AC Association Croquet

The club normally stages an internal one-day Association Croquet One-Ball Tournament early in the season.  This year it is on Thursday 18th April 2019, and also run as a charity event as part of the national Charity One-Ball Competition.

The One-Ball game is a variation of Association Croquet in which each side only has one ball instead of two. In other respects the normal rules of Association Croquet apply, i.e. you can roquet and take croquet from your opponent's ball, and use this to help to make hoops. However, with only two balls in play, the games are typically quick and breaks are much harder to execute than in the full AC game, so the character of the One-Ball game is a bit more like Golf Croquet.

This year the competition has an entry fee that will be donated to the Alzheimer's Society. The amount is optional, but a donation of £5 is suggested. This also means that the event will become a qualifying tournament in the national Charity One-Ball Handicap Competition and, depending on the total amount raised, the winner(s) of our tournament will become eligible to play in the national final at Surbiton on Sunday 12 May. Further details can be found on the Croquet Association fixture list.

Results of these games should not be entered on the handicap card.

Format: Flexible Swiss, minimum: 6 games (subject to weather and final list of participants).
Entry fee: £5+ suggested (cash on the day) to be donated in aid of the Alzheimer's Society
Date: Thursday 18 April (11:00 start)
Capacity: -
Manager: Simon Hathrell
Charity One-Ball
Tournament by year:

Results:

Results vs.: MH GJ JB AM AH QB JS AC AR GB AL DH ST JC PM VF SCORE
W-L		 % WIN
QLTY
Mark Homan (5)   +5   +2 +1 +5       +6   +5   +5     7-0 100% 3.67
Geoff Johnson (0*) -5   +5   -4   +6   +5     +9   +2     5-2 71% 2.36
John Bee (6)   -5         +5 -2   +1   +3 +2       4-2 67% 1.77
André Machell (7) -2         -2 +4 +2 +5     -3   +3 +4   5-3 63% 1.92
Adam Huby (8) -1 +4       +3 -3 +2   -6 +3           4-3 57% 2.28
Quiller Barrett (11) -5     +2 -3     +4   +3 -4         +5 4-3 57% 1.63
John Smallbone (3.5)   -6 -5 -4 +3       +5   +4     -2 +6   4-4 50% 1.74
Alan Clark (1*)     +2 -2 -2 -4       +2   -3 +6 +5     4-4 50% 1.75
Arthur Reed (2.5)   -5   -5     -5       +5 -4   +4 +2 +4 4-4 50% 0.92
Gary Bennett (-2*) -6   -1   +6 -3   -2       +1 +4     +4 4-4 50% 1.34
Adrian Lepper (20*)         -3 +4 -4   -5     +5   +5     3-3 50% 1.26
Dave Hill (7.5*) -5 -9 -3 +3       +3 +4 -1 -5   +2       4-5 44% 1.96
Stephen Trevelyan (20*)     -2         -6   -4   -2     +1 +4 2-4 33% 0.17
Janet Carleton (20*) -5 -2   -3     +2 -5 -4   -5         +5 2-6 25% 0.50
Peter Marsh (15*)       -4     -6   -2       -1     +2 1-4 17% 0.00
Veronica FitzGerald (20*)           -5     -4 -4     -4 -5 -2   0-6 0% 0.00
WINNER
Mark Homan

*Special handicap assigned for 1-ball only, as per the 2018 CA guidelines.

Final ranking determined by the following tie-breaking rules:

1. Percentage of wins out of a minimum of 6 games.

2. Number of wins against those tied (if they all played each other).

3. 'Quality of wins' (i.e. aggregate percentage scored by opponents who were beaten).