Announcements

The 2027 Oregon Trail Regional has a new home at the Holiday Inn’s Wilsonville Conference Center.

Make your plans to attend February 15 – 21, 2027.

Club members Michael Wenzel and Treyson Sherk won their flight in the District 20 North American Pairs competition held online on October 24, earning an invitation to the national finals in Dallas next spring including subsidies to help with travel expenses.

The pair scored a respectable 51.56 in the morning session, then sealed their victory with a 59.38 in the afternoon, booking 21.6 gold points.

Michael also advanced to Life Master with this victory.

“I am very excited with the prospect of representing District 20 in March 2027. Trey and I got I think 11th place in St Louis NAPs in 2026, and are hoping to better that result in my last year at Level C,” Michael said.

“Trey and I have been building our partnership since being introduced by Don Marsh at EBC in early 2023. Our success is due to the continuous work we have done in improving all aspects of our coordinated play and partnership, especially on defense.   Trey is the highly analytical one with a strong sense of curiosity, who looks deeply at the results and suggests new approaches and adjustments.   

“This last NAP qualifying round was a true challenge as we got a slow start, finishing the morning round in 4th place with a respectable 52% result, playing highly skilled opps pairs which were giving nothing away. At the end of the morning session, Trey said we were not playing poorly and were still in striking distance of a top result. We came back in the afternoon session and just focused on each trick, each round, each board and were resilient enough to come back and take 1st place.”

Congratulations, Mike and Trey!

If you’re a 499er, head up to Corvallis for this fun Sectional tournament beginning Saturday, October 31.

All points awarded will be silver.

Hope to see you there!

Here’s the flyer:

From Carole Schmitz:

It’s been rather confusing this month as the Unit has had to change the date for our monthly game a couple of times — BUT it is this coming Saturday. Hopefully most of you can make it as Saturday sounds like a good day to have breakfast with friends, followed by a fun bridge game.

Breakfast will be on the table by 9 am and bridge starts at 9:30.

Hope to see you there!

From Betsy Ovitt, Unit 479 President:

Your Unit Board decided to provide funding support to EBC for the specific purpose of hosting more Special Games that award higher levels of masterpoints, especially those that award sliver, red or gold points.

There are a wide variety of Special Games available to the Club and Unit, though usually with additional sanction fees. For example, NAP and GNT qualifier games, Stardust games, StaC games, and a variety of other charity and championship games can be scheduled. The Unit decided to cover the additional sanction fees for Special Games so that unit members could benefit from the extra masterpoints without having to pay additional table fees. Special Games will be announced at the club and on the EBC website as they occur throughout the year.

The Unit committed approximately $1,000 per year to this initiative. At present the Unit runs an annual budget surplus each year due to Unit games and the Eugene Sectional Tournament sponsored by the Unit.  A special thanks to John Cissel who developed this initiative for everyone.

Here is the tentative schedule: