for the period January through June. Clearly, we are bucking a trend. I think the biggest reasons are the efforts of Leon with the 299 game, educational efforts of both Leon and Diana and finally the consistent dedication and directing by Jean on Mondays and Thursdays.
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| Last updated : Aug 29, 2025 09:04 CDT |
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| Fort Dodge Unit Charity Game |
Fort Dodge DBC hosted the Unit Charity Game held August 24th in Aurelia. They select the SALT project as their Charity. SALT stands for Shining a Light Together. It started as a warming / cooling shelter last year but now, a year later, it’s turned into a resource for people who need help with a wide range of things, including housing assistance, food assistance, substance abuse treatment, and yes, still a place for anyone that needs to take refuge from extreme heat or cold. The SALT Center offers a variety of services to help people get back on their feet. Those services include assistance in applying for housing, Medicaid, food benefits, or job applications. The Center also helps with making mental health and physical health appointments, and assistance with I.Ds, birth certificates and Social Security cards. The game was attended by members from Spirit Lake, Fort Dodge and our club. Siouxland bridge players should be proud to have helped with such a worthy project.
Full results with hand records for the two session event are available on ACBL Live under the Fort Dodge Club.
The Afternoon Session ran out like this:
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Fort Dodge DBC hosted the Unit Charity Game held August 24th in Aurelia. They select the SALT project as their Charity. SALT stands for Shining a Light Together. It started as a warming / cooling shelter last year but now, a year later, it’s turned into a resource for people who need help with a wide range of things, including housing assistance, food assistance, substance abuse treatment, and yes, still a place for anyone that needs to take refuge from extreme heat or cold. The SALT Center offers a variety of services to help people get back on their feet. Those services include assistance in applying for housing, Medicaid, food benefits, or job applications. The Center also helps with making mental health and physical health appointments, and assistance with I.Ds, birth certificates and Social Security cards. The game was attended by members from Spirit Lake, Fort Dodge and our club. Siouxland bridge players should be proud to have helped with such a worthy project.
Full results with hand records for the two session event are available on ACBL Live under the Fort Dodge Club. ..........
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| Last updated : Aug 28, 2025 19:25 CDT |
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