2022 AE Singles

[milhouse]

Hi Everyone,
Can you please let me know your county entries for the AE Singles

This is to be played on 30th October at Totteridge.

Mens

Berks - Jon Scoones
Bucks - Matt Jones
Kent - Curt Driver
Northants - None
Notts
Oxon - Mark Trafford
Suffolk
Surrey - Gary Powell
Sussex - Jim Millward
Yorkshire

Cambs, Hants, Jersey, Guernsey will need to pay their affiliation fee if they wish to send an entry.

Ladies
Berks - Janet Burns
Bucks - Dawn Jordan
Kent
Northants - None
Notts
Oxon - Pauline Withey
Suffolk
Surrey - Denise Wills
Sussex - Jean Brackenridge
Yorkshire

Cambs, Hants, Jersey, Guernsey will need to pay their affiliation fee if they wish to send an entry.

[Chris_Sav]

That will be a first if all those affiliation fees have already paid which, I believe, will be not be due until September 1st.

[joefoxon]

What's the criteria for being allowed to enter this please?

[JB]

Hi Joe

The affiliation fee £30 needs to be paid which is due 1st September to allow entry to any of the AEBBA comps (have sent message to Jamie)

The entry to the singles is usually the person who wins your County singles. Some Counties have a separate singles competition to get the person to represent your County

[joefoxon]

Is there a way to decide an alternative entry if the singles winner is no longer a member of the county? We also don't hold a separate women's knockout, so can we just select the person that got the furthest in the mixed competition?

[JB]

Each County can decide on their criteria for sending their representatives for this

[magners]

Hi Jean,
Surrey's representatives are Denise Wills for the ladies and me, Gary Powell for the mens.
Thanks

[jordans]

Hi Mark

Ladies - me
Mens - Matt

Ta

[JB]

Aug 4, 2022 9:42:33 GMT Chris_Sav said:

That will be a first if all those affiliation fees have already paid which, I believe, will be not be due until September 1st.

Looks like we’ve managed a first

[JB]

Berks
Mens Jon Scoones
Ladies Janet Burns

[JB]

Kent - Curt Driver

[JB]

Just bumping this thread as less than 2 weeks to go

Would be helpful if Counties could let us know if they will be sending any representatives or if they won’t be sending anyone so we know the numbers

Thanks

["Silent"]

Excellent day of bar billiards, very competitive ladies competition with 2 wins each for all the participants. Very close on the aggregate scores too with Denise Wills prevailing by around 1500 points from Jean Brackenridge - high break went to Dawn Jordan

In the Men's competition Matt Jones continued his fine run of form winning all 5 of his matches to take the title, Mark Trafford was runner-up - high break went to Nigel Senior (who stepped in to represent Sussex following the injury to Jim Millward)

Well done to everyone who participated, thanks, as always to Matt and Cliff Slade with a few other helpers for their hard work in setting up the tables. Not many left at the end but thanks to those who did help especially Dawn Jordan who carried loads of items to the van, with Matt and I having a good laugh with John Slee and Gary Powell as we had a bit of fun dismantling the tables

Thanks to Nigel and Mark for their incredible efforts on running 4 competitions in one day

[NigelS]

Congratulations to Matt Jones and Denise Wills on winning the All England Singles titles yesterday

Although only 6 players were present in the All England Singles it was a strong line up with 4 of the top 5 in the rankings competing. Matt was the class of the field on the day as he won all 5 matches to take the title and complete the triple crown of World Champion, All England Champion and Grand Prix champion. He joins an elite club of Kevin Tunstall, Bernie McCluskey, Paul Sainsbury, Mark Trafford, Keith Sheard & Phil Collins - Matt is not in bad company there!

As i said Matt was the best player on the day averaging 11,031 per leg - but he did give chances to all his opponents but they couldn't capitalise - and when they didn't Matt was pretty lethal. Mark Trafford was hobbling a bit but managed to finish runner up - he was level on 3 wins with Curt Driver and Nigel Senior but got the nod on aggregate score.

Player	County	P	W	L	Score	Player Ave	Pts
Matt Jones	Bucks	5	5	0	110,310	11,031	10
Mark Trafford	Oxon	5	3	2	80,430	8,043	6
Curt Driver	Kent	5	3	2	73,100	7,310	6
Nigel Senior	Sussex	5	3	2	60,760	6,076	6
Gary Powell	Surrey	5	1	4	42,860	4,286	2
Jon Scoones	Berks	5	0	5	36,510	3,651	0

The Ladies competition was extraordinary as the 5 ladies played out what was surely the closest competition ever in this event. Going into the last series Pauline Withey was finished on 2 wins. Dawn Jordan and Janet Burns also had 2 wins but had to play Jean Brackenridge and Denise Wills respectively. Denise got 9k up on Janet on tricky table 6, Janet faught back with a 6k score, but Denise got her vital 2nd win. The other game saw Dawn build up a 5k lead against the break putting her favourite to retain the title, but as Jean does she found a way to came back to win the 2nd leg and the match but would it be enough on score?

When it was added up just 11,730 points separated ALL FIVE ladies. In the end just 1,730 points was between the winner and runner up....and it was Denise (39,580) who pipped Jean (37,850) to take this title for the 4th time. I joked at the start of the day about having a run round the block to decide the winner if scores were tied - it wasnt far off happening!

Player	County	P	W	L	Score	Player Ave	Pts
Denise Wills	Surrey	4	2	2	39,580	4,948	4
Jean Brackenridge	Sussex	4	2	2	37,850	4,731	4
Dawn Jordan	Bucks	4	2	2	31,880	3,985	4
Janet Burns	Berks	4	2	2	29,440	3,680	4
Pauline Withey	Oxon	4	2	2	27,850	3,481	4

Congratulations to the 2 champions - a big thanks to Matt again for setting up the tables and the club for hosting. Thanks to Mark Trafford for all his work on the admin desk, also Matt Knight for sorting out scoresheets and cajoling people to score games.

[magners]

Thanks again to everyone for organising another good days bar billiards.
As always, the standard was very high. Congratulations to Matt and Denise for their singles wins and Matt and Dave for their AEBBA titles. All well deserved.
To Matt for the tables, Nigel, Mark, Matt and Jean for the admin. It is very much appreciated because without the effort of the few, days like yesterday couldn’t happen.

[johnslee]

Hi All
As many have said what a great day of bar billiards it was at totteridge on Sunday. Brilliantly ran by the "Gang of Four" on the main table and considering 
they all played in multi competitions throughout the day. I really don't know how Nige sorts out formats and thinks on his toes to keep everything going.
Mat seemed to be the in name of the day. Huge congratulations to Mat Jones as said achieving the amazing triple. Some achievement for someone of his
tender years only playing a relatively short time.
Congrats to Mat Knight beating Curt in over 50's ( Something I couldn't quite manage  last year). Well done Dave Ingram winning the over 60's and finally 
Congratulations to Surrey's Denise Wills winning an amazing ladies competition. Thanks to all at the club a superb Venue. 
On a personal note didn't play that bad but 2 early baths meant I scored a few but not with my cue unfortunately..
Roll on Jersey.
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