County teams matches versus Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire teams won two and lost one of their three matches against Gloucestershire last weekend. Click here for more details or here for a match report.
Oxfordshire success
An all-Oxfordshire team began 2012 well by winning the Championship Team A Final at the West Midlands Congress. Congratulations to former OBA Chairman John Slater & Helen Lawton-Smith playing with Andrew Lintott & Dinah Lintott, pictured here clutching the very heavy Hayward Cup.
In response to the appeal a little lower on this page,
Andrew Lintott has submitted some memories of this event. Read
them
here.
Middlesex 75th Anniversary Swiss Teams
Middlesex County Bridge Association is running a one day Green Pointed Swiss Teams event on April 22 to celebrate its 75th anniversary. For more details see their web site or the Congress brochure.
Pro-Am Competition
The annual Pro-Am competition takes place on Tuesday 31st January. See here for further details and a list of entries.
Harwell Cup
Congratulations to Peter Finbow, John Deech, Lorraine Jones and Peter Owen-Smith on winning the Harwell Cup competition. Full results may be seen here.
Brighten up the web site!
We are always pleased to receive articles for publication on the web site. If you play an interesting hand or do well in an event (or even if you don't), please consider sending in a report to the webmaster.
OBA Chairman Robert Procter gets the ball rolling with this account of a joint Berks&Bucks and Oxfordshire team's hard-fought match for the right to represent England in the 2012 Seniors Championships.
Development of Contract Bridge in Oxfordshire
The association is putting together a plan to further the development of Contract Bridge in Oxfordshire. Details are available from the Development section of this web site, which is also linked from the menu to the left.
Andrew Robson at Frilford Heath Golf Club
The Bridge section of Frilford Heath Golf Club has invited Andrew Robson to lead a Bridge Day at the club on March 1st. Further details and an application form are available from the club's web site.
Camrose Trophy 2012
Sandra Claridge would like to express her gratitude, not only to all the volunteer Bridgebase Online operators who helped out at the Camrose last weekend, but also to the members of the county who came along to watch. It was a revelation to see so many people, both in the vugraph theatre, and watching in the Open Room. It can be quite reassuring to see that Britain's finest can also play less than perfect bridge, and this weekend was certainly no exception!
Newsletters
The December newsletter has been published, including items about the Camrose match to be held in Oxford in January 2012, Oxfordshire's recent match against Derbyshire, forthcoming OBA events, a course for improvers in Wantage starting soon, the preformance of our President in the 37th annual Lords v Commons match and another quiz.
An update to the November newsletter including the result of the November quiz and more news of the Camrose match.
All the newletters are available via the Newsletters item on the menu at the top left of most pages on this site.
County Pairs
The semifinal lineups for the 2012 County Pairs competition are now complete and available here or via the Competitions entry in the menu at the top left of most pages.
Forthcoming competitions
For a list of competitions from January to March 2012, please click here.
