Our third Charity Challenge started back in the autumn of 2018. It’s been a long journey, but we finally have a winner!
Steve Waller is our Charity Champion!
Announcing: the 2018 Online Charity Challenge
It’s back! We’re now accepting registrations for the 2018 Charity Challenge, which this year will be supporting the Alzheimer’s Society, selected by this year’s winner Simon Morecroft.
In 2017 Gaz Owen nominated Mind, the mental health charity, to be the beneficiaries, and we were delighted to raise over £600. We’re hoping to do even better this year!
This year’s tournament is the same as last year, a World Cup style format with round-robin groups playing 7-pointers leading to a final knockout, and once again you can sign up for more than one entry if you really want plenty of games. Non-members are more than welcome to join in. All the round robins will kick off on 11th November and run until 31st January. Please make sure you register in time, and please don’t forget to include either your name or your Gridgammon nickname with your donation – we still have one anonymous donor who we’ve never managed to thank! The knockout will then run with 11pt rounds every two weeks until we reach the 15pt final – we’ll let you know when the final is arranged so that you can come and watch.
The Alzheimer’s Society are involved in cutting edge research into dementia care, causes, cure and prevention; in campaigning to raise awareness of the condition and helping suthose affected live without fear or prejudice, and providing information, care and support to people with dementia and their families, friends and carers, and helping them live active and independent lives. It’s a condition that directly affects 1 in 10 of people over 65, as well as everyone around them..
You can find full details of the tournament here, and you can see how much we’re raising towards our target of £700 over at JustGiving. Please do come and play, it’s for a great cause and we can make a real difference!
Simon Morecroft wins the UKBGF Online Charity Challenge
Our second Charity Challenge has finally reached its end and we’re delighted to announce that Simon Morecroft is this year’s champion. The trophies are wrapped up in bubblewrap ready to go to the London Open in a couple of weeks to be presented -somewhat unusual for a TD to start off being on the receiving end…
The Online Charity Challenge is back!
Somewhat later than planned (too much tournament organising for me, ironically!) we’re back with our Online Charity Challenge 2017!
Last year’s winner Gaz Owen has nominated Mind, the mental health charity, to be the beneficiaries of this year’s event, and as they are set up as a federation of local branches we’ve gone for Bristol Mind.
This year’s tournament is a World Cup style format with round-robin groups playing 7-pointers leading to a final knockout, and once again you can sign up for more than one entry if you really want plenty of games. Non-members are more than welcome to join in. All the round robins will kick off on 1st November and run until 15th January – last year we did go on rather longer than I planned for, so this makes the dates a little more predictable. Please make sure you register in time! The knockout will then run with 11pt rounds every two weeks until we reach the 15pt final – we’ll let you know when the final is arranged so that you can come and watch.
You can find full details here, and you can see how much we’re raising towards our target of £500 over at JustGiving. Please do come and play, it’s for a great cause and we can make a real difference!
Gaz Owen wins the UKBGF Charity Challenge
It’s been a very long road from when we started out, but we finally have a result! Last night a small group of spectators saw Gaz Owen beat Emad Salib 15-9 in the final to become our first Charity Challenge Champion.
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