Happy new year

 

This Wednesdays meeting on the 30th Dec will be a short meeting due to the pubs Christmas quiz night.
We will be playing for only an hour from 19:30--20:30.

I have loaded a tournament page to the website mainly for our end of month mini tournaments. It also contains a link to the Challonge website where you can view past results.

Starting in January I am going to try to reinstate the Lansongammon league. The web page is now back up and running with a link to the League Republic website.
Everything starts on 1st January with the first season finishing on 25th March. Pop along to the website and take a look. HERE

And last but not least  HAPPY NEW YEAR

End of year tourny

A very good evening had by all last night down at the Pint & Post.

For the end of the year, just before Christmas meeting we had a mini tournament.
It was the ideal time as a few more people were able to come due to the school holidays. (No bedtime and mothers not stressed)

 
We were limited on time so played 3 point games finishing right on time just before our usual stagger home time.  All the results have now been uploaded to the UKBGF website for all to see.

After several good games the winner of the first Lansongammon tourny was Lynne Norris. Well played Lynne.

The next mini tournament will be held on the last Wednesday in January.. See you there...

End of year update.

The next meeting at the Pint & Post will be this Wednesday 23rd Dec from 19:30. 

We should have a few more members attending this meeting so I'm hoping that we can play a 3 or 5 point  tournament to add some results our UKBGF rating page. Due to illness in the ranks, this hasn't been possible yet.

Starting in 2016 I am thinking that It would be a good idea to hold a regular tournament on the 3rd or 4th Wednesday of each month. Results also being added to the UKBGF page and to our websites hall of fame. (yet to be created)

members
Club membership has been very hit and miss to say the least. We have had people turn up never to be seen again. People who come along regularly and then just stop coming (was it something I said?)
And a couple of people who have come along only to be taken ill. (will let them off) 
We still have a regular core membership who come every week but It's strange that even with advertising etc players are thin on the ground. Ha Ho Onwards and upwards..

We have several things planned in the new year to add benefits for members (watch this space) as well as more advertising ideas.

If you want to come along for a game or two just turn up and say "HI" No charges to join or play.  Free parking and the Pint & Post does great food and drink.





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Fibs.

After the UKBGF announced that there would be a couple of online tournaments next year I thought I had better start using an online gaming program that is lightly to be used by the other players.
After an e-mail to the tournament director for some advice I settled on trying FIBS.

To be honest my first choice was going to be Gridgammon, just for the reason that quite a few of the players I follow through a Facebook group seem to use it.
The problem with Gridgammon is that you need to be nominated for membership like an exclusive country club. So this was out, as I don't know anyone personally that uses it.
Back to 3DFIBS.

I selected 3DFIBS to use as a Fibsboard and downloaded it to my PC, and I'm glad I did.
I have had quite a few offline games and a few online games over the last few days and I seem steadily to be getting to grips with the functions available.
I will be Re-blogging about my fibs experience in a few months when I have had more experience of it.

So I'm set to go. Roll on January 2016.