Promoting BRIDGE within Victoria
Fostering interest in the game
A relatively small contingent of Victorian players travelled to Sydney for the 2022 Spring Nationals, one of the major Gold Point events on the national calendar. VBA Vice-President Jenny Thompson paired with Canberra expert David Hoffman to finish in an extremely fine second place in the Dick Cummings, the Open pairs event that usually features … Continue reading “Victorians at Spring Nationals”
Continue ReadingThe 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”
Continue ReadingThe 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”
Continue ReadingFor the first time in three years, Victoria’s national Gold Point carnival of bridge, the Victor Champion Cup, took place “live” in Melbourne over the Queen’s Birthday weekend. While numbers participating were around 55% of 2019, which was close to forecast, spirits were high and the quality of bridge undiminished. The successful completion of this … Continue reading “Presidents Report on the VCC”
Continue ReadingThe VBA wishes to advise that the Victor Champion Cup will definitely be taking place in 2022 at its usual time of the Queen’s Birthday Weekend (June 8-13). Our preferred option remains to hold this event face-to-face. However, at present (March 17), we are unable to confirm the venue for the event owing to disruption … Continue reading “Update on 2022 Victor Champion Cup”
Continue ReadingNominations are now open for two VQP teams to challenge for the Victorian Open Team at the Victorian Open Team Selection Final held at on the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd April. The winner of that final will represent Victoria in the Open Teams at the 2022 Australian National Championships to be held in Adelaide in … Continue reading “Nominations are now open for two VQP teams”
Continue ReadingThe Victorian Open Butler event starting on 16th February will now be held online on Real Bridge. The qualifying dates are 16th February, 2nd , 9th & 16th March, with the final on the weekend of 19th March also being held on Real Bridge. This event is one of the avenues open to be eligible … Continue reading “Butler Qualifying now to be on Real Bridge”
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Congratulations to red hot favourites THOMPSON (Ben Thompson, Bill Jacobs, Simon Hinge, Robert Fruewirth, James Coutts, Justin Mill) who took out the final of the Pennant on Sunday 21st November from the Geelong team of Stephen Lester, Denny Newland, Doug Newlands, Arthur Robbins. Congratualt
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Margaret Bourke Invitational Teams 2021 This year marked a very sad day in Australian Bridge. We lost one of the greats of the game, Margaret ‘Margi’ Bourke. (See obituary here) Margi’s history in bridge is nothing short of amazing. She was loved by all who knew her and respected by all those who encountered her … Continue reading “Locked down but Victoria still comes up aces”
Continue ReadingAll VBA hosted games on BBO will have master-point allocations from July. Please note that the entry fee to each of these games will be BB$3.00. The single exception will be Tuesday afternoon’s new player session.
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