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EBU Sim Pairs
Congratulations to our Chairman, Alan Andrews, and his partner Harry Coates, who won the EBU Autumn Simultaneous Pairs. Alan and Harry beat 1802 other pairs, posting a massive score of 74.97% - a full 1.86% ahead of the runners-up. Click here for the results

League and Cup Draws
The draws for the Gold, Davy and the League fixtures have now been made. Within the next few days team captains will receive all of the details, but click here if you can't wait to see who you've drawn

County Team for the Tollemache Qualifier
Following the closed trials held on Sunday 9th September, the Captain's Committee has selected the following to represent Lincolnshire in the Tollemache Qualifier on 24/25th November. Alan & Drene Brown; Glynn Elwick & Mike Llewellyn; Andrew Green & Dennis Mellor; Andrew King & Ron Wall; Maurice Ladlow & Mo Parsons; npc Stuart Knox

Barbara Maplethorpe
Lincolnshire Bridge lost one of its most popular members on Monday 30th July when Barbara Maplethorpe died suddenly from a heart attack. Barbara had been playing bridge since the mid seventies. She was a keen supporter of all County competitions, this year winning the Lucy Orborne Trophy at the Annual Championships with her partner Helen. She also donated the Gold Cup Plate Trophy to the County. Barbara had a bubbly personality and was well liked by everyone. Her local clubs were Horncastle and Heighington. At Horncastle she had been a committee member since 1981 and the Treasurer since 1995. Barbara will be sadly missed by everyone. The funeral service will be held at 1pm on Wednesday 8th August at Billinghay Church.

EBU Strategy Document

The following email has been sent to Club representatives

  At the EBU Shareholders meeting of 6 June 2007 the Board announced its initial proposals for a future strategy for the development of bridge in England. The board intends to have a full and considered discussion about the proposals at the AGM in October 2007 after this period of consultation.
Attached is a copy of the proposal for you to download.

Key features of the proposal
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The annual membership subscription and Master Point charges will be abolished.·
A Pay to Play (P2P) scheme will be introduced, in which a small table charge is levied for every player at every duplicate session in an affiliated club.·
A one-time only Registration Fee of £5 for new or lapsed EBU members.· An extensive range of free services will be provided to affiliated Clubs, including a National Rating scheme.·
The annual Club Affiliation fee will be based on the number of duplicate sessions played per week.

Since these proposals would, if implemented, affect the way in which bridge is financed within Lincolnshire, the EBU has contacted our Chairman with a view to meeting him (along with representatives of Yorkshire and the North East) in Doncaster on 9th July. This is before our next committee meeting. Because we will not, formally, be in a position to discuss these proposals, Michael has asked that you all (as County Representatives) talk to your Clubs and give him any feedback before the 9th July. Michael's phone number is 01205 750379 and his email address is flower_pot51@hotmail.com
 

The document can be viewd by clicking here (pdf reader required)

Congratulations to Dennis Mellor and Andrew Green who won the 2007 Corwen Trophy for Lincolnshire. Here they are pictured having just been presented the trophy by EBU Director Graham Jepson. (Dennis is on the left and Andrew on the right) Dennis and Andrew fought their way into the lead after 3 rounds, and were able to consolidate their position in the final round to end up winning by more than 0.5%. Our other Lincolnshire representatives, Mo Parsons and Maurice Ladlow also finished well, in 28th place out of 102 of the nation's finest. Click here for the full result.
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EBU Club Membership - Important News
Some club secretaries might have recently received a confusing email from the EBU. The County Committee decided that this year it would not pay the EBU subscriptions for affiliated clubs. If you have not yet paid your affiliation fee then you should contact Eileen Maunder at the EBU her email address is Eileen@ebu.co.uk Eileen will advise you the amount due and arrange the appropriate documentation. Please note that your club's membership of the EBU entitles you to issue Master Points, play in certain County events (eg Garden City Heats) and host some Sim Pairs events.

How can we increase entries to County Events?
Some of our restricted events are suffering in terms of entrants. Probably it's the time of year, but our Restricted Pairs event had just 5 pairs entered, and the Lincoln Imp was competed for by just 3 teams. Apart from it being uneconomical to run such an event, we really must find ways to increase numbers. Perhaps the qualification levels are set too low, and we need to consider changing the upper limit to one which encompasses a larger number of potential entrants. Your Competition Secretary will soon be drawing up a Calendar for next season, and would like suggestions to help with this problem. Please email him at competitionsecretary@lincsbridge.org.uk with your ideas.

Important information about entering County Events
Some new guidelines have now been drawn up to make it easier to enter County Events. These are designed to reduce the probability of a pair arriving to play and then finding that their entry has not been received. Click here to see the guidelines.

 


 

 
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