Wednesday 21 May 2025 - Today on an overcast, dreary and coolish/wettish day, we had a melded game! Our normal Wednesday fun game only had 8 couples and Charlie Felton's "Kittery/Eliot" game as well as his Tuesday York game have folded, so we gained 3 couples from his game for a total of 11 couples. So we ran a 5 and a half table Howell movement with 3 hands per round for 8 rounds.
We polled the membership several weeks ago to see if we could move to Friday or Monday. We would lose 25% if we did that. Skip suggested that we could add a separate section to the game such that the two groups could play at the same time. Some had played at clubs where there was a 299 section for those with less points and also an open section. However it seemed that almost all members did not want to earn ACBL master points (or really be part of ACBL at all). Only one person wanted us to get ACBL points.
Skip has decided that our club will invite the Kittery/Eliot Club as guests next Wednesday to see if we can work something out to accommodate the needs of both groups. He expects about 6 tables to arrive from Eliot for their sanctioned open game. The two games will sit side by side and run independently. The fun group will be Section A and the Open group will be Section B. We are even hoping to put a sound barrier down the middle to separate the two groups. Skip and I will both be there, but hope that a single director can run both groups in the future.
Our top scorers were Nick and Ed with a 70.83%, followed by Nancy and Skip with a 60.72%, then Pam and Claire with 58.33%. Next came Bobbie and Sid with a 57.8%. It looks like Jan and Bill might make a good pair in the future! You all did well and we hope that you had a good time.
Thank you all for coming. We welcome your feedback as we work together to grow and continue to meet the various needs of our bridge community.
Please bear with us and our growing pains!
Thank all of you for coming to our game in fabulous Centennial Hall!
Suzanne
