Entry forms available at the Club. Restricted Pairs open to all players with less than 300MP as at the end of June Quarter. Eligibility factors apply.

Enquiries to R Broughton, Convenor.

34 teams competed at the Toronto Congress (25 August) with a good representation of NCBC members/friends.
Congratulations to the Lloyd Team (1st), Weston Team (3rd), Mayo Team (4th) Robinson Team (5th) and Stuart Team (8th).

Congratulations to Phil and Cathy Hocking – Winners of Intermediate/Restricted Pairs – Coffs Coast Gold Congress.
Best pair under 750 masterpoints.

Newcastle Teams came in 1st, 3rd and 4th place in the recent Hunter Region GNOTs Regional final.
Congratulations to:
Pravin Nahar, Bernie Adcock, Sharron Marton, Don Miller – 1st
Chris Dibley, Julie Gleeson, Kay Rich, Roy Hardy – 3rd
Michael Simes, Paul McGrath, Sharon & Greg Mayo – 4th

The GNOT regional final for the Hunter Region will be held at the Newcastle Bridge Club on Sunday 11th August. Nineteen teams will be competing to become one of the three teams that qualify to progress to the national finals which will be held at the Tweed Ultimate Resort in Tweed Heads from Friday 29th November to Monday 2nd December 2019.

Starting time is 9.00 for 9.30am and play is expected to finish between 4.30-5.00pm.

Lunch is not provided but there will be snacks and drinks at the conclusion of play.

A record breaking 14 teams contested the Club Teams competition today. Results are here http://newcastle.bridgeaustralia.org/teamresults.asp?id=8907&shownames=y

It was so pleasing to see teams of newer players participating and enjoying the play against more experienced players. We say ‘bravo!’, they said ‘we learned so much!’

Congratulations to overall winners Team 2 (Michael Simes, Wayne Smith, Paul McGrath and Grant Cowen) and to the winners of the encouragement award, Team 11 (Michael Winborne, Margot Nelson, Pamela Winborne, and Len Pascoe)

Team 2                                                              Team 11 (Len Pascoe absent)