{"id":88720,"date":"2024-03-14T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/?p=87893"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:37:37","slug":"wbf-online-womens-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/en\/wbf-online-womens-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"WBF Online Women\u2019s Teams – 16 to 18 February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The World Bridge Federation (WBF) organised a worldwide tournament aimed towards women<\/strong> on online platform from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th February. 64 teams from 31 countries <\/strong>entered, from every continent.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Women\u2019s Committee of the WBF<\/strong> organised this encounter via an online plateform to give female players from all over the world the opportunity to play at an internationally competitive level by limiting the costs (no travelling and a very low subscription fee: \u20ac40 per team). The aim was to encourage women to want to play in international events.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conditions of contest for the event were having an exclusively female team, registering oneself with the WBF (in order to get an international licence number<\/strong>) and being able to play all of the matches. All players on the team had to be of the same nationality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really wanted to take part with my teammates from the Under 26 Girls\u2019 team (Wilhelmine Schlumberger, Constance Belloy, Clara Bouton). As the organisers allowed up to 8-9 per team <\/strong>and we were not all available throughout the weekend (National Mixed Pairs Final or on the train to the Biarritz festival), we asked other friends to complete our team.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were the only team<\/strong> to represent France:<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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With everyone\u2019s availability, we rotated the pairs around a lot! <\/strong>I played the three matches on Friday evening with Wil, one on the Saturday morning with Constance, one on the Sunday morning with Clara (my regular partner) and to finish, two with Elo\u00efse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was an enormous organisational effort for the teams to be able to play their matches at correct times for their geographical area, all while maximising the number of deals played simultaneously.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our matches and our scores <\/strong>on the right (20 points for the match were shared between the two teams in each round): <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday evening:<\/strong> <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This first match started out very well for Wil and me, with 17.31 points out of 20 against Portugal; but we then suffered a heavy defeat<\/strong> against Denmark (1.63). For the last match of Friday evening, we encountered two interesting deals <\/strong>against a Turkish team:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was South, everyone was vulnerable and I had:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n