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Autumn National Championships May 2024

Congratulations to our members on their achievements in the recent Autumn National Championships held in Adelaide. 

David Lusk Rookie Pairs: Susan Roberts & Antony Kimber (First)
StepBridge Under Life Master Pairs: Julie Clark & Julie Roberts (First); Penny Bowen & Bill Griggs (Second)
StepBridge Under Grand Master Pairs:  Tassie Georgiadis & Paul Williamson (Second)
Best Women’s Pair: Therese De Marco & Anita Curtis
StepBridge Under Life Master Teams
Caprice Davey, Alice Handley and team (First); Julie Clark, Julie Roberts and team (Second)
StepBridge Under Grand Master Teams
Catherine Ellice-Flint – Helen Gray, Anthony Gibbs – Ray Dohnt (First); Vicki Taylor – Sally Fraser, Bev Crossman -Mary Tough (Second)
 
Read the ANOT summary bulletin here.

Updated 7/05/2024       

 

Butler Pairs Championship Winners March 2024 

Updated 25/02/2024       

Christmas & New Year Closure Dates 2023

The club will be closed between Christmas and New Year (except Unley on Wednesday 27th December regular morning session) 

Unley – Last session on Saturday 23rd December. Reopens Monday 1st January.

We will have a session on Wednesday 27th December at the regular time. 

On 1st January New Year’s Day, Unley will offer the regular Monday morning and afternoon short bridge sessions only.

Monday evening session will not be held on 1st January. It will be offered 8th January onwards. 

Walkerville – Last session on Friday 22nd December. Reopens Thursday 4th January.

Glenelg North – Last session on Tuesday 19th December. Reopens Tuesday 9th January.

Mt Barker – Last session on Monday 18th December. Reopens Monday 8th January

Updated 01/12/2023       

90th Anniversary Gala October 2023

Celebrating 90 years of bridge and friendship at the South Australian Bridge Association!

The South Australian Bridge Association was formed in 1933 with a small group of members, and it moved around to several different venues in the city until, in 1971, our current premises was bought.

The annex was built in the late 70s, and the lounge and bar area in the front was added in the 90s.

We had a grand celebration to commemorate 90 years of bridge and friendship with a grand gala on Saturday 28th October.

Red masterpoints bridge was followed by a bar social and a grand dinner. 

Our life members were honoured with a special table, and we had more than 100 people who took part. Speakers included Linda Alexander, Chris Lorimer, Josh Tomlin and Mike Doecke who shared very special memories of their bridge journeys and of the club back in the old days. The silent auctions were a success, with some pretty competitive bids for players, experiences, wine and gifts. We raised more than $4000 thanks to the generosity of our members.

Updated 29/10/2023       

Loxton Congress 2023 Winners

View the Loxton Congress 2023 full results here.

Updated 16/10/2023       

Statewide Pairs September 2023 Winners

 

View the Statewide Pairs September 2023 results here.

Updated 10/10/2023       

Teams with a Mentor 2023

Congratulations to the winners of the Teams with a Mentor October 2023.

Category A  – Intermediate: Nic Croft, Jake & Mathew Howie, Peter Solomon

Category B – Recent beginners:  Heather and Rob Motteram, Maria Mackenzie, Priya Kamineni

Shout out to all the mentors !!!                           

View full results here.

Updated 10/10/2023       

SABA Teams Winners 2023

Congratulations to all the winners of the SABA Teams 2023.
 
OPEN CATEGORY
First – MARKEY (Philip Markey, David Gue, Joachim Haffer, Joshua Tomlin)
Second – HARMS (Nicolas Croft, Arjuna De Livera, Russel Harms, Justin Williams)
Third – DE LUCA (Peter Chan, Attilio De Luca, Susan Emerson, Paul Hudson)
Fourth – MORGAN KING (Peter Colmer, Andrew Eddie, Kevin Lange, Pam Morgan-King)
FIFTH – SMOLANKO (David Middleton, David Parrott, George Smolanko,Chris Vinall)
 
BEST RESTRICTED 
BRADSHAW (Joanne Bakas, Bill Bradshaw, Peter Dieperink, Robyn Hargreaves)
BEST NOVICE WITH AN EXPERT 
HARTMANN (Phil Graham, Kathy Hartmann, Julie Randall, Ray Dohnt)
 

Updated 03/10/2023       

Awards for Excellence
2023 Finalist

 We are a proud finalist in three categories for the Clubs & Community Awards.
 
  • Manager of the Year – Priya Kamineni
  • Volunteer of the Year – John Payne
  • Club of the Year – Medium – Us
 
We have been shortlisted among 142 nominations across 51 clubs, all putting their clubs and people forward to be celebrated and acknowledged.  Winners will be announced at the Clubs SA Gala dinner on October 21st at the Adelaide Oval. 

Updated 21/08/2023

SA Scoops the Australian Championhips at Perth

At the National Championships in Perth, SA won the Open Teams, Women’s Teams & Seniors Teams, while our youth players came second.

Congratulations to all South Australian State teams!!

The teams were:

Open Phil Markey(c), Lauren Travis, Nic Croft, Arjuna De Livera, David Parrott & George Smolanko
Womens Felicity Smyth (c), Therese Demarco, Ingrid Cooke, Anne Harris, Alison Fallon and Pam Morgan King
Seniors Zolly Nagy(c), Russel Harms, Andrew Eddie, Kevin Lange, David Cherry & Lori Smith
Youth Jamie Simpson(c), George Bartley, Bertie Borgan, Anton Forster- Rohal, Anne & Lincoln Davey.
Our teams make us immensely proud! Go, teams!

As an aside, 18 of the above are SA Bridge Association members.

It pays to play with the best!

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13/07/2023

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SA Bridge Assoc. Privacy  & Refund Policy

Introduction

SA Bridge Assoc. regards customer privacy as an important part of our relationship with our customers. The following privacy policy applies to all SA Bridge Assoc. users, and conforms to Internet privacy standards.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact the Club Manager on 8373 3995.

Collection of Information

In order to use the website, Facebook or other social media for SA Bridge Assoc., we may require information from you in order to provide the best service possible.

All correspondence may also be collected and stored, particularly in regard to sales, support and accounts, including Email.

Any information collected by SA Bridge Assoc. is collected via correspondence from you or your company. This may be via the telephone, Email, mail, fax or directly through our website, Facebook or other social media.

Use of Collection Information

Any details collected from SA Bridge Assoc. customers are required in order to provide you with our products and/or services, and a high level of customer service.

Correspondence is recorded in order to provide service references, and to assist in our staff development.

Storage of Collected Information

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our website, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). When Credit Card details are collected, we simply pass them on in order to be processed as required. We never permanently store complete Credit Card details.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can email us at manager@saba.asn.au. 

Access to Collected Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing us at manager@saba.asn.au.

Orders

If you purchase a product or service from us, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. You may be required to provide contact information (such as name, Email, and postal address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Communications

SA Bridge Assoc. uses personally identifiable information for essential communications, such as Emails, accounts information, and critical service details. We may also use this information for other purposes, including some promotional Emails. If at any time a customer wishes not to receive such correspondence, they can request to be removed from any mailing lists by emailing us at manager@saba.asn.au.

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

Third Parties

SA Bridge Assoc. may at its discretion use other third parties to provide essential services on our site or for our business processes. We may share your details as necessary for the third party to provide that service.

These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

SA Bridge Assoc. does not share any information with third parties for any unknown or unrelated uses.

Legal

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.

Links

Links on the SA Bridge Assoc. site to external entities are not covered within this policy. The terms and conditions set out in this privacy statement only cover the domain name of www.sabridgeassoc.asn.au.

Changes to Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by Email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

SA Bridge Assoc. Security Policy

SA Bridge Assoc. uses the eWAY Payment Gateway for its online credit card transactions. eWAY processes online credit card transactions for thousands of Australian merchants, providing a safe and secure means of collecting payments via the Internet. All online credit card transactions performed on this site using the eWAY gateway are secured payments.

– Payments are fully automated with an immediate response. – Your complete credit card number cannot be viewed by SA Bridge Assoc. or any outside party. – All transactions are performed under 128 Bit SSL Certificate. – All transaction data is encrypted for storage within eWAY’s bank-grade data centre, further protecting your credit card data. – eWAY is an authorised third party processor for all the major Australian banks. – eWAY at no time touches your funds; all monies are directly transferred from your credit card to the merchant account held by SA Bridge Assoc.

For more information about eWAY and online credit card payments, please visit www.eWAY.com.au

Delivery Policy

After ordering online, you will receive an email confirmation from eWAY containing your order details (if you have provided your email address). We will normally confirm receipt of your order within a few minutes of ordering. For annual subscriptions, monthly payments and monthly vouchers we will update our records/print vouchers within one working day of receipt of payment.

If you wish to query a delivery please contact us at manager@saba.asn.au.

Refund & Returns Policy

If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with your purchase we will give you a seven day money-back guarantee from the time you receive the goods. Please email us at manager@saba.asn.au within that time if you are not satisfied with your purchase so that we can resolve any problems. This refund policy does not apply to goods which have been worn,  used, or lost after delivery. All products must be returned in their original condition. All postage and insurance costs are to be paid by the buyer.