To fully enjoy the fun and festivities at our end of year tournament in Birmingham, you might want or need a place to stay for the night. Luckily, our venue – the Strathallan Hotel – has given us a deal on booking hotel rooms that weekend. We have 14 rooms reserved for the Friday (1st…
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Lincoln and Bristol, the 2 oldest Co-events, return for 2018!
The Co-event scene has been going since 2005, so it’s fitting that the first two events to be held in and announced for 2018 are the two oldest events! COLIN – or Countdown in Lincoln – has been running every year since 2005, and was joined in 2014 by a Sunday event, aptly named The…
A very long-overdue update…
Apologies for the silence! This is just a quickie (wahey) to summarise the highlights of the last few months: FOSTER’S ON FIRE: Rob Foster is yet to appear on the show, but he’s the man to beat at our events at the moment. A community veteran, he’s won 3 of the last 4 FOCAL tournaments…
Countdown in Bournemouth 2017 report: read all about our south-coast shenanigans!
by Jeff Clayton 21 people signed up for Sean Fletcher‘s inaugural FOCAL Countdown tournament in Bournemouth, held at Hotel Celebrity near the East Cliff and its glorious views of the south coast. The event helped to generate new interest in FOCAL locally from Bournemouth, Christchurch, Weymouth and neighbouring Hampshire, but the tournament was well represented…
A much overdue FOCAL update
Apologies for the long silence! Can’t get the staff, etc. RECENT TOURNAMENT: Countdown in London, held last Saturday (6th May), shattered our attendance record by getting 68 people along, including 22 new players! A report will be posted in due course, complete with fabulous photos, enthused quotes and rude conundrum scrambles from the day. FORTHCOMING TOURNAMENTS: Sign…
CoLeeds report: Champion of Champions Dylan Taylor continues blistering 2017 form by winning another much-enjoyed event
Co:Leeds 2: This Time It’s Psoralen: Champion of Champions Dylan Taylor continues blistering 2017 form by winning another much-enjoyed event After a successful maiden event last year, attended by 30 people, Co:Leeds was back for the difficult second album in 2017: with it, we saw the return of its matchday programmes and profanity-adorned numbers cards….
Join us in Yorkshire next Saturday for the second Countdown in Leeds!
Just a week and a half to go until our second Countdown in Leeds tournament! There’s still time to sign up – join the 30 players who have already put their names down by sending £10 via this PayPal link! All the event details are in the link in the first line of this post. Organiser…
The first Countdown in Manchester was hopefully the first of many…
Given that it’s generally regarded as England’s second city and that Countdown films next door in Salford, it’s a bit weird that this was only the first Countdown in Manchester tournament. But somehow it was – and what a success it was, getting a stonking 33 people in, including 6 first-time players! After three rounds, there…
Countdown in Manchester is next Saturday – you’ve got 3 days left to sign up…
Next Saturday (11th March) sees the first ever Countdown in Manchester tournament! If you want to join the 27 players currently signed up to play in the current home of Countdown, pay £12 via this link – http://paypal.me/MattyArtell – and write your name in the notes section! But be sure to do it by this weekend… Want…
New event confirmed: the return of Countdown in King’s Lynn on May 27th!
If you’re in East Anglia and were wondering when our 2017 events bonanza would reach you, wonder no more – Countdown in King’s Lynn returns for its third year, held as ever on the May Bank Holiday weekend! If you’re not acquainted with the Norfolk market town, the organiser and long-time community legend Mike Brown has…
