October 2018 - ICU-BridgeSoc

Exciting Tournaments
by Hagger, John 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Hi all, Firstly, I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has bought membership - it makes a massive difference to the club! The main purpose of this email is to tell you about two very exciting tournaments that are coming up. The first is the annual ICCC internal duplicate pairs, which will be on Tuesday 13th November, during our normal session. This is a great opportunity to test everything you've learned, and to get used to the mechanics of a tournament in a friendly environment. The second is the London Cup, which Imperial will be hosting again after the amazing success we had hosting last year. This will take place on Sunday 25th November so make sure to save the date now. This is always a fantastic tournament, and I highly recommend that you all take part: everyone that did last year really enjoyed it, and there will be a wide range of different abilities there, so even if you've only started playing this year, you will not feel out of place. See you all next week, Your committee

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Weekly Email
by Hagger, John 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

He's making a (membership) list, He's checking it twice, He's gonna find out who's naughty and nice, El Presidente's coming to Blackett Rm 741 (at 6pm tomorrow). As the inappropriately* festive song says, it's bridge time, but more importantly it's time to buy membership. Coming up soon we're going to have quite a few events open only to members, and it's only £5, so it's definitely worth getting (especially if you want the biscuits to keep on coming). See you all tomorrow, Your committee *M&S has a Christmas section on its website so maybe it's ok

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Bridge Bridge Bridge
by Hagger, John 22 Oct '18

22 Oct '18

What do we want? BRIDGE When do we want it? Tuesday 6-8pm, in Blackett Rm 741 Cards, cookies and cocktails - see you all there. Your committee

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Bridge Tomorrow
by Hagger, John 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Hi all, It's the best time of the week again! Tomorrow at 6pm, in Blackett Rm 741, we will have the second bridge session of the year. If you came last week then you'll be ready to start playing some proper bridge, but if you couldn't make it and are still keen to learn, then come along anyway: we're happy to teach all levels. As usual, we will be heading to the union afterwards for some more chilled (in theory...) card games and a drink. Looking forward to seeing you all there, Jack

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Bridge
by Hagger, John 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hi all, I would firstly like to say that I hope you all enjoyed our first session of bridge (or at least President/Russian Tanks/a drink in the union...). It was a real pleasure to have so many of you come and try it out, and we really hope you keep coming back. I mentioned this to some of you yesterday, but I think it's worth repeating: if you're new, don't be disheartened if you couldn't play a hand of bridge confidently on your own by the end of one session. It always takes longer than that to get to grips with everything, but that should make you happy! The relative complexity of the rules means that bridge has really interesting and sophisticated strategy, which makes it fun to play again and again and again - noughts and crosses has easy rules but that's a very dull game! Lastly, I'd just like to say a massive thank you to all our old members who came along and helped yesterday; it really allowed everything to run smoothly and we couldn't have done it without you. Looking forward to seeing you next week, Your committee

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Bridge TONIGHT
by Hagger, John 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hi all, Firstly, a little reminder (not that you needed one) that our first bridge session will be in Blackett Rm 741 at 6pm tonight<x-apple-data-detectors://0>. There will be cards, drinks in the union, and biscuits. Many, many biscuits. Secondly, we'd like to say thank you to everyone who has filled out the survey; it looks like we're going to have a fantastic turnout to the session! To those of you who haven't completed it: don't worry, you can still fill it in or just come along. Looking forward to seeing all of you there, Your committee

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First Bridge Meeting on Tuesday
by Hagger, John 06 Oct '18

06 Oct '18

Hi everyone, and welcome to the bridge club mailing list! Firstly, welcome back to all our old members: we hope you had a good summer and we look forward to seeing you soon. And secondly, welcome to the new card players who we saw at the freshers' fair on Tuesday. We really enjoyed meeting you all and look forward to seeing you at our first session, in Blackett Rm 741, at 6pm on Tuesday 9th October<x-apple-data-detectors://1>. We will play bridge until 8pm, and then head over to the union for some chilled card games and drinks. Just so we can make a plan for the session, if you get the chance could you please fill out this form? https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=B3WJK4zudUWDC0-CZ8PTB0W… This will give us an idea of everyone's experience level. Lastly, we'd just like to emphasize something we said to many of you at the fair: it doesn't matter if you haven't played before. We are a relaxed club and almost all of us learned to play from scratch at Imperial. So, if you think bridge might be the game for you (which it definitely is...) come along and give it a try. We're forward to seeing you all on Tuesday<x-apple-data-detectors://3>! Your committee

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