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Taken from EBU website: 23 June 2023

Next Steps and becoming a County TD

For more experienced directors, with ambitions to progress to a county or national level, advanced training is provided in the form of a 'refresher day' held at the EBU Headquarters in Aylesbury, in May each year. Material from previous County courses is used to give delegates a flavour of harder book and judgement rulings. It will also cover use of the EBU’s White Book (the essential guide for tournament organisers). Full details of the course are here.

Consolidate your Skills

Download a test paper consisting of 40 situations to consider: book rulings, judgement rulings and, in some cases, good old-fashioned common-sense. Some are quite intricate and others straightforward, but hopefully they will all make you think.

This course is designed for Club TDs who need more experience of rulings and is ideal preparation for the County Director’s Course held annually in September. Full details of the course are here.

You can study or download useful flow charts on the most commonly infringed laws here.

Explanation of the TD training courses

Taken from EBU website: 23 June 2023

Advanced TD Training Day (previously known as County TD Preparation course)

This course will next take place in March 2024.

Details These are a one day course, beginning at 10:30am and ending no later than 4:30pm. The course fee includes tea and coffee but you will need to bring or make your own arrangements for lunch.

Further details available from Mark Humphris - 01296 317218 or by email: mark@ebedcio.org.uk. To get ready for the preparation course - or to see if it may be suitable for you - please download this test paper consisting of 40 situations to consider. Some are book rulings, some judgement rulings and, in some cases, good old-fashioned common-sense. Some are quite intricate and others straightforward, but hopefully they will all make you think.

County Directors Courses

The course will next be held in May 2024. It will be run by English Bridge Education and Development.

The course fee for residential delegates includes dinner, bed and breakfast at hotel for one night, and a light lunch on the Sunday, plus course materials. Courses are only open to qualified Club Directors or previously qualified County Directors. This intensive course starts on Saturday afternoon at 2pm, with other sessions on Saturday evening, Sunday morning and afternoon, finishing at approx 3:30pm. The County Directors' course is for qualified Club Directors who will normally have at least one year's experience of directing and some experience of organising events at County level. The prime objective of the course is to assess candidate's experience to become fully qualified County Directors, based on their performance in the exercises therein. Participation is also a learning experience - those attending will; on completion of the course:

• Have answered a pre-course test including topics from the Blue and White Books.
• Understand the role and responsibilities of a county director.
• Have a good understanding of the Laws and EBU Directives governing duplicate bridge.
• Able to deal confidently with common table situations.
• Have participated in an appeal.
• Have dealt with harder judgement rulings.
• Have a better understanding of the Laws of Duplicate Bridge 2017.

The course is a mixture of table simulations, lecture and written assessment. Further details available from Mark Humphris - 01296 317218 or by email: mark@ebedcio.org.uk.

See EBU website