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updated 9.7.12
NATIONAL CLUB 2011-12
Thanks go to Controllers Julie Johnson and Mike McNaughton for information supplied. As you know, we rely heavily on the clubs for rapid reporting of match results. Thank you, so far, to Chris, Clive, David, David, John, Michael, Mick, Paul and Trevor.
FINALS
on Sunday 8th July 2012
We now have firm news of all the venues.
Open Maidstone 1½ 4½ Wood Green at Golden Lane Community Centre. We think that makes 1 Wood Green 2/2; 2 Maidstone 1; 3 Mushrooms 0.
Major Bushbury 4 1 Tunbridge Wells at Golden Lane Community Centre
Plate Bedford 5 0 Maidstone at Golden Lane Community Centre
Intermediate Bishops Stortford* 2 2 Prescot & Knotty Ash at Syston Leics
Plate Maidstone 2½ 1½ Alwoodley at Syston
Minor Forest of Dean* 2 2 Fenton at Syston
OPEN
3 entries (3 last year)
No one's given up yet. Same entry as last year: Maidstone, Mushrooms and Wood Green. Same setup again. Single-round all-play-all, arranged so the team(s) deemed likeliest to win play the last match alongside the southern Finals.
Maidstone 4 2 Mushrooms played 26.2.12; Mushrooms 1 5 Wood Green played 13.5.12. Wood Green v Maidstone will take place alongside the London Finals on 8th July.
MAJOR U175
16 entries (18 last year)
Round 1 (by 22nd January) Gloucester 2 3 Bushbury; Bedford 2½ 2½ *St Albans; Tunbridge Wells 3 2 St Francis & Haywards Heath played 9.1.12; Maidstone 2½ 2½ *Athenaeum played 22.1.12; Bishops Stortford 1½ 3½ Wanstead & Woodford played 14.1.12; Ilford 1 4 Metropolitan; Wood Green 1 4 Hackney played 23.1.12; Farnham 3½ 1½ Brown Jack played 21.1.12
Quarter-finals (by 18th March) Bushbury w/o scr St Albans; Farnham 1½ 3½ Tunbridge Wells played 17.3.12; Wanstead & Woodford 2 3 Athenaeum played 18.3.12; Hackney 1½ 2½ (sic) Metropolitan
Semi-finals (by 3rd June) Tunbridge Wells 3½ 1½ Athenaeum played 29.4.12: venue reversed at Athenaeum's request; Metropolitan 2 3 Bushbury
PLATE
Quarter-finals Brown Jack 2 3 Gloucester; Bishops Stortford 1½ 3½ Bedford played 4.3.12; St Francis & Haywards Heath scr w/o Maidstone; Ilford* 2½ 2½ Wood Green
Semi-finals Ilford 1 4 Maidstone played 29.4.12; Gloucester 2 3 Bedford
INTERMEDIATE U145
12 entries (14 last year)
Mike McNaughton has gone for a straight knockout in preference to the mini-league setup he was considering.
Preliminary Round (by 15th January) Alwoodley 1½ 2½ Prescot Knotty Ash; Hackney 1½ 2½ Cosham played 14.1.12; Leamington 1 3 Rushall; Wanstead & Woodford 1 3 Bishops Stortford
Round 1 (by 11th March) Prescot & Knotty Ash 3½ ½ Bushbury; Cosham w/o scr Hastings & St Leonards; Rushall w/d w/o St Albans; Bishops Stortford 3 1 Maidstone played 10.3.12
Semi-finals (by 10th June) Prescot & Knotty Ash 3½ ½ St Albans; Cosham 1 3 Bishops Stortford
PLATE
Quarter-finals (by 29th April) Bushbury 1 3 Alwoodley; Wanstead & Woodford 1 3 Hackney
Semi-finals Alwoodley* 2 2 Leamington; Maidstone 3½ ½ Hackney
MINOR U120
6 entries (6 last year)
Note 6.11.11: Guy Greenland has taken over as Controller and is consulting the teams about the event format. Note 17.4.12: No news yet. (We'd given it up long ago.)
Note 24.4.12: It was THERE ALL ALONG, but keeping strangely quiet. We only found out when someone sent a match result to the Intermediate Controller by accident and he passed it on. (Thanks, Mike.) So we put our deerstalker on. We haven't got full details, but there are two sections, loosely South and Midlands, playing as all-play-all leagues. The two winners will meet in the Final. Note 27.4.12: the whole thing seems to have emerged now, with only one (meaningful) match to play in the qualifying groups.
Midlands (3 teams): Fenton Staffs 2 2 Syston; Fenton 2½ 1½ Bushbury; Syston v Bushbury playing in May but Fenton are already winners, at worst on tie-break, through their superior board-count score against Syston.
South (3 teams): Bishops Stortford 1½ 2½ Hackney played 22.4.12; Forest of Dean 2½ 1½ Bishops Stortford; Hackney lost to Forest of Dean 13.5.12. Well, Fenton think so. Their website expects a Final against Forest of Dean.
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