Ross P's blog

Hi all,
the Putaruru Night Owls had a good start to this years TWITTS competition, winning both of their 11 board matches and coming second overall in the Intermediate section.

The team on the Friday night was made up of Rosemary, Anne Berben, Brenda and myself.

I found it interesting that there were a lot of players there who were Juniors last year - the Intermediate team currently in third place was made up of 4 players who were all Juniors in 2017. It goes to show that good Juniors have nothing to fear from playing against Intermediates.

Wish us well for next month!

Ross

A reminder of the Novice tournament on Sunday, March 11th. A novice is anyone who has not reached "Certificate of proficiency" (which means less than 5 masterpoints) as at the beginning of this year, OR Anyone who started bridge in 2016 or later, regardless of how many masterpoints they have (unless they are already out of Junior grade). The winners get free entry to this year's Novice tournament at the National Congress. Play starts at 10a.m.come for morning tea at 9.30am. Two sessions. $10, bring your own lunch. Entries can be made on NZ Website or just contact Ross.

Hi Everyone
As we are starting the new season I thought I would comment on a few things:
• Since the new season has now started please remember to pay your club membership fees either direct to Brenda or on line.
• Once again I would like to encourage you all to think about Thursday bridge – it seems like there are always a few willing to play, and a few is all you need! If there are any difficulties in terms of access to the club, transport for players, finding partners etc. I am sure we can find solutions. Just let me know and we will sort something out.
• General Play and Etiquette

The Putaruru Bridge CThe Putaruru Bridge Club Dealing Machine! Over the break period we have been successful in obtaining funding for a card dealing machine.The funding has been supplied by First Sovereign Trust Limited who we cannot thank enough. It would have been impossible for the Club to buy such a machine ourselves and we would have had to continue to rely on the goodwill of the Tokoroa Club who have been providing the service up until now. Our thanks and admiration go to Eileen who, together with FSTL made this happen, with assistance from Maria.

During the break between the end of the 2017 programme and the start of 2018 some of us have been playing ‘fun bridge’ on a Monday evening – taking the opportunity to spend more time talking about hands and how we bid and played them. We tried to focus on the Acol bidding system.
I think everyone who has come along has got something out of it regardless of their level of experience and we are thinking of continuing it in some form throughout the year. Watch this space.

Well done to all the prize winners and a huge thank you to Eileen who is stepping down as President after several years of fantastic service.

Eileen and Anne

Eileen and Maurice

Eileen and Brenda

Eileen and Faye

NESTING PAIRS PROGRAMME
Hi All
Last year some of us attended some Bridge training with Jane Stearns, called the Nesting Pairs programme. Jane is running the programme again in 2018 in a slightly different format – see below:-

Law 92
Right to Appeal
A. Contestants Right
A contestant or his/her Captain may appeal for a review of any ruling made at his/her table by the Director. Any such request, if deemed to lack merit, may be the subject of a sanction imposed by regulation.
B. Time of Appeal
The right to request or appeal a Director’s ruling expires 30 minutes after the official score has been made available for inspection unless the Tournament Organiser has specified a different time period.
C. How to Appeal
All requests for a review of a ruling shall be made through the Director.

Law 86
Team Play
A. Substitute Board
The Director shall not exercise his/her Law 6 authority to order one board re-dealt when the final result of a match without that board could be known to a contestant. Instead he/she awards an adjusted score.
B. Result Obtained at Other Table
1. Single Result Obtained
In team play when the Director awards an adjusted score and the result at the other table between the same contestants is clearly favourable to one side, the Director shall award an assigned adjusted score [see Law 12C1(c), but for multiple adjusted scores see B2 following].

Law 80
Regulation and Organisation
Law 80 describes the responsibilities of Regulating Authorities and Tournament Organisers and does not relate directly to any part of the playing process other than the gathering and publishing of results.
Law 81
The Director
A. Official Status
The Director is the official representative of the tournament organiser.
B. Restrictions and Responsibilities
1. The Director is responsible fo rthe on-site technical management of the tournament. He/she has powers to remedy any omissions of the tournament organiser.