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| New Chairman for SCCBA |
It is with great pleasure that I welcome our new County Chairman Peter Clinch who was unanimously elected as Chairman at our AGM.
Peter has held the positions of Vice Chairman and Tournament Manager and has served the county selflessly throughout the years and in particular this last year which has been very demanding.
Peter’s experience, alongside his fellow officers and committee members, will take Sussex Bridge forward to ensure we maintain the high standards expected.
I trust members will welcome and support Peter in his new role.
Martin Pool (President)
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| 2021 South East Counties Junior Bridge Camp |
The 2021 Junior Bridge Camp for 8-21 year olds will be held on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October 2021 at the Bowles Rocks Activity Centre near Tunbridge Wells. As well as lots of bridge, juniors can try one of Bowles’ outdoor activities, all included in the price. We welcome all standards of bridge players and parents and grandparents can accompany younger juniors and play themselves.
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| Online Bridge Clubs in Sussex |
An increasing number of Sussex clubs are running online sessions on Bridge Base Online or RealBridge - see attached list. See each club's website for details of how to join. If any club wishes to make changes to this list, they should contact the SCCBA WebMaster.
East Sussex Bridge Club have added RealBridge sessions to their BBO sessions. They will run a full duplicate session of 20 boards on each Friday during May for mixed abilities. If anyone wishes to register, they should contact Barbara Herold (or phone 01424 422118).
Peter Clinch
(SCCBA Tournament Manager)
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| SCCBA Teams of Eight |
Congratulations to the Avenue in winning the SCCBA Teams of 8 on Saturday March 27th. The Avenue team was Oliver Powell & Gunnar Hallberg, David Dickson & Matt Read, Julian Mitchell & Peter Clinch, Andy Ryder & Mike Allen.
The Avenue will represent Sussex in the Garden Cities' regional final on 8th May.
Thank-you to our director Eddie Williams who then worked overtime to overcome problems in uploading the results.
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| Other Counties' Green-Pointed Events |
Kent will be holding a Green-Pointed Swiss Teams on RealBridge on Sunday 23rd May starting at 11am - 7 x 7 board matches with a break of approx 45 minutes after match 4. See Kent web-site for details.
Oxfordshire will be holding a congress on RealBridge over the weekend of June 12-13th. There will be Green-Pointed Swiss Pairs and Swiss Teams and a Friendly Pairs. See Oxfordshire web-site for details.
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| Sussex Pairs Final - Saturday March 13th on BBO |
First, a big thank you to the virtual clubs - Avenue, Chichester, Eastbourne, Horsham, Patcham, Seaford and 1066 for running heats for this competition. 162 qualifying pairs entered which is over twice as many as in recent years.
Congratulations to the winners who were Neil Watts & Christine Jepson. The runners-up were David Telfer & Peter Burns and in third place were David Franklin & Martin Pool.
Finally, a thank-you to the Director, Eddie Williams, and to Mervyn Wotton for setting up the files of entrants for this event.
Please join us again next year.
Gerry Stanford, Organiser
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| SCCBA Stepping Stone Pairs - March 7th on BBO |
Well done to the winners of the SCCBA Stepping Stone Pairs, June Carr and Kris Noble who’ve been playing since 2019.
The highest placed pair in the 'playing for 2-3 years' group were Jane & David Allday and taking the 'under 2 years' award are Elizabeth Turner and Stephanie Blaquiere.
There was an excellent turn out of 44 pairs. Thanks go to Oliver Cowan who directed and provided the hand commentary.
Jane Handley (Organiser)
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| Tollemache Cup Final - Feb 20th/21st on RealBridge |
Many congratulations to the Sussex team who came second in the Tollemache final this weekend - an excellent result and the best that Sussex have ever done!!
The team that played was :-
- Stephen Kennedy and Andrew McIntosh
- Oliver Powell and Gunnar Hallberg
- Peter Clinch and Julian Mitchell
- Andy Ryder and Mike Allen
- Chris Jepson and Neil Watts
- Matt Read and David Dickson
And many thanks go to our Non-Playing Captain, Andrew Southwell, who put in a lot of work in checking scores and organising the team.
See detailed results on the EBU web-site.
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