Results and Winners Bidders Challenge 2023-4

The Top Bidders for Set 2023-4

Another new record entry, with 8,452 BBO members competing this month, which breaks February’s record entry of 7,798 by more than 650. Tell your friends and regular partners to join in the fun and let’s break the 10,000-barrier before the year ends.

The average scores were up a little this month, but it was a tough set on which to score really well. Only two members of the panel scored higher than 73/80. Our joint winners’ score of 78/80 matched the winning score amongst panelists:

Paul Boudreau (pons_) from USA and

Stephen Merriman (smerriman) from New Zealand

Stephen is a website developer who admits, “I have a guilty secret, in that while I've played online for many years, I've never been to a real life bridge club. I spend most of my bridge hours trying to reverse-engineer GIB's ‘thought’ process and how it could be improved, and posting in the BBO forums.”

Also on the April 'Roll of Honor’:

With a score of 77/80

Aviva Kron (Vivitak) From Chile

Gordo Sharp (Sheynakoby) from Canada,

Craig Cordes (tallmath) from USA,

John Rengstorff (Jtorff) From United States,

Brad Theurer (batmanbrad) from USA and

Mark Chen (mark_chen) from USA

The average score this month was 42.77 (up from 41.02 last month). With only two panelists scoring over 73/80 and barely half scoring in the 70s, congratulations to everyone who makes this month’s leader-board. You need a score of 68/80 to make the list this month.

The 2023 Annual Competition

With a third of the year gone, the race for the annual competition title is starting to take shape. We still have 12 players with an average score of 70/80 or higher, and five more just one point off that mark.

We also have a new leader, with one of this month’s winners, Paul Boudreau, moving up from third place last month. Meanwhile, Bob Boudreau moves up into a tie for third place. Also in the top six are Ian, Hanoi and Dave, all Top10 finishers in both of the last two years. With the top five all from the Americas (three USA, one Canada and one Chile), Dave is the leading European in sixth place.

The leaders should look out for Alexander, the 2022 winner, who may be lurking just inside the Top 20 at the moment, but he already has one score that will obviously be dropped towards the end of the year.

You currently need an average score of 60/80 or more to make the annual competition leader-board. Remember that only your best nine scores during the year will count in the annual competition, so playing every month will allow you to drop your three weakest scores by the end of the year.