Thursday Open Game 29 May 2025

Welcome to a few players who are relatively new - Jim Scamman who has not been here for about 10 years and Margaret/Dave and Jude/Ken from the Derry Club.  These new club members helped make this the largest single game I have run here - 11-1/2 tables!  

Darrel/Brent and Bob Jerry took the top spots. Liz/Ted, Nick/Ed, Jim/Gordon and Louis/George also did very well earning points.  The points were not very high because 25% of the points will be gold points.  Next week the points will be high because it will be a NAP qualifier game.

 Wed Open Game 28 May 2025

Well it was certainly an exciting game today.  I was really impressed with the quality of play we had.  The B stratification was 500-1200 mps by team average. We played a 6-1/2 Table Howell movement so sit-outs were only 2 boards.  Ruth/Harvey earned the top spot with a fabulous 68%.  The top C stratification point winners were Nancy/John and Lynn/Cate.

Thank you for everyone's efforts to be gracious hosts and friendly guests.  I think we did an excellent job working together even though we are used to playing such different games. I for one have found that I usually think I know what is best, but usually find I am only seeing half of the truth. 

Noise is an issue that I think we can improve on.  We both had 7 tables but the Fun group (Section A) was playing a 4 board Mitchell while the Open group (Section B) played a 2 board Howell.  Therefore the two groups were moving at different times. We will also try partition barriers next week which we hope will reduce the noise.

Thanks again. I hope everyone had a nice time.  There is a 25% Open gold game tomorrow, same time same place.