Australian Bridge magazine runs three Australia-wide pairs events each year - novice, restricted and open. The Australia-wide Open Pairs was held in the last week of August. The TBA session was run on Friday 30th, with 22 pairs competing. The same boards were played by 1,165 pairs around Australia and scored as one field.
The highest placed TBA pair were Julia Johnson and Rod Barnett who came 5th nationally with 68.9%! Congratulations to Julia and Rod on a fantastic result. The next two TBA pairs made it into the top 50 and top 100 respectively: Maruta Boyd and Barbara Holland at 38th with 64.9%, and Bob Patterson and Maria Gibbs at 66th with 63.3%.
The full results are available here. The Australia-Wide Restricted Pairs (fewer than 300 masterpoints as at 31 August) is scheduled for October 2019 with the TBA session planned for the morning of Thursday 31st August.