Having reluctantly come to the conclusion - eventually - that Joshua will not be continuing his series of reports from Leicester, I guess it has fallen to me to summarise the KCC results and mark our collective scorecard.
There were a few changes from the initial runners and riders I published just before the off, as some people opted to play in more or less tournaments than I expected (maybe I just miscounted?), but the most significant change was that Solomon has returned from the Wild West (Wells) and at least temporarily revived his KCC membership. He played a rather impressive 42 games at Leicester - and did rather well - so he certainly needs to be included in our stats! This means that the revised count is that KCC players made 39 tournament entries between them (covering 21 different events) and played 281 games in total.
Well, no doubt you are all on tenterhooks to find out what our final performance numbers looked like. So, to put you out of your misery, I can revela that the overall KCC score amounted to 141.5 pts, and a 50.4% strike rate. This represents a major improvement on the 46.7% achieved at Warwick Uni in the 2015 Championships. And we played more than 100 additional games this time around.
While the standout individual performance has to be Jude's 5/9 in the British Championship, the highest overall KCC percentage results were:-
2 Billy 18/28 - 64.3% (4 events)
3 Jude 11/18 - 61.1% (2 events)
And we certainly have to record the names of our two tournament winners, who have every reason to be extremely proud of their achievements. Solomon came 1st= in the Weekend U1750 event, with a score of 4.5/5. Not bad for the 34th ranked player. And just as impressive was David's score of 6/7 in the Second Rapidplay Open, which gave him clear first place ahead of Billy, who tied for second, just half a point behind. It was quite something to see the pairing Fellowes v Phillips on Board 1 in the final round of an open event at the British Championships!
This week's song is by way of a tribute to the brilliant Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and main song writer for that all time great group The Band who passed away earlier this month. Although not as famous as The Weight, or The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, this is my favourite Band song, and this is an awesome live rendition with brilliant guitar solos from Robbie. Frightening and tragic to think that only Garth Hudson remains from these five superb musicians - the only group ever who have been good enough to get away with calling themselves The Band. RIP Robbie. Another rock and roll genius gone, but what a magnificent musical legacy he has left us.
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