Entering an EBU Competition

Before you enter, please make sure that your County and EBU subscriptions for the relevant year have been paid.

You can enter an EBU competition by sending a cheque or EBU vouchers to: Competitions Department, EBU, Broadfields, Aylesbury HP19 8AZ. You can also enter by telephone (if you are paying with a debit or a credit card), call Ian Mitchell (tel: 01296 317205) or Peter Jordan (tel: 01296 317203).

When entering an EBU competition, always quote your EBU membership number (you will find it on the address label of your copy of English Bridge) and if possible the membership numbers of your partner and other players. This helps us to ensure that any Master Points awarded are correctly registered.

You must give the full name and address of any player whose membership number you do not know. In the case of knock-out events, please also quote the first part of the post code (eg HP19) where you will normally play your home matches so that, when the draw is made, the need for players to travel long distances can be avoided.

Entry conditions

You may not play in more than one team in teams events or partnership in pairs events and, with the exception of the National Newcomers Pairs and the Under-19 Pairs, you may not play in more than one heat of a competition.

In teams of four events, your team may consist of four, five or six players, and their names must be given to the Competitions Department or the TD in charge before you play. For some events you can add extra players at certain stages, and this is explained in the description of events on this website, and/or in the conditions of contest issued to team captains. In exceptional circumstances we may allow a substitution after the stated stage if your team has been reduced to fewer than four players.

Competitions have a closing date for entry, although we may have to close the event earlier than this where the venue has space restrictions. We may be able to accept late entries for some events, so it is worth contacting us. However, late entries might not be considered for seeding in events which are seeded.