{"id":4609,"date":"2022-10-21T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2022-10-26T17:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:13:57","slug":"2022-club-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=4609","title":{"rendered":"2022 Club Doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please excuse the brevity of this post but your reporter forgot to take the results sheets away with him and is filing this report from memory on a ferry in the middle of a very lumpy Bay of Biscay.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"A tremendous turnout on Sunday on a lovely sunny day for the 2022 Club Doubles when 32 players made up 16 doubles pairs. As has become the norm the competition was played as a doubles melee with the 32 players being seeded into 2 groups of 16 and the teams being drawn at random, one player from each group.<\/span><\/p>\n

After Round 2, only 4 teams had registered 2 wins and, unless something exceptional happened, it was almost certain that the winners would come from one of these 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The final round was played out and, on its conclusion, one of the 4 teams, Phil \u201cTrying for a 3rd win\u201d Roberts and Beryl McCarthy had fallen at the last hurdle. This left 3 teams in with a chance of winning \u2013 Mike Jones & Alex Skibinski, Sean Smith & Leon Sofianos and Ash Seath & Ian Campbell.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was hushed silence and a drum roll as the Organiser stepped out of his lair to announce the results. In a never heard of situation, all 3 teams had finished on 3 wins and +21., so it was down to countback. Unfortunately Ash & Ian hadn\u2019t reached 13 in one of their games so they were eliminated which meant that it came down to points against. Mike & Alex had been romping to a possible fanny in their last game but conceded 3 points right at the end and it was this that cost them the title as they went down by 2 points to Sean & Leon who were crowned as 2022 Club Doubles champions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well done to the winners but especially to Leon who has only been playing for a few months. Following Ian McCarthy\u2019s win in the President\u2019s cup, its great so see another new player with his name on a trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

President Mike presents the trophy to Sean & Leon<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please excuse the brevity of this post but your reporter forgot to take the results sheets away with him and is filing this report from memory on a ferry in the middle of a very lumpy Bay of Biscay. A tremendous turnout on Sunday on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4634,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}