Latest News: 31st October, 2006

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VP Scales and Constitution updated (31/10/06)

For longer than I care to remember I've had an action to bring the constitution page on the web site up to date. I have finally got around to doing this. At the same time I have updated our VP scales to reflect reality. For the last two seasons the league has been using the VP scales in the EBU Tournament Director's Handbook (the White Book) but displaying an entirely different set of (out of date) scales on the web site. This has now been fixed.

Please accept my apologies that it has taken me so long to get around to this (anyone want a job as webmaster?).

League AGM 27 April (17/3/06)

The league AGM will be on 27th April. See calling notice and agenda for more details.

Free Scoring Software (27/1/06)

I thought I'd put in a quick plug for Duplicate Scorer - yours truly's duplicate pairs scoring package. You may have heard about it before but have you looked at the package recently? It has really come of age - now supporting the wireless Bridgemate system, handicapped pairs, Butler tournaments and automatic calculation of EBU Master Points.

The new Club Option Pack extends it into a full club management system allowing you to keep track of membership and even do electronic crediting of members' Master Points with the EBU. For more details and free download, click on http://www.bracknellbridge.com/scorer/dshome.htm.

Score Adjustments (14/12/05)

Some of you may notice that your league VP score has mysteriously changed today. It has just been brought to my attention that the copy of the league rules and constitution on this web site is out of date. I shall rectify this shortly but the important point, so far as score is concerned, is that the VP scale in the old constitution no longer applies. The current constitution specifies that we use the scale in the EBU White Book.

Last night's league committee meeting resolved that this should be rectified immediately (and retrospectively) as the current scoring is unconstitutional. I have therefore re-scored all league matches using the EBU scale. The differences are minor but you may find you have gained or lost the odd VP in borderline cases.

Please accept my apologies for getting this wrong up until now. If you have any questions about this or your revised score, please email me.

Provisional Diary Date: EOS 2006 (14/12/05)

The date for the End of Season pairs has been provisionally set for 4th May, 2006. Put it in your diary now.

Could You Be Treasurer? (14/12/05)

The current league treasurer will shortly be moving out of the area. If you think you could perform this vital task, essential to the continued running of your league, please contact the secretary Alan Brown.

Rearranging League Matches. (16/9/02)

Now that the new season is underway, I'd like to repeat my annual reminder that all match rearrangements must be reported to the Results Secretary.

This isn't just because I'm a control freak. If you don't tell me a match has been rearranged then I can't tell the scoring software. Your match will therefore be flagged as a late result and you'll have the committee police chasing you!

Please remember also that a venue switch counts as a rearrangement. If the league schedule says Reading home to Wimbledon and I receive a result which is Wimbledon home to Reading, the scoring software won't recognise this as the scheduled match even if the dates correspond. The Reading home game will therefore be flagged as a late result.

Contact Details (please!) (4/9/01)

I am trying to build up a list of club and team contacts on the web site, but I understand that not everyone is willing to have their name and phone number or email address posted on a publicly accessible web site.

In respect of contacts' rights to privacy, I will only publish your details if you explicitly tell me you are happy for me to do so.

If you are a club or team contact, go to the League/Cup Results and Information page to see the sort of thing I have in mind and then email me if you are happy for your contact details to appear. There's a link to email me on the results and information page.