Steve Fisher – Page 2 – Blewbury Croquet Club

Outfield mowing rota

Dates are listed below for the rota. They are all on the Monday at the start of the seven day period during which the job should be done. Though the mower is quiet, mowing should not be done during tournaments nor matches. I prefer late afternoon towards the end of a roll up session. If there are any dates you cannot do please arrange a swap and let me (Steve) know.

Please see the instructions.

18 May – David W
1 Jun – Edmund
15 Jun – David V
29 Jun – Andy J
13 Jul – John
27 Jul – Peter A
10 Aug – Steve
24 Aug – Tim
7 Sep – David W
21 Sep – Edmund
5 Oct – David V
19 Oct – Andy J

13 Apr 2519 Jul 25

Roger Cambray Memorial Shield – 2025

Winner: Deirdre Cochrane

This year’s Roger Cambray was hosted at Hall Barn, at the kind invitation of the Cochranes; keen to reprise the balmy summer parties that had kicked off the competition in 1998, and in celebration of its previous 25 winners.

With 15 entrants, the morning and early afternoon were spend in 3 blocks of 5, leading to semi-finals and final for the top 4 players. The block playing at Hall Barn saw Deirdre come second to David Seed – though David Seed had pre-announced that he would be retiring from the competition at the end of the block matches, so was unable to proceed to the knock-out stages.

Meanwhile, at the Croquet Club, two blocks were playing on half-sized lawns. Block 1 was easily won by Robin Brown, who was able to race through all 4 of his victories during the morning session, with Brian Jamieson narrowly pipping reigning trophy holder, David Long, to the runners-up spot. Block 2 saw Edmund Shirley triumphant, with Steve Fisher a close 2nd.

Robin and Edmund were seeded into separate semi-finals, as the block winners, and matched against Deirdre and Brian respectively as the highest-achieving runners-up. On Hall Barn’s lawn it was Deirdre and Brian who triumphed to reach the final which Deirdre proceeded to win; all 3 knock-out matches finishing 13-9. This was Deirdre’s 7th victory in this competition, 25 years on from her first, and she was fittingly presented with the shield by Chris Cambray, Roger’s son.

David Long
Tournament Manager

1 Jan 2515 May 26

AC Ladder 2025

This is similar to the GC ladder of 2023 but one game in any form of AC: level, handicap, advanced etc. may be played. One ball is not permitted, nor is SC. It uses an Egyptian ladder format where beating someone higher up the ladder brings you more points than beating someone nearby.

Please avoid 26 point games but use 14, 18 or 22 point games.

Games may be played whether or not jumping is allowed.
If jumping is allowed then these are qualifying games so both players must enter them on their handicap cards – otherwise they must not go on handicap cards.
You may challenge any club member with an AC handicap to a game, regardless of whether they are on the ladder already or are yet to play their first game. If you cannot agree on the format of the game then the game cannot be played.
To join in please send an email to dr.s.m.fisher@gmail.com to have your name entered, issue a challenge, play the game and one of you enters the result below. Results should be entered promptly for it all to work properly.

There is some more information on the Egyptian ladder below.

Results

Name	Points	Wins	Games
Andrew Petit	109	6	8
Andy Evason	99	2	5
Peter Allan	97	0	1
Nigel Cox	95	0	2

Your games

Date	Winner	points	to	Loser	Points	to

Details of the format

Each player is initially assigned 100 ranking points. If a player beats a player of the same ranking then three points are transferred from the loser to the winner. However beating a higher ranked player results in more points being transferred and vice versa. Winning or losing a game may change your handicap but this change has no impact on the ranking points

You may challenge any club member to a game, regardless of whether they are on the ladder already or are yet to play their first game. Failure to accept the challenge without good reason and to play the game within two weeks results in a maximum score being recorded for the challenger and 0 for the person who failed to play. Such results do not go on handicap cards as regular results would.

You must play a minimum number of games to win.

A player's position is determined by ranking points, then wins, then net wins (#wins – #losses).

The number of points transferred is given in the table below.

Difference in ranking points before the game	If player with higher ranking points wins	If player with lower ranking points wins
0-6	3	3
7-11	2	4
12+	1	5

The competition will be closed at midnight on the 31st August. Those in the lowest quartile of number of games played will be ineligible to win, otherwise the winner is the person at the top of the ladder.

Queries to Steve Fisher please.

1 Jan 2530 Jan 25

GC Ladder 2025

This is similar to the GC ladder of 2023 but one game in any form of GC: level, advantage or extra turns may be played. It uses an Egyptian ladder format where beating someone higher up the ladder brings you more points than beating someone nearby.

Games may be played whether or not jumping is allowed.
If jumping is allowed then these are qualifying games so both players must enter them on their handicap cards – otherwise they must not go on handicap cards.
You may challenge any club member with a GC handicap to a game, regardless of whether they are on the ladder already or are yet to play their first game. If you cannot agree on the format of the game then the game cannot be played.
To join in please send an email to dr.s.m.fisher@gmail.com to have your name entered, issue a challenge, play the game and one of you enters the result below. Results should be entered promptly for it all to work properly.