| Seasons Greetings |
 Seasonal Greetings and a Happy New Year from the committee at Lancashire County Bridge Association. We hope you have enjoyed a good year of bridge during 2024 and will continue to enjoy playing in your local Club and County and EBU.
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| EBU Online Teams 2024 |
Congratulations to Royce Alexander's team (Jeff Smith, Joy & Irving Blakey, David Barton and Alec Smalley) who have won the EBU 2024 Online KO Teams defeating John Sansom's team (Jason Hackett, C Owen, B Senior) in the final.
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| LOP Competition Q4 2024 |
The winners for this quarter are Bill Alston and Andrew Lum
Runners Up Angus Kirby and Stuart Challinor
The 10 and under competition was won by
John and Rosanna Roberts
Runners up Arthur Southwood and David Quick
BrianMas accounts have been credited with prizes.
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| LCBA Mixed Pairs 8th December 2024 |
The LCBA Mixed pairs was hosted by St Annes Bridge club on Sunday 8th December 2024. Well done to winners John & Judy Brearley, second Sue Woodcock & Stuart Clarke, third Andrew & Veronica Petrie. Full results on this site.
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| LCBA Trophies |
LCBA Trophies
LCBA has 14 trophies (click LCBA - Trophies.pdf for a list), donated over a long period by various generous benefactors. They have previously been kept, free of charge and insured, by one of our clubs, for which the county is very grateful, but the club is no longer able to continue doing this. As LCBA has no premises, if we retain the trophies, we will have to pay significant insurance and storage costs. Trophy winners no longer want to be responsible for looking after a trophy for a year, so the trophies are not presented anymore - they are just gathering dust and deteriorating. We are sure the benefactors would not have wished their gifts to be wasted in this way and as the charity is only able to dispose of any of its assets for charitable purposes, we have decided to sell them and put the proceeds into a charitable fund restricted in use to investing in Education and Development across the county. We will call this restricted fund "The LCBA Benefactors Fund for Bridge Education & Development". As a charity we are allowed to fundraise under the Gift Aid scheme and in the future, we will be able to invite individual members to donate to this fund.
We believe all the trophies on the list have been donated to LCBA or its predecessors and therefore belong to the charity. If anyone or any organisation believes they have a call on any of the trophies, they should contact the LCBA Secretary, John Brearley at jmbrearley1611@outlook.com or mob: 07948 513863 before 20th December 2024. After this date we will start the process of selling the trophies.
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| DRAFT 2025 COMPETITIONS CALENDAR |
Please note that the Pachabo qualifier will in 2025 be a F2F 2-session event at Bolton BC on Sun 16 Mar.
LCBA 2025 DRAFT COMPETITIONS' CALENDAR
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| Club Teams of 8 - Garden Cities Qual |
Sun 16 Feb |
Bolton BC |
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| Corwen Qualifier |
Thu 27 Mar |
BBO |
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| Championship Teams - Pachabo qual |
Sun 16 Mar |
Bolton BC |
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| Madeline Berney Swiss Pairs |
Sun 04 May |
Brierfield BC |
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| Championship Pairs |
Sun 19 Oct |
BBO |
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LCBA
Congress |
15/16 Nov |
Barton Manor |
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| Restricted Pairs |
TBA |
St Anne's BC |
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| Mixed Pairs |
7 or 14 Dec |
St Anne's BC |
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| LOP - weekly 7pm Monday MP pairs |
Mondays |
BBO |
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Summer League
T-of-8 |
4th Thurs
May-Oct |
Clubs |
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| LOTL |
Thurs excl 4th each month |
BBO |
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| Northern Bridge League - RealBridge |
Cumbria match - F2F |
MCBA match - F2F |
EBU events for counties |
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Sat 12 Jul 2025 |
Sun 28 Sep 2025 |
TBA |
Garden Cities Regional Final |
F2F |
Sat 10 May |
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Sat 16 Aug 2025 |
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Garden Cities National Final |
F2F |
Sat 7 Jun |
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Sat 13 Sep 2025 |
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Corwen Trophy |
RealBridge |
31 May/1 Jun |
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Sat 11 Oct 2025 |
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Pachabo Cup |
F2F |
14/15 Jun |
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Tollemache Qualifying |
RealBridge |
8/9 Nov |
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| LCBA Mixed Pairs Championship |
LCBA BLUE POINT MIXED PAIRS 2024
St Annes Bridge Club, 7 Allenby Road, Lytham, FY8 2DG
Sunday December 8th 11:00-16:30
The LCBA are pleased to announce that our annual LCBA Mixed Pairs competition is taking place this year at St Annes Bridge Club and will be a 2 session event with 18 boards in each session. There will be 40 minute break between sessions and EBU Blue points will be awarded based on finishing positions.
There will be prizes for the top placed pairs as well as the best placed pair where both players are no higher than a 10 NGS.
The entry fee is just £12.50 per player and this will include tea, coffee & biscuits throughout. Players are welcome to bring their own food to eat in the break.
To enter, please email names and EBU numbers for both players and contact details for at least 1 player to ocbridgecomps@gmail.com and send payment to sort: 404230 account: 72143569 account name: Oliver Cowan. Call Oliver on 07946 393033 if you have any questions.
Places are limited so early entry is advised.
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| Success at Porthcawl Congress |
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Lancashire members Oliver Cowan and Stephen Berson, who were joint winners of the Swiss Pairs at the recent Porthcawl Congress. You will find the full results by clicking HERE.
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| LOTL Third Season 2024 |
The next season of LOTL fixtures Sep-Dec 2024 are now available via the links below.
There are two divisions with 19 teams in total.
DIV 1 DIV 2
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