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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
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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
·
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
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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.
Right click
photo for download options (8KB)
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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