Sunday’s Winter Pairs is postponed. There are only 5 pistes playable at present. The other 5 have lying water. Things will probably get worse rather than better. After consultation with Alan we have called it off.
Rearranged date when we have one.
Last Sunday
Sorry it’s taken a long time but the results sheet got lost between Spain and Huddersfield and suddenly I was without email then it was Flamenco night then it was a long bus trip then it was flying home.
But now the results are in. November melee winner is Daniel. Here’s the results.
| Winter Melee | Oct | Nov | Total |
| Daniel | 10 | 13 | 23 |
| Sue | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| Fred | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| Michael | 12 | 12 | |
| Sandie | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| Richard | 12 | 12 | |
| David | 7 | 4.5 | 11.5 |
| Sandra B | 11 | 11 | |
| Jack | 11 | 11 | |
| Elisabeth | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| Amanda | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Christine K | 8 | 8 | |
| Edwina | 6 | 6 | |
| Alasdair | 5 | 5 | |
| Malcolm | 4.5 | 4.5 | |
| Barrie | 4 | 4 | |
| Marie | 3 | 3 | |
| Rita W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Geertje | 0 | ||
| Sandra L | 0 | 0 |
Some questions need answering as the scoring still perplexes some folk. No matter how many players there are the points available are 13 for winner, 12 for second etc down to 1 for 13th. If there’s fewer than 13 then the last few points are not awarded. If there are more than 13 the bottom few will not receive any points. If two tie for a place they share the points for the two places combined. If two players tied for first place they’d both score 12.5 (13+12=25\2). In this melee there were 3 players tied for 5th place so they shared 9, 8 & 7 resulting in 8 each. Clear?
eknatep
The first in a never ending series of photos of members playing petanque in foreign places. Robin popped over to Australia and found a tournament to enter in Sydney and reached the fnal. Here’s some proof. Only the English wear shorts in Spring.
And here’s Robin and Rita posing with a boule in their hand in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. No wait! It’s a glass of some liquid or other…
Eknatep is of course Petanqe backwards. Other members send in your photos. Lets look for Malta, Portugal, France. The list is almost endless.
League Update
Things are changing every week. The first 2 league fixtures have been reported before. The next few are here.
First Week 3 was a good week for Huddersfield 1 but a disaster for Team 2. The figures don’t tell the true story. In 2 games they were 11 points to the good but lost both 11-13. It could have been a 2-3 defeat which wouldn’t have seemed as bad. Meanwhile Heckmondwike 1 are storming to the top of the table but Hecky 2 are dropping like a stone. Hudd 1 are 3rd in the table.
| Mirfield 1 | 4 | 1 | Mirfield 2 |
| Huddersfield 1 | 4 | 1 | Heckmondwike 2 |
| Heckmondwike 1 | 5 | 0 | Huddersfield 2 |
Week 4 and our teams played each other and it was a strange result – Team 2 beating Team 1. Elsewhere Heckmondwike 1 are slowed down but Heck 2 are still having problems. Hudd 1 are 4th, Hudd 2 are 5th.
| Mirfield 1 | 3 | 2 | Heckmondwike 1 |
| Huddersfield 2 | 3 | 2 | Huddersfield 1 |
| Heckmondwike 2 | 1 | 4 | Mirfield 2 |
Week 5 sees Team 1 slip to a bad defeat at home to Mirfield but Team 2 keeping on winning.
| Huddersfield 1 | 1 | 4 | Mirfield 1 |
| Heckmondwike 2 | 2 | 3 | Huddersfield 2 |
| Heckmondwike 1 | 3 | 2 | Mirfield 2 |
Week 6 Team 1 loses narrowly 2-3 to the league leaders but one game ended 12-13 when it could just as easily have been 13-12. Meanwhile Team 2 win again with the ladies team playing a 90 minute marathon and winning 13-12. A big change in the league table as Team 2 leapfrog Team 1 and Mirfield 2 into third place! One result to come but it won’t alter the places just the number of games won.
| Mirfield 2 | 1 | 4 | Huddersfield 2 | 22 |
| Huddersfield 1 | 2 | 3 | Heckmondwike 1 | 3 |
| Heckmondwike 2 | Mirfield 1 | |||
| Won | Pts | |||
| Heckmondwike 1 | 22 | 96 | ||
| Mirfield 1 | 16 | 48 | ||
| Huddersfield 2 | 14 | -2 | ||
| Mirfield 2 | 14 | -14 | ||
| Huddersfield 1 | 13 | -37 | ||
| Heckmondwike 2 | 6 | -91 |
Four more weeks to go. It looks like Heckmondike 1 will win but 4 teams are in the race for second.
The Heptathlon Final results
The numbers have been crunched and all the results are in. Some interesting facts first…
- Everyone of 18 members who entered scored at least 1 point.
- The person in last place will surprise you.
- The hardest event was pointing into a circle 8m. (only 4 people did it).
- The highest scoring event was shooting at 6m. (only 2 failed to do it)
- 43% of scores were zero.
- We didn’t give some people enough credit on the day – Christine and Sandra L performed much better than our hasty back of an envelope calculations suggested.
Here’s the winners. Click to see bigger pictures.
Winner of the 6m coche throw after an exciting tiebreak where he beat Malcolm.
Barrie
Winner of the 10m coche throw with 3 coche just below 10m. No-one else came close.
Marie
Winner of the Pointing competition
Melvyn
The club’s best lobber after a tie break with Barrie
Paul
Winner of the 6m shoot
Sandra
Winner of the 7m Shoot after a tie break with Barrie. Winning her 2nd pot of the day
Marie
Winner of the 8m shoot. See – you can shoot!
Sue
Winner of the whole event
Barrie
who took away the trophy to keep for a year
All the scores on the boards
| Name | Coche 6 | Coche 10 | Tyre | Point | Shoot 6m | Shoot 7m | Shoot 8m | Total |
| Barrie | 5 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 30 |
| Marie | 3 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 29 |
| Christine | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 |
| Sandra L | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 17 |
| Paul | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 16 |
| Richard | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
| Maggie | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Sandra B | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| Sue | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| Yvonne | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Malcolm | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| Elisabeth | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Melvyn | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Amanda | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Alasdair | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Fred | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Pat | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Roy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Average | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 13.6 |
What have we learned.
a) it was lot of fun although Roy suffered from the curse of the organiser
b) We made it too hard. Rolling coches should have have bigger targets. Pointing should have been at 6m as well.
c) We need more variety. Other events have been suggested like 10 pin bouling towards 10 half full lemonade bottles. Your suggestions welcome.
d) We’ll repeat it next year
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