The first match of the season took place on Sunday 11th September, vs Notts, all three teams won their matches.

• First team won 16 - 4  (second overall)
• Second team won 18 - 2 (top overall)
• Third team won 16 - 4. (third overall)

The timetable for the 2022/23 league season is now out, to see click here,  There are ten teams so 9 matches to be played over the season, normally on the second Thursday of the month,Sept 8th, Oct 13th, Nov 10th, Dec 8th, Jan 12th 2023, Feb 9th, Mar 9th, Apr 13th, May 11th.  Where the date is unable to be met the first avenue should be to look at alternative Thursdays, then alternative midweek evenings making a point NOT to offer only one specific day OR only dates within one calendar week.     By mutual consent matches can be played at alternative times but they shouldn’t be offered.

Nine teams took part in the league 2021/22. James, Keith, Martin and Mike are the winners with 127 VP.  Second, third and fourth places all very close, only separated by 6 VPs.  Paul, David, Geoff and Anne came second with 107 just ahead of John, Tony, Ian and Irene with 105 in third  who were just ahead of Mike, John,  Anthony and Craig with 101 who came fourth.  

19½ tables at 3 clubs, Eccleshall, Newport and Stafford took part.  Overall winners were Paul Barnet & Ruth Timmis playing at Eccleshall with Paul Cutler & Martin Aherne at Stafford second and Anne Seymour & Geoff Davies also at Stafford third (result corrected 15:37 18/08/22). Fourth equal Peter Cartwright & Joanne Mclauchian with Nick Weaver & Anne Hidderley both playing at Eccleshall.  Many thanks to John Withers for collating  the scores and for John Weston, Joan Kershaw and Terry Maltby for the organisation at the partaking clubs.  The  next SSCBA sim pairs on Monday 30^th January, time to put the date in your diary.

AN INVITATION TO ALL MEMBERS of S&SCBA TO PLAY BRIDGE IN A FRIENDLY CLUB ATMOSPHERE ON LINE

Wednesday Evenings 7 p.m.

Regular SSCBA Virtual Bridge Club

SSCBA  set up a virtual “Club” with the help of the EBU and Bridge Base Online (BBO), holding sessions on Wednesday evenings (a traditional County night). The first SSCBA Club on line session was on  Wednesday, 10th June 2020, at 7 p.m. There are still regularly around 7 or 8 tables each week even though some clubs have opened up. Click here for information on how to join the group.

From Online Membership Secretary's Newsletter of 29th November 2021

Robots:  We believe that when we set up the online club on Wednesdays we stipulated that robots would only be used in an emergency:  loss of partner or to complete a full table (BBO can’t cope with half-tables).    No one likes to meet a robot at the table so we have asked our current TD to tweak the rules of our game to exclude starting to play with a robot.    The county has to pay the BBO fees and the P2P fees for stand-in players and robots. 
“Partnership Desk”:    If you are without a partner for the evening, I understand that this site is a place you could try to find one.   Such a partner has to be a member of our club though:  so that means other members have to use that system too.     Alternatively, if you are prepared to play with another person or a robot, the TD might invite you to be part of that standby pair.
Alerts & Explanations:   These are much improved, but don’t forget to add an explanation if you click on Alert.
System cards:   You can complete any number of convention cards, one for each partner, and your opponent can look at yours by clicking on one of the white lines in the blue box at top left.   A shorter version can be completed under Account to the right of the page, and opponents can look at that by clicking your user name.
Names:   How nice and friendly it would be if we had a name for each player rather than a blank.   Someone might greet you by name!   You can presumably delete it if you are playing elsewhere and you want to remain anonymous.

Following the recent  upgrade to BridgeWebs version 2.19q and, in order to comply with GDPR,  your webmaster is trying to update the list of members held on this website to agree with the EBU list for SSCBA.  No change is planned for those already registered as members but any members that are either:

• down as visitors or
• not on the list

will be set up such that they will have to log on and set the options themselves to indicate what information they are happy for other members to see.  By default - those added will show no information to others.  Normally basics for making contact, email and phone number are helpful. Other options include displaying ranking and personal analysis of results.  All of these can be set on/off as the member wishes.  Comments welcome to the webmaster (who also holds the same position for Stafford so uses the same address for all website mail).  Once the list is correct there are facilities for "find a partner" and Newletters such as John already sends to the online membership.