|
|
 |
The Edinburgh Croquet Club holds several Competitions and Tournaments each season.
Competitions are season-long
and generally played as knock-outs. In croquet it is common practice to play knock-out competitions as "double-life"
events, known as the Draw and the Process. The Draw is like any other sport, with players drawn against each other at
random. The Process transposes the Draw by fixed rules to create an alternative draw with players meeting in the first
round of the Draw only meeting (if at all) in the later rounds of the Process. It is therefore possible for a player
to end up "playing themselves" in the Final, should they manage to win both the Draw and the Process.
|
|
Tournaments are generally played over a short, fixed time-frame, e.g. one day, and are generally played as round-robins
(known as an American Block). Depending on numbers it may be necessary to have two blocks with the block winners playing
a final game to determine the winner. Alternatively, rules such as most wins, points difference or hoops scored may
be used. The ultimate method of separating tied players is the shoot-out to the peg, similar to the penalty shoot-out
in football.
|
|
A complete list of past winners can be found on the Club History page. |
|
Open Singles (Lauriston Cup)
Association
Croquet (Advanced Laws). Singles. Level
Play (i.e. without handicap). Knock-out, with Draw and Process. Games played in this competition against opponents with handicap of 20 or less count towards SCA Index. Suitable for good to expert players.
|
| The Handicap Trophy |
Handicap Singles (Handicap Singles Trophy)
Association
Croquet (Advanced Laws). Singles. Handicap
Play. Knock-out, with Draw and Process.
Games played in this competition against opponents with handicap of 20 or less count towards SCA Index. Suitable for moderate to expert players.
|
| The C.J. Tait Cup |
Veterans’ Handicap (C.J. Tait Cup)
Association
Croquet. Singles. Handicap Play. Knock-out, with Draw and Process. Games
played in this competition against opponents with handicap of 20 or less count towards SCA Index. Suitable for players of all abilities. Entry restricted to
members aged 60 and over on the first day of the season.
Full Bisques Handicap (18+) (Basil Townsend Trophy)
Association
Croquet. Singles. Full-Bisque Handicap
(i.e. both players allocated their full complement of bisques). Knock-out, with
Draw and Process. Entry restricted to players whose handicap is 18 or more at the start
of the season. Games played in this competition against opponents with handicap of 20 or less count towards SCA
Index. Suitable for those with a high handicap who wish to develop their break-building
and tactics.
|
| The Golden Jubilee Ball |
Champion of Champions (Golden Jubilee Trophy)
Association
Croquet. Singles. Handicap Play. American Block (i.e. round-robin). Games
played in this competition against opponents with handicap of 20 or less count towards SCA Index. Suitable for players of all abilities. Entry restricted to
the winners of the four knock-out singles competitions in the previous year (i.e. Open Singles, Handicap Singles, Full Bisque
Singles and Veterans’ Singles).
|
| The Lamont & Elliott Trophies |
Handicap Doubles (Lamont & Elliott Cups)
Association
Croquet. Doubles. Handicap Play. Knock-out, with Draw and Process. Suitable
for players of all abilities but particularly good for novices and improvers who wish to learn about competition play by partnering
a better player.
Golf Croquet (C.J. Tait Salver)
Golf Croquet. Singles. Handicap. Depending on numbers this may be played as a single American block (i.e. round-robin) or as two American
blocks. The final is played on the last day of the Edinburgh Tournament between
either the two people heading the single block or between the winners of the two blocks.
|
| One of the Ells Trophies |
Lauriston Ells (Association) This
half-day Association Croquet tournament is played on the sixth Saturday of the Beginners' Croquet Course to Handicap rules and
entry is restricted to those people who have attended the course. Depending on numbers it may be played as singles or
doubles and is normally played as one or more American blocks.
Lauriston Ells (Golf)
This half-day Golf Croquet tournament is played on the sixth Saturday of the Beginners' Croquet Course to Handicap rules and
entry is restricted to those people who have attended the course. Depending on numbers it may be played as singles or
doubles and is normally played as one or more American blocks.
|
| Now what? 2008 winner Sarah Duguid ponders her next move, while mentor Sheila Tibbels looks on |
|
| Fun Doubles at Lauriston |
Fun Doubles (Harold Wright Rosebowls) Half-Day Tournament. Association Croquet. Doubles.
Level Play. Half-sized lawns. Suitable for players of all abilities. There are no bisques in this competition because the higher your
handicap the more points you get for each hoop you score (see table below). At the end of the game, if
the forward ball has scored more than 4 hoops more than its partner ball its score shall be backward ball+4. Hoops
in excess of this will not count. You can only peel your partner through 4 hoops, and if you are peeled
by an opponent you get the higher score, yours or theirs.NB: play stops immediately
when “time” is called. H'cap > 24 6
Points per Hoop 21 - 24 5 15 - 20 4
9 - 14
3
6 - 8 2
3½- 5 1
< 3½
½
|
| The John Blaikie Cup |
|
| The Adam Trophy |
End of Season High Handicap Tournament (Adam Cup) Association Croquet. Singles. Handicap Play. Format
dependent on numbers, but typically one or more American Blocks. Entry restricted to players of handicap
18 or over. There were just three entrants for the 2009 edition, which was won by John Dewar, winner of both
his games.
|
| Stuart McKendrick Trophy |
Stuart McKendrick Trophy This half-day Association Croquet tournament is played as a Progressive Doubles
Handicap event over two rounds. After the first round pairings are re-ordered, the winner being the person most succesful
over the two rounds. It is open to members of both the Edinburgh Croquet Club and the Meadows Croquet Club, as a means of fostering friendly
competition between the two.
This one-day Association
Croquet Handicap Singles tournament is open to any player (ECC member or not) whose handicap has never been below 16.
As such it is an excellent tournament for novice and moderate players.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
To report errors/omissions/typos please contact the webmaster
Best viewed with Internet Explorer; it pains me to say that but Fasthosts's SiteBuilder tool appears
to produce code that is incompatible with certain versions of Firefox.
Copyright Edinburgh Croquet Club 2009
|
|
|
|
