News
4-September-2018
AGM Tomorrow, Wednesday 5th September
6:15pm at Room 3, Church House Westminster
The AGM and captains' meeting (to arrange fixtures for the season) is almost upon us. There will be no paper copies at the AGM of the following documents – please print your own if you require them (the fixtures sheet is especially useful).
- Map of venue [PDF] (please come to the North Door entrance in Great Smith Street as the Dean's Yard entrance shuts at 6:00pm).
- AGM Agenda [PDF] or below
- Minutes of 2017 AGM [PDF]
- Fixtures Sheet (blank) [PDF]
For information the forthcoming season will look like this:
- League structure for 2018-19
- The first round of the Knockout (Cup & Plate) for 2018-19
AGM Agenda
- Opening by chairman
- Apologies for absence
- Approval of the minutes of the 2017 AGM
- Matters arising from the 2017 AGM
- Chairman's report
- Arrangement and Cancellation of matches
- Treasurer's report
- Election of officers
- Appointment of Auditor
- Dates for SURDOC and Selfridges
- Playing of League and Cup matches
- Any other business
At conclusion of AGM,
- Presentation of trophies for 2017-18 Season
- Captains' Fixture Meeting
Or download printable copy [PDF].
1-September-2018
New Season Update
A personal thanks to all captains for prompt replies to registration invitations. I had thought the AGM was 10 days later and the pre-season was correspondingly shorter than previous but, if anything, it has run more smoothly.
The 2018-19 League Season will be one team larger than last year: TKFH have returned, there is a new RAC team, 'Spitfire' but we have lost the National Audit Office who, despite winning Division Five last year, can no longer raise a team.
The draw for the knockout is now available from left.
22-August-2018
New Season!
AGM: Wednesday 5th September, 6:15pm at Room 3, Church House Westminster
See this map [PDF]. Please come to the North Door entrance in Great Smith Street as the Dean's Yard entrance shuts at 6:00pm.
Agenda and other documentation to follow.
The AGM will be followed by a captains' meeting to arrange fixtures.
League and Knockout
The draft divisions are linked from left and is broadly the result of 'two up, two down' from last year's standings. We are pleased to welcome a new team, RAC Spitfire, and to balance the divisions, some thirds have been promoted.
The first-round draw for the Cup will be made closer to the AGM when there is more confidence in the number of teams competing.
SURDOC
The teams-of-four event is on Tuesday, 2nd October 2018, 6:00pm at the Young Chelsea Bridge Club, 54 Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 8HA. See the full details.
Registration for 2018-2019
Team entries are managed online via this website. Captains have been sent an email detailing how to access and confirm/amend all their team's details – entry to League/KO/SURDOC, contact information, line-ups.
If your captain is away or has stood down, please get in touch and you'll be sent a code to access your team's details. At the very least we need you to press the button and confirm you are entering again this year.
Note:
- Entry for KO and League is online only via the New Season Entries link on the left.
- New teams will be sent a code to enter.
- There is no change in the cost of participating in the League or knockouts.
31-August-2018
Gainsborough Plate
Congratulations to CMS Alumni (Roy Griggs, Arthur Dyson, David Reuben, Mark Nichols) who beat Lavender Blue (Andrew Stimson, Anne Stimson, Bill Harvey, Roger Boothman) in the final, 50-35.
14-June-2018
Leslie Dodds
Congratulations to Stock Exchange 'A' (Peter Cogliatti, David Hull, Stuart Leigh, Jimmy Strauss), beat RAC Rolls Royce (Andrew Kisiel, David Glass, Brigitte Kisiel, Pralab Barua) in the final (Brian Kelly played for Stock Exchange in an earlier round).
League
All matches complete! This year's honour roll:
- Division 1.
- Buttons 'B'
- Division 2.
- White Rabbits
- Division 3.
- Wanderers
- Division 4.
- RAC Rolls Royce
- Division 5.
- National Audit Office
Only the Plate final to go…
15-May-2018
AGM Date: Wednesday 5th September
The 2018 AGM at which fixtures will be set for the 2018-19 season, will be on Wednesday 5th September. The venue will again be the Church Commissioners' Office, 5:30pm for 6:15pm.
Full details to follow in due course, entry to the League, Knockout and SURDOC will again be online.
15-May-2018
Congratulations to Andrew McAlister and Roy Westwater who, after placing second in 2016 and 2017, have their names on the cup.
| 1. | Andrew McAlister & Roy Westwater | 55.62% |
| 2. | Marina Chaning Pearce & Ross Cope | 53.75% |
| 3. | Konrad Mau & John Gibbons | 53.75% |
See the full results.
23-April-2018
Selfridges Pairs
As announced below, Tuesday May 15th is the Selfridges Pairs at the Young Chelsea, Goldhawk Road.
The bare details are: single-session matchpoint pairs; 6:00pm for sandwiches etc., 6:30pm prompt start to play; £12.50 per player payable on the night; prior registration required; limited to 26 pairs.
See the full details.
12-March-2018
Advance Notice – Selfridges Pairs
Tuesday May 15th has been booked for the Selfridges Pairs at the Young Chelsea.
1-December-2017
John Lewis
Regrettably John Lewis have withdrawn from the League (Division Two). Their captain has written to all opponents.
28-November-2017
Knockout Draws
The draws for the Leslie Dodds Cup (round-one winners) and Gainsborough Plate (others) have now been made and are available from the left. There should be 13 teams in each – and consequently three byes – but there are also three yet-to-be-played round-one fixtures (or perhaps, yet-to-be-reported?). Naming and shaming:
RAC Rolls Royce v Habeas CorpusStock Exchange 'B' v KPMG BlueButtons 'C' v Livesey
These have all been resolved. Livesey have withdrawn from the Plate.
Those teams are facing a double-default if they do not play before 8-Dec-2017.
The play-by date for round-two remains at 12-Jan-2018. Arguably it might be put back due to recent troubles (and consequent late draw) but as there are only five matches in each event, I have left it unchanged.
27-November-2017
Service Update (4)
Literally minutes after writing the text below I had another email from Mark Newton:
More changes to your web server
I am still 'messing about' I got the sizing of the virtual hard disc wrong so am having to make a copy of the server but will more disk space.
This means can you leave of any updating until after the weekend please?
Sorry for all this.
Needless to say, that erased my update but I reapplied the local version. Draw for knockouts tomorrow, Tuesday (all being well).
24-November-2017
Service Update (3)
It's been a frustrating period with the website intermettently unavailable for sometimes, days. I hope that is now at an end. After being moved to a temprary server (see below) it came to light it too was not in good health. Today I received the following update:
New server installed
I have copied the old server across over night and will be switching over to the new one soon. If you have uploaded any new information overnight or this morning, this will be lost in the transfer. Just re upload the changes and all should be fine. None of your setting should change.
There will be a small amount of downtime as the IP addresses are moved.
Mark Newton
MD Ecats Ltd
I will make the draw (now overdue) for the knockouts for Monday 27th November.
31-October-2017
Service Update (2)
The whole site was down from about 6pm yesterday until just before noon.
30-October-2017
Service Update
The mail server was not working properly and though submitting results did not cause an error and did redirect to the 'mail sent' page, no confirmation mail was received. At least until an hour or so ago when the stream was 'unblocked'.
Understandably there were duplicates as captains tried again. I've checked these and most were faithful copies but where there were discrepancies in line-ups, I've gone for the latest. Please feel free to correct if the scorecard is wrong.
27-October-2017
2017 SURDOC
Congratulations to Konrad Mau, John Gibbons, Andrew Shillam and Mike Shilling of White Rabbits who won the annual teams on Tuesday 24th.
| Team | Whi | Nat | RAC | Sto | But | Hab | But | KPM | Civ | For | IMPs |
| White Rabbits | ** | 7 | 3 | -2 | 13 | -8 | 11 | 5 | 15 | -7 | 37 |
| National Audit Office | -7 | ** | 0 | 2 | -7 | 10 | 2 | 29 | -12 | 10 | 27 |
| RAC Morgan | -3 | 0 | ** | -4 | 3 | -12 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 25 |
| Stock Exchange | 2 | -2 | 4 | ** | 6 | 26 | -2 | -5 | -11 | 6 | 24 |
| Buttons A | -13 | 7 | -3 | -6 | ** | -7 | 9 | -6 | 11 | 20 | 12 |
| Habeas Corpus - Livesey | 8 | -10 | 12 | -26 | 7 | ** | 7 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -3 |
| Buttons B | -11 | -2 | -11 | 2 | -9 | -7 | ** | 14 | 2 | 11 | -11 |
| KPMG Blue | -5 | -29 | -13 | 5 | 6 | 1 | -14 | ** | 19 | 1 | -29 |
| Civil Service | -15 | 12 | -5 | 11 | -11 | 0 | -2 | -19 | ** | -1 | -30 |
| Formtex | 7 | -10 | -12 | -6 | -20 | 0 | -11 | -1 | 1 | ** | -52 |
See the full results.
Service Announcement
The delay in posting the SURDOC result was due to a malicious attack on our host's servers affecting multiple sites. We haven't been inconvenienced other than being unable to update this week until now. It is not out of the question that we might see some teething problems having been moved to a clean server.