March Mini Tourny

Tonight we held our March mini tournament.

Four players attended playing short games to three points.
The tournament was won by Lynne Norris with Reuben Oliver a close second.

As mentioned in previous posts we are now meeting on a Tuesday evening, Same venue, the Pint & Post
st Giles on the heath.

 For further details see our website
 

February tourny

At yesterdays meeting at the "Pint and Post" we held our monthly mini tournament.The meeting was attended by seven players, not all participating in the tourny but all having a good evening.

We had one very new player who picked up the game very quickly and rumor has it that she spent the following morning playing Backgammon with her grandson. (Hooked i think)

The tournament was won by Alex Shaw with Reuben Oliver hot on her heels.

Its the school holidays so we had a couple of extra players in the shape of Poppy and Reuben.

Poppy still picking it up well with Reuben, as you can see from the results above, learning to fast.

And NO that's not Poppy's pint of bitter..

Unfortunately, due to the pubs quiz night and several other things that seem to all be happening on Wednesday  next weeks meeting has been cancelled. (sorry)


If you can play or fancy learning then why not come along to our next meeting.
Check our website for details HERE 
or get in touch via the website... See you there..

We are in the papers...

                                            Most Improved Player 2015


               Reuben, one of our younger members has had his picture in the paper.. 

A nice piece in this weeks Cornish and Devon post featuring Reuben who was presented with a "Most Improved Player" Certificate at our last mini tournament.

 Due to the pub changing the day that it holds its quiz night we are moving the date of our end of month tournament forward to next Wednesday 17th Feb.

This has turned out be be beneficial to us as the schools are on holiday so some of our younger members may be able to attend.

UKOPEN 2016

This week saw the UKBGF open registration for the UKOPEN 2016.

Ricoh Arena Coventry

This year we will be attending with two and possibly three members. One in the Advanced flight and the other two in the Swiss Beginners.

I have sent off the required email for two entrants but I'm waiting on confirmation from the third.

Hotels yet to be booked, but we stayed in a great Premier inn last year so the same could be on the cards.

Watch this space for a full report of our exploits as well as plenty of pictures.


Also, can someone pop over to the Lansongammon website and let me know in the comments below if the Newsletter sign up form is visible on the front page..I have been having some problems with this of late..Thanks in advance,,

  

Back to normal

Last week saw one of our few unavoidable Lansongammon cancelations.
This Wednesday all is back to normal with our usual meet at the Pint & Post st Giles

Kick off is 19:30 with our hosts selling good beer and even better food.

Format is very informal with one or three point games being played. 

Next week is our end of month mini tournament.

Games to three points, to be added to our UKBGF  ratings page.

See you there....

January

      

So the UKBGF online championship has started. 72 participants have signed up to this first online tourny. I have yet to play my first match due to work commitments. But watch this space..

The brackets are up HERE on the Challonge website.


Our next Lansongammon mini club tournament will be on the 27th January at the Pint & Post, st Giles.
Provisional brackets are up HERE 

If you want to come along we play to 3 points only with no cube due to time limits. Drop me a line via the website or ring on 07899238206... Details on the contact page HERE


As a final note, the January 13th meeting has been cancelled. 

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.

Coventry Trip to the UKopen

This past weekend we have been in Coventry for the UK Backgammon open2015.

This was my first tournament so I was a little worried about what to expect. You see I have been a member of many different clubs ( non Backgammon) over the years and attended many events that go along with the currant hobby.
I can safely say that most of them were clicky at best and very unwelcoming to non or new members.
So you can see why I was very apprehensive.

 Anyways, I need not have worried. We arrived at the Ricoh on Saturday morning and found the event.

Very quickly we were chatting with people.  People that we didn't know. People who were very nice, chatty and welcoming.. RESULT

So far so good...On to the gaming.  I was again worried about my first game against someone new who would undoubtedly be more used to these events.

 Again not to worry, all my opponents over the two days were very friendly and I hope to play them again very soon.


All in all a great weekend was had. Games won and more games lost.
But it didn't matter as they were all good games..


 

 I will be on the lookout for the next tournament to travel to..