Australian Teams for World Bridge Teams and Playoffs for 2022 Australian Teams
WBF Updates:
The WBF have postponed the 2021 World Bridge Teams from 2021 to the end of February 2022. Refer announcement Cancellation of the 2021 World Championships. Whilst this announcement uses the word cancellation it is essentially a postponement from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022. Details have not been provided.
The WBF have announced the 2022 World Bridge Series will be held in Wroclaw from 19th August to 3rd September. The 2022 World Bridge Series | World Bridge Federation
The Tournament Committee (TC) has considered these changes and made to recommendations to the ABF Board (formerly MC) which were accepted.
Australian Team for Postponed World Teams Championship (Feb 2022)
The Board accepted the proposal from the TC that the current Australian teams’ tenure be extended to the end of March 2022.
The TC and the Board noted there is still considerable uncertainty regarding the World Bridge Teams both, as to if they will be held, and if the ABF will be able to send representative teams. Any Board approval of travel and participation together with any offer to the teams will be considered closer to the proposed dates for events.
Playoffs:
The Board accepted the TC recommendation to hold playoffs for the 2022 Australian Teams as follows:
- Open Playoff: A pairs event to be held in Canberra from 5th to 10th February 2022(1). Entry to the event to be to 12 pairs based on Open PQPs. The event will be concurrent with the Women’s Playoff.
- Women’s Playoff: A pairs event to be held in Canberra from 5th to 10th February 2022(1). Entry to the event to be to 12 pairs based on Women’s PQPs. The event will be concurrent with the Open Playoff.
- Seniors Playoff: A pairs event to be held in Canberra from 2nd to 7th April 2022(1). Entry to the event to be to 12 pairs based on Seniors PQPs. The event will be concurrent with the Mixed Playoff.
- Mixed Playoff: A pairs event to be held in Canberra from 2nd to 7th April 2022(1). Entry to the event to be to 12 pairs based on Mixed PQPs. The event will be concurrent with the Seniors Playoff.
(1) The dates are provisional only at this stage and are subject to change.
The decision to move to a Pairs based format is consistent with previous World Bridge Series Years.
June 11, 2021
