AC Association Croquet

The club stages an internal one-day Association Croquet One-Ball Tournament early in the season. This year it is on Saturday 27th April.

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 much more like Golf Croquet.

The tournament is once again run as a charity event as part of the national Charity One-Ball Competition.

In last year's tournament Watford once again raised over £1000.

It has an optional entry fee that will this year be donated to the British Heart Foundation. A donation of at least £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 finals, this year again provisionally at two venues, on Sunday 5th May at Surbiton and Saturday 11th May at Nottingham. Follow the links for further details for each national final.

Update: this year our Watford tournament raised £920 for the British Heart Foundation, plus a further £215 in Gift Aid.

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

Format: Flexible Swiss
Entry fee: None, but a donation is requested, to be donated in aid of the British Heart Foundation.
(Cash or cheque on the day, or transfer to the club's bank account. Gift Aid forms will be available.)

The BHF house colour is RED so please wear something red on the day!
Date: Saturday 27 April (10:30 start)
Capacity:† 26
Manager: Simon Hathrell
Charity One-Ball
Tournament by year:

Results:

Results vs.: JB LH GJ FB AR SM MB AM DR AH RB SW QB SH SCORE
W-L		 % MATCH
POINTS		 WIN
QLTY
John Bee   +1 -2     +1 +3 +7       +3 +3   6-1 86% - 2.60
Lois Hall -1   +5 +3     +8 +1 +4 +1 -6   +4   7-2 78% - 3.23
Geoff Johnson +2 -5   -4     +5 +3 +2 +1 +4   +2   7-2 78% - 2.93
Frances Broadway   -3 +4   +3 -4 +2   -5   +1 +2 +2   6-3 67% - 2.56
Arthur Reed       -3   -3 -3 +5 +5 +3     +3   4-3 57% - 1.33
Stephen Mills -1     +4 +3   -7 -1 +3   -2 +2     4-4 50% - 1.87
Michael Broadway -3 -8 -5 -2 +3 +7   +5   -5 +5 -3 +6   5-6 45% - 1.98
André Machell -7 -1 -3   -5 +1 -5   +9 -3   +1 +3   4-6 40% - 1.35
David Robinson   -4 -2 +5 -5 -3   -9   +5   +3     3-5 38% - 1.25
Adam Huby   -1 -1   -3   +5 +3 -5   +9 -4 -5   3-6 33% - 1.14
Robin Barry   +6 -4 -1   +2 -5     -9     -3   2-5 29% - 1.28
Stephen Webb -3     -2   -2 +3 -1 -3 +4       -5 2-6 25% - 0.78
Quiller Barrett -3 -4 -2 -2 -3   -6 -3   +5 +3       2-7 22% - 0.62
Simon Hathrell                       +5     1-0 17% - 0.25
WINNER
John Bee
Participants
Name Club 1-ball
H'cap*
Simon Hathrell Watford -4
Geoff Johnson Watford 2½
Stephen Mills Watford 3
Arthur Reed Watford 3½
André Machell Watford 5
Adam Huby Watford 9
David Robinson Watford 9
John Bee Watford 10
Stephen Webb Watford 10
Michael Broadway Watford 10
Quiller Barrett Watford 11
Robin Barry Watford 12
Frances Broadway Enfield 15
Lois Hall Watford 20

† Max 24 playing plus 2 between games
* Special AC handicap assigned for 1-ball only, as per the 2018 CA guidelines.

Tie-breaking rules:

  1. Percentage of wins from a minimum of 6 games
  2. Number of wins against those tied if they have all played each other, otherwise 'matchpoints'
  3. Win quality
  4. Net points