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Click for entry form for 2 p.m. Realbridge 26th April event.


A series of seminars are being delivered by Adam Hickman through the Friendly Online Bridge Club. The next of these is on Sunday 23rd March and is on Simple Lebensohl, aimed at 9 high players/improvers. All Midlands counties players are entitled to the discounted price of £15 rather than £17.50 and details and the sign up sheet are on the Friendly Online Bridge Club website  

 

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Championship Pairs Sunday - 16th March

County Championship Pairs

Sixteen pairs took part in the green pointed "all play all" event this year which took place at Newcastle under Lyme bridge club. The winners were Paul Hackett and Mike Goldsmith (62.2%), second place Paul Cutler and David Beavon (59.8%), third place James Vickers and Keith Shuttleworth (58.6%). The full results can be found here. The results have been uploaded as the session 1 (7 rounds) and session 2 (8 rounds), and then as the overall combined results. To see the hand records and travellers, look at the session results. Many thanks to James for directing and to Newcastle Bridge Club for their hospitality 

Entries will soon be open for Championship Teams to be played on Sunday 18th May also at Newcastle under Lyme bridge club. This time the leading team (and potentially reserves) will be invited to represent the county at the equivalent National Event, the Pachabo. This though will be Face2face at Milton Keynes, 14th - 15th June..

See  also Tony's news of  9th March here.

A good chance to see the faces now that some competitions are on line,  webmaster not cracked how to match order pictures shown to the ranking in this event but there is a clue as you roll over the thumbnails! Regular Dawes/MCOL and SSCBA league players were well placed in this event.  Many thanks to Rose for the pictures.

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MCOL/Dawes season completed for 2024/25

The season came to an end on Sunday 9th March against Derbyshire. A thank you from Paul to all who have played throughout the season and who have made themselves available for selection. The match results can be found here, and the league results can be seen on the EBU site and also in a different format on our own site here.

With just one match outstanding, the Seymour team have won the league and the Yardley team are second -  only one vp between them - many congratulations both teams for full results see here

Dates for your diary

On the calendar - something for all abilities

Date Event (with links for entry) Time online or f2f Location for f2f events
April        
Sat/Sun 5th/6th April EBED Spring Youth Camp   f2f Pioneer Centre, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire
Sun 6th April Portland Pairs   RealBridge  
Fri 18th - Mon 21st April Easter Festival   f2f Marlborough
Sat 19th - Sun 20th April Northern Easter Festival   f2f Harrogate
Saturday 26th April MCC 9 hi Swiss Pairs 2 pm RealBridge  
May        
Friday 2nd - 6th May Spring Foursomes   f2f Bristol
Sunday 18th May SSCBA Championship Teams    f2f Newcastle Under Lyme Bridge Club
June        
Sunday 8th June SSCBA  Mixed Pairs   f2f Radbrook Community Hall, Shrewsbury 

 

Results
Pairs Staffs & Shrops
Scorer: Oliver Cowan
Championship Pairs session 1
Director: James Vickers
Scorer: James Vickers
Championship Pairs session 2
Director: James Vickers
Scorer: James Vickers
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26th March 2025
Pairs Staffs & Shrops
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26th April 2025
MCC 9 hi Swiss Pairs
Real Bridge 2 p.m.
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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

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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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