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The Clubs Championship is back – online! Register now!

The weekend of 15-16 August was booked to be our physical Clubs Championship. Although we can’t hold it this year, we will instead be running an online version, and if it’s successful we’ll make it into an annual event. The Online Clubs Championship will follow the tried and tested format of its real world sister, with teams of five representing physical clubs throughout the UK playing on Gridgammon, Backgammon Galaxy or Backgammon Studio Heroes over the course of the weekend. We’ll have group stages on Saturday afternoon, the early knockout rounds on Saturday evening, and the final stages on Sunday afternoon.

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Team UK: The WBGF World Team & Individual Championships

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Martin Barkwill writes:

The WBGF World Team & Individual Championships, Forges-Les-Eaux, France, January 2020

Team UK: Chris, Sebastian, Lawrence, Chris, Martin, Tim, Raj

If ever there were a hard act to follow, it is surely following Tim Cross under whose captaincy the UK team won the Worldwide Team Tournament in Tbilisi in 2016, the Nordic Open team event in 2018 and were runners up in the European Team Championships in 2017.

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The UK Online Team for the WBIF World Team Championships

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Chris Rogers writes:

As the current captain of the UK Online Team, I am very pleased to announce our participation in the WBIF World Team Championships commencing on 1 September.

The team contains the usual suspects in the form of myself (Chris Rogers), Gaz Owen, Leo Waters, Sebastian Wilkinson and Tim Cross, but I am pleased to announce the participation of our new secret weapons in the form of Oliver Squire and Chris Bray.

This will be both Oliver’s and Chris Bray’s debuts in the team competition and I am hopeful of strong performances from both. They both have excellent PRs and high grid gammon ratings, so I am sure my hopes will not be unfounded.

The UK came third in 2015 and won the competition in 2017. “Odd” years seem to be good for us, so I am hopeful for more success in 2019! With the competition being opened up to more and more nations worldwide, the challenge will be tougher than ever, but I have full confidence in our team – the old stalwarts and the newbies alike!

If you have a Gridgammon account and see any of us involved in a 13 point match, then please come and support us, as the more support we get, the better.

UK Clubs Championship York, 11th August 2019

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Last year I incautiously mentioned to a few players that my club (North East Backgammon Association, aka NEBA) were minded to host the 2019 UK Clubs Championship. Several of those I used as a sounding board expressed caution that holding the event in the Far North would be a deterrent and we would be challenged to match the attendance of previous years. I am therefore very grateful to my NEBA colleague, Keith Gill, for recommending York University as a possible venue and for making many site visits to check on its viability, suitability of the proposed playing room, facilities and likely costs.

York University – venue for the 2019 UKCC

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2019 Blackpool Imperial Cup

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First of all, we would like to thank all 128 players for making 2019 a sell-out.

Friday evening action

Many players took advantage of the cheap Thursday night hotel rates to arrive early and miss the Friday traffic. This resulted in over 70 players being in the room at 2pm on Friday for the first of our added money Freerolls, and what proved to be the very popular cashouts (an idea we stole from Roger Porter).

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