Promoting BRIDGE within Victoria
Fostering interest in the game
The ABF Board is currently reviewing its ‘guiding principles behind policies for representative team selection, training & support’ and are seeking feedback on their proposed principles, as outlined in the attached document. If you can help with any feedback on these draft principles, please reply to me at jtbt@optusnet.com.au by first thing Friday 12th August. … Continue reading “ABF principles behind policies for representative team selection feedback”
The Melb-Metro GNOT Regional Final will be held at the VBA on August 27. Play will commence at 9:30am. In order to play in the Final a team must retain a minimum of three of the original members who qualified together from the same Club Heat. Additional players can be augmented to the original remaining … Continue reading “GNOT Metro Final Entries Open”
The August 2022 VBA Bulletin is now available Click Here to download or read online. Read news updates on Bridge, some informative hands by Dee Harley and some interesting regular columns and news.
Continuing his stellar year (during which he has represented Australia in the Bermuda Bowl, been part of the winning teams in the Gold Coast and Melbourne national events and captained the Victorian team at the ANC) James Coutts has won the ANC TBIB Butler Pairs in Adelaide. This is one of the most prestigious titles … Continue reading “James Coutts Wins ANC TBIB Butler Pairs”
The 2022 Australian National Teams Championships took place last week in Adelaide and Victorian teams participated in all four categories: Open, Senior, Women & Youth. For the third time since Victoria’s last Open victory (in Melbourne 2011) our Open Team made the final, sadly losing narrowly to NSW. The final stanza was very exciting with the … Continue reading “Victorian Teams Perform Well at ANC”
The VBA Open Pairs is one of the three most important events on the VBA state calendar and the longest-running pairs event in Australia. It has been won over the years by many illustrious pairings, with Bill Jacobs appearing a remarkable 11 times on the honour board. This year’s event commences on Wednesday July 20 … Continue reading “Victorian Open Pairs”
The PENNANT starts on August 31st. Full Details Here or Enter the Pennant
All Victorian players are invited to play in the inaugural Victorian Online Open Teams Championship. This event starts on August 8th at 7:30pm and goes for 4 weeks. The event is open to all Victorian Players and will be held on Real Bridge Enter Here
We are back to having a full program of Face-to-Face bridge at Poath Road and look forward to welcoming all members and visitors to the club.
The Victorian Bridge Association Limited is the governing body for Bridge in the State of Victoria. In addition the VBA runs a bridge club from its premises in Murrumbeena. It represents over 60 Affiliated Clubs and over 5000 players in Victoria and is actively involved in promoting the game of bridge throughout Victoria and fostering interest in the game. It organises and conducts championship and other tournaments and works with all interested parties to ensure the effective and efficient administration and promotion of bridge. The VBA aims to promote Bridge within Victoria by enabling: Advice and support to affiliated club; Directing and Teaching seminars; Mentoring and recruiting new directors and teachers; Assistance to new and emerging clubs; Starter Pack for newly affiliated clubs
The ABF has retained the services of Tony Bemrose Insurance Brokers as its insurance broker.
