Results and Winners Bidders Challenge 2022-6

The Top Bidders for Set 2022-06

This was another difficult set, and 1,800 competition entrants average 44.20, so congratulations to everyone who makes the leader-board and, particularly, to our lone winner. The leading panelist this month scored 76/80, so kudos for the score of 79/80 produced by our competition winner:

David Williams (dave251164) from Llangollen, Wales

Dave made the podium for the annual competition in 2021, finishing in third place. He was part of a three-way tie for the win in November last year, but this is his first solo victory. Now in his mid-50s, Dave originally trained as a mathematician but he recently retired after working for 21 years as a Youth Information and Advice Worker. He learned to play bridge at school but at that time he preferred playing chess, often playing up to 10 boards simultaneously. He took up duplicate in 1993 and soon ended up playing club bridge five nights a week. He joined BBO in 2006, plays online only now and just with robots, mostly playing Instant Duplicates and Daylongs. He used to have his own bridge library of over 650 books but after a sort out now has about 250 left – mostly advanced ones, quizzes, first editions and several by Marc Smith!

Also on the June 'Roll of Honour':

with a score 77/80:

Francois Duffour (toutmo) from Paris, France

And, with score of 76/80:

Hanoi A Rondon (hanoi5) from Providencia, Santiago, Chile

and

Stephen Merriman (BBO: smerriman) from Aukland, New Zealand

Honourable mentions also go to those who matched the score of at least one panellist, so you need a score of 63/80 or more to make this month’s leaderboard:

Annual competition leaders after 6 months

You need a running total of 325 to make the annual competition leader-board with six months played, which means that about 70 players make the list.

Despite scoring 74/80 as a guest panelist this month, Australia’s Alexander Cook slips to second-place in the annual competition. The 77/80 scored by April’s guest panelist, Francois Duffour from Paris, carries him to the top of the leader-board by a single point. Just two points separate the top three, with the 2021 annual competition winner, Luwen Koh from Singapore, scoring 73/80 this month to drop a point behind Alexander.

This month’s winner, Dave Williams from Wales, retains fourth place, with Canada’s Ian Findlay just two points behind him. All of the top five are averaging more than 70/80 after the first six months of competition with the third member of the 2021 podium, Hanoi Rondon from Chile, trailing by just a handful of points.

Remember that if you miss a month, that is one more poor score that you will not be able to discard, so be sure to put an entry in every month.