• Program

Date Event Details
Tuesday
7 January 		Warm-up Pairs 1 Session at 7pm. Cash Prizes. The entry fee of $22 per pair collected at the table. All Welcome.
Wednesday
8 January 		Penline One-Day Swiss Pairs Open entry. 6-round (8-Board matches) Butler Swiss Pairs. $120 per pair. 9.45am start.
Wednesday
8 January
 		 One Day Warm Up Novice Teams Each player must have less than 100MPs as at 30/9/2019. Start 9.45am. Please feel free to enter as a pair and we will find you friendly team mates for this Warm Up event. Entry fee $200 per team. 6 Round (8-Board matches) Swiss Teams. Category prizes for Novice (<100MPs), Rising Stars (< 50MPs) and Super Novice (<20MPs). Grand Slam Members with a rating of 54%+ are ineligible to enter and those with ratings of under 54% will be deemed eligible for the Novice category only.
Wednesday - Friday
8-10 January 		National Women's Teams Championship 9 x 20-Board qualifying sessions. Entry Fee $660 per team. Session start 9.45am, each day. Finishes 6.20pm Friday. Details of semi-finals and finals are below.
Wednesday - Friday
8-10 January 		National Seniors' Teams Championship 9 x 20-Board qualifying sessions. Entry Fee $660 per team. Sessions start 9.45am each day. Finishes 6.20pm Friday. All players must have been born before 1/1/1960. Details of semi-finals and finals are below.
Wednesday - Friday
8-10 January 		National Red Plum Life Masters Teams Championship 9 x 20-Board sessions - Entry Fee $660 per team. Sessions start 9.45am each day. Finishes 6.20pm Friday. Each player must not have achieved the rank of Grand Master as at 30/9/2019.
Wednesday - Friday
8-10 January 		National Pianola Plus Non-Life Masters Teams Championship 8 x 20-Board sessions - Entry Fee $580 per team. Sessions start 9.45am each day. Finishes 4.00pm Friday. Each player must not have achieved the rank of Life Master as at 30/9/2019. Under 300 and Under 100 categories. Grand Slam Members with a rating of 56% or higher are ineligible to enter. Grand Slam players with a rating between 50% and 55% will be deemed eligible for the Under 300 category only.
Thursday - Friday
9-10 January
 Two Day National Novice Matchpoint Swiss Pairs Championship 7 x 14-Board matches - Entry fee $220 per pair. Start 9.45am each day. Finishes 5.30pm Friday. All players must have fewer than 100MPs as at 30/09/2019. Category prizes for Novice (<100MPs), Rising Stars (< 50MPs) and Super Novice (<20MPs). Grand Slam Members with a rating of 54%+ are ineligible to enter and those with ratings of between 50% and 53% will be deemed eligible for the Novice category only.

On the Friday players will have a later start in the morning. And a guest lecture or Celebrity speaker session will take place at 9:45am for the Novice players only.
Thursday - Friday
9-10 January 		Chris Diment Matchpoint Swiss Pairs 8 x 14-Board matches. Open Entry. Start 9.45am Thursday. Matchpoint Swiss pairs. Entry fee $250 per pair. Finishes 5.30pm Friday.
Saturday - Sunday
11-12 January 		TBIB National Open Swiss Pairs Championship 11 x 9-Board matches. Session times both days 9.45am and 2.15pm. Entry Fee $250 per pair. Finishes 4.45pm Sunday.
Saturday - Sunday
11-12 January 		Penline 500 Swiss Pairs Championship
(for players under 500 MPs)
 11 x 9-Board matches. Session times both days 9.45am and 2.15am. Entry Fee $250 per pair. All players must have fewer than 500MPs at 30/9/2019. Grand Slam Members with a rating of 56% or higher are ineligible to enter. Finishes 4.45pm Sunday.
Saturday - Sunday
11-12 January 		Novice Swiss Pairs Championship 11 x 9-Board matches. Session times both days 9.45am and 2.15pm. Entry Fee $250 per pair. All players must have fewer than 100MPs at 30/9/2019. Grand Slam Members with a rating of 54%+ are ineligible to enter. Finishes 4.45pm Sunday.
Saturday - Sunday
11-12 January 		National Women's and Seniors' Teams  Finals Finals for the top 4 teams from National Women's Teams & National Seniors' Teams. Semi-Finals (4 teams) - Starts Saturday 9.45am. Final (2 teams) Starts Sunday 9:45am. Entry Fee $120 per team per day. Finishes 7.30pm Sunday. Venue: To be Advised.
Monday - Thursday
13-16 January 		South-West Pacific Open Teams Championship 12 x 20-Board matches. - Entry Fee $920 per team. All days 9.45am, 1.00pm, 3.50pm. Finish 6.20pm Thursday. The leading 8 teams at the end of play on Thursday qualify for the National Open Teams event starting at 10.00am on Friday 18 January. Multiple Category prizes and trophies.

Trophies are awarded for the best Women, Mixed, Senior, Youth and Country.
Category prizes*:
1st Qualifying
1st Women* - All team members must be female
1st Mixed* - Must play as Male/Female at each table in every session
1st Seniors* - All team members born before 1/1/1960.
1st Veterans* - must be 70 years or more at the beginning of the event being played.
1st Country* - All team members Australian residents who do not reside in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth or Sydney.
1st Youth* - All members born on or after 1/1/1995
1st Novice* - All members having fewer than 100 masterpoints as of 30/09/2019. GS ranking above 54% are not eligible.
1st ACT - Lew Thomson Trophy (all team members play regularly in the ACT)
1st Zone 7 - New Zealand High Commissioner's Trophy (teams comprising only players eligible to represent a Zone 7 NCBO other than Australia)
1st Modified Datum Medal - Best Score by a pair to play all 12 Matches - presented by NZ Bridge
*Minimum 3 entries in each category
Monday - Wednesday
13-15 January

  		Canberra Rex Under 750/300 MP Teams Championship 9 x 20-Board matches. - Entry Fee $650 per team. Session Times: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 9.45am, 1.00pm, 3.50pm. Finish 6.20pm Wednesday. The leading 2 Under 750 MP teams and 2 Under 300 MP teams at the end of play on Wednesday qualify for a 32 Board Final starting at 9.45am on Thursday. Grand Slam Members with a rating of 59% or higher are ineligible to enter. Grand Slam players with a rating between 54% and 59% will be deemed eligible for the Under 750 category only.
Thursday-Friday
16-17 January
 NEURA Swiss Pairs Start 9.45am Thursday. Finish 4.30 pm Friday. Butler Swiss pairs. Entry fee $250 per pair. $50 from each entry fee will be donated to NEURA Research. Category prizes for under 100MPs and U300MPs. Grand Slam Ranking eligibility requirements will apply to category prizes.
Friday - Sunday
17-19 January 		National Open Teams Championship (8 pre-qualified teams from SWPT only) Entry Fee $120 per team per stage. Eight teams will have qualified for the NOT starting Friday morning 9.45am Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Meeting for Captains to exercise choice after correction/appeal period expiry - approximately 7.00pm on Thursday 17 January in the Grand Ballroom, Canberra Rex Hotel.
Friday
17 January 		Nearly Time to Pack Up and Go Home Pairs Start 9.45am 2 Session IMP Pairs $100 per pair. Finish 4.30 pm Category prizes: Open, U300MPs and U100MPs. Grand Slam Ranking eligibility requirements will apply to category prizes.