Stratification of Results at Clubs

The EBU has for some time been considering the stratification of games; this means that in any game that a club has decided to stratify there will be master point winners at two or more levels, depending upon the levels of stratification that the club decides to implement. It will not affect the way that the game is played in any way, players of all levels will play in the same manner they do at present, but there will be a presentation of stratified results at the end of the game and corresponding master point awards. Full details of those awards will be available after we have thoroughly tested the software facilities. Clubs will (optionally) be able to separate their games into three stratification levels, A, B and C.

Purely as an example, clubs could choose something like the following stratification levels -

C up to Master

B up to Regional Master

A above Regional Master.

The game will be played and scored in the usual manner, but the resulting master point awards will be made taking into account the stratification levels. For example, this means that if a "strat c" player has a good day they will, of course, win the master points at their highest level of achievement, but if they were not that successful but still able to finish in the top part of their own stratified level there will still be a master point award. When this possibility was considered by the interim Club Committee they were extremely enthusiastic. We will be able to introduce this facility into our clubs (and some EBU events) during the next 6-12 months.

We are looking for two or three clubs that use Scorebridge to offer themselves for “beta” or secondary testing of these new facilities. Once the system works we will make the required functionality available to other scoring system authors, but it will be up to them as to whether they add the functionality to their programs.

If your club is interested in helping us, please let Barry Capal know (barry@ebu.co.uk). It is unlikely these tests will start before October 2010.

European Championships 2010

The Women had a good last few days - losing none of their final eleven matches - but in the end couldn't quite stay in the medals and finished fifth. Nevertheless, they qualify for next year's Venice Cup. The Open team unfortunately were 12th and the Seniors 14th so neither will be joining them.

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Hubert Phillips Bowl

The Hinden team has won the 2010 Hubert Phillips Bowl for mixed teams. Congratulations to Frances Hinden, Jeffrey Allerton, Jon Cooke, Graham Osborne and Mike Scoltock. They beat the Oliver team (Malcolm Oliver, Val Gibson, Bill March, John Atthey and Clive Owen) in the final by 2000 aggregate points. Well done to both teams for getting to the final.

Hubert Phillips Bowl 2009
Photo of winning team

Crockford's Cup 2010

Congratulations to Janet De Botton & Artur Malinowski; Andrew McIntosh & Nick Sandqvist; Jason Hackett & Justin Hackett for winning this years Crockford's Cup!
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2010 Gerard Faulkner Salver

Congratulations to the Law team who have won the 2010 Gerard Faulkner Salver playing against the Garthwaite team. The Garthwaite team conceded after 40 boards with a winning margin of 62 Imps going to Peter Law's team.

The team played in memory of their late captain, Denis O'Donovan, who sadly passed away in April.

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Corn Cairdis – Cup of Friendship 2010

Congratulations to England who have won this years Corn Cairdis (Cup of Friendship) between Ireland and England by 11 VPs. The final score was England 179 and Ireland 168.

The friendly international is played between The English Bridge Union and the Contract Bridge Association of Ireland every year, and each country competes with three teams: a County Team, a Club team and an Officials team.

English Officials:
Peter Stocken
Sandra Claridge
David Harris
John Williams

England Club Team:
Philip Mason
Pauline Cooper
Sheila Galloway
Sue Pell

England County Team:
Jeff Smith
Jackie Pye
Roy Garthwaite
Heather Hobson

This year was a close result for England, and one possible reason was that the England Club team were missing from the match for the whole of Saturday! Their plane was grounded due to technical difficulties at Leeds Bradford Airport, which meant they were delayed for seven hours!

This was the 19th year of the Cup: England is in the lead with 13 wins against Ireland’s 6 wins over the last nineteen years.

Well done to all three teams.

Date of U25 trials announced

This year’s trials will be held on the weekend of October 16/17th. These trials will help the selectors choose teams to play in the Channel Trophy, the Junior Camrose and the Amsterdam White House tournaments, as well as selecting the squad for the 2011 Europeans.

The venue is undecided as yet – as soon as it has been fixed you will be informed.

National Final of County Teams of 8 winners 2010

The national final of County Teams of 8 winners will be taking place on Sunday 11 July 2010 at the West Midlands Bridge Club, Solihull.

Times:

12.00 - Coffee and tea
12.30 - Bridge starts
15.45 - Meal
19.15 - Finish

There will be 48 Boards.

	A	B	C
1	Manchester	Manchester	Merseyside/Cheshire	(North)
2	Berks/Bucks	Berks/Bucks	Berks/Bucks	(Metropolitan)
3	Camb/Hunt	Herts	Essex	(East)
4	Warwickshire	Oxfordshire	Derbyshire	(Midlands)
5	Avon	Avon	Cornwall	(South West)

Prizes for 1st/2nd place in each group.

Cost is only £20 per player, payable to Graham Jepson, on the day.

Non profit making event.

Club Focus

This is our last Club Focus in the current format, so we've got an extra bumper edition for everyone. Please enjoy the read!

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Denning Team win the Spring Fours

Congratulations to Paul Denning, Patrick Shields, Gary Jones, Dafydd Jones, Peter Goodman and Adrian Thomas who won The Schapiro Spring Foursomes in Stratford-upon-Avon at the weekend. In an all Wales final, they beat Jourdain by 1 IMP.
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