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Tournaments 17 and 18 March

The long-range weather forecast isn’t great, so why not make it a double-header weekend! The KELLY PEIRSE MEMORIAL TEAMS 10A OPEN Saturday, 17th March 2018, at ROTORUA 9 a.m Morning tea/coffee. 9.30am Start Entry fee $30.00 Includes Morning tea/ coffee; lunch and afternoon tea and crackers. This is a popular event and is rapidly filling up, there are only spaces …

Intermediate Championship League 2018

Calling all WAIKATO-BAYS INTERMEDIATES and JUNIORS – Te Puke is hosting the first event of the of the INTERMEDIATE CHAMPIONSHIP LEAGUE 2018 on Saturday 24 February. This event is open to all Waikato-Bays players who are not OPEN standard. The competition is based on collecting points in each of the nine League tournaments which are played at venues throughout W/Bays …

Kelly Peirse Tournament 17 March

The Kelly Peirse Tournament is on Saturday 17 March this year, so get your team together and get your entries in. Tournament details here

Tauranga Congress Results

The Tauranga Bridge Congress was played over the weekend of 28-30 January and Tom Winiata and Tom Henwood’s team qualified for the final of the teams event where they finished second. Pam and Ian Moore’s team qualified for the plate final where they too finished second. These were good results in a very strong field from all around NZ.

Success in Northland

Marie and Alison

On January 6th and 7th Kerikeri hosted a two day event sponsored by Craigs Investment Partners. Marie Milsum teamed up with her partner of old, ex-Rotorua player Alison Beer to play in this and they won the Bay Of Isands’ Holiday Pairs, held on the Sunday, (as well as being also runners-up in the Swiss Pairs on the Saturday), rounding off the day with a whopping 71.27% !
Many people from all over the country attended this popular event, so well done to Marie and Alison! Obviously distance hasn’t affected their partnership.

Prizegiving 2017

Christmas Tournament 2017

2107 AGM Notice

This year’s AGM is on Thursday 30 November at 7.30pm. We would like a good turnout of members to come along to have a say and be informed about the running of the club. Fun bridge afterwards. Download the agenda here

X Club and Pianola

Our Club is a participant in the X Club, whereby we get to deal and play the same hands as other participating clubs in our region. The advantage of this is that the results on the hands can be calculated over the entire region and thus the effects of relatively small table numbers and variable field skill levels are removed …

Employment Appointment

Carola Gohring has been appointed to the Cleaning Role at our Club, effective from last week. Carola is one of our members and will continue the responsibilities that Regina and Joe Van Der Sluis had in this role. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Regina and Joe for their commitment to the cleaning role over the …

News from Congress

Congratulations to Liz and Michael Wilcox who came second in the NZ Open Restricted Pairs at the NZ Bridge Congress being held in Hamilton. A great result from a field of 62 pairs from throughout the country. Well done!

Employment Opportunity

Regina Van Der Sluis is resigning from her role as cleaner for our Bridge Clubrooms. Due to this we are looking for a new employee for this role. We would like to pass this opportunity on to our current members. The hours are currently 2 per week, and the tasks are weekly. The tasks include: • Vacuuming throughout (1hr) • …

Interclub Teams Final

The finals for the Waikato Bays interclub teams were held in Cambridge on Sunday 27th August. The Rotorua Open team (Pam & Ian Moore and Tom Henwood & Tom Winiata) won the Open event winning all their matches. Unfortunately the original Intermediate team who qualified were unable to play in the final, but Rotorua were well represented by Roger Dempster, Leonie Pritchard, Kevin Jensen and Paul Rogers. They only lost one match and came third overall.
Well done everyone!

The victorious Open team with their trophy.

Ib Thulin 2017

The winners of the IbThulin on handicap, Margie Robbie and Ian Moore, pictured with James Twist from the tournament sponsor, Craigs Investment Partners

Runners up on handicap, Rex Tulloch and Joyce Reid with James Twist.

Fun and fashion at the Cambridge Sixes

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Dashing 1920s style and some black magic and sorcery were on show when the Rotorua teams competed in the Cambridge Sixes Tournament on Saturday 12 August.

The event, held at the Karapiro Convention Centre, is now the largest one day tournament in NZ, the fun formula of great bridge, trivia and some old fashioned fun of dress up and spot prizes proving very popular. Each team consists of an Open, Intermediate and Junior pair, which makes it a great way for players at different stages of their bridge to join together, and this year there was a total of 44 teams of 6, the largest field ever.

The Geyser Squad finished 12th out of 44, with the Open pair of Ian and Pam Moore coming 5th in their grade. The other Rotorua team, The Sulphur City Scorcerers comprising Heini Lux and Alan Dick, Leonie Pritchard and Mark Bendall, Maggie and Peter Bentley finished 27th overall – the Bentleys came 13th in the Junior grade which was an excellent result in such a big tournament.

It was a great day for all with fantastic food, prizes and raffles.