Tuesday 7th September -

All bridge remains currently remains suspended at the Hamilton Club

The change in the rules applying to the current level of Lock-down announced by the government yesterday likely allows for the playing of bridge at this lock-down level. However it certainly doesn't make it easy ( see the government rules here ) for the Club to apply all

The latest update from NZ Bridge helps with the levels / rules that need to be met / apply but some further confirmation is required first. The Clubs Committee will meet Thursday and will provide an indication to the membership as to when bridge will resume.

Take care and keep you and your bubbles safe

Nigel
Nigel Gresson, President

The NZ Bridge advisory can be opened by clicking this link
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To all club members:

With the extension of the Level 4 Lock-down by the government on 23 August ALL bridge is suspended at the Hamilton Club for the foreseeable future

The Club will review this suspension and update members when the Waikato Region leaves Lock-down Level 4

Until that change takes place we hope and trust members stay well and safe, and very much look forward to seeing you all at the bridge table soon. Please keep in contact with our elderly members and offer any assistance they may need if things drag on or get worse

Any queries or concerns can be emailed to the club’s email address (secretary@hamiltonbridge.co.nz)

Nigel

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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