2020 World Bridge Games Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic.
Statement, May 25, 2020. The World Bridge Federation Management Committee has made the unanimous decision to consider the 2020 as not existing, maintaining in 2021 the World Team Championships and postponing to 2022 the World Bridge Games, so maintaining unaltered the WBF quadrennial Cycle only switching in the even-numbered years the World Bridge Games and the World Bridge Series. Read full statement here ->
In consequence of the above, the calendar will be:
2021 – World Youth Bridge Team Championships and World Bridge Team Championships & Transnational Open Teams Championship •
2022 – World Youth Bridge Team Championships and World Bridge Games
2023 – World Youth Transnational Bridge Championships and World Bridge Teams Championship & Transnational Open Teams Championship
2024 – World Youth Bridge Team Championships and World Bridge Series
For those interested in information about the event, which is now cancelled, we leave the below details in place.
The World Bridge Games include National Open & Women’s Teams (since 1960), National Seniors Teams (since 2000), National Mixed Teams (since 2016) and National Open, Women ‘s, Seniors & Mixed Pairs (starting 2016). Each WBF NBO is entitled to one national team and unlimited national pairs in each category (in 2008, the 1st edition of the World Mind Sports Games included also World Youth Pairs, Teams and Individual).
We will be collecting championship links here for your enjoyment!
World Bridge Federation Facebook Page
Bridge Scanner
Bridge Scanner is a bridge tournament portal and will be featuring many details of the upcoming World Bridge Games as well as other offerings such as live results reporting. View the World Bridge Games page here ->
Bridge Winners
Find discussions, polls and more on Bridge Winners.
BBO Vugraph:
View BBO Matches Schedule on the WBF website. Link will be posted here.
Watch them on BBO website click here
BBO and Livebridge
The link to schedule, teams, CCs, draw and featured matches will be posted here.
Bridge Blogging
This is the ‘go to’ spot on the ‘net for great bridge blogs and bloggers. There’s sure to be some excellent stories told here during the championships. Click here
Bridge Screens
Screens are used to help minimize the incidence of cheating in high-level bridge competitions. They divide the bridge diagonally to make it difficult for partners to interact with one another visually, and they’re used at many national and international events including this month’s World Championships. Find out more about bridge screens.
Bridge Stories
Enjoy stories on our blog. Click Here
FORMAT OF CHAMPIONSHIP
The championship consists of 4 categories: Open, Women’s, Seniors and Mixed.
In each of the four categories, the teams will be divided into groups which will then play a single complete round-robin with all the teams within the group playing each other. At the end of the round-robin the highest ranked teams from each group will qualify for the knock-out stages: Round of 16, Quarter-final, Semifinal and Final & Play-off KO matches will be played.
Timetable
•Teams Registration Friday 21st August from 10.00 to 19.30
•Captains meeting Friday 21st August at 17.00
•Opening Ceremony Friday 21st August at 19.30
•Round Robin 1st Match Saturday 22nd August at 10.30
•Round Robin Last Match Thursday 27th August
•Round of 16 Friday 28th–Saturday 29th August
•Quarter-final Sunday 30th–Monday 31st August
•Semi-final Tuesday 1st–Wednesday 2nd September
•Final& Play-Off Thursday 3rd–Friday 4th September
•Closing Ceremony -Prize-giving Friday 4th September at 19.30 hrs.
National Open, Women’s, Seniors, Mixed Pairs
The Pairs Championship for all four categories will take place during the second week (starting on the morning of Saturday 29th August and ending on Friday 4th September) and will consist of a Qualification stage, Semi-final and Final. Players eliminated from the Teams Championship both in the Round of 16 and the Quarter-finals may drop-in in to the Pairs Championship, in the appropriate categories, in accordance with the Rules and Regulations to be published for the competition
