Rules of Competition

Club Pairs, Junior Pairs Mid-Week Pairs Thursday Junior Pairs and Friday Pairs:

The competition will be played over a total of 7 – 9 sessions with the best of the qualifying number of sessions to count being 2 less than the total number of playing sessions programmed for the year. 

Founders’ Ladder:
The competition will be played over a total of 7 – 9 sessions with the best of the qualifying number of sessions to count being 2 less than the total number of playing sessions programmed for the year.
A player does not have to play the full number of sessions to win.
A player should play with a different player each session to be eligible to win a prize.
If a player plays with the same partner on more than one occasion, only the first score will count.

Two Session Events:
No substitutes are allowed for Club Pairs, Junior Pairs Mid-Week Pairs Thursday Junior Pairs and Friday Pairs or two session Pairs’ events.

Three and Four Session Pairs’ Events:
One substitute will be allowed on one occasion.

Teams’ Events:
One substitute will be allowed on two separate occasions.
If substitutes are used they must be eligible for the event, otherwise the pair or team become ineligible to win the event.
Partnerships within the Team cannot be changed during a match but may be changed between matches at the preference of the Team.

Mixed grade Events:
These will be won by the top mixed grade pair.