{"id":6693,"date":"2026-10-28T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2026-10-28T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:28:27","slug":"2026-presidents-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=6693","title":{"rendered":"2026 President&#8217;s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2026 edition of the MPC President&#8217;s Cup took place on 11 October with 24 members taking part. The competition format was 3 round melee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After 2 rounds there were only 5 players on 2 wins `Len Christian (+24), Gill Clark (+21), Sean Smith (+14), Lynden Francis (+8) nd Lloyd Kinsey (+5). If either Len or Gill won their 3rd game then it looked unlikely that they could be caught but Gill would need a better points difference than Len &#8211; by a margin of +4.<\/p>\n<p>So it proved to be &#8211; both Len and Gill won but Gill had (+12) whereas Len only managed (+2) giving Gill the President&#8217;s Cup with 3 wins (+33).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Winner-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Winner-scaled.jpg 1935w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Winner-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Winner-774x1024.jpg 774w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Winner-768x1016.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Winner-1161x1536.jpg 1161w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Winner-1548x2048.jpg 1548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">President Mike Jones presents the President&#8217;s Cup to Gill Clark<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Results.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Results.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Results-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Results-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Results-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 edition of the MPC President&#8217;s Cup took place on 11 October with 24 members taking part. The competition format was 3 round melee. After 2 rounds there were only 5 players on 2 wins `Len Christian (+24), Gill Clark (+21), Sean Smith (+14),<\/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-6693","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\/6693","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=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}