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November 2021 Meeting Minutes

Published November 2021

Minutes of the Committee Meeting of the DBA held online 24 November 2021

The meeting opened at 4pm.

1. Present: (Chair) Geoff Clements; (Secretary) Doug Dunn; (Treasurer+North) Neil Marsden; (East) Jean Harrison; (North) Jacqui Munns

2. Previous Minutes

Minutes for October were accepted and approved by the committee.

3. Section Reports

North Section

  • NM – good response to the Filleigh Charity Swiss Teams, Sunday 28th November.

  • All three clubs where F2F taking place had members with covid. Might have to close sessions

  • North Devon Congress 25-27 Feb 2022 will be live and is open for entries via N Devon website.

East Section

  • JH – Exeter online play continuing twice a week. No joy in finding suitable premises for evening F2F but Victoria Park club have offered Thursday afternoons exclusively for Exeter members. So far response limited, with many put off by limited parking.

  • Exeter hosting nine teams in a match against Pesaro, Italy as part of the RealBridge twinning competition. (Exeter won).

  • John Woolcott set up for 15-16 January 2022 on RealBridge. Jeremy to direct.

South Section

  • Newton Abbot going well F2F play Thursday evenings.

  • Torquay are playing at the Zion Hall on Tuesday evenings.

West Section

  • No report.

4. Competitions

  • Tollemache report – Warner submitted report and thanks for DBA support. The committee offered their congratulations on their second place in their heats and qualification for the final in February.

  • Winter Pairs update – proceeding monthly as arranged.

  • Devon Congress – this is to be a two-day online event using RealBridge. There will be no play on Fridays. Geoff still to get a satisfactory answer from Livermead House Hotel over rebates.

  • Devon Teams of 8 - Doug to investigate how this could run on a virtual basis and find out which clubs

  • Eastern League – the last series replacement run through Exeter (by Nigel) has finished but Nigel has resigned from EBC. Discussions are underway as to how it can continue.

  • Devon Knockout Teams – no information

5. Treasurer's Report

NM – outstanding task is the rebate of moneys to Wednesday players who paid upfront for the weekly series.

5. Western League update

  • JM - going well - all results are on DBA website. Jacqui to contact the additional people who said they were interested in playing.

7. AOB

None.

Meeting ended 5pm.

Next meeting

Date of next DBA meeting: 11 January 5pm on zoom