2024 National Stages

[Mick Norris]

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24 March – Close of nominations
27 April – U1850 Preliminary Round
11 May – Open, Minor Counties, U1850 & U1450 Quarter Finals
18 May – U2050 & U1650 Quarter Finals
08 June – Semi Finals of all championships
06 July – Finals of all championships

A decision as to the finals being held at one or more central/regional venues has not yet been taken.

The 1st September monthly standard Official Original list (Blue September 2023) categories A and K determines eligibility for the purposes of the rating limited sections and team average in the Minor Counties. Eligibility for players without such a rating will be assigned a competition rating according to their first published category K or A rating in subsequent Official Original standard lists (blue) and otherwise by the allocation of a competition estimate by the National Controller.

[Mick Norris]

LMS with details of nominations which close today; 4 NCCU matches underway as I type this

[Mick Norris]

Union nominations for 2024 championships - deadline 24/3/2024
Event EACU1..EACU2..MCCU1..MCCU2..NCCU1..NCCU2..SSCU1..SCCU2..WECU1..WECU2
Open ........................................................Nland....Yorks..Surrey..Kent...................................
Minor Nfolk....Beds.....Lincs......Worcs..................................Sussex.................Somerset..Devon
U2050 ....................................................G Manc..Cleve'd......Essex...Surrey.................................
U1850 Sfolk....Herts....Lincs.......Staffs.....G Manc..Yorks..........Kent.....Msex........Hampshire..........
U1650 ..........................Lincs......Worcs...Yorks....G Manc......Kent.....Surrey.................................
U1450 ..........................Staffs..... Worcs..Yorks....G Manc......Msex... Essex...................................

Preliminary round only in the u1850

[Mick Norris]

The draw is available on the LMS

[Mick Norris]

Yorks beat Staffs in the u1850 preliminary round

[Mick Norris]

Quarter finals started yesterday, 3 matches today, more next weekend

Yorkshire u1850 won again but the u1450 lost

Greater Manchester campaign starts today in Syston

[Mick Norris]

Minor Counties semi-finals are Sussex v Norfolk and Lincs v Somerset

u1850 are Yorks v Herts and G Man v Lincs

[Mick Norris]

Semifinals being played today, the Open match between Northumberland and Kent only over 12 boards

U1450 final will be Middlesex v Essex

Open Northumberland v Surrey

u2050 G Man v Cleveland

u1850 Herts v G Man

u1650 G Man v Yorks

Minor Sussex v Lincs

[KMcCarthy]

So 2 Northern 'Derbies' and 1 Southern
1850,Minor and Open are all 200 miles plus apart so much to be discussed on either 5 mid-points or 1 central venue given there is only 4 weeks to organise venues/transport/accomodation

[Mick Norris]

Yes, G Man play Yorks home or away in the NCCU, and Cleveland at York, we played Herts at Water Orton a few years back

I assume Middlesex and Essex can sort themselves out

Not sure there's an obvious choice of neutral venue to be a fair place for more than 1 match

[KMcCarthy]

Yeah harsh on Sussex if we went Cov/Brum neutral venue for all 3 of the distant ones ..presume Cambridge venue for Lincs vs Sussex as about 105 miles each

[Mick Norris]

Yes, Cambridge and Saffron Waldron

Northumberland and Surrey might be Chesterfield or Worksop

G Man and Herts maybe Coventry

[Kevin Thurlow]

The venue for Lincs vs Somerset was very good. According to AA Route, Brighton to Bearley is about the same time/distance as Grimsby to Bearley. A North-South mid-point is probably achievable, although there are not so many motorways there.

[David Sedgwick]

Congratulations to the Surrey Open Team and Commiserations to the Surrey U2050 Team.

I note that in the Final Surrey will be playing Northumberland. I hope that a central venue can be found which both Counties can reach.

[Graham Alcock]

Surrey played Northumberland in both Open and U-2050 last year. Both matches were played in Newark although at different venues.

Of more concern is the clash of the final with the World Senior Teams, which will affect a substantial proportion of the Surrey players.