WB Thames Festival Hugely Successful

Your regional committee's foray into Tournament Management over the weekend of January 8-10 went very satisfactorily. Thanks to the hard work of several Thames club members ably lead by new president Carol Crowfoot with great backup from a surprising number of non-combatants, the players were able to enjoy an almost seamless delivery of this iconic event.

Directed by Tony Morcom and scored by secretary Jan Spaans, the tournament was ably fronted by chairperson Rona Driscoll. Sunday's main event was renamed the Allan Barclay Pairs in honour of the man who did so much to keep this concept afloat for its eleven years. Trophies and prizes were presented by Denise Barclay and Allan's son Greg who traveled up from Papamoa to make a fine valediction in support.

Results in full may be seen on this website. The winners were:

John Eldridge 5A Teams: Cynthia and Ian Clayton with Pam and Ian Moore
Allan Barclay 5A Pairs: Jenny Millington and Barry Jones
Festival 8B Multigrade Teams: Ed Roggeveen and Jena Robinson with Linda Sloan with Heather Roggeveen
Festival 8B Multigrade Pairs: Ed Roggeveen and Jena Robinson
Festival Walk-In Pairs: Brett Glass and Gary Foidl

MultiGrade TeamsAllan Barclay Pairs

We have had to correct "seamless" to "almost seamless" because, after this article was first posted, it came to light that there were some scoring corrections which should have been made in Sunday's MultiGrade Pairs. This was because of a restart occasioned by a late arrival ... long story but it caused a bit of subsequent unraveling at the seams. First and second places were swapped around - sorry, Greg and Jacob.