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Matchpointer Online :: Vancouver Bridge Centre
Last Update of the site: Tuesday, July 1, 2008.    Found a mistake? Click here and tell McBruce!         ALTERNATE SITE

Vancouver Bridge Centre

Address: 2776 East Broadway, Vancouver

Club Contact: Ken Lochang, 604/255-2564 (club telephone), e-mail, website, results

Regular Weekly Games:

Monday at 7:15pm - Pairs, 0-1000 MP (with pre-game lesson) Director: Brad Bart
Tuesday at 10:00am - Open pairs Director: Cathy Miller
Tuesday at 7:30pm - Open pairs (Burnaby Bridge Club)
Wednesday at 10:30am - Open pairs Director: Cathy Miller
Wednesday at 10:30am - Newcomer pairs (0-50 MPs) Director: Teresa Kong
Wednesday at 7:00pm - "Wednesday Night Quickie" varying format (usually pairs), $1 off regular gamefee for 18-21 boards, Director: Bruce McIntyre
Thursday at 7:00pm - Newcomer pairs (0-50 MPs) Director: June Pocock
Thursday at 7:30pm - Open pairs (E.C. Bridge Club)
Friday at 10:30am - Open pairs Director: Cathy Miller
Friday at 7:30pm - Open (unstratified) pairs: Bruce McIntyre
Saturday at 7:30pm - Monthly Unit Game (schedule) Director: Bruce McIntyre
Sunday at 1:00 - Open pairs Director: Mark Eddy
Occasional special events on other days and times

Contact McBruce with more or updated information to add to this page and the calendar below.

Rookie-Master Game Winners: Gray McMullin and Silvana Trotter
18 tables of rookies and masters at the VBC

Here are the happy winners!

The winners scored 60.42% to top the field (except for a few ineligible pairs due to a surplus of masters).  Second overall and leading the North-South field was Heather Garrison and Donna-Faye Madhosingh with 58.52%.  The hand records for the game were miscopied by the CBF resulting in Boards 23-30 not appearing on the sheet, but the missing page can be viewed online here.

CNTC and CWTC Zone Final Results
Good luck to all teams that are Montreal-bound!

The B.C. Zone Finals of the CNTC, and part of the split-site CWTC Zone Final, was played recently at the Vancouver Bridge Centre.

Canadian National Team Championships B.C. Zone Final (February 16-17)

Ten teams played, five in Flight A and five more in Flight B.  Two days of tough competition produced these winners:

CNTC Flight A (5 teams, 3 qualify to the National Final, one with a CBF subsidy)

  1. Doug & Sandra Fraser, Mike Hargreaves, Gord McOrmond

  2. Aidan Ballantyne, Jim McAvoy, Katrin Litwin, Mike Dorn Wiss
  3. Larry Pocock, Martin Henneberger, Les Fouks, Nick Stock
  4. Brad Bart, Michael Yuen, Susan Peters, Julie Smith

CNTC Flight B (5 teams, 2 qualify to the National Final, one with a CBF subsidy -- a third team may be invited)

  1. Samuel Lai, Kam Tang, David Hu, Tao Feng, John Chen, Jack Lee


  2. Andrew Nalos, Andrew Lee, Ken Ramsay, Zoran Peca
  3. Curtis Wright, Micheal Dickie, William & Debbie Wastle, Mihail Vitchev, David de Kezel
  4. Long Xie, Eric Pan, Baixiang Liu, Roy Li, Kai Zhou

Canadian Women's Team Championships B.C. Zone Final (Vancouver heat) (February 3)

Eight teams played in the Vancouver event on Super Bowl Sunday.  Over five hours of tough competition produced these winners:

CWTC (8 teams, 1 qualifies to the National Final, one or two more may also be invited)

  1. Angela Fenton, Patti Adams, Marguerite Chiarenza, Samantha Nystrom
  2. June Pocock, Kathy Adachi, Julie Smith, Susan Peters
  3. Anne Smith, Sima Sadri, Marlene Powell, Myra Johnston
  4. Cathy Miller, Tomie Yamanouchi, Gail Heuchert, Christa Mead

Five more teams played in the simultaneous Victoria version of the event.  The winners of each event earned an automatic qualification to the National Final.

In all these events, teams may add or change players before the National Final.  Check the event conditions at the CBF webpage for full details.  The National Finals of the CWTC and CNTC will be held in Montreal-Dorval, May 24-31.  The CBF Co-ordinator will get in touch with teams interested in continuing with complete CBF subsidy information (CNTC winners also received an info package at the end of the game).  Bonne chance à Montréal!

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Matchpointer Online :: Vancouver Bridge Centre -- EVENTS LIST (related to this page)
Date/TimeLocationEvent Details
Tuesday, July 1
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, July 2
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreWednesday Night Quickie: Series 16, Game 7: Matchpoint Pairs.
Wednesday, July 2
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, July 2
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, July 3
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, July 4
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, July 4
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, July 6
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, July 7
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, July 8
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, July 9
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreWednesday Night Quickie: Series 16, Game 8: IMP Pairs. Series Finale, series points count double!
Wednesday, July 9
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, July 9
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, July 10
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, July 11
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, July 11
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, July 13
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, July 14
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, July 15
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, July 16
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, July 16
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, July 17
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, July 18
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, July 18
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, July 20
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, July 21
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, July 22
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, July 23
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, July 23
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, July 24
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, July 25
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, July 25
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, July 27
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, July 28
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, July 29
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, July 30
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, July 30
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, July 31
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, August 1
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, August 1
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, August 3
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, August 4
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, August 5
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, August 6
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, August 6
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, August 7
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, August 8
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, August 8
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, August 10
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, August 11
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, August 12
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, August 13
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, August 13
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, August 14
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, August 15
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, August 15
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, August 17
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, August 18
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, August 19
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, August 20
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, August 20
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, August 21
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, August 22
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, August 22
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, August 24
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, August 25
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, August 26
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, August 27
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, August 27
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, August 28
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, August 29
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, August 29
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, August 31
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, September 1
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, September 2
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, September 3
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, September 3
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, September 4
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, September 5
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreGame cancelled during sectional at Queensborough Community Centre.
Friday, September 5
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreGame cancelled during sectional at Queensborough Community Centre.
Friday, September 5
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreALERT: Club closed -- no game on this date
Friday, September 5
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreALERT: Club closed -- no game on this date
Sunday, September 7
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreGame cancelled during sectional at Queensborough Community Centre.
Sunday, September 7
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreALERT: Club closed -- no game on this date
Monday, September 8
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, September 9
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, September 10
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, September 10
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, September 11
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, September 12
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, September 12
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, September 14
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, September 15
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, September 16
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, September 17
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, September 17
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, September 18
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, September 19
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, September 19
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, September 21
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Monday, September 22
7:15pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Tuesday, September 23
10:00am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Wednesday, September 24
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Wednesday, September 24
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Thursday, September 25
7:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Under 50 Pairs
Friday, September 26
10:30am
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Friday, September 26
7:30pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs
Sunday, September 28
1:00pm
Vancouver Bridge CentreRegular Game:VBC - Open Pairs