KO WEEKEND

[vpl - disabled see VPLisBack]

As I cannot attend the weekend (staff playing so have to work), could anyone post any interesting results on here. Especially the Pinkies and how they do. Good luck to all. Come on you Pinks!!!!! I will buy a round of drinks for each trophy the Pinks get. HRP I will stock up on Tia

[HRP]

Cheers Nikki. Tim and I through to next round mixed doubles, I got knocked out of captains (but took it to 3 games against Keith Turner) Martin through to next round of open. TTO played very well but is out of ladies.

[vpl - disabled see VPLisBack]

HRP, to take Keith to 3 games is worth a Tia in itself as he is now MCP Div1. Just think as all the rest of the matches as a practice session and you will alll be fine. Tell BFG he must get a 7k at least in 1 game or I will be offended as he always manages it against me. How is nipper doing?

[HRP]

Texted you the update VPL as too tired to log on last night but are doing well and with Nipper in the mixed double final today should be exciting!!! ;D ;D

[vpl - disabled see VPLisBack]

If you are doing well then I better get my wallet ready for all those drinks.

[TTO]

I didn't win any trophies but did get a break over 1000 and for the first time ever kept them ;D And managed to win a few games ;D something i have never done on my own in KO weekend before ;D

And even more excitingly it is only 363 sleeps till next knockout weekend if it is around the same sort of time!!! let the countdown begin ;D ;D ;D

[BB Warrior]

tto said:

I didn't win any trophies but did get a break over 1000 and for the first time ever kept them ;D And managed to win a few games ;D something i have never done on my own in KO weekend before ;D

And even more excitingly it is only 363 sleeps till next knockout weekend if it is around the same sort of time!!! let the countdown begin ;D ;D ;D

Oh no............... please don't tell me that we are going to get a full year of countdown until next year...!!!! :o ;D ;)

Well done TTO for keeping your first ever 1k+ break, I'm sure it will be the first of many! It sounds like you all had a great weekend, despite the efforts of the weather. ;)

[TTO]

Thank you - it was an excellent weekend!!! And i enjoyed it soooooooooo much that i feel i should start counting down ;D And found ANBF

[SirKT]

I`d just like to say what a well organised weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed myself (even without playing) cheering on Lady H :-* who defended her Ladies singles title in great style. She also won the Mixed doubles with Lord Cheeky, but i think her best acheivement of the weekend was reaching the semi finals of the Open singles where she came up against a very good player in Alan Shaw. Well done my hunny ;)
Well done to the Captain Morgan club & the organisers for managing to stage the competitions at all, all that rain you know :o
I will put this text especially in pink for TTO, nbf x

[BFG]

Thanks Sir KT, pleasure to have you and Lady H there, Thanks to both of you also for your enthusiasm to take the scorers seat!!

[BFG]

Another fantastic weekend is over! :(

Congratulations to all the winners!! ;D

And congratulations to anyone who went home having won their own battles! played just a bit better, scored a bit more, got a bit further or won a game they did not expect to!! ;)

Even more thanks to yorkshire terrier for an amazing feat of organisation, unflustered and cheerful all through the weekend.
Backing him up was honchair doing a great job as well as being official MC!! (got the meatballs today....wine? ::) )

The ever dilligent Dave Hampton Table meister extroadinaire!!

And TTO setting a new raffle record in her own inimitable way!

Thanks to everyone who scored a game!!

I will leave Yorkshire terrier to fill in the resuls

so, until next year...........

[TTO]

which is 362 sleeps away ;D

[yorkshireterrier]

;D ;D ;D
Thanks for the comments guys it's most appreciated. I actually enjoyed the weekend very much despite TTO and young Turner playing football around my makeshift bed at midnight +. Thankfully the timetable went more or less to plan and that make the many late night hours of preparation. Still at least the software is written now so it will be as easy next year won't it? :-/ :-/

Thanks to honchair for stepping into the control tower whilst I was playing

Thanks to TTO who did a fantastic job extracting money from all the punters (the job is yours for life)

Thanks to Dave Hampton for the quality of the tables which apart from mechanical failure were as good as they have ever played.

Special thanks to Roger and his staff at the Captain Morgan who pulled out all the stops to make sure the weekend could go ahead. I think this years layout of tables was better than before.

You'll have to bare with me for the results until I have unpacked and sifted the million bits of paper I came back with. I will post results asap

It only remains to say that "I call on the Bar Billiard people of West Sussex to assemble in a years time (probably in Selsey) where we will make the next WSBBL Knockout Weekend the best ever"

Must now go for a nap, only 725 to go ::) ::) ::)

[Lord Cheeky]

I have to echo all the comments made today about the West Sussex Bar Billiard Weekend it was pretty dam good. Excellently run thanks to Alan Shaw and helpers, and have to agree that the position of the tables this year was a lot better than previous years long may it continue.

[HRP]

Totally agree about position of tables, once the two had been moved from the large room the layout was very good. Any chance it can be like that again next year? (hopefully by then they will have sorted out the tables themselves? Cushions and mechanisms) Thanks Alan, considering the problems that kept presenting themselves it all went pretty smoothly. The booklets with planned matches was brill idea too.

[Lord Cheeky]

And one more point the idea of the free raffle ticket on the score cards was excellent a good incentive to get more people scoring which i thought was very good over the weekend.

[Duncan Disorderly]

Excellent Weekend, great bar billiards, great food, great venue & a nice challenging drive to get there. A big thank you & well done to everybody involved ;D

[hon Vice President]

Considering the state of the function room at the Morgan, it's a miracle we had somewhere to play!

Have to say that the lack of accommodation was a serious downer, but those who decreed that a bar floor was an alternative seemed happy enough! 8-)

Alan Shaw is a hero; flawless organisation and getting to the final of the IKO. Loads of hard work and careful preparation meant that whenever asked, I could take over so he could go batter some unfortunate soul. ::)

Venue, staff, volunteers, facilities - all tip-top and totally splendid.


I do have one moan though - and will take this further.

Given the amount of money it costs to have those 6 tables on site, you would think that at regular intervals, things like cushions;; just as a "for instance" might get a little TLC. Those tables do seem to be becoming a rather unnecessary running joke. We all know which ones to avoid, or which ones have dodgy quirks - but should we tolerate it? Tarratt provide a service, which we pay for. In return, surelt it's not asking too much for the competition standard tables we hire, to actually fit the bill? ::)

[ladyh]

Am speaking as one of those 'battered, unfortunate souls', Alan did an excellent job over the weekend and managed to play excellently. 8-)
He even displayed a wonderful sense of humour when he 'toyed' with me and the end 100 shot!! :P
He was also a true Gent offering to start our semi final match again when the balls in table 6 eventually refused to come down because of a falty/loose bar and this was when we were about half way through our game. :-* (No, I didn't take him up on the offer, he had already wapped my a** and so deserved to win) ;)
Honchair, I agree with you about poorly maintained tables but I have to admit I like to play on a table that has a querk to work out ::) >:( ;D
Many thanks for a fab weekend especially to all those who put their time into making it great fun for the rest of us.
H.xxx