Welcome to the website of Bridge on the Edge, based in St. John's, NL, Canada.  In 2016 we became a player owned bridge club.  We support a respectful culture, both at the bridge table and in all BOTE communications, for the enjoyment and growth of all members.  

Please check with any Board member if you need additional information.

Members who want to use the member's functions (ie bookings etc), please ensure you've accessed the site using the bridgeweb link bridgewebs.com/onedge/.

On just the second day of the Toronto NABC, Nellie Burke reached three important Milestones playing in just one event. Partnered with Susan & teamed with Rahul & Anne they won Bracket 6 of the Educational Foundation Bracketed Teams. This first place finish gave her team 8.92 Gold and amazingly she became a Life Master, Bronze Life Master and Silver Life Master all at once.

Congratulations to Nellie, Susan, Rahul  and Anne for this early but important achievement.

Good luck to all the BOTE players in the rest of the tournament. Your Club is very proud of you.

It looks like we have broken through the post-Covid barrier.

Regina, BOTE’s Financial Chair, & Nigel, our Accountant, have just finished compiling our results for the operational year, March 2023-March 2024. The Annual Financial Report has been prepared and submitted to our Board.

I will summarize the highlights; the full edition will be posted on our website in the Member’s section shortly.

The news is very good in all respects:-

• Our Cash Assets have increased almost 70%, to $11,283 from $6,714. Our short term investment Asset also has added an extra $500, to top out at $13,490.
• Our Revenue during the period, increased from $28,144, to $41,914, and for the first time since Covid, we managed to turn a small profit of $3,705.
• Income rose in all of our main areas, Competitive Games increased by close to $15,000 for a return of $34,378. Educational offerings increased over 100%, to bring in $6,271; and even Memberships rose significantly this period adding about $1,000 to a total of $4,225.

This success has been achieved by everyone working together and supporting the club. The efforts of all of the Board Members; the exceptional hard work of our Educational Committee and the instructors; the ongoing contributions of our Club Manager and the Directors; the excellent financial management supplied by Regina, Rick Comerford and Nigel; the weekly attentiveness of the Dealers, and Set-up crew and of course all our loyal players, Supervised Play attendees and devoted students.  You all have remained very faithful to the Club through thick and thin and the results are now showing.

Let’s keep moving forward, we will continue to work hard with the goal of continued success in 2024-25. 

Roy Perry
BOTE President 

Going to an ACBL tournament is a big commitment, of time, money and nervous energy. It’s also a LOT of fun, playing lots of great bridge, wonderful learning opportunities, meeting new people and making new bridge friends.  We want to make sure that first time tournament attendees are suitably prepared to maximize their experience. 

We have four helpful ways to help:-

1) There is a printed handout of ‘Useful Information’ available at any game from ‘the Director of the day’ or Rahul, our helpful Manager, 

2) Information is available at this helpful webpage http://web2.acbl.org/nabc/NABCWelcome.pdf, 

3) Ask specific questions of any of our helpful Tournament Ambassadors, Roy Perry, Tom Dale, Brian Collins or Rahul Chandra: and 

4) We are going to run a casual information session in early July, stand by for the exact date on that. 
 

Look forward to a fabulous experience, discuss your bidding and defence with your partner and ask all the questions you need to.  Jim Brown is the coordinator for this initiative so feel free to ask him anything as well.