• Competitions

The 2003 World Bridge Championships comprise:

 • The 36th Bermuda Bowl (Zonal Championship for open teams)
 • The 14th Venice Cup (Zonal Championship for women's teams)
 • The 2nd Seniors Bowl (Zonal Championship for senior teams)
 • The 4th Transnational Open Teams

The Bermuda Bowl, the Venice Cup and the Seniors Bowl are open to the Zonal representative teams, qualified through trials arranged by each WBF Zone. The number of teams each Zone is entitled to enter in each series varies.

The 4th World Transnational Open Teams Championship is open to teams nominated by the National Bridge Organisations (NBOs) and approved by the WBF Credentials Committee. Players wishing to compete in this Championship are urged to contact their NBO and request nomination. There is no quota, and NBOs may nominate as many teams as they wish to compete in this great tournament. Teams eliminated from the early stages of the Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup & Seniors Bowl will also be able to enter the World Transnational Teams free of charge.

 • Format

The Bermuda Bowl and the Venice Cup consist of a qualifyier and a knockout stage. 22 teams will take part in the Bermuda Bowl, 18 in the Venice Cup and up to 16 in the Seniors Bowl.

The qualifier is a round robin (all against all) involving all participating teams in each competition. The top 8 teams will advance to the knockout stage.

The knockout stage consists of the quarterfinals, the semifinals, the final and the playoff for 3rd place.

The Senior Bowl, will consist of a complete round robin of 15 x 24-board matches with no knockout stage.

The World Transnational Open Teams is a Swiss Teams event with 10-board matches (3 or 4 per day). There will be a semifinal to be played on Friday evening, and a final on Saturday 15th November.

 • Schedule

 • Systems

 • 36th Bermuda Bowl & 14th Venice Cup

The Conditions of Contest will give full details about systems regulations and registration, but players should note that it will be a requirement that all systems are registered in advance via email to the WBF Systems Administrator at <anna@ecats.co.uk>

 • 4th World Transnational Open Teams

This is a Category 3 tournament. Therefore only systems permitted for this category (no brown sticker, no HUM) are authorized.

 • Entry Fees & Registration

The following registration dates are important and should be noted, although they may be subject to change:

 • Conditions of Contest

 • 2003 World Bridge Team Championships Supplemental Conditions of Contest

 • World Bridge Federation General Conditions of Contest

 • Shuttles

Shuttles from the airport to Monaco will not be provided on this occasion as there is an excellent bus service (buses leave hourly from the airport to Monaco at a cost of 14.1 Euro single or 22 Euro return) or, alternatively, you can get a taxi which according to the website will cost approximately 65-75 Euro. Please note that the taxis will only accept cash, not cheques or credit cards. Helicopter is only 69 Euro, but it doesn't take much luggage unfortunately!

Bus tickets can be purchased on line from the Nice Airport website, or tickets are also sold at the car park/bus office on the airport.

Please have a look at the Airport Website at http://www.nice.aeroport.fr where you can find information about the transport (look under Access and Parking on the menu at the side), as well as purchase your bus ticket if you wish to do so in advance.

 • Hospitality

The Hospitality Desk will be at the Sporting d'Hiver and will be open on Sunday 02 November. You are asked to go to register and collect your badges, complimentary bags and invitations for the Opening ceremony which will be held at 18h30 at the hotel de Paris. Please note, you will be required to fill in a registration form - so to make things easy. Please try and ensure that every member of your team completes one of these in advance. There will be blanks there, of course, but it will speed up the registration process enormously if you can bring a completed one with you!

 • Contact