WECU Jamboree 2014 Results (15.09.14.)

The West of England Jamboree has been the Union’s annual pre-season get-together and rust-remover for many years and is still well-supported, even though, as in football, the concept of a season with a long summer break from the sport, is almost extinct. One hundred players and organisers gathered at the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre on the outskirts of Taunton as per usual, although the word “outskirts” is also becoming redundant, as the town’s housing is rapidly encroaching on the area with large new estates making the approaches to the centre look unfamiliar to even the most regular participant.

This year there were four teams of 12 in each section, with Cornwall entering a team in the Open Section for the first time in a number of years, probably decades – and a very competitive team it was, too. In the Grade-limited Section there was a team from Wiltshire, after an absence of c. 20 years – a welcome move in both cases.

Although headed by Somerset in the early stages, Devon’s strength-in-depth made certain of their win in the Open, winning all 6 of their games in the lower half. Gloucestershire scored 3.5 out of 5 at the top of the order, but then fell away, while Cornwall scored 4 pts from their top 7 games.

In the Graded Section, Devon’s Torbay League scored heavily in the lower reaches, while Wiltshire scored at the top and bottom of the order, the two teams coming 1st =. The Wiltshire Captain, Roy Ludlow took the trophy 1st, saying his wife would only allow him to keep it in the house until the Torbay Congress in November, where he’d gladly hand it over to Rob Wilby.

The event was organised by Ben Edgell. Jerry Humphries acted as Arbiter in the Open Section and another colleague did likewise in the other room. Martin Worrell, a member of Taunton C.C. and a technician at the Centre, kindly provided free tea and biscuits all afternoon.

Photographs to follow shortly.

The details were as follows:

		W.E.C.U.					Jamboree
		OPEN					SECTION
Bd.	team	player	Grd			team	player	Grd
1	A1	Jeremy Menadue	189	½	½	B1	Phil Meade	182
2	C1	Dominic Mackle	203	0	1	D1	Jack Rudd	224
3	B2	Thomas Thorpe	179	½	½	C2	John Stephens	194
4	D2	David Buckley	207	½	½	A2	Theo Slade	179
5	A3	Mark Hassall	178	1	0	C3	Kevin Hurst	191
6	B3	John Jenkins	176	1	0	D3	Peter Chaplin	189
7	D4	Mike Richardt	184	0	1	D4	Peter Kirby	173
8	C4	Steve Homer	188	1	0	A4	Grant Healey	178
9	C5	John Fraser	182	½	½	B5	Phil Dodwell	163
10	A5	David Saqui	173	0	1	D5	Pat Krzyzanowski	182
11	B6	Barry Whitelaw	159	0	1	A6	James Hooker	170
12	D6	David Littlejohns	178	½	½	C6	John Wheeler	181
13	A7	Simon Bartlett	169	1	0	B7	Alun Richards	136
14	C7	Jon Underwood	179	1	0	D7	David P-Kooiman	178
15	B8	Ian Blencowe	130	0	1	C8	Dave Regis	176
16	D8	James Byrne	165	1	0	A8	Gary Trudeau	155
17	A9	John Wilman	154	0	1	C9	Alan Brusey	176
18		d/f		0	1	D9	Gerry Jepps	163
19	D10	Andrew Gregory	158	1	0	B10	Jim Caterer	128
20	C10	Bill Ingham	176	1	0	A10	Richard Smith	149
21	C11	Brian Hewson	174	1	0	B11	Peter Bending	122
22	A11	Martin Jones	121	0	1	D11	Darren Freeman	158
23	B12	John Harris	115	½	½	A12	Barry Childs	107
24	D12	Alex Conway	156	0	1	C12	Meyrick Shaw	170

Summary

	Open	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Tot.	Pos.
A	Cornwall	½	½	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	½	4½	3^rd
B	Glos	½	½	1	1	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	4	4^th
C	Devon	0	½	0	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	8½	1^st
D	Somerset	1	½	0	0	1	½	0	1	1	1	1	0	7	2^nd

		GRADED					SECTION
Bd.	team	player	Grd			team	player	Grd
1	A1	Andy Bellingham	154	0	1	B1	Chris Purry	152
2	C1	Trefor Thynne	161	0	1	D1	Jim Sherwin	198
3	B2	Roger Knight	152	½	½	C2	Mike S-Brownbridge	164
4	D2	Andrew Cooper	174	1	0	A2	Adrian Champion	151
5	A3	Neville Senior	150	1	0	C3	Paul Brooks	154
6	B3	Jim Fewkes	150	½	½	D3	Ricardo Rei	168
7	D4	Tim Woodward	146	1	0	D4	Chris Fewtrell	149
8	C4	Andrew Kinder	146	0	1	A4	Chris Strong	148
9	C5	Rob Wilby	140	0	1	B5	Mark Baker	147
10	A5	Tristan West	147	½	½	D5	George Georgiou	139
11	B6	Simon Pickard	121	1	0	A6	Stan Wojcik	140
12	D6	Roy Ludlow	128	0	1	C6	John Allen	132
13	A7	John Wilkinson	115	1	0	B7	Simon Gray	114
14	C7	Vignesh Ramesh	131	1	0	D7	Gareth Williams	118
15	B8	Stan Hill	114	0	1	C8	Ben Wilkinson	129
16	D8	Richard Carver	116	0	1	A8	Roger Waters	112
17	A9	Mike Cooper	119	0	1	C9	John Dean	119
18	D10	David Brown	102	0	1	D9	Geoff Berryman	108
19	C10	Tony Tatam	107	1	0	B10	Mike Ward	93
20	C11	Roy Greenhalgh	100	1	0	A10	Roger Fenton	98
21	A11	Vic McAndrew	91	0	1	B11	Mike Walters	101
22	B12	d/f		0	0	D11	d/f
23	D12	Robert Sparks	72	1	0	C12	Nandaja Narayanan	101
24	B9	Ivan Stringer	110	½	½	D9	Gordon Chapman	104

Summary

	Graded	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Tot.	Pos.
A	N & W Somerset	0	0	1	1	½	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	4½	4^th
B	S & E Somerset	1	½	½	0	1	1	0	0	½	1	0	0	5½	3^rd
C	Torbay League	0	½	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	6½	1^st=
D	Wiltshire	1	1	½	1	½	0	0	0	½	0	1	1	6½	1^st=