The 2026 Individual Rubber Bridge season began on 16 January 2026 having been delayed for a week due to the bad weather conditions that hit Orkney.  The winner from 2024 (Roger Davies) and the winner from 2025 (Graham Lyon) made their intentions for the 2026 competition quite clear by taking the top and second places for the first evening.  The competition is based on the best ten results over the calendar year and it is far to early to see how things are going to develop but it is a start.

The 2025 Individual Rubber Bridge competition came to a close on Friday, 19 December.  The competition result is based on the best ten results scored throughout the calendar year.

For the first four months of the year, the lead was held mostly by Clinton Rendall.  He had a head start on Graham Lyon who had missed some early Friday sessions so it took a while for Graham to record ten results but by 2 May he had achieved the necessary ten results and had caught up with Clinton.  There was then a long break over the summer when no bridge was played but for the rest of the year Graham managed to maintain and increase his lead over Clinton.  The final outcome was a win for Graham with 51310 points for his best ten results, with Clinton the runner up with 45370 points.  Well done guys!

In parallel with the main competition there is a challenge to achieve the highest single score for any session.  Again it was Graham and Clinton who were in the running and in the end they shared the High Score award for their scores of 6560.