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

Just another week.

Well another week has gone by..Wednesday night club meeting amounted to me and another regular who comes out to the village from Launceston every week.

So this week I have decided on a couple of things.

1. I have temporarily suspended the league and have taken down the web page for now.
    I will reinstate it  when we have more core players...
    I thought at one point that we were there, but  maybe    not quite yet.

2. Over the next couple of weeks I am starting a social media and flyer advertising
    campaign to try to attract some more members. 

                                                          WE WANT YOU...

Anyone reading this who may have some ideas to help rustle up some members please feel free to comment below.

Or if you want to come along, please do, we wont bite.....Honest....

New scoreboard.

This week I have been looking in to buying a score board..I still have some ukbgf money to spend on club bits and pieces so as I'm trying to organise a league and start to play matches on club nights, then a score board would be a good investment.

I started by looking at a well known Backgammon site and found a board for £30.00 plus p&p. Then a quick search of Ebay and I found one on auction with 6 days to run for £15.99 including p&p.
A bid was placed and 6 days later I won. (Result)
So winging it's way to me in the post is the below board.

 I will update here when it arrives..
Although the Lansongammon league officially started on 1st August I am a little behind with web page construction etc..
I am hoping to get all up and running by our Thursday meet at the firebrandbar

Pint & Post results for yesterday

Arrived down at the Pint & Post and just one person was there drinking. After a short chat it was decided that I would have a go at teaching him how to play.
One game later and he had picked up the game with little problem. (Maybe a new member in the wings. )

About one and a half pints later and another player arrived. He was the only other player to turn up all evening.. Not that it mattered. Gaming juice was consumed and a lot of Backgammon was played.
All together a good evening.


On the League front I have completed the relevant page on the website. Although "hidden" at the moment it will be going live very soon ready for 1st August.
 

Next meeting will be at the firebrandbar in Launceston on Thursday 9th July. For a 19:30 start. 

Yesterday...

A good set of games yesterday at the Firebrand. Although we don't seem to have a large number of members coming along to meetings regularly. We do have several members coming along for a game when they can.
Work etc getting in the way of regular attendance.
This is why I am very keen to set up a league for members to participate in as regular attendance is not nesessary.
All is going well at the moment and set to start August 1st. I will be asking for participants in the near future.

I have added a couple of polls to the Forum. Why not go along and tick a box.. Or if you are feeling daring why not comment on a thread or start your own.

End of year League..

This week I have been in touch with League organisers in Bristol and London with a view to blatantly  ripping off their league format.
Luckily for me they were very helpful and more than willing to let me copy/paste and generally steal their stuff.
So I have sprung into action and started making a League page for the website. I have also signed up to a site that makes displaying results, players etc easier.
Thinking that it will take me a day or two to sort all this out I have penciled in the start date as 1st August 2015 running for three months.
Not many players are needed to start a league. Which is a bonus really because we don't have many.

Next Lansongammon Backgammon meet will be this Thursday (25th June) at  Firebrand
Why not come along for a game or two. If you can't play, come anyway and we will teach you.
All welcome..