The Summer Sim Pairs will now take place online from 20th - 23rd July, hosted on BBO. The competition format will remain the same as past sims events and your club can choose your own start time, as usual. The only difference will be that you will play in your Virtual Club online. The entry fee will be half the price of the usual Sim Pairs fee, just £1.45 per player!
How to take part
Your club can quickly and easily register in the usual manner, through the club's account on My EBU. You can register right up until the start of the session in question. Commentary booklets will be sent available via your clubs My EBU page. Full details of how to register, and information on downloading the hands and submitting the results, can be seen here and here. Information on the benefits of participating in the event and details on how clubs can participate, are available on the Sims page of the EBU website.
This event will support your EBU. The proceeds from the event help us to provide services to the members, clubs and counties. By participating you are enabling the EBU to do more for bridge in England, and your club and members will see the direct benefit.
The following clubs have registered to play in this event.
Please note: Players intending to visit unfamiliar clubs should check with the club that they are accepting visitors for this event before attending.
Monday
Bicester Bridge Club
Caterham Bridge Club: Open to visitors, players must register in advance. To register click here. Start time 10am
Chippenham Bridge Club
Clare Duplicate Bridge Club: Open to visitors. Start time is 7.00, but ask that people register for the match by 6.45
Durham Bridge Club
Horley Bridge Club: Open to visitors only if they are playing with an existing member. Start time 1.30pm
Huntingdon Bridge Club: Open to visitors, but they must inform bridge@drjoy.me.uk beforehand so that they are added to the include list. Start time 7.15pm
Northfield Bridge Club: Members only. Start time 2pm
Oswestry Bridge Club: Members only. Start time 7pm
Somerset
Stoke Mandeville Bridge Club
Tuesday
Abingdon Duplicate Bridge Club: Open to visitors, but the club ask that visitors email peterlitch@gmail.com. Start time 7pm
Ashton and District Bridge Club
Aylesbury Aces Bridge Club: Members only.
Bedfordshire
Bexhill Bridge Club: Open to visitors, register with brian.gould@live.co.uk, in advance providing their BBO username and EBU number. Start time 7pm.
Broxbourne Bridge Club
Castle Morpeth Bridge Club: Open to visitors for this event and all events which start at 6.30pm. There is a £2 charge for visitors but they must be pre-registered by sending their name, BBO alias and EBU No. to mikecraig@btinternet.com. Start time 6.30pm
Caterham Bridge Club: Open to visitors, players must register in advance. To register click here. Start time 10am
Deva Bridge Club
Eden Bridge Club
Harpenden Duplicate Bridge Club
Heathercroft Bridge Club: Open to members. Start time 7pm
Horsham Bridge Club: Members only. Start time 7pm
Lines Bridge Club (Saffron Walden): Members only. Start time 1.30pm
New Hertford Bridge Club: Members only. Start time 7.15pm
Norfolk
Poulton Bridge Club
Reading Bridge Club
South London Oshwal Bridge Club: Members only. Start time 7.30pm
St Martins Bridge Club
Stansfield Bridge Club: Open to visitors, the club ask that visitors register in advance via the club website and provide their BBO Username. Start time 4pm
Stratford-Upon-Avon Bridge Club: Open to visitors. Visitors will need to email their BBO id's to pstyles520@gmail.com, otherwise they won't be able to register for the tournament. Start time 1.30pm
Sutton Coldfield Bridge Club
Tyler Hill Bridge Club: Open to visitors, but if there are too many entries members will be given priority. Players need to register in advance. Start time 7pm
Wednesday
Ashton and District Bridge Club
Barnsley Bridge Club
Broadstairs Bridge Club
Broxbourne Bridge Club
Caterham Bridge Club: Open to visitors, players must register in advance. To register click here. Start time 10am
Colchester Duplicate Bridge Club: Open to visitors, but will need to register via Colchester DBC website. Start time 7pm
Eden Bridge Club
Heritage Coast: open to visitors but they must register to play in advance via this form on the Heritage Coast website. The deadline for registering via the website is 9am on the day of the tournament. Start time 1pm
Horley Bridge Club: Open to visitors only if they are playing with an existing member. Start time 7.20pm
Hungerford Bridge Club
Isle of Wedmore Bridge Club: Members only. Start time 7pm
Manchester CBA: Open to visitors. No pre-registration necessary. Find the game under "MCBA". Start time 1.45pm.
Petersfield Bridge Club
Stamford Bridge Club
Thorpe Bay Bridge Club
Thursday
Bedfordshire
Bolton Bridge Club
Bury St.Edmunds Bridge Club
Caterham Bridge Club: Open to visitors, players must register in advance. To register click here. Start time 7pm
Exeter Bridge Club: Open to visitors. Visitors who have not played in one of the clubs online events before need to register for the event via www.exeterbridgeclub.co.uk. Start time 7.15pm
Lines Bridge Club (Saffron Walden): Members only. Start time 7.30pm
Northfield Bridge Club: Members only. Start time 7pm
Oswestry Bridge Club
Patcham Bridge Club
Stratford-Upon-Avon Bridge Club: Open to visitors. Visitors will need to email their BBO id's to pstyles520@gmail.com, otherwise they won't be able to register for the tournament. Start time 10am
The Lymington Club Ltd: Open to members, this is subject to the visitors being EBU members, coming with a non-robot partner and signing-up and paying in advance and no later than Wednesday (22 July). Details on the club website www.lymingtonbridgeclub.co.uk. Start time 7pm
July 14, 2020