Another milestone for the Hawke's Bay Congress as we prepare for our 30th event. We had our first 3+1 Teams event last year which proved to be very popular and will be running the event again this year. 3 players are teamed up with an expert player for a 3 match event. The expert plays with each of the others for one match. Players wanting to play in this event should email the congress secretary to enter. bjandjaboxall@xtra.co.nz

We are running for the 1st time a Novice Interclub Teams event on Monday and will run a Novice Pairs event on Sunday. Entry to the Pairs event is online and those clubs wanting to enter a team should email the congress secretary. bjandjaboxall@xtra.co.nz

The remainder of the programme is the same as it has been for the past couple of years. Details are available on the Events tab.

We are grateful to Summerset Retirement Villages who are the principal sponspors for this year's congress, to O'briens for sponsorping the Matchpoint Swiss, to George Masters Motors for sponsoring the Open Teams, Roommate Cabins for sponsoring the Intermediate Pairs, Aramax for the sponsoring the Swiss Pairs and Kinnect for sponsoring the3+1 Teams, Junior Pairs, Novice Pairs and Novice Teams. Taylorcorp is again providing valuable sponsorship of the event. We thank all the sponsors for their support in helping make this an ongoing successsful event and ask that you consder and support them. 

We look forward to receving you entries and meeting up with you again at the 30th HB Congress.