| Success for member at 1st Saudi Bridge Festival |
SSCBA member Paul Hackett and his partner Graham Osbourne won the pairs event at the Saudi Bridge Festival played 13/14/15th November 2024 in Jeddah. Many congratulations both.
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| 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, Newcastle, Oswestry, Stafford, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton (note new address July 2023) and Wrekin.
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| SSCBA - Summer Sim Pairs - Wednesday 14th August |
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.
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| Newcastle Events |
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Newcastle have a BBO session on a Tuesday evening, starting at 6.30, everybody is welcome – Directed by Martin Aherne, details are on the Newcastle BC website. We have been having around 10 or 11 tables followed by a zoom chat for the beginners /intermediates to talk about interesting hands just been played!
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An online Intermediates course (using Zoom & BBO) has started on a Monday evening, run by Martin, details on the website.
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We have just started a second playing session on a Sunday evening, starting at 6.30, using RealBridge, with around 8 tables so far. This is directed by Neil Morley, details on the website.
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