The TBA Committee met on July 8th from 2.45pm. Present were Julie Rhodes (P), Leigh Blizzard (T), Leonie Atkins, Chris Girvan, Sue Falkingham, Paul Fredheim, Fran Healey, Simon Edler, Katherine Marsden and Laura Bauermeister and the following matters were discussed:

Congratulations Hugh Fundraiser!

Our fundraising for Hugh was very successful culminating with the Individual Championship on June 29th which was won by John Grosvenor. We raised approximately $4500 for Hugh, and once again I would like to thank everyone for their donations of raffle prizes, money and time. A special thank you to Simon and Sue who donated a lot of time in organising and scoring the Individual tournament.

After much positive feedback, it was decided that we would run an Individual Tournament again next year.

Australia Wide Club Championship – calling Players with Under 50 MP!

The next ABF Club Knockout Teams event is starting in just a few days. It will be held online using the excellent Real Bridge platform. Play is on Tuesday evenings at 7:30pm one match a month over 5 months. The first match is Tuesday July 22nd.

We have teams for each of the categories except for the Under 50 MP category

If you have fewer than 50 MP and would like to represent your club please email the TBA (tba@tasbridge.com.au) for yourself, your pair or your team. Sue Falkingham will be organizing our teams and needs to hear from you now.

Extra Red Masterpoint Sessions

The TBA will be running some extra Red Masterpoint Sessions between now and the end of the year, so keep an eye out for them if you would like the opportunity to top up. In July, they will be run on Tuesday 29th, Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st.

New Dealing Machine

Chris Girvan has been looking into our dealing machine situation as a result of reporting of dealing machine errors by our trusty band of volunteer dealers. As a result, we have decided to trade in our oldest machine and buy a new one. The faulty one will also be sent to the mainland for an extensive service. If you would like to learn how to use the dealing machine and join the band of dealing volunteers, contact Lynne Cooke who co-ordinates the roster.

TBA Signs with 1st Energy

After a proposal was put to the TBA by the son of one of our members, (Roger Sparrow) the TBA has decided to change our electricity provider from Aurora Energy to 1st Energy.

Several of our committee members are long standing 1st Energy customers and have been very happy with their service. Rates are slightly cheaper than Aurora Energy (see below) and the solar feed in tariff is better.

In addition, 1st Energy, has agreed to give the TBA $150 for every member that switches to 1st Energy.

Members who are interested in trimming their electricity spend and taking advantage of this offer should contact Roger Sparrow on 0438 538 985 or roger.sparrow@1stenergy.com.au

Members are able to sign small businesses too (the 1st Energy rates for small business tariffs are also cheaper than Aurora’s standing offer rates), and more than one residence (so that would be an additional $150 referral fee if a shack/business also signed up).

1st Energy pricing for residential tariffs in the 2025/26 financial year is as follows:

Tariff 31 - Residential Light and Power

Tariff 41 - Heating & Hot Water

Tariff 93 - Residential Time of Use

New customers who are RACT members also get $150 credit in first 12 months and non-RACT customers will get $100 credit in first 12 months.

In order to ensure that the TBA gains full benefit from your switch, please mention this to a Director or Committee Member so that we can keep our own records of this.

Bridge Etiquette – Tip of the Month

If you are scoring, and are dummy, please ensure that you put your hand out before starting to enter the score. This enables declarer to think about their play whilst you are entering the contract details on the Bridgemate.

Julie Rhodes

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Australian National Championships 2025, Brisbane - Day 2

From Hugh Grosvenor

Previous posts: day 1

Match 5 against Northern Territory. Hugh & Tania against Chris Depasquale and Dimitri Hnaris, John and Mardi against Alexandra Wilson and Luke Black. These guys all play a rubber bridge inspired form of Goren – 4 card majors.

Board 1 was a lead decision for me.

I opened 2D showing a weak 2 in one of the majors. Dimitri bid 2H which showed any hand of 11-13 points. Tania chose to double asking me to pass with a weak 2 in hearts or bid 2S with spades. I think I would prefer 3H, pass or correct. Chris jumped to 6C, ending the auction. From my perspective any lead could be right. I unerringly chose the one that didn’t work – a low heart. This allowed Chris to finesse the HQ providing 2 discards for diamonds. A club to the ace at trick two exposed the bad break. Now a low diamond which I won. He won the D return, cashed the HA pitching a diamond, took the marked club finesse and came home with 2 hearts, 2 diamonds, 1 spade and 7 clubs. Nicely played by Chris.

Notice that even a D lead by me would still beat the contract.

Match 6 against ACT. Tania and I played George Kozakos, my partner from the Australian Seniors Team, and Stephen Fischer. Andrew and Sandra played David Appleton and Brad Coles, my recent teammates from the Victor Champion Cup. They play a strange artificial system where they pass with good hands and open with weak hands!

Sandra and Andrew had an accident on board 20 where an insufficient bid resulted in missing game. This falls in the general category of an unforced error, which are obviously best avoided, but it also reflects the strange actions that often occur when unusual systems are used.

On board 28 I bid too much and George got to penalise me.

Tania passed and Stephen opened 1H. Our general style is to be aggressive when overcalling so 2C was not completely out of bounds. Partner was a passed hand so that was a minus. I only had a 5-card suit and it was not very good – another minus. Any overcall that consumes some space makes it harder for the opponents – a plus. They were vulnerable and we were not – another plus. Anyway, bridge is a bidder’s game, so I tried 2C. This was passed around to Stephen who reopened with a double. George passed this for penalties.

Would you have considered bidding with Tania’s hand? This looks a little strange, but experience suggests to me that in these particular circumstances bidding is often right. 2CX is unlikely to be a good contract and anything else may be better! Tania thought for some time then passed. I think XX was probably best – certainly was on this hand!

2CX was lucky to escape for 2 down, while 2D would have made. If we had run, I expect they would have found their spade fit and would probably have ended up in 4S one down (as happened at the other table).

On board 32 David and Brad got a little carried away and bid a hopeless slam on a hand where game looked a little problematic. This went 3 down for a bonus 14 IMPs to us but still a disappointing loss by 21 IMPs.

The last match of the first round robin was against Queensland who were running last having lost all their matches. John and Mardi played Kim Morrison and Rachel Langdon, while Sandra and Andrew took on Paul Hooykaas and Pele Rankin. All experienced players who would be disappointed with the results to date.

This was a fairly flat match with only 2 double digit swings.

John played in 4H and got the lead of the SJ. The third spade provided a discard for one of the losing clubs, so he made 10 tricks despite the bad trump break, losing 2 hearts and one club. Tania’s comment was ‘God didn’t deal you an AK so that you could lead some other suit!’. Andrew led the CA and Sandra encouraged looking at 2 trump tricks. 10 IMPs to us.

On board 9, John and Mardi had 25 points combined with a 5-5 club fit. Either 3NT or 5C was makeable but John whimped out they settled in 4C. At IMP scoring, vulnerable games are very important. This is not the time for subtlety – you only need to make about a third of the time to show a profit so if in doubt bid game.

The rest of the match went a little in our favour so a 14 IMP win maintained Queensland’s (im)perfect record.

At the end of the first round robin we lie a disappointing sixth. Now we play everyone again starting with the better placed teams. The first match is against NSW.

Tania and I play Michael Courtney and Joan Butts, Sandra and Andrew play Lavy and Tomer Libman. Michael is a self-confessed genius – very talented and dangerous. Lavy and Tomer are a father and son pair who have been steady improvers over the last few years.

I opened 2NT, 20-21 BAL, Tania bid 3NT. Joan chose to lead her better suit rather than her longer one i.e. a heart. I had 8 top tricks so needed to develop one in diamonds. The good news was that the lead of the H5 looked like a 4 card suit. When I led the DJ Joan played low. I had little to go on but tried the K. That lost to the Ace and they cashed 3 hearts and the DQ for one down. I was pleased to see that both diamond honours were with North. This meant that I couldn’t guess right but also that at the other table they did not have to lead a heart to beat the contract – a spade lead followed by a H switch when in with the first diamond would be enough. Sandra led a spade but when Andrew won the first diamond, he continued a spade, so the contract made. Having only 2 spades this was probably an error. 12 IMPs away.

This was a tricky hand in the slam zone. Tania and I bid 1S – 2D – 2H – 3D – 3S – 4S – P. 2D was natural and forcing to game. The rest was natural. Since the spades are 3-3 and a heart lead is away from the K, there were a fairly easy, if somewhat lucky, 12 tricks.

At the other table the Libmans bid to 6D. Not a bad slam but doomed to failure on either the HJ or a diamond lead. Unfortunately, Andrew led the CQ and the contract rolled home. 12 IMPs away.

The next board was another tricky slam hand.

Tania opened 1S and I responded 2NT showing 10+ with 4+ spades. She bid 3C showing any minimum. I bid 3D asking for further description and she bid 3NT showing a singleton or void in diamonds. 4C from me showed first or second round control in clubs and Tania bid 4S denying first round control in diamonds and second round control in hearts. It now seemed like my second diamond winner was wasted unless partner had only two hearts. I chose to pass and 12 tricks were simple when partner did in fact have only two hearts. The Libmans did well to bid this and win another 11 IMPs. They were one of only two pairs in the field to bid this excellent slam.

A 24 IMP loss was not a great start to the second round robin. Ah well, tomorrow is another day!

Full results for all the divisions are available here.

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The 2025 Tassie Board-a-Match Teams was held at the TBA on the weekend of 14-15 June. Board-a-Match scoring is simple. It is essentially matchpoint scoring with each board being played twice within a match. If you score better than your opponents at the other table you get 2 points for the board (they get none). If the scores are equal you each get 1 point. If the opponents get a better score you get no points (they get 2). No mucking around with IMPs or VP tables! Some people believe Board-a-Match teams is the purest form of the game.

Six teams (including a couple of fly-in celebrities) competed in a round robin of 24 board matches. The winners were the Lloyd team (Tania Lloyd, Hugh Grosvenor, Sandra & Andrew Richman). Second place went to the Gibbs team (Maria Gibbs, Pam Murphy, Phil Timmins, Duncan Abercromby). Full results are here.

Thanks to Simon for organising and directing the event.

If you are interested in giving Board-a-Match teams a go, the TBA Club Board-a-Match teams is coming up on Sunday 27 July. Entries are open on My ABF.

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The TBA Committee met on June 10th from 2.45pm. Present were Julie Rhodes (P), John Grosvenor (VP) Leigh Blizzard (T) Pam Murphy, Leonie Atkins, Chris Girvan, Sue Falkingham, Paul Fredheim, Simon Edler and Hugh Grosvenor. The following matters were discussed:

Congratulations Hugh Fundraiser!

Hugh has returned triumphant from China with the Seniors’ team winning the Gold medal! The Open team also did well, coming in third. Hugh is also travelling to Denmark in August to play for Australia again in the Senior’s Team.

In order to celebrate his win, and to assist him financially to travel to Denmark, the TBA will hold a fund raising event on Sunday June 29th starting at 10.00am. It will take the form of an individual tournament where as many people as possible will be able to play with Hugh. In addition we will be running a raffle on that day for Hugh with the full list of prizes available closer to the event. If you are unable to attend on that day, but would like to assist Hugh, we will turn the suggestion box into a donation box a week prior to the event.

Australia Wide Club Championship

The next ABF Club Knockout Teams event is starting in just a few weeks. It will be held online using the excellent Real Bridge platform. Play is on Tuesday evenings at 7:30pm one match a month over 5 months. The first match is Tuesday July 22nd.

The TBA has been very successful winning the open teams in 2023 and the under 750 in 2024. Now in 2025 let’s do even better. There are 5 Masterpoints categories: Under 50, Under 100, Under 300, Under 750 and Open.

The TBA pays for your entry fees, but any prize money won by a team is placed in the entry fee pool for next year’s teams.

If you would like to represent your club please email the TBA for yourself, your pair or your team. Sue Falkingham will be organizing our teams and needs to hear from you now (email tba@tasbridge.com.au).

Laugh and Learn

Laugh and Learn has started on Wednesday afternoons from 2.00pm. It is a fun and informal way to improve your bridge, with discussion of the hands after they have been bid and played.

More On Pianola

As mentioned last month, the TBA has decided to cancel its blanket subscription to Pianola Plus, thereby saving thousands of dollars. You can subscribe personally to Pianola Plus if you wish (via the Pianola website), but most of the previously available hand analysis etc can still be done via the TBA website.

Bridge Etiquette – Tip of the Month

Since it is the cold and flu season, please stay away from bridge if you are unwell. Also, please remember to sneeze or cough into your arm, and not on the playing cards. There are masks available at the TBA if you need one, or think another player needs one.

Julie Rhodes

President

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The final of the Tassie Matchpoint Pairs was held at Tamar Bridge Club on Sunday 1st June. Seven tables of pairs that had qualified through heats at various clubs around the state competed over two sessions. The winners were Pam Murphy and Bal Krishan from the TBA averaging about 59.5% over the two sessions. Second were Sally Clarke and Catherine Elliott from the Tamar Club averaging just under 58%. They also won the title of best womens pair. Third just a few matchpoints back were Roger Swain and Felicity Wivell also from Tamar. Full results are here.

Many thanks to the Tamar Club for their hospitality.

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The 2025 TBA Club Open and Handicap Teams was held over two Monday evenings in May. Nine teams competed. The open winners were the Murphy Team (Pam Murphy, Barbara Giizel, Jo and Phil Beck). The handicap winners were the Giles team (Rosemary and Brian Giles, Betty Pilgrim and Paul Fredheim). Full results are available here.

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The TBA Congress is the most significant club event held by the TBA each year. This year the congress was held on the weekend of 3rd and 4th May.

Saturday was Matchpoint Pairs over two sessions. The competion was divided into three categories - Open, Restricted and Novice. The overall winners of the Open were Guray Sunamak & Darryl Smith, with Annie Bartlett & Julie Rhodes coming second, and Barbara Giizel & Pam Murphy third. Full results for the Open are at: Overall, Session 1, Session 2.

The Restricted and Novice categories played in a combined section for the Matchpoint Pairs. Overall winners in the Restricted category were Mary George & Mary Hawthorne. Overall winners in the Novice category were Keong Chen & Leonie Atkins. Full results for the combined section are at: Overall, Session 1, Session 2.

Sunday was Swiss Pairs with 40 pairs competing. The overall winners were Fiona Hickey & Alaine Macmorran. Wynne Webber & Hilton Francis came second, and David Robinson & Phil Beck came third. The highest placed restricted pair were Jeremy Reid & Erica McCoull. The highest placed novice pair were Pam Halton & Toby Meredith. Full results are availabe here.

Thanks to the many volunteers who helped make the weekend a success, and to all who brought food to share. Thanks to Chris Carolan for Directing.

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Thanks to everyone - players, organisers, directors, caddies, volunteers and sponsors - who made the 2025 Tasmanian Festival of Bridge a successful and exciting event. The Festival was held from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 of March 2025. This was the third time that the event has been held at the MyState Bank Arena in Hobart on the banks of the Derwent river.

400 entrants, including some of Australia's top players competed across 6 events. This is an impressive 25% increase over last year. Half of the entrants were from interstate or overseas. About 75 Australian clubs were represented, with a growing contingent of New Zealand players joining us.

Thursday and Friday saw the TFoB Restricted Swiss Pairs, the Roger Penny Senior Swiss Pairs and the Fixed Income Solutions Australian Mixed Swiss Pairs. The TBIB Australian Swiss Pairs was run on Saturday and Sunday. The TFoB Rookie Swiss Pairs was held on Sunday. The inaugural Jenny Penny Novice Swiss Pairs was also added to the schedule, running on Saturday.

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The TBIB Australian Swiss Pairs had a field of 114 pairs, an increase of 25% over last year. Start of play was preceeded by a few words from Ron Klinger and a minutes silence in memory of Avinash Kanetkar. The winners of the event were Warren Lazer and Pauline Gumby. Ashley Bach and Arlene Dalley came second. Maurits Van Der Vlugt and David Beauchamp came third. The Warren Walker Memorial trophy for the highest placed Tasmanian pair was won by Guray Sunamak and Darryl Smith. Full results are here.

The Fixed Income Solutions Australian Mixed Swiss Pairs also saw a signifcant increase over last year's field with 42 pairs playing. The event was won by Ashley Back and Arlene Dalley. Hugh McGann and Candice Smith came second. Andrew Peake and Giselle Mundell came third. Full results are here.

50 pairs played in the Roger Penny Senior Swiss Pairs which was won by Nigel Rosendorff and Peter Reynolds. Ian Robinson and Neil Ewart came second. Phillip Fent and Dee Harley came third. Full results are here.

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The TFoB Restricted Swiss Pairs saw 66 pairs with fewer than 300 masterpoints competing. It was won by Louise Cowan and Susan Bezette from the Tamar Bridge Club. They also won the inaugural Ron Spencer Memorial Prize for the highest placed Tasmanian pair. This prize is in memory of Ron Spencer, a member and generous beneficator of the TBA. Margaret Cusack and Rhonda Khong came second. Joann Theriault and Eamonn McCabe came third. Full results are here.

The inaugural Jenny Penny Novice Swiss Pairs was played on Saturday with 22 pairs with fewer than 100 masterpoints competing. The event is named in memory of Jenny Penny, a much loved bridge teacher and director who introduced many Tasmanians to the game over a very long career. The winners were Jan Van Riel and Margaret Grant. Second placed were Nat Wright and Jo Wright. Robyn Russell and Anne Donnelly came third. Full results are here.

This was the third running of the TFoB Rookie Swiss Pairs with 22 pairs with fewer than 25 masterpoints competing. It was won by Nat Wright and Jo Wright. Ann Burnett and Anne McEntee came second. Helen Hebblethwaite and Chris Arnott came third. Full results are here.

Thanks to TBIB for their continuing sponsorship.

Thanks to Fixed Income Solutions for becoming a major sponsorship.

Thanks to Fella Hamilton for their sponsorship. Two $100 Fella Hamilton gift vouchers were awarded to the top place women's pair in the Restricted, Senior and Open events.

The Tasmanian Festival of Bridge is supported by the Tasmanian Government through Events Tasmania

The 2026 Tasmanian Festival of Bridge will be from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 March 2026 at the MyState Bank Arena. There is plenty of room for more tables and it is a lovely time of year to visit Tasmania. Save the date, and we hope to see you in 2026!

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Congratulations to the TBA Under 750 team for winning their final!

This was the third year of this event and once again the TBA entered teams in each of the handicap divisions. The club paid the $200 entry fee for each team to participate. The first match was in August and then once each month until the final night in December.

The TBA teams were:

• Open - Tania Lloyd, Hugh Grosvenor, Mardi Grosvenor, John Grosvenor. They were defeated in the Quarter Finals by the Beaumont team from South Australia. Who then annoyingly went on to beat them in the last match of the Consolation Swiss. Congratulations though to our Open team for finishing second with such a strong performance. After having won the Open last year I am sure they may have been disappointed. But as I am the Organiser of the event it may have started conspiracy theories if we won 2 years in a row!
• Under 750 MP - David Brooks, Darryl Smith, Maruta Boyd, Barbara Holland and David Marshall. Glory goes to our team who triumphed winning their Final and being the Champion Team. A stellar performance winning every match. A nerve-racking final against Moonee Valley saw me kibitzing and chewing my fingernails. However, a superb last couple of boards and they were convincing winners by 19 imps.
• Under 300 MP - Erica McCoull, Jeremy Reid, Gek Low and Katherine Marsden. At the end of 3 months of play, totalling 19 matches, they were sitting in 3rd position and into the semi finals. Erica and Jeremy were also sitting in first position in the pair datums out of 52 pairs. Katherine and Gek were a creditable 22 out of 52. Unfortunately losing their semi put our team into the consolation swisswhere they finished 15th out of 29.
• Under 100 MP - Keong Chen, Leonie Atkins, Paul Fredheim and Wayne Seabrook. They were the top ranked U100 team at the end of the Qualifying rounds. Unfortunately they lost their Semi Final to Ballina who were the eventual winners for this division. They went on to finish a fantastic fifth in the consolation Swiss!
• Under 50 MP - Christina Buell, Laura Best, Laura Bauermeister, Sharlene Campbell and Catherine Catt. Finally our brave U50 players. They felt rather bashed around but in the qualifying rounds even though they had to play all the teams from the U300 and U100 divisions as well. They beat all but one of the other U50 teams playing. They did not make the finals but went to the consolation swiss. I would like to note that their second last match saw them beat the Kenmore U750 team by 12 imps.

We could have as many players as wanted to play in the matches but perhaps because it is an online event we were not inundated with queues of people wishing to play. The Club is most grateful to all of the players that played in any of the matches. Do think about being part of the event next year. Why not familiarise yourself with the RealBridge platform and play in our weekly online Wednesday night session? Red masterpoints on offer!

Full results and details are available here. Congratulations to everybody who played. Thanks to Sue Falkinhgam for coordinating the TBA teams. Sue also had a role in organising this event nationally.

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The 2024 TBA club Christmas Party was held at the TBA on Saturday afternoon 14th December. A packed house enjoyed the sumptuous spread that we all brought and shared. The President, Pam Murphy, thanked some of our indefatigable volunteers with wine, flowers and free game vouchers. 24.5 tables of bridge just topped last year's record of 24 tables.

The winners NS were Sarah Howard and Maria Gibbs and EW were Jane and Simon Edler.

Full results are available here.

Many thanks to all who contributed to the success of the event. Thanks to Sue Falkingham for directing.

Thanks to Erica McCoull for the photos

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The 2024 Tasmanian Swiss Pairs was held at the TBA on the weekend of 16-17 November. This was the last of the island-wide events for the year. A field of 18 pairs played eight matches over the two days.

The winners were Hugh Grosvenor and Tania Lloyd, second were Julie Rhodes and Leigh Blizzard and Julia Corr and Barbara Giizel came third. The full results are here.

Thanks to Simon Edler for directing and to the Tamar Bridge Club for hosting the event.

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The TBA club rooms were packed on Sunday 29 September for the 2024 Spring Pairs, renamed this year to the Ron Spencer Spring Pairs in honour of long time TBA member and benefactor. Forty pairs played in the two session Swiss Pairs event. They were then joined by other TBA members for drinks, nibbles and classical music in celebration of Ron's life. As part of this celebration Julie Rhodes announced Ron's generous bequest to the TBA. In acknowledgement a perpetual trophy will be established in his name, to be awarded to the top placed Tasmanian pair in the Restricted Swiss Pairs at the Tasmanian Festival of Bridge each year.

First place went to Bal Krishan and Maria Gibbs. Wynne Webber and Hilton Francis came second. David Robinson and Phil Beck came third. The full results are here.

Thanks to Sue Falkingham for directing, and to Julie Rhodes for organising lunch and the celebration.

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The Grand National Open Teams (GNOT) Online 64 team knockout phase was played from Friday 20th September to Sunday 22nd September on the Realbridge platform. In fact there were only 63 teams so one team had a bye in the first round.

Tasmania was represented by three teams:

Our three GNOT teams did Tasmania proud, competing for three days on-line winning several matches each. They report positive experiences.

The top 4 teams and the next 8 regional teams proceed to the final phase of the event which will be held face-to-face over a weekend in Sydney (23rd and 24th November).

Full results are here.

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The Tassie Board A Match Teams was held on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September at the Launceston Bridge Club with 6 teams participating. The winners were the Richman team consisting of Andrew and Sandra Richman, Jane Routley and Pam Lidl. Second place went to the Grosvenor team - John and Mardi Grosvenor, Julie Rhodes and Leigh Blizzard.

Full results are available here.

Thanks to the LBC for their hospitality and to Hugh Grosvenor for directing.

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The 2024 Eastcoaster Swiss Pairs was held at the Eastcoaster Resort in Orford on the weekend of 24-25 August. This year the event attracted 36 pairs from all over the state. Many people stayed overnight at the Eastcoaster and there was an event dinner on the Saturday night at the Eastcoaster's restaurant.

The field covered the full range of experience, with some people playing in their first Swiss Pairs competition. The field played nine matches of nine boards across three sessions, two on Saturday and one on Sunday morning. Prizes were awarded for the overall field and for novice and restricted categories (less than 50 and 150 masterpoints respectively). Pleasingly all players earned some red masterpoints for their weekend's efforts.

The winners overall were Tania Lloyd and Hugh Grosvenor, Andrew and Sandra Richman were second with Julie Rhodes and Leigh Blizzard finishing Third.

Winners of the restricted category (and 7th overall) were Rose Rowell and Marleen Lynch. Second in the restricted category were Julia Johnson and Sharn Davies. Winners in the novice category (and 9th overall) were Helen Hebblethwaite and Debbie Martyn. Second in the novice category were Dennis and Wendy Butler.

Full results for the event are available here.

Many thanks to the Eastcoaster for their generous support of the event, and for all of their efforts in making the weekend a success. The Eastcoaster donated a free accommodation package as a lucky door prize, which was won by Trish Colles and provided the venue free of charge.

Thank you to Julie Rhodes for her work as event convenor. Thanks to Annette Keen and Jegs Nuttall for stepping in at the last minute to replace a pair who had to withdraw. Thanks also to Simon Edler for directing and acting as caddy when sickness disrupted our plans. And, of course, thank you to everybody who played ...

Thanks to Maria Gibbs for the dinner photos

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The TBA is is the largest bridge club in the state with over 400 members and is the administrative body for the game of bridge in Tasmania. The TBA is responsible for running national and state events including the Australian Swiss Pairs championships and the Roger Penny Senior Swiss Pairs competition. The TBA also administers the Masterpoints system for the ABF and endeavours to promote the growth and teaching of bridge throughout Tasmania via its affiliated clubs.

The TBA's purpose-designed Centre at 5 Marine Esplanade, New Town Bay serves as both our local Clubrooms and the headquarters for bridge in the state. The TBA premises are available for hire by community groups for suitable activities by arrangement with the TBA Committee. Please complete a booking request form (available here) and email it to the TBA at tba@tasbridge.com.au.