4NCL Team and Individual Rapidplay Championships Wokefield Park 1-2 October

[Mike Truran]

The entry forms and guidelines for the above are now up on the 4NCL website. Do please support this event if you can!

This year we have also set up an online entry facility on the 4NCL website to make it easier for players who just want to play in the Sunday individual event to enter.

[Colin Purdon]

The 4NCL web site gives Harben House as the venue for this event - I assume that the venue has changed since the original announcement?

[Chris Rice]

Those teams that had entered got this email from Mike a few days ago:

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water……

We have just learnt that De Vere have sold Harben House to new owners who are carrying out an extensive refurbishment programme. A highly unfortunate consequence of this (which the hotel omitted to mention either to us or to our partners at Bridge Overseas) is that many of the bedrooms have been completely redesigned such that in future the hotel will have only four twin rooms – thus making it entirely unsuitable for the Junior 4NCL.

So in terms of damage limitation, and making the best of a bad job, we’ve decided to switch the two events round such that the Rapidplay Championships will take place at Harben House and the first weekend of the Junior 4NCL will take place at Wokefield Park. We very much hope that you will continue to support the two events; if you are happy (or at least not unhappy) with the new arrangements, any bedrooms you may have booked will be automatically transferred over for you. Of course we recognise that the changed arrangements may be far from acceptable to some of you, in which case we are more than happy to refund entry fees and cancel hotel bookings made through Bridge Overseas as appropriate if that is what you would like to have happen.

If it’s any comfort to the Junior 4NCL captains, the final two weekends are confirmed at St John’s Solihull, and the 2017/18 venues will all be held in the midlands.

I apologise for all this. Yet again a hotel has let us down badly.

Mike

[Colin Purdon]

Thank you for the information, Chris. That must have been a real headache for Mike, I hope the events go well.