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”
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