The 2005/06 Open and Women's Trials

The Open Trials are held to select the teams for the European Championships which will be held in Warsaw in August.

Open Team

The Open Trials consist of two stages of round robin qualifiers with the top four teams progressing to a semi-final and final. The team leading the round robin chooses their opponents in the semi-final and this year Simpson chose to play Wolfarth.

In the first semi-final, Hackett (Paul Hackett, Tony Waterlow, John Armstrong and John Holland) beat De Botton (Justin Hackett, Jason Hackett, Nick Sandqvist and Artur Malinowski) by 229-141 IMPs over 96 boards.

In the second semi, Simpson (Colin Simpson, David Price, David Gold and Tom Townsend) beat Wolfarth (Geoffrey Wolfarth, Nevena Senior, Brian Senior and Espen Erichsen) by 218-180 IMPs.

The final, between Simpson and Hackett, will be held at a date and venue to be decided.

The winner of the final gets automatic selection and will be joined at the Europeans by a third pair to be chosen by the Selection Committee.

Women's Team

The Women's Trials consist of two weekends of all-play-all pairs with IMPs scoring. The leading pair at the end will represent England at the Europeans and two other pairs will be selected from the participants to join them.

Results

• Open Trials

  • Final
  • IVa
  • IIIB
  • IIIA
  • IIB
  • IIA
  • Teams
  • Final Stages

  Womens Trials

  • Stage 2a
  • Stage 2b