Australian Bridge magazine runs three Australia-wide pairs events each year - novice, restricted and open. The restricted event (fewer than 300MP) is the last in the year and was run at the end of October. The TBA session was held on Thursday 31 October. The club rooms were at full capacity with 26 tables playing. Around Australia 973 pairs played the same set of boards and were scored as one national field.
The local results for the TBA session are here. The top placed pairs were:
North-South East-West
Barbara Giizel - Pam Murphy Stevie Griggs - Carmel Thomson
Marleen Lynch - Helen Morling Mardi Grosvenor - John Grosvenor
Colin McGavisk - Kerry McKillop Cheralyn Bird - Frank Powell
In the national single field of 973 pairs, the top placed TBA pairs were:
61st - Stevie Griggs - Carmel Thomson (60.8%) - 12th under 50MP
70th - Mardi Grosvenor - John Grosvenor (60.4%) - 17th under 50MP
84th - Barbara Giizel - Pam Murphy (59.8%)
100th - Florence Lewis-Bryan - Vicki Douglas (58.8%)
113th - Liz Sellen - Clive Sellen (58.2%)
The highest placed Tasmanian pair were David Rogers and Sue Martin from the Devonport Bridge Club who played in the Tamar session. They were placed 51st with 61.2%.
Thanks to Chris Carolan for organising and directing this demanding session for the TBA. The national results are available here. The summary for the 2019 Australia-Wide Novice Pairs is here. The summary for the 2019 Australia-wide Open Pairs is here. Watch out for the first of the 2020 series, the Australia-wide Novice Pairs. coming at the end of May 2020.