Swiss Teams

Sunday 13th October, Woolavington

Green-Pointed, replaces WOE Congress

Sheila Coda passed away on 23rd September. She served on the Somerset CBA Committee for over 30 years and also served Taunton Bridge Club well for many years. She was an excellent player, a Grand Master and regularly in the county A team, but also a nice person and will be sorely missed by our bridge community. Obituary now available

Tony Russ, a previous Chairman of Somerset CBA and recently EBU Vice-Chair, passed away on 7th August following his recent illness. Tony did an immense amount for bridge in Somerset and will be sorely missed. Obituary now available. Link to EBU news item.

UPDATE

The West of England Congress has been cancelled at Weston-super-Mare.
The Swiss Teams on Sunday has been switched to Woolavington.

Please enter Swiss Teams here

The planned 2024 event unfortunately clashes with the annual beach races at Weston-super-Mare. The SCBA Committee had hoped to proceed despite this, but entries have been too few to make the Congress viable here. The clash of events has led to accommodation being virtually unobtainable. Parking would also be very difficult, so we have reluctantly had to cancel the event at the Winter Gardens. Those who have entered have been contacted by email regarding refunds.

A scoring error on the last board of the Mixed Teams event on 15th September has been corrected and produced a change in the winner. The cup was awarded at first to the team of Grant Weston, Steve Fletcher, and Robin and Julie Kennedy, who had tied on 52 VPs with the team of Andrew Urbanski, Michael Wigmore, Chris King and Steve Tomlinson but won their head-to-head match, but the correction means that the latter team are the winners by 4 VPs. (Full result)

The 2024–25 County League will be played online using Realbridge.

The matches are played on Fridays at 7.15pm with the first match on 13th September (see the Calendar for other dates).

New teams, and new players for teams who have played in previous years, are very welcome, so if you are interested in entering a team or wish to join an existing team please contact Bob Warrender (marianandbob86@gmail.com) as soon as possible.

Teams may consist of players from a single club or from any number of Somerset clubs.

The Annual General Meeting of SCBA was held at Woolavington on Sunday 12 May. The provisional minutes have now been published. All those standing for the Committee were elected unopposed, though the positions of Chairman and Vice-Chairman remain vacant.

The latest versions of the Blue Book and the White Book apply from 1st August 2024. These books, and a summary of changes to announcing and alerting, are available from the EBU via this link.

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