Rachel McHale and her team of 3 assistant congress organizers ran a great show in Malahide on the weekend of March 6th to 8th.
Congress entries were set at 100 tables. For various reasons we peaked at about 118 tables.
We also got a large unexpected number of Open Pairs for Sunday afternoon and after a brief reshuffle we got underway with 17 tables.
Malahide Congress Results
All results are linked on CBAI website above
I am hearing there will be a 2021 Malahide Congress ..
All Open Pairs results are on http://fob.ie along with all the Main Congress events
http://bridgewebs.com/dririshresults also has most of Malahide Congress results
The only issue I came across was bridge players wanting their name on bridgemates instantly.
The reason we were slow was many players entered for wrong event or did not enter at all.
This caused reshuffling of tables and hence names in bridge scoring programs got shuffled up or down. For some reason some folk took some pain from being called Murphy instead of Smyth even if it was only for an hour or so .... Brian Lawlor is not a fast typer ..
Congress Committee did supply us with names entered in advance but we still struggled to keep up with the instant speed folk in local bridge clubs are used to when they enter their club number.
CBAI have a new number system for players now but very few knew their new CBAI number ...all were good at remembering their 35 year old 07G157 number but not the new one.
Getting the correct names into the bridgemates involves collecting the sheets from each table and typing in the names from the slips ... With 100 plus tables sometimes this took a while but was only a small issue.
Luckily we got done before the current Covid 19 restrictions came into play ...
So well done to RACHEL MARY MAUREEN and PAUL.
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