Announcements

The format is similar to the last two years with Round-Robin qualifying matches followed by knockouts to determine champions in four flights. The competition starts on January 21 and continues through mid-May. The National Finals will be held at the Summer NABC’s in Providence, RI, July 13-24.

Here are the details.

First special games of the year January 6 and 7 (Thursday and Friday).

We’ve scheduled some additional special games for January and February. Check the calendar for details.

We contacted Jeff Taylor in the last week of his life, before we knew it was the last week of Jeff Taylor’s life, and asked him how we could help. We knew that his wife, Linda, was not doing well. “Thanks. Just keep bridge going so I have an outlet.”

It would be hard to come up with a better, or more poignant example, of the importance of keeping our bridge community going. It has been through the efforts of all of us that the Unit and EBC continue to survive. With the emergence of mega-clubs like the Alliance, clubs the size of ours will continue to face unique challenges. It seems inevitable that we will continue to see the demise of smaller clubs. We are fortunate that we have a large enough pool of players that, assuming we all continue to pull together, we can honor Jeff’s request for the foreseeable future.

Right now it is a little hard to say how long before we will be back f2f. When the club closed in March of 2020, three weeks seemed like a reasonable estimate. We all know how that worked out.

Let us all celebrate the time we get to share with one another and hope for the best for all of us in the New Year.

Warmest,

Don/Sherri.

This is about the recent bridge cheating scandal. Here’s the promo.

McKenzie Myers has a brief cameo!

All games the week of December 27 are now online due to snow. The Tuesday and Thursday games are now regular point games due to going online. The New Years Eve game IS still a Club Championship game, awarding extra points.

The Eugene-Springfield bridge community, District 20 and the bridge world at large have lost one of the true giants of the game with Jeff Taylor’s passing. Jeff died in his sleep on December 21st.

Right now, we are all in shock. Of course, we must all go forward but it is hard to imagine bridge in our area without Jeff.

We send our thoughts to Linda, whom we know to be struggling right now per her own health, and to his children Russ and Kathleen.

We will have more to say about Jeff at a later date. Right now the plans are for a Celebration of Life sometime in the Spring or Summer.

Here’s a little bit of Jeff’s history that we put together a while back.