The Club was organising the next in Barry's Improver Lessons which along with the lessons incorporated an Irish themed dinner to start our member Hugh McGann off in style playing bridge for the Irish Team in games against other European Countries.
This planning may have all been for nought as one of the world's smallest organisms was able to put all 5 million who call NZ home into lock-down to finish this week off !
So, depending on how the lock-down progresses, this event may be cancelled but if you see our posters out there you now know what they are all about........
Should you be curious and would like to know more, then click here to view the poster

18 Teams in the Open and 10 Teams in the Restricted event made up the fields in the 2021 Hamilton Open Events. The winners of the Hamilton Open Teams was the Fisher Team - Blair Fisher, Liz Fisher, Michael Curry, Kenneth Yule with the Berrington Team - Ian Berrington, Fuxia Wen, Jonathan Westoby and Grant Jarvis in second.
The Hamilton Restricted Teams was taken out convincingly by the Te Aroha's Eccles Team - Eunice Eccles, Malcolm Kirkby, Tim Rigter, Rochelle Van Heuven followed in second place by a Hamilton Team of Jena Robinson, Joan Egger, Rachelle Meijer and Donna Prentice

Congratulations to the winners and all who took part.....

1st place 2021 Hamilton Open Teams

2nd place 2021 Hamilton Open Teams

1st place 2021 Hamilton Restricted Teams

2nd place 2021 Hamilton Restricted Teams

Results for this teams event played on Sunday are shown below -
Junior teams played 7 x 6 board matches, Intermediate teams played 7 x 7 board matches, while Open teams challenged each other over 5 x 12 board matches
Congratulations to the Waikato Bridge Club, winner of the Waikato Interclub Trophy
The two top teams in each grade qualify for the Waikato-Bays finals which will be held at the Cambridge Club in August

Full details of all rounds can be found on our results page here

Over-all Club results combining the 3 grades :

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Individual Grade results :

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Big apologies - the latest newsletter omitted the results from the Friday morning "Nice Chums" ( NC ) group

Our Club has a regular Bridge Session that apart from Friday players is largely unknown to the rest of the Club - the self named "NICE CHUMS". This group of members plays regularly on Friday mornings enjoying the sociability of the group and consists largely of members who have completed our lessons in the past few years.

For those NC members who have asked about handicaps - handicaps are calculated using the average results for each player for all the times they have played in the NC sessions for up to the last 18 months. Players that have scored above average over that time get a negative handicap while those that are below average get a positive handicap - these can range from +10 to -10 with most being between +3 and -3. Then the handicap results for NC sessions are found by adjusting each Raw Score by that "average result" handicap for each player.
These handicaps are (re)calculated around three times throughout a year at a time when a competition has concluded

2021 results for the Friday NC are:

    Compa$$ is going live !!
 

From April, members will be able to log into your individual Compa$$ account at any time to check your balance. These notes show the actions necessary to let a member create a user so they are then able to access the Compa$$ Database and view some or all transactions for that account.

This step is important -
Prior to gaining access to Compa$$ you must register with the online compa$$ and you will need to set up a user name / password. This user name will not exist until you complete this step and can be anything you like however to assist fault finding a related name would be helpful ( if we were registering "Micky Mouse" something like MickyM would be a good starting place ).

To view the two screens required to be filled in then click here

The correct web address is required -
If you manually enter the site address mycompasss.com into the browser NOTE the 3 's' in "mycompasss"
Alternatively if you use a link this access to the online version is via either the link on the Club’s website or directly via this link to mycompasss.com and then follow the steps below:

1.   not registered ? click on sign up here
2.   click on and fill in your user-name, nz bridge number, email address and a password
     ( please, choose both a sensible user-name & password ( 6 characters min ) - record them for future use... )
     ( should you reset your password there can be a moderate delay before the reset email arrives )
3.   click the captcha I am not a robot
4.   click sign up

Once all the necessary information is entered and has been accepted a new screen for Compass Scoring System will appear.
Click on Compa$$ Accounts and your account data for the last processed period will appear on your screen.
You can change to any vaild date range if you want to see your transactions prior to the last processed period
Please note that credits for winning an event are only processed at the end of each month

If you need assistance, Ella will help you set up a login after play on Tuesday afternoon, 6 April and will hold an extended tutorial at 9.30 on Friday 9 April

Direct access to Compa$$ information page via this web site is via the link in the RESULTS sub-menu on the front page - ( see below ). This removes the need to open a new browser page and enter the site address etc.

    Login to Compa$$ Administration pages -  
 

     Provides for -
     First time registration
     Password replacement
     Compa$$ data access