AC Association Croquet

This Tournament is a new 2-day Association Croquet singles competition at held Watford and open to members of the national Croquet Association. It is also listed in the CA fixtures calendar..

Open AC Midweek B-Level Advanced
Tournament results by year:

Title: Open AC Midweek B-Level Advanced Tournament
Handicaps: AC: 0+
Date: Wednesday 3 - Thursday 4 August
Capacity: 16
Secretary: Email:   click on link to send an email
Phone: 01923 241582
Address: please ask, or log in and obtain it from the CA member's directory
Manager: Simon Hathrell
RoT: Simon Hathrell
Entries: Allocation: 30 May. Closing: 27 July.
Those who wish to enter and pay online may do so through the CA website in same way as entering a CA Tournament.
Alternatively, postal entries should be submitted together with entry fee using the standard CA Tournament entry form.
Entry fee: £24 (CA Premium members), others £34.
Pay online (see above) or by cheque to the secretary, payable to "Watford (Cassiobury) Croquet Club".
Format: AMD, provisionally Class Singles with two independent blocks.
Lunches: A cold lunch will be provided for a small fee.
Notes:
  1. Play starts at 09:30 each day.
  2. Refreshments and a light tea are provided free of charge.
  3. Details of parking and other arrangements will be sent to participants before the event.

The full entry of 16 players a few weeks before the tournament had been eroded by a series of late withdrawals for various reasons, so that by the day of the tournament the number had reduced to 12. This was just enough to run the tournament as two independent all-play-all blocks, with the three players having a 2 handicap being split between the blocks by their Dgrade.

The weather conditions were good and play started on time each day, with three rounds scheduled on the first day and two on the second. There was a fairly generous 3-hour time-limit for each game, but the majority of games were well contested, and the conditions were moderately tricky with variable pace as some patches of grass had dried out more than others, so the consequence was that 23% of the games went to time in the lower handicap block and 45% in the higher handicap block.

Unfortunately Mike Hills had to withdraw after the first day because of a family emergency, which left an odd number of players on the second day - disappointing for the two who had to sit out for a round, but in the end it didn't affect the final results, as Brian Havill and Don Beck both won their respective blocks with a clean sweep of 5 wins out of 5.

We hope to see everyone back again next year!

Report by Simon Hathrell