The knockout mixed teams-of-four championships of England. Named after the former EBU chairman, Hubert Phillips.

Scoring is by aggregate with honours counting. At no time may an all male or all female team be playing. Matches are played on the full pivot principle such that one plays one-third of the match with each of one’s teammates as a partner.

This is an ideal tournament for new players to the game of duplicate from rubber or chicago bridge.

Eight teams are seeded, and every non-seeded team is guaranteed at least one match before meeting a seed. There is a Plate competition at no extra cost, so all non-seeded teams play at least two matches. There was no change to the entry fee.

Matches are of 30 boards up to and including the quarter-final, except that 24- or 27-board matches may be played in Rounds 1–3 by mutual agreement. The semi-final is 48-boards, and the final is 60-boards.

Teams may contain 4, 5 or 6 players, but only 4 players may play in any single match prior to the semi-final stage.

The draw for the early rounds is regionalised to try to help keep travelling distances small.

Holders

2017 Bowl - Fiona Brown, Ollie Burgess, Michael Byrne & Hugh McGann
2017 Plate - Joanne Norman, Christine Bradley, Phil Norman, Mark Hooper & Krzysztof Ginda

Current results

Results of the ongoing competitions are available here: 2017/18 Bowl, 2017/18 Plate;
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