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EBU Nine-Hi Corwen Pairs

Nine-Hi Corwen Pairs qualifying event – Sunday 2nd March

This new duplicate event is aimed at those players who have an NGS of 2 up to and including 9 as at 1st January, and invitations have been sent to our S&SCBA County members.

On Sunday, 2nd March 2025 S&SCBA will be holding a duplicate pairs on BBO as a qualifying event for a final on Saturday 31st May, also on-line.

Sadly there are a few players who haven’t registered their email addresses with the EBU, and several email addresses are incorrect or haven’t been recognised in the mailing. If you haven’t received that invitation and are interested in playing you can email me so that I can check whether you are eligible and on the list I have from the EBU. I will need first name and surname to check, and this can also be done to check whether your preferred partner is eligible.

Click here for a copy of the entry form for this event,

Judy Mitchell on mitchellmj@btinternet.com;

22/01/25.

Sunday 16th  MARCH  2025,  starting at 11 a.m.(face to face)    At NEWCASTLE Bridge Club

This is an Open Event for all full members of Staffordshire & Shropshire Contract Bridge Association (via playing membership of an affiliated club or direct via the EBU). Click here for details and entry form

Dates for your diary

On the calendar - something for all abilities

Date Event (with links for more information) Time online or f2f Location for f2f events
March        
Sunday 2nd March 9 High Champions Pairs (heat for EBU event)   BBO OR REALBRIDGE  
Saturday 8th March MCC 9 hi Swiss Pairs (tbc)  2 pm RealBridge  
Sunday 9th March EBED Taster session for youngsters 2:30 p.m. f2f Radbrook Community Centre, Shrewsbury
Sunday 16th March SSCBA Championship Pairs 11 am f2f Newcastle Under Lyme Bridge Club
April        
Sat/Sun 5th/6th April EBED Spring Youth Camp   f2f Pioneer Centre, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire
May        
Sunday 18th May SSCBA Championship Teams    f2f Newcastle Under Lyme Bridge Club
June        
Sunday 8th June SSCBA  Mixed Pairs   f2f Radbrook Community Hall, Shrewsbury 

 

3 clubs held heats in the SSCBA sim pairs held on 29th January 2025, 19 tables in total,  Click here for the overall results (corrected 3/02/2025), here for the hand records and here for the commentary (updated to include suggested auctions). 

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Pair % Club No. of Tables
1st Tony Leech & Linda Curtis 69.71  Wrekin 6
2nd Valerie Prentice & Geoff Williams 63.80  Eccleshall 6
3rd *Ray & Shirley Stubbs 59.88  Newcastle 7

* Heat winners at Newcastle were Lesley Russell & Aideen Walsh. 

Apologies for the hiccup with the overall results.

2024 Holders: Mike Cornes & Sandra Fenton. 

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Wednesday Evening 7 pm BBO duplicate session

Good News: Numbers playing in the Wednesday on-line duplicate sessions have now built up to a sustainable level to continue. More players always welcome so please join the group if you have not already done so.

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

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). ..........

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Results
Pairs Staffs and Shrops
Scorer: Stephen Kennedy
Pairs Staffs and Shrops
Scorer: James Vickers
SSCBA SIM PAIRS 29 JAN 2025 (Corrected)
Scorer: john withers
Calendar
19th February 2025
Pairs Staffs and Shrops
6:45 for 7 p.m.
26th February 2025
Pairs Staffs and Shrops
6:45 for 7 p.m.
2nd March 2025
Nine-High Corwen (qualifying round) on BBO
BBO
Welcome
Welcome

Welcome to Staffordshire and Shropshire Contract Bridge Association (S&SCBA). The area covered by the Association ranges from the Welsh border in the West to Burton on Trent in the East, Newcastle under Lyme in the North to Ludlow in the South. Our objectives are to promote duplicate bridge in the counties, to encourage inter-club, etc., competitions and to employ the funds in the best interests of the game.

The County has teams of eight entered in the Midland League (Dawes, Porter and Markham) and annually enters a team in the EBU Tollemache competition. The Midlands league covers Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire in addition to ourselves. The County also participates in the Edgar Foster Cups and Midland Teams Challenge Bowl, events for the six counties of Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and ourselves.

During the winter months teams of four league matches for County members are held on the second Wednesday of the month, and there is also a team of four knock-out competition.  Inter Club Sim Pairs are run regularly, and, various pairs competition events are held annually.

County clubs affiliated to the EBU are Border, Eccleshall, Nantwich, NewcastleOswestry, StaffordTettenhallWolverhampton (note new address July 2023) and Wrekin

Heats for the SSCBA Summer Sim Pairs were played at 3 clubs, Eccleshall, Newcastle and Wrekin with a total of 20½ tables. A minor correction was made and so close were the top three the order has changed if you looked earlier, apologies.  Winners Jan & Ronnie Bhageerutty playing at Wrekin  with joint second Michael Metcalf & Alan Codling also playing at Wrekin and Keith Healey & Judy Healey playing at Newcastle.