The 2013 County Swiss Pairs event was held at Trumpington Village Hall on Sunday 28th April.  The event was oversubscribed, with the maximum 32 pairs competing.  The competition consisted of six rounds of 8-board matches, with tea provided at the half-way interval.  Prizes were awarded for the first four places and for ascenders, winners below Master rank, and half-time leaders:

Trophy Winners: Tapan Pal & Abdel Abdelmoneim

2nd Place: Matt May & Niel Pimblett

3rd Place: Larraine Waters & Alan Edwards

4th Place: Gina Dickson & Paul Wiltshire

Winners (Master or below): Karen Blacklock & John George

Ascender's Prize: Barry Ransley & Gary Kendall

Half-time leaders: Gulzar Waljee & Carol Graves

The winners received the County Swiss Pairs Trophy (originally Jubilee Pairs Trophy). The top five on the list received cash prizes and all those above received a bottle of wine each.  Master points were awarded on the County Scale and registered electronically.

Congratulation to all the prize-winners!

On behalf of all the players, a big thank you must go to the organisers, Penny & Ken Riley, for their considerable effort in running such a successful and enjoyable event. If you would like to volunteer to help organise the 2014 event, please contact a member of the Cambs & Hunts committee.

Final standings:
(full scoring with travellers & hand records may be viewed on the Cambridge Bridge Club website and on BridgeWebs here)

RANKS after Round 6
Rank	Pair	Names	VPs	M1	M2	M3	M4	M5	M6	LPs	Win	Draw
1	22	Tapan Pal & Abdel Abdelmoneim	93	16	9	17	20	17	14	296	5	0
2	1	Matt May & Niel Pimblett	82	10	17	18	15	3	19	262	4	1
3	2	Lorraine Waters & Alan Edwards	81	10	20	7	12	19	13	240	4	1
4	3	Gina Dickson & Paul Wiltshire	79	5	17	18	19	14	6	206	4	0
5	24	Ross Midgley & Chris Waites	74	14	8	14	9	15	14	184	4	0
6=	6	David Man & Tanawan Watts	71	15	3	16	11	18	8	151	4	0
6=	9	Karen Blacklock & John George	71	17	17	19	5	6	7	127	3	0
8=	32	Barry Ransley & Gary Kendall	70	11	3	11	14	19	12	132	5	0
8=	25	Fred Allen & Ann Aplin	70	11	2	16	19	2	20	108	4	0
10	4	Alison Lloyd & Verity Joubert	69	15	17	1	15	15	6	96	4	0
11	13	Andrew Cummins & Ed Nevill	68	11	17	13	11	1	15	120	5	0
12	31	Paul Russell & Shanaal De Zoysa	67	9	13	0	13	20	12	96	4	0
13	28	Peter Oxley & Bill Briscombe	65	11	18	7	8	20	1	72	3	0
14	29	Gladys Gittins & Ian Hesslewood	63	19	7	15	9	5	8	48	2	0
15=	20	Barry Lowe & Mike Bradley	62	18	3	20	1	5	15	72	3	0
15=	23	Peter Last & Bryan Last	62	6	2	14	9	14	17	72	3	0
17	19	Jonathan Cairns & Audrey Kueh	60	2	13	9	11	12	13	96	4	0
18=	18	Stephen Goodwin & Malcolm Anderson	58	11	3	14	6	8	16	72	3	0
18=	5	Sue Paine & Roger Timmins	58	5	3	10	20	15	5	60	2	1
20	27	Colin Campbell & Sheila Ferguson	57	9	7	4	12	6	19	48	2	0
21	7	Gavin Kilpatrick & Nigel Oakley	56	6	18	2	7	16	7	48	2	0
22	21	David Carmichael & Graham Dolan	51	4	18	6	4	4	15	48	2	0
23	11	Gulzar Waljee & Carol Graves	50	19	13	13	0	5	0	72	3	0
24=	26	Brian Copping & Eryl Howard	49	9	16	3	16	0	5	48	2	0
24=	17	Victor Milman & Nadia Stelmashenko	49	9	4	4	13	16	3	48	2	0
26=	15	Philip Jones & Brenda Jones	46	16	11	2	1	4	12	72	3	0
26=	10	Catherine Poulson & Juliet Gadney	46	3	7	12	19	1	4	48	2	0
28=	30	Margaret Chaplin & Roger Chaplin	42	1	13	6	1	20	1	48	2	0
28=	14	Andrew Hawthorn & Andrew Fenn	42	9	0	8	0	17	8	24	1	0
30	8	Bob Vajda & Rona Stewart	41	14	12	5	5	0	5	48	2	0
31	12	Jo Patten & Cindy King	38	1	7	6	7	3	14	24	1	0
32	16	Terry Otterman & Allison Kaye	30	4	2	10	8	0	6	12	0	1

To speed up the process of assignments between rounds, scores were entered using BridgePads and Jeff Smith Swiss Pairs Scorer, in addition to hand-entered table cards.Masterpoints were awarded according to the EBU's County Qualifinal tariff, with points for the top 1/4 of the field and also for matches won/drawn.

Post-event checking of the table cards revealed one error, resulting in minor changes for several pairs to VP scores, rank and masterpoints (but not to any prize allocations).

Colin Sills, Scorer