Co:Lon - 26 August 2023

[Thomas Cappleman]

The key details
Host: Ruth Cappleman
Venue: St Andrew's Church Centre, Southgate
Doors open: 11am for an 11.30am start
Finishes by: 6pm
Cost: £10, payable by PayPal (paypal.me/ruthcappleman/10GBP) - please please remember to select the “Friends and Family” option

What to expect
There will be three rounds played at tables of three - you play two matches and host the third, using packs of cards with letters and numbers on. By the end of the day, you’ll have played six games. Each game is 9 rounds long: three letters, one numbers, three letters, one numbers, and a conundrum.
The first round is drawn randomly, but don’t worry if you have a bumpy start – for the second and third rounds you will be playing opponents that have scored similarly to you, so everyone should get some good, well matched games. The aim is to have fun, and there will be plenty of prizes on offer. The top two players after six games will face off in the Grand Final.

Rough timetable for the day
11:00 - Doors open
11:30 - Welcome; announcement of draw for Round 1
11:45 - Round 1
13:00 - Lunch (bring your own, or pop to the nearby shops)
14:00 - Round 2
15:15 - Round 3
16:45 - Grand Final
17:15 - Prizegiving and tidy up

Accommodation
There’s a Premier Inn 0.4 miles from the venue, and a Travelodge 0.8 miles away.

Public transport
The venue is a 5-minute walk from Southgate tube station (near the end of the Piccadilly Line).
If you’re coming from north of London, the best option is likely to be to get a train to Palmers Green, as it avoids the need to go into central London. There are very frequent buses from Palmers Green to Southgate (or it’s a 35-minute walk).
Coming by car?
The venue is a 10-minute drive from junction 24 of the M25. At the time of the event, it will still be outside the Ultra Low Emission Zone.
There is no parking at the venue, but there are nearby residential streets without parking restrictions.

Afterwards
We’ll book a meal (almost certainly Italian) for those interested after the event on Saturday. There are also lots of independent and chain restaurants in the area around Southgate station, so plenty of options for those around on Friday evening as well.

Attending or organising a FOCAL event is subject to the FOCAL Code of Conduct. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult. Please note your name will be added to the attendees list here and on the c4c forum. If you would prefer for this not to happen, please let us know when you sign up.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Confirmed attendees (30):
Tom Cappleman
Adrian Fletcher
Dave Cappleman
Catriona Cappleman
Phil Stanton
MSR
Darren Godfrey
Adam Dexter
Steven Turnbull
Jonathan Seal
Joseph Bartram
Edward Mason
Last Ashwin Hero
Tom Carey
Sam Prouse
Ellen Harrison
Rungis McDungis
Graeme Cole
Jonathan Wynn
Matthew Tassier
Lynne Cumberland
Jeff Clayton
Adam Latchford
Coral Heath
Adam Beach
Dan Byrom
Brendan Whitehurst
Dungis McRungis
Fiona Thorne

[Thomas Cappleman]

For anyone wanting to make a weekend of it, COMSO is also in London the next day: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=15906

[Thomas Cappleman]

Just under 4 weeks to go for this

[Joseph B]

For anyone wanting to make a weekend of it, COMSO is also in London the next day: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=15906

Heading back Sunday So won't be going to this.

[Gavin Chipper]

I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but Grovelands and Oak Hill parkruns are both about a mile away. Southgate station is nearer to Grovelands though so that might work as a tie-break.

[Thomas Cappleman]

Up to 27 sign ups now.

We'll be booking a meal for afterwards (hopefully either at Fantozzi, a nearby Italian, or Pizza Express). If you've not expressed interest on the Facebook post and would like to join for the meal, let me know.

[Gavin Chipper]

I'm considering signing up for this and if I do I'd be up for the meal. Is there a deadline (for either)?

[Thomas Cappleman]

I'm considering signing up for this and if I do I'd be up for the meal. Is there a deadline (for either)?

Not particularly - I'll note you down as a possible in our plans.

[dan spinks]

RMT have just announced a strike for the 26th

[JackHurst]

Do you know which letters sets will be in use? If it's the Board Game sets, do you know when you'll have them from?

The consistency in the letter packs was because I sat down and sorted through every one of them in the weeks beforehand and gave them equal distribution (yes, I'm sad). I kid you not, one of the packs had 4 Ks in before doing this. I'm all for fairness and everyone playing with the same quantities to alleviate any "advantages".

I''d be keen to help out to try and do this to the BG sets if we have them with enough time before the event.

(Adam's post is from the CoBrum topic about the customer printed sets that Callum made a while back)

[Thomas Cappleman]

Do you know which letters sets will be in use? If it's the Board Game sets, do you know when you'll have them from?

The consistency in the letter packs was because I sat down and sorted through every one of them in the weeks beforehand and gave them equal distribution (yes, I'm sad). I kid you not, one of the packs had 4 Ks in before doing this. I'm all for fairness and everyone playing with the same quantities to alleviate any "advantages".

I''d be keen to help out to try and do this to the BG sets if we have them with enough time before the event.

(Adam's post is from the CoBrum topic about the customer printed sets that Callum made a while back)

MSR's bringing the sets used for Brum

[Gavin Chipper]

RMT have just announced a strike for the 26th

This is a bummer.

[Ronan M Higginson]

RMT have just announced a strike for the 26th

This is a bummer.

Not coming then?

[Gavin Chipper]

RMT have just announced a strike for the 26th

This is a bummer.

Not coming then?

On balance, I'm probably a no at the moment.

[Thomas Cappleman]

RMT have just announced a strike for the 26th

This is a bummer.

Not coming then?

Are you?

[Ronan M Higginson]

This is a bummer.

Not coming then?

Are you?

Should be

[Gavin Chipper]

I am coming to this. Just sent payment. I won't be staying for the meal though.

[Tim Down]

Something has come up that means I can no longer make it. Apologies.

[Gavin Chipper]

I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but Grovelands and Oak Hill parkruns are both about a mile away. Southgate station is nearer to Grovelands though so that might work as a tie-break.

I won't have time to do the parkrun unfortunately, but I'm not on a massive parkrun streak so I can take the hit.

[JackHurst]

Confirmed attendees (30):
...
Rungis McDungis
...
Dungis McRungis

I hope we get these two on the same table at some point during the day

[Ronan M Higginson]

Are you?

Just signed up now

[Tracey Anne Mills]

Something has come up that means I can no longer make it. Apologies.

Yeah you're washing your hair that day !

[Dan Byrom]

I'm staying the night in Finchley. The only parkrun where I can feasibly go from accommodation --> parkrun --> accommodation for shower --> event by 11:30 is Sunny Hill parkrun. So I will be doing that one. (And declare it the official one if no-one else says anything...)

[Thomas Carey]

I'm most likely doing dollis hill parkrun (Gladstone apparently) because it's the nearest to my crappy budget hostel. 500 points each if nobody else joins us I guess

Who else is doing mso? I'm signed up (unless I'm not in which case Tony please yell at me)

[Fiona T]

I'm most likely doing dollis hill parkrun (Gladstone apparently) because it's the nearest to my crappy budget hostel. 500 points each if nobody else joins us I guess

Who else is doing mso? I'm signed up (unless I'm not in which case Tony please yell at me)

Can't make Co:Lon but hope you all have a good one!

Hoping to make MSO, but gonna have to be on the day (or very very late Saturday!) decision

[Adam S Latchford]

Any chance we can have the results on here?

[Thomas Cappleman]

Final standings:

1 Ahmed Mohamed W 6 6 0 406
2 Ronan Higginson L 6 5 0 407
3 Jack Hurst 6 5 0 389
4 Jonathan de Souza 6 5 0 372
5 Adam Latchford 6 4 0 398
6 Jonathan Wynn 6 4 0 386
7 Tom Carey 6 4 0 381
8 Tom Cappleman 6 4 0 365
9 Dan Byrom 6 4 0 363
10 Eeshan Malhotra 6 4 0 331
11 Matthew Tassier 6 4 0 307
12 Adam Dexter 6 4 0 282
13 Tim Hebbes 6 3 0 369
14 Brendan Whitehurst 6 3 0 334
15 Jeff Clayton 6 3 0 325
16 Samuel Prouse 6 3 0 288
17 Jonathan Seal 6 3 0 284
18 J Bartram 6 3 0 283
19 Steven Turnbull 6 3 0 279
20 Dave Cappleman 6 3 0 277
21 Matthew Rutherford 6 3 0 274
22 Fi Thorne 6 3 0 272
23 Darren Godfrey 6 3 0 271
24 Catriona Cappleman 6 3 0 266
25 Graeme Cole 6 2 0 292
26 Coral Heath 6 2 0 285
27 Phil Stanton 6 2 0 283
28 Gevin Chapwell 6 2 0 276
29 The Last Ashwin Hero 6 2 0 254
30 Max Benkel 6 2 0 233
31 Lynne Cumberland 6 2 0 211
32 Jake Haidar 6 2 0 199
33 Ellen Harrison 6 1 0 248
34 Adam Beach 6 1 0 225
35 Edward Mason 6 1 0 201
36 Reuben Benkel 6 0 0 164

[Thomas Cappleman]

Reuslts:

Round 1:

Steven Turnbull 31 58 Jonathan Wynn

Jonathan Wynn 62 34 Jonathan Seal

Jonathan Seal 54 55 Steven Turnbull

Phil Stanton 32 67 Tom Cappleman

Tom Cappleman 67 44 Eeshan Malhotra

Eeshan Malhotra 68 33 Phil Stanton

Matthew Tassier 54 46 Coral Heath

Coral Heath 31 72 Ronan Higginson

Ronan Higginson 59 42 Matthew Tassier

J Bartram 51 68 Darren Godfrey

Darren Godfrey 20 67 Ahmed Mohamed

Ahmed Mohamed 67 29 J Bartram

Brendan Whitehurst 48 67 Samuel Prouse

Samuel Prouse 31 62 Dan Byrom

Dan Byrom 56 46 Brendan Whitehurst

Jake Haidar 24 42 Max Benkel

Max Benkel 55 30 Reuben Benkel

Reuben Benkel 20 44 Jake Haidar

Catriona Cappleman 53 27 Fi Thorne

Fi Thorne 43 71 Graeme Cole

Graeme Cole 52 21 Catriona Cappleman

The Last Ashwin Hero 40 81 Adam Latchford

Adam Latchford 80 10 Edward Mason

Edward Mason 32 67 The Last Ashwin Hero

Matthew Rutherford 53 51 Ellen Harrison

Ellen Harrison 62 30 Lynne Cumberland

Lynne Cumberland 19 63 Matthew Rutherford

Tom Carey 57 66 Jonathan de Souza

Jonathan de Souza 50 63 Jack Hurst

Jack Hurst 54 63 Tom Carey

Adam Dexter 40 65 Jeff Clayton

Jeff Clayton 48 74 Gevin Chapwell

Gevin Chapwell 39 58 Adam Dexter

Adam Beach 62 65 Dave Cappleman

Dave Cappleman 31 72 Tim Hebbes

Tim Hebbes 84 20 Adam Beach



Round 2:

Tim Hebbes 43 85 Ahmed Mohamed

Ahmed Mohamed 66 42 Adam Latchford

Adam Latchford 54 46 Tim Hebbes

Ronan Higginson 92 29 Graeme Cole

Graeme Cole 52 56 Tom Cappleman

Tom Cappleman 47 58 Ronan Higginson

Dan Byrom 75 27 Matthew Rutherford

Matthew Rutherford 35 71 Jonathan Wynn

Jonathan Wynn 52 67 Dan Byrom

Tom Carey 61 38 Gevin Chapwell

Gevin Chapwell 47 39 Max Benkel

Max Benkel 30 77 Tom Carey

Ellen Harrison 20 64 Jeff Clayton

Jeff Clayton 44 70 Jack Hurst

Jack Hurst 63 32 Ellen Harrison

Eeshan Malhotra 54 32 The Last Ashwin Hero

The Last Ashwin Hero 22 64 Jonathan de Souza

Jonathan de Souza 54 49 Eeshan Malhotra

Samuel Prouse 25 60 Matthew Tassier

Matthew Tassier 24 36 Adam Dexter

Adam Dexter 36 54 Samuel Prouse

Darren Godfrey 55 43 Steven Turnbull

Steven Turnbull 35 42 Dave Cappleman

Dave Cappleman 39 46 Darren Godfrey

Jake Haidar 16 73 Brendan Whitehurst

Brendan Whitehurst 43 51 Catriona Cappleman

Catriona Cappleman 48 26 Jake Haidar

Fi Thorne 54 49 Phil Stanton

Phil Stanton 53 58 Coral Heath

Coral Heath 54 57 Fi Thorne

Lynne Cumberland 50 46 Edward Mason

Edward Mason 46 38 Reuben Benkel

Reuben Benkel 32 45 Lynne Cumberland

Adam Beach 34 53 J Bartram

J Bartram 55 56 Jonathan Seal

Jonathan Seal 54 18 Adam Beach



Round 3:

Ronan Higginson 70 50 Dan Byrom

Dan Byrom 53 62 Ahmed Mohamed

Ahmed Mohamed 59 56 Ronan Higginson

Adam Latchford 67 91 Jonathan Wynn

Jonathan Wynn 52 64 Tom Carey

Tom Carey 59 74 Adam Latchford

Tom Cappleman 80 34 Darren Godfrey

Darren Godfrey 48 80 Jack Hurst

Jack Hurst 59 48 Tom Cappleman

Catriona Cappleman 37 71 Tim Hebbes

Tim Hebbes 53 65 Jonathan de Souza

Jonathan de Souza 73 56 Catriona Cappleman

Eeshan Malhotra 48 40 Graeme Cole

Graeme Cole 48 59 Jeff Clayton

Jeff Clayton 45 68 Eeshan Malhotra

Jonathan Seal 44 58 Matthew Tassier

Matthew Tassier 69 51 Gevin Chapwell

Gevin Chapwell 27 42 Jonathan Seal

Matthew Rutherford 64 48 Samuel Prouse

Samuel Prouse 63 47 Fi Thorne

Fi Thorne 44 32 Matthew Rutherford

Adam Dexter 60 31 Max Benkel

Max Benkel 36 57 Dave Cappleman

Dave Cappleman 43 52 Adam Dexter

Brendan Whitehurst 54 50 Coral Heath

Coral Heath 46 32 Lynne Cumberland

Lynne Cumberland 35 70 Brendan Whitehurst

Ellen Harrison 40 53 The Last Ashwin Hero

The Last Ashwin Hero 40 44 J Bartram

J Bartram 51 43 Ellen Harrison

Edward Mason 46 61 Jake Haidar

Jake Haidar 28 63 Steven Turnbull

Steven Turnbull 52 21 Edward Mason

Adam Beach 51 39 Reuben Benkel

Reuben Benkel 5 71 Phil Stanton

Phil Stanton 45 40 Adam Beach


Final:

Ahmed Mohamed 107 92 Ronan Higginson