The Australian Bridge Federation runs an annual Grand National Open Teams event, bringing in teams from all over Australia to a RealBridge weekend playoff in September and a National grand final in November.
The Bridge Federation of the ACT will conduct an ACT final (Gala Pairs) on Saturday 6 September with an Open and Restricted (less than 300MPs) Pairs event.
The Canberra Bridge Club will hold a series of two session qualifying events between May 1 and 31 August in each regular duplicate and RealBridge session, details of which are shown below.
These events will be held concurrently with the normal duplicate. There is no entry fee and no need to pre -enter. Gold Masterpoints will be awarded for each session and the winner pair of each event will be invited to participate in the relevant ACT final with free entry. There is no obligation to accept the invitation.

All sessions at the CBC (including RealBridge sessions) have a two week GNOT Qualifier scheduled between 1 May and 31 August.

Schedule:

Novice and Restricted Events 

All novice and restricted events will have a limit on the number of masterpoints each player or partnership must have to be be eligible to play.

Usuallly the following applies, though each event can vary as per club's discretion:

Novice:       All team members must have less than 100 masterpoints at July 1, 2025.

Restricted:  All team members must have less than 300 masterpoints at July 1, 2025.

Intermediate: All team members must have less than 750 masterpoints at July 1, 2025.

We offer lessons for all levels.

• Beginners  
  • • For those who have never played bridge or have very limited experience with the game, our 6 week Beginners course introduces bridge from the very beginning.
• Fundamental 
  
  •  For those who know the basics of bridge but are not yet ready to play a social game of bridge, our  8-week foundation course will cover what you need. This course may be suitable for people returning to bridge after a long break.
• Supervised 
  
  • This program will assist people who want to move from being able to play a social game of bridge to playing a standard duplicate.  This may include, social bridge players wanting to take up bridge, and people returning to bridge. Lecture Notes and Schedule for the Supervised series are available here.
• Refresher course
  • • Suitable for people who have gone through the Supervised program, or social players or people returning to bridge after a break who want to refresh or update their skills. These lessons assume a higher level of knowledge than those in the supervised program.