Weekly Update 11/14-October-2022

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October 11, 2022

Weekly Update 11/14-October-2022

Director’s Tournament Workshop is being held at the club this weekend. Caroline Wiggins (National Director) is running the workshop and would like 2 volunteers for each of the 3 days. 10am to 3pm each day (Sat 15th / Sun 16th / Mon 17th ). You will be provided with morning tea/lunch and afternoon tea. Let the office know if you can help on one of those days or would like to know more about it.

Convenor Elections will be held in the week of Monday 7th November. Nominations can be made on the foyer noticeboard. Please see the foyer noticeboard for more information.

Table Money with more players paying by EFTPOS, there is less cash coming in change. Please make an effort to bring the correct table fees or use the EFTPOS machine to pay your $7 table fees.

Upcoming Tournaments:
CHCH All Grade Pairs - Sunday 16th October
NZ Wide Pairs - Friday 11th November

Canterbury Interclub Teams: Sunday October 30th at the Rangiora Club
If you wish to be put forward for consideration to represent the club please enter your names in the foyer or email the club.
Entries can be as pairs.
The tournament sub-committee will select teams to represent the club in the 3 categories: Junior, Intermediate & Open (Categories based on NZ Bridge rating points).

National Congress 2022 Results
Below is a list of players who finished top 5 or 10 depending on grade, very high standard, anything up there was a good result at the National Bridge Congress:

Open
NZ Pairs:
Graeme Tuffnell 4th 

NZ Pairs Plate: 
Leon Meier 4th
David Skipper /Tim Schumacher 6th 

NZ Teams: Max Morrison / Jane Lennon Jane & John Skipper 8=

NZ Swiss Open E/W: Tim Schumacher / David Skipper 1st
John Kruiniger Fiona Temple 6th 
Graeme Tuffnell 7th 
Daniel Skipper/ Leon Meier 9th 
Tony Fitzgerald / Les Frater 10th 

Karen Martelleti Open Teams
Graeme Tuffnell 1st in a team
Leon Meier third in a team
Jane & John Skipper, Max Morrison /Jane Lennon 4th in a team

Open Restricted
NZ Open Restricted Pairs: Sam Gurney Tony Quinlivan 4th

NZ Open Restricted Teams: Sam Gurney Tony Quinlivan 6th in a team

Congress Restricted Open Teams: Sam Gurney Tony Quinlivan 4th in a team

Intermediate
NZ Intermediate Swiss Pairs: Sally Croy 10th 

NZ Intermediate Teams: Shawn Adriel Al 8th in a team

Senior
NZ Senior Teams: Pam Tibble/ Sue Southen/ Ian Southen/ Kees de Vocht 5th 

Added 14-October-2022
CHCH All Grade pairs: we would like a couple of spare players for this Sundays tournament in case of sickness. Email the office if you can help.

Director’s Tournament Workshop is being held at the club this weekend. Caroline Wiggins (National Director) is running the workshop and would like 2 volunteers for each of the 3 days. 10am to 3pm each day (Sat 15th / Sun 16th / Mon 17th). You will be provided with morning tea/lunch and afternoon tea. We would like another volunteer for the Saturday & Sunday, and 2 for Monday, please email the office asap if you can help!!

Card Dealing: The club is looking for a couple of card dealers one for Tuesday morning and one for Friday morning. All training provided.


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