Extra One-day Competition on 3rd March

The competition on 4th March is over-subscribed so we have added an additional competition on the day before - 3rd March 2023.

If you have already entered please follow the instructions sent out by Roger by email. New players can also enter on-line as normal.

AC Short Croquet competitions in April and June

There are two additional one day competitions in the system for next season. Both are AC Short Croquet events, AC alternate stroke doubles on short courts (14 point handicap games) on 24th April 2023 and AC Short Croquet singles on short courts (full bisque, 14 point games) on 2nd June 2023. Entry fee for members of £5.

All handicaps welcome; if you don't have a short croquet handicap, don't worry, ir can be calculated from your AC handicap.

If you wish to take part in either of these events you probably need to enter quickly as places are very limited.

Entering club open tournaments

I have made some changes to the open competition entry form and you can now enter more than one competition at the same time. On a desktop computer, hold down the Ctrl key (Cmd key on Apple) to select more than one event; on a smartphone tick the check for the required events.

This change  represents a substantial re-coding of the form so if anything appears wrong, please email me.

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Season ends with Festive Cheer

Still one event to go (The Christmas GC Doubles on the 30th December - two places left!) but the Club Christmas Lunch was a good way to (nearly) finish. The canteen was filled with two rows of tables (better than three as we have had sometimes in the past) and the result was a colourful and enjoyable meal.

Thanks to Fran Box, a raffle took place between main course and pudding and there was a succession of prize winners visiting the prizes table.

The main event, the three course meal, was unsurpassed: lovely soup choices for starters, followed by Turkey or Ottolenghi’s Mustardy Cauliflower Cheese and choice of puddings. All excellent - your correspondent had extra helpings to make sure!

Club get togethers with meals like this couldn't happen without the expertise and dedication of our members who take on the huge task of preparation and cooking: the Working Party decorated the Canteen the Tuesday beforehand and prepared the furniture; all the food had to be bought and stored; a whole team was present on Saturday to do laying of tables and preparing the food and again on Sunday for the final stages of cooking, presentation and serving (and clearing up afterwards). A huge thank you to everyone involved.

Compliments of the Season to all Club members and best wishes for 2023.

Croquet Academy Programme for 2023 released.

Next season's programme of courses is now available on the Academy website and course are open for bookings.

GC one-day competition 25th November 2022

After a lot of rain and squally winds this week, players in today's competition found they could ditch the scarves and coats and play most of the day in very pleasant sunshine.

As usual, play was in three separate blocks. Congratulations to Richard Brooks who won the A Block, winning all of his 6 games; to Ian Stewart who won the B Block with 4 out of 5 wins; and to Graham Tucker who won all his games in the C Block.

Thanks to Fiona for managing the competition and to Rachel and Richard Pointon for providing the lunch. 

Full results

Why are so few players entering tournaments?

Following from an earlier editorial on this subject, CLICK here to read a view from Bill Arliss

You can read:

• the editorial here
• Reply by Richard Brooks here
• Reply by Roger Sutton here

Scam Emails

This week a fairly clever email has been sent to some of our club addresses:

There is no reason for anyone other than the website administrator to receive any email purporting to come from Ionos, 1and1 or 1und1 (old company names for our internet provider) so if you do, it is a SCAM and should be deleted. 

As you can see there is a big blue button to click and this will add your details to a verified list of email addresses and will result in more spam for you and a payment to the website - which is in Russia in this case.

What one-day competitions have I entered?

Players do occasionally forget they have entered a competition so it is useful to be able to check what you have entered. That has always been possible with the Club's open one-day competitions but the feature has been improved: you can now look at a specific competition or (a new and trial feature) you can see all your competition entries in one list. Both these can be found here, which is in the menu Play croquet - Open competitions - One-day competitions - Check one-day competition entries.

If you are on a reserve list (these competitions are popular) it will tell you where you are in the queue. If you don't want to be on the reserve list, please email opentournaments@sussexcountycroquetclub.org.uk to withdraw.

Please note that this only covers one day competitions; if you are looking to see what CA advertised competitions you have entered you must use the CA website; all entries for internal club competitions which are open to entry can be seen on this page.

Winter one-day Doubles Competition

Three blocks based on handicap competed separately. Block A was won by Beryl Hughes and Gavin Taylor  with 4 out of 6 wins; Block B was won by Elizabeth Drury and Tony James with 4 out of 5 wins; and Block C was won by Fran Box and Anne Bolland with 4 out of 5 wins.

Thanks to Frances Low for managing the event, to Richard Brooks for being RoT, to Roger Sutton for assisting the Manager and to Rachel and Richard Pointon for preparing the lunch.