European Bridge News

EBL President Yves Aubry and PBU President Radek Kielbasinki signing the contract

Source: [ilink url=”http://www.eurobridge.org/index2.html”]EBL site[/ilink]

Wroclaw to host 24th European Youth Team Championships

The 24th Youth Team Championships will be held in Wroclaw/Poland from 11th to 20th July 2013. The venue is located in the Hotel GEM and its Recreational Centre. The Championships comprise 3 series as Junior/Girls/Youngsters and will be played as a simple Round-Robin.

All events are open to the member countries of EBL. Each country may be represented by one national team in each series.

All entries must be made electronically via this website (not by email), from 25th February and before 1st May 2013 (team registration).

For more information (programme, entry fees, accommodation), click here


Opatija to host 12th European Champions’ Cup

Agreement Sign

The 12th European Champions’ Cup will be held in Opatija/Croatia from 14th to 17th November 2013. Opatija has already seen European and World championships, in the Youth and University series, and now is going to be the venue for a major European Open championship.


 

 

Ostend, Belgium is going to host the 6th edition of the European Open Championships, following the very succesful hosting of the European Team Championships in 2010. The Mixed medals competition will be held between June 15th and 21st, while the Open, Women, and Seniors medals competitions will take place between June 22nd and 29th. Open pairs and teams side events will be held during the whole duration.

To register for an event, please click on the appropriate link depending to the event type (Pairs or Teams) and then follow the instructions.

Event Type
Pairs Event Teams Event

For booking your hotel you have several options:

 • directly with the Hotel Thermae Palace (main championships hotel) atwww.thermaepalace.be. Click here to get the reservation form.

• directly with the ROYAL ASTRID Hotel (second main championships hotel) atwww.royalastrid.com; click here to go to the reservation page (the code is bridge13)

• through the Ostend Tourism Office; you can get a list of other hotels via its’website (the code is bridge2013)

https://secure.cubilis.eu/portal/belgie/oostende/view_packages.aspx?pid=103&lang=en

(The code is Bridge2013).

• To access the championships website, click here

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