SAWBA Congress Pairs 2024

Congratulations

To the winners of SAWBA Congress Pairs 2024:

• Championship ("A" Section)
  • 1st: Carol Stanton & Vanessa Armstrong
    
  • 2nd: Charmaine Lobel & Fiona Smith
  • 3rd: Dianne Penlington & Glynis Dornon

• Congress ("B" Section)
  • 1st: Maureen Narunsky & Shirley Kaminer
  • 2nd: Toni Hendler & Meryl Cohn
  • 3rd: Janne Masojada & Tanya Rawson

• Plate ("C" Section)
  • 1st: Jennifer Adams & Daphne Ryder
  • 2nd: Gerda van Zyl & Mignon Leigh
  • 3rd: Lotte Sorensen & Sheila Francis

Thank you to all the players and to everyone involved who helped make this another great event.

About the Pairs

Quick Links

• Pairs Entries
• Pairs Schedule
• Results
• Hand Records
• UNDOs Policy

Kibitzing

• Sadly this is not possible on BBO.

Where and When

• Bridge Base Online (BBO) played from home.
• No need to register; just log into BBO (or click here) and you will be seated automatically
• The session times are as follows:
  • Saturday 23 November at 9:45 AM (09h45) and 2:00 PM (14h00), ending by 5:30 PM (17h30)
  • Sunday 24 November at 9:45 AM (09h45) and 2:00 PM (14h00), ending by 5:00 PM (17h00)
• There will be a 10-minute comfort break at the midpoint of each session, mornings and afternoons
• There will be a lunch break each day of approximately 50 minutes.

• Please log in and be seated at least tem minutes before the scheduled start of play
• Late arrival will be penalised as specified in the Rules & Regulations.
• Click on Pairs Schedule to download the full schedule of play.
• Caution: If you are logging in while abroad, bear in mind the time in South Africa is UTC+2 hours (e.g. 09:30 in SA is 07:30 in the UK).
• Registration will open two hours before the scheduled start of play each day.
• The PAIRS entry fee included the BBO playing fees so you will not incur any BBO Dollar charges.

Competition Format

There will be a Qualifying round to split the field into three sections for the Finals.

Qualifying Round - Saturday 23 November

• A single section playing an extended Mitchell movement with nine three-board rounds in the morning and the same again in the afternoon, making a total of 54 boards against 18 opposing pairs.
• Your position at the end of the Qualifying round will determine your section for the Finals as follows:
  
  • Positions 1-7 NS and EW (14 pairs in total) move to the Championship (or "A") section
  • Positions 8-14 NS and EW (14 pairs in total) move to the Congress (or "B") section
  • The remaining pairs (positions 15 onwards) move to the Plate (or "C") section.
• Scores will not be carried over into the Finals.
• The results and hand records will be made available here as soon as possible after the end of play.
• Please view the results of the Qualifiers to be certain you know in which section you will be playing in the Finals.

Finals - Sunday 24 November

• Three separate sections - Championship, Congress and Plate.
• Each section will play a Full Howell movement comprising 13 rounds of four boards, 52 boards in all.
• You will play seven rounds (28 boards) before lunch and six rounds (24 boards) after lunch.
  
• Remember, you can and should save time (and conserve the little grey cells) by claiming or conceding whenever possible, not forgetting of course to announce your line of play.
• The results and hand records will be made available here as soon as possible after the end of play..