COVID-19 crisis:

Due to the current situation, the Summer Meeting will now be held as a series of online events.

Summer Meeting Hub

First Weekend: Championship Pairs

Second Weekend: Teams Championship

Progressive Congress (formerly Really Easy Congress)

Midweek Events

Timetable

Entry Fees

Venue and Tariff

In place of our Summer Meeting in Eastbourne, which has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning a series of online events to take its place during the period 1st-9th August. Precise details of event times, formats and costs, together with information about registering for them will be available soon, but to help you with your planning the schedule will be as follows.

Note: all regular daily games will continue to be provided on BBO for those who don’t want to play in the long events of the Online Summer Meeting.

Player's Handbook available here

First Weekend: Championship Pairs

During the first weekend, there is a Pairs Championship, which will be run in conjunction with Mind Sports Olympiad such that the Bridge result can be combined with any four other tournament finishes at MSO for the overall PENTAMIND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. Mind Sports Olympiad is an annual competition that includes mind sports from Chess and Bridge to Backgammon and Poker. This year the MSO event is entirely online from August 1st to 30th, and open to everyone.

On Saturday 1st August, there will be a 2-session qualifier. This will start at 1pm and run as a single 2x22 board long session with a break in the middle.
On Sunday 2nd August, there will be two or more all-play-all pairs events for the qualifying pairs. There will be 8 tables in each of the main two (or more) finals, with 15x3 board rounds played as Howells with a break in the middle. There will also be a consolation event of similar length, for all other non-qualifying pairs. The events will start at 1pm. Those who who do not qualify for a final do not have to play on the Sunday and those who do not play on the Saturday may play in the consolation event only.

Payment will be in BB$ at the point of registration. Advance entry will not be required.

Midweek - 3-7 Aug

Midweek Knockout Teams

The Knockout Teams event will be a double elimination if suitable numbers enter, with consolation events for those eliminated early – all teams will be guaranteed at least two matches.

Teams will be drawn and set up their own 24-board matches, played daily. If numbers are too large, the final stage will carry on in to the following week, or have more than one match played in a day. Default start time will be 6pm each day (2pm Friday to avoid clashing with the Swiss Teams), but teams are free to re-schedule earlier or later in the day by mutual agreement.

Midweek Individual Ladders, based on results from our regular daily games:

Progressive Congress (formerly Really Easy Congress)

We will combine the current relaxed Pairs sessions with an opportunity for players to play in a congress in a less competitive environment. Each morning at 11.00am there will be a 12 board relaxed Pairs session. On Monday and Tuesday evenings, we will run a Swiss Pairs event for players up to NGS 9. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings we will run a teams event for players up to NGS Jack. You may enter your own team or we will match you with another pair. To enter please contact charlie@ebu.co.uk. If you would like to compete in these events but have no partner, please contact charlie@ebu.co.uk.

If you sign up for the Swiss Pairs or Swiss Teams events and two Relaxed Pairs sessions during that week, you are invited to join the Zoom tutorials which are free of charge.

Second Weekend: Teams Championship

Friday/Saturday - Swiss Teams (Old style with different boards in each match) Friday start 6.30pm, Saturday 11am & Sunday NOW 11.30am.
Sunday - Teams finals for top teams, Swiss Teams continue for the rest.
Following the entry deadline, teams will receive an email explaining how the event will be administrated

Extra events

Discuss with the Experts seminars on Zoom – 11am on 1st Sunday and Monday when boards from the previous day’s pairs events will be in discussed. Michael Byrne has been confirmed as our expert for Sunday morning and our Monday experts will be Kay Preddy and Norman Selway.

Late-night speedballs at 10.30pm on the two Saturdays – 16 boards each, IMP pairs on the first Saturday.

Individual Ladder to be held during the second weekend, based on the best three results of the eight regular afternoon/evening pairs games.