Scarborough Congress 2012

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Nick Burrows
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Scarborough Congress 2012

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Brendan O'Gorman
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Re: Scarborough Congress 2012

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Phil Neatherway
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Re: Scarborough Congress 2012

Post by Phil Neatherway » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:48 pm

The prize money looks impressive!

Lara Barnes
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Re: Scarborough Congress 2012

Post by Lara Barnes » Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:17 pm

The prize money, the control team, the views, the town...all impressive. A great congress once again, thanks to all 300 people who supported it again this year. Next year's dates 25th-27th October.

Andrew Bak
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Re: Scarborough Congress 2012

Post by Andrew Bak » Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:12 pm

A brief report of the Scarborough Congress with links to results, prizes etc.

Full Crosstables and results on Chessnuts

Andy McCulloch
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Re: Scarborough Congress 2012

Post by Andy McCulloch » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:02 am

Played, not as well as last year, in the Foundation. Wanted to see results, but Foundation and Minor have something wrong with them, they will not display. I get an SQL error reported

Sean Hewitt
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Re: Scarborough Congress 2012

Post by Sean Hewitt » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:23 am

Lara Barnes wrote:A great congress once again, thanks to all 300 people who supported it again this year.
That sounds like a fantastic attendance. There was some concern amongst certain people that numbers would be down because of the £6 charge for non-ECF members (particularly in relation to Scots, Welsh and Yorkshiremen). I'm pleased that appears to have been unfounded.

Alex McFarlane
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Re: Scarborough Congress 2012

Post by Alex McFarlane » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:04 am

The numbers were slightly down on last year but still very acceptable.

The number of Scots taking part was down significantly I believe. Fortunately Yorkshire participation was good. Welsh numbers at this event have always been slight.

Andrew Bak
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Re: Scarborough Congress 2012

Post by Andrew Bak » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:42 pm

Sean Hewitt wrote:
Lara Barnes wrote:A great congress once again, thanks to all 300 people who supported it again this year.
That sounds like a fantastic attendance. There was some concern amongst certain people that numbers would be down because of the £6 charge for non-ECF members (particularly in relation to Scots, Welsh and Yorkshiremen). I'm pleased that appears to have been unfounded.
I think most of the regular congress players will have always been ECF members and won't have particularly minded to pay an extra few quid to obtain a Silver (or Gold) membership.

On a slightly different note, I am captaining two teams this year where ECF grade the games, Bradford B in the YCA Woodhouse Cup (Saturday league) and Bradford DCA Knights in the 4NCL. Out of those two teams, I have only had one player who has made himself unavailable to play (partly) because of the increase in cost to join the ECF. Everyone else has accepted that they need to join and have done so accordingly.