As previously mentiond on these pages the club had its busiest ever night recently – Tuesday 21st January with approx 70-80 attendees in the club, with approx 50 playing in the Match Hall and another 20 in the Social room.
Tomorrow night could be a contender to match these numbers as we expect 20 visiting players with 4 league matches to take place.
The club goes from strength to strength as we continue to gather new members and in some cases welcome the return of past members. The Members page shows the latest list of all current members, and the secretary is looking forward to locking in many more as January has seen many use up their “free visit(s) cards”.
The Club championship is thriving with frantic activity in the top and bottom divisions. In Div 1, Andy Raeburn has been excelling and leads with 5/7 but fell victim to the defending champion Harry Gardiner last week, who has the most impressive %age score (80%) with 4/5. With “A” team skipper Martin Burns and team colleague Richard Lee keeping track – these three “A” team players are all undefeated and have two draws each. Top rated Richard may be slight favourite but Harry is determined to retain his title and searching for his 3rd title in 4 years.
Division 2 continues to be a slow burner as only 8 games have been completed in the competition so far. With only 7 active players to date, Ebube Christian and 12 year old Oskar Jarzynski share the lead with 2.5/3 each, and may well emerge victorious and gain promotion.
Division 3 is wide open as no one is dominating this section. Mario and Nathan Fourie currently share the lead with 3.5 pts each as Nathan has a game in hand. Tim Weston has the best %age (75%) score to date and sits just behind the leaders on 3pts
Division 4 has now expanded to 16 players. Two of our youngest members are making great progress with 12 y/o Tommy Cooke setting the stage alight with 5/6 and 9 y/o William Hogben chasing on 3.5/4.
The junior Rapidplay event sees another youngster leading the way with Noah Smith on 2.5 pts just ahead of a 4-way pile up on 2pts (Tommy, William, Jack Patullo and Rishita Rajput).