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I am sure everyone thinks that David does a good job drumming up the anticipation of the British, but the entry for the under 16's currently standing at 4, must be deemed as disappointing.....why is it so poor?

In the open I hear Surrey beat Lancs 10-6 today

It's an impressive line up in the final/top match that starts in half an hour. The teams average 2651!!

I have just looked at the entry form for the Surrey weekend congress and the first prize of £100 in each section is just so poor, especially as the entry fee is £27. This just confirms my belief that they should be no prizes, except in the open section, and trophies should be handed out for the wi...

I am impressed by Alex's knowledge of ice hockey, as I agree with him, ice hockey is very entertaining, as I have been attending matches in this country since the mid 1970's when the London Lions played out of Wembley arena for one season, then becoming an international ice hockey referee and linesm...

Bob currently plays for the Redhill 1st team in the Surrey league, and sometimes play on one of the top boards for the 2nd team. His grade at the moment is 185.

Beating someone who is 530 ELO points above you is certainly a fantastic achievement !

It's a shame that Simon Williams is now not in the draw, as he always provides great entertainment !

I think you could be right that the +2600 brigade would have already agreed in advance that they would move up to the classic, but looking at the prizes in the open and the classic, it makes sense to move up, as the 9-16 get €3125, and the winner of the open gets £2500

The rules are very simple, the two leading players after 4 rounds will go into the "classic rapid play", if there are more than two players with the same score, the two highest rated players will qualify!

Many thanks for explaining that, and I do agree it would be helpful for the ECF to have to have at least put it on the web site at some point

Check that, they just have!!

The supposed start is 15.00 Greece time, which is two hours ahead of us, but the games don't appear to have started yet

I see on the ECF website that there are no updates for ECF Grand Prix for this season, considering we are now nearly at the end of October, and there was a problem supplying updates last year, does anyone know when we are likely to see any info?

Well they had a very short draw in lasts years competition, and they walked out of the complex afterwards, which seems to suggest they know each other very well