Open Short Croquet Tournament

Short Croquet

This is a new one-day Short Croquet singles tournament held at Watford for the first time this year. It is in the CqE Fixtures calendar and therefore  open to visitors as well as club members. As is standard for Short Croquet, it is played to handicap rules.

Short Croquet is a variant of AC played with 14-point games on half-size courts. It has its own handicapping system with default SC handicaps derived from regular AC handicaps, and with mandatory peels instead of minus handicaps.

Title:	Open Short Croquet Tournament
Handicaps:	: any
Capacity:	16Entries so far: 0
Date:	Sunday 12 July 2026
Allocation:	Monday 11 May (only applicable if over capacity by then)
Entries:	For club members only
Manager:	Simon Hathrell
Format:	Blocks with block winners proceeding to a knock-out, or AMD. Full bisque handicap 14-point games, 75-minute time-limit per game.

Notes:

1. Play starts at 09:30, and entrants should expect to play 5 ganes in the day.
2. Block winners: the players with most wins. Tie-breakers, in order:
   1. Wins vs. those tied if they have all played each other
   2. Net hoops
   3. Nottingham tie break

A Short Croquet handicap with a suffix 'P' indicates the number of mandatory peels.