The WBF has released the following statement:

"We regret to advise that due to circumstances beyond our control, the dates for the World Bridge Games have changed. The championships will start 1 day earlier, and finish 2 days earlier, than originally planned: The Opening Ceremony will now be on 21 October and play will start on 22 October The final day of play, and the Closing Ceremony, will now be 3 November."

The WBF has released the following statement:

"The WBF is pleased to advise that the next World Bridge Games (formerly the “Bridge Olympiad”) will be held at the Centro de Convenciones de Buenos Aires, Argentina with the Opening Ceremony on 22nd October and play from the 23rd October up to and including the 5th November 2024."

The document below outlines the financial assistance the ABF will provide to players in the 2024 Australian Team Playoffs and the 2024 Australian Representative Teams.

2024 Australian Representative Teams Financial Assistance

12 October, 2023

The Canberra Bridge Club has been confirmed as the venue for the Open and Mixed Playoffs for the Australian representative teams to compete in the World Bridge Games in 2024.

1 June 2023

The ABF Board in consultation with the Tournament Committee(TC) has decided to award Mixed PQPs to the Mixed Team representing Australia at the Asia Cup as follows.

In determining these awards the Board and TC note:

1. The Asia Cup is a concurrent event with the Spring Nationals Mixed Teams,
2. That unlike the Open/Men’s categories, there was no playoff for the Mixed where representatives could have earned PQP, and
3. The timing and existence of the event (invitation to the event) is recent and has only just been finalised.

For the avoidance of doubt, noting item b. above and that the Men’s event is not Open no Open PQP’s will be awarded for the Asia Cup. It is noted that PQPs do not apply to Women’s and Seniors’ events.

23 August 2022

The 2023 National Women’s and Seniors Teams and Playoffs for the Australian Women’s and Seniors Teams will be held concurrently at the Summer Festival of Bridge at the Canberra Rex Hotel January 10th to 15th January 2023.

Rules and eligibility for each playoff are contained in the documents below:

• 2023 National Women’s Teams and Women’s Playoff
• 2023 National Seniors Teams and Seniors Playoff

20 July 2022

The dates and venues for the playoffs for the 2023 Open and Mixed Teams are confirmed as follows.

•  The Open Playoff for the 2023 Open Team will be held from the 12 to 17 November 2022. The venue will be the Canberra Bridge Club (5-7 Duff Place, Deakin, ACT 2600). Unfortunately the Rex was not available. Alternatives, including other Hotel venues, were considered and the Canberra Bridge Club was considered the best compromise.
•  The Mixed Playoff for the 2023 Mixed Team will be held from the 3 to 8 December 2022. The venue will be the Canberra Rex Hotel.

Both playoffs will be an 8 team KO format with entries based on Open and Mixed PQP’s earned in 2022 respectively. In keeping with normal practice PQPs earned in a partnership will count double.

21 May 2022

The Playoffs for the Open, Women’s, and Seniors’ Australian Teams for 2022 will be held concurrently at the Canberra Rex Hotel from Monday 18 April (Easter Monday) to Saturday 23 April 2022. As previously advised the Mixed playoff will not be held.

The playoff dates have been moved to April due to the WA border closure changes making it likely that attendance by WA players will not be feasible in early March. There were also issues in securing a suitable space at the Rex in the March timeframe.

At this stage it is hoped that COVID travel restrictions and case numbers in mid-April will allow the event to be held in a face-to-face (F2F) environment. If WA players cannot attend, then those matches involving WA Players will be held online from a supervised venue in Perth with terminals at the Rex.

If the event cannot be held F2F in Canberra, then the playoffs will move online utilising the 18 April to 23 April dates. In the advent of an online tournament players will be required to attend and play from supervised venues in each state or territory.

Entries for the Open, Women's and Seniors Playoffs open on Monday February 28, 2022 and close 6.00pm (AEDT) Monday March 28 (Open), 6.00pm (AEDT) Thursday March 31 (Women's) and 6.00pm (AEST) Sunday April 3 (Seniors) 2022.

26 January 2022

With the completion of the first PQP event (SFOB) for 2022 leading to Playoffs for the 2023 Teams it is appropriate to repeat the announcement regarding playoffs included in the Board communique of October 25th.

 » ABF Mid Term General Meeting October 25th

Playoffs for 2022 and 2023 Australian Teams

Council agreed with Tournament Committee (TC) recommendations regarding Australian Team Playoffs for 2023 Open, Women’s, Seniors, and Mixed Teams. The Open and Mixed Playoffs will be eight team knockouts based on Open or Mixed PQPs earned in 2022. Women’s and Seniors Playoffs will be open entry events held in conjunction with the National Women’s Teams and National Seniors Teams respectively in the 1st week of the 2023 Summer Festival.”

PQPs for 2023 Open and Mixed Teams to be awarded in 2022.

PQPs leading to the playoff for the 2023 Australian Open Team will commence in 2022 with the Summer Festival (online) and with the Spring Nationals. The Mixed PQP year commenced with the 2021 ANOT Mixed Pairs and will finish with the 2022 Event in WA if held.

» 2022 PQP Awards Table

PQP Compiler

The ABF is pleased to announce that Charles Page has agreed to take on the role of PQP Compiler for 2022. Thanks to Charles for taking on this role. The ABF would also like to acknowledge and thank John Scudder who filled the PQP Compiler role for many years. Awards from the SFOB will be posted with other event awards received in Q1 2022 in April.

25 January 2022