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National Congress 2020

After a little bit of the on again / off again action both the location and time of NZ's National Bridge Congress has been confirmed. For the 35th Congress in 2020 it comes with a new venue of the Sir Don Rowlands Event Centre which is located in the grounds of the Karapiro Domain

Don Rowlands Centre - home of 2020 Congress

This year with potentially fewer competitors and very likely without all those competitive Australians helping you leave early it could be your year for a best ever finish !
Congress this year runs from Saturday 26th September to Saturday 3rd October and introduces a new feature of no night bridge emulating the format followed at the "Gold Coast" Congress. This years programme for Congress can be found here

Lake Karapiro and Domain







For all those local Waikato & Bay of Plenty players who have never been to Congress this is your year - less crowded with anticipated lower numbers this year and possibly it's the end of an era for Congress being held in this part of the country
Travel may also turn out to be a winner for "us locals" as with all the disruptions Covid-19 has brought to New Zealand and the world will the organisers listen to those murmuring just under the surface and relocate to one of the main centers in the future......

Hamilton Success

Members of the Hamilton Club enjoyed considerable success Saturday at the Rotorua Xmas Tournament. This success came in a very large field of 78 pairs with the Hamilton Club filling first, second & 4th places!

1st   Yuzhong Chen and Gary Foidl

2nd   Liz Fisher and Sam Simpson

4th   Ella Gray and Dallas Dagg

The previous weekend in Dunedin Mark Thomson and Jeffrey Chang were in the Waikato Bays team that finished 2nd in the Intermediate section of the National Inter-provincial Teams competition.

A very successful fortnight for our Club

Eileen Brunt

The Club sadly notes the passing of our member Eileen Brunt.
Long time Club member Eileen, who played regularly several times each week at the Club, passed away Saturday. The club extends our sympathy to Eileen's friends and family.

A service will be held at Seddon Park Funeral Home Chapel, 49 Seddon Road, Hamilton on Thursday, 8th December 2016 at 2.30pm.

Mike Barton

After a long illness Hamilton Bridge Club member Mike Barton has today ( Tuesday ) passed away

The Club expresses its sympathy to fellow Club member Cherie Barton ( Cherie Aston ) and to members of both families.

Mike's Funeral will take place Monday 5 December at 1pm at Simply Cremations , 388 Wairere Drive, Te Rapa.

2023 AGM Meeting

Hamilton City Access for "Out of Towners"


Hamilton"

 Hamilton Club access from "out of town"
 
   With the Hamilton Section of the Waikato Expressway opening last Thursday (14th July )
   the options for access to Hamilton have changed. More options now exist but some have
   have changes (time) in the route they take before arriving at their existing destination.
These changes apply mostly to travel arriving from the north, south & east so if this your first visit please be warned......
 

Click on the "map" to view a larger mapOverall places - Interclub 2021

Bridge on Matariki Holiday Weekend - Friday 24th June

Matariki stars

Hamilton Bridge is on for Friday 24th June
 
To all Friday players -
 
The vote taken by all those playing yesterday ( 17th June ) showed more than 90% of those present would like to play bridge next weeks Friday even if it is the Matariki public holiday ( click image to find out more ) . Hence either Phil Thompson or Cherie Barton will be directing for the first round of the next competition. Start time is as usual @10am for both playing rooms.

Phil Thompson
18th June 2022

Hamilton Pairs

HAMILTON PAIRS

 

Favourite chair , favourite brew , favourite sandwich , favourite game.....

 

Intermediate, Junior or Novice

New to tournaments or a hardened regular tournament player

Join Hamilton Bridge for the 2022 Hamilton Pairs and play at home!

 
Running Saturday 12th March     Entries Close Thursday 10th of March so enter NOW

 

If you are interested then click this link for the page to choose your grade, find out more and then enter

Results - Babich NZ WIde Pairs @ Hamilton

Hi all

This is the link to the results pages for the Babich NZ wide Pairs

 

Babich Friday evening @ 7.30pm - Click on me for the complete NZ Results page

Babich Friday evening @ 7.30pm - Click here for the Hamilton Results only

The Bridge Zone on TV


The

 ten minutes of something about bridge......
 
  The Bridge Zone - not content with an audio only show the BZ crew have now via the power
  of Zoom and the Internet have expanded on to the moving screen

  Over this Covid lock-down we bring the first of what may be a regular feature -

  Click "Read more" below to open Blog item to select the Episode to view.....

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