2024/2025 Championship Teams

Entry is now open for the 2024/2025 Championship Teams for which the entry fee is £16 per team.  All players must have primary allegiance to Sussex.  Green Points will be awarded for all matches won.  First-match losers are eligible for the (not Green-Pointed) Plate competition.

Please enter, using the form on the Registration  Page, by Tuesday November 5th.  If you have any queries, please contact the organiser, David Galpin.

Don't forget to enter the .....

Kent/Sussex Green-pointed venture on the weekend of 26th-27th October

There will be a Swiss Pairs on the Saturday and a Swiss Teams on the Sunday.  We hope that this will again be a friendly affair and attract players of all standards (green points are a bonus!).  It will again be held at Tunbridge Wells Bridge Club - a lovely facility and just next door to a Premier Inn if you want to make a weekend of it.  You can enter here.

Peter Clinch.
Tournament Manager

..... and, ladies, don't forget to enter the .....

..... Ladies Pairs at Patcham BC on Sunday October 20th

You can enter here.

Joy Mayall,Tournament Organiser

..... and, for less-experienced players, there's the ....

East Grinstead Basic Bridge Pairs

The EGBB competition has been running for over 30 years and is the only County event run in this Northern section of West Sussex.  It is aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at the less-experienced players and is played in a gently competitive but very friendly atmosphere.  Although it is an all play all event, the scoring will be in two sections enabling those with less experience to win their section.

Helen Kent, Tournament Organiser

Tollemache Cup Qualifier

This year's Qualifier will again take place on RealBridge on November 9th-10th.  This is the EBU inter-counties event and it can be watched on RealBridge Kibitz.

The selectors have chosen the following team to represent Sussex :-

• Gunnar Halberg and Sally Clark
• Ollie Powell and Stephen Kennedy
• Peter Clinch  and Julian Mitchell
• Andy Ryder and Mike Allen
• Alan and James Hobden
• David Dickson and Matt Read

Res: Andy Morris and Chris Phillips.

We wish them all good luck.

Chris Jepson (Chairperson of Selection Committee)

Blue-Pointed Midweek Swiss Pairs

This event on September 4th was captured in convincing style by Liz Senior and Stephen Scott who won all their matches.  They finished twelve points clear of Peter Harbott and Jeremy Harris.  Third place was shared between the pairings of David & Andrea Galpin and Richard Cleminson & Andy Osborne.  Congratulations to everyone!

Many thanks to Stephen Kennedy for directing with panache, to Charlotte Setahul who prepared the lunches, to Martin Pool and John Hardy for dealing the boards, and to Peter Bates for handling the Henfield logistics.

See you next year!

Peter Clinch,
Tournament Organiser

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