Goat/Co Rugby 2024

[Matt Rutherford]

And it's back to Rugby we go! MSR (and others) bring FOCAL to the Midlands-and the first location of 2024 that doesn't start with 'L'. For this, there is a double-header of Goat and Co.

Format-Lincoln style/at tables for both (further details below)

When-Friday 22nd-23rd March 2024. On the Friday, it’ll be GoatRugby Warm-Up from 19:00. On the Saturday, it’ll be CoRugby Main Event from 11:00

Where-Rugby West Indian Association, 102 Railway Terrace, CV21 3HE

Premise(s)
FRIDAY-Playing four, 9-round games of Goatdown over two round in Lincoln-style,

Essentially, Goatdown is Countdown except the player picking the letters can choose exactly which letter they would like for the 9th letter. So the first eight letters are chosen as normal (vowel or consonant) but for the ninth letter the player picking that round’s letters chooses exactly which letter they would like.

For conundrums, the player is shown only eight letters instead of nine. Their task is to find the NINE letter word that uses those eight letters (there will only be one possible nine-letter word from those eight letters). If nobody does that within the 30 seconds, the ninth letter will be revealed and the players will have a further 15 seconds to solve the now normal conundrum. Doing so will however only grant 7 points rather than the 10 that would be awarded for solving the conundrum from only the first eight letters.

There will be mechanisms to work around all these explained on the night.

SATURDAY-Playing eight, 9-round games of Countdown, in tables of three, ‘'Lincoln' style. After eight games, the top two players will face each other in the grand final, with prizes for the top 8. The first round is drawn randomly-don't panic if you are trounced early on, for the subsequent rounds, you will play opponents that have scored similarly to you, so everyone should get some good, well-matched games. Main aim is a bit of fun.

For both events, please see timings below

Admission-Admission-£10 for CoRugby, £5 for GoatRugby, or £15 for the pair of them. Payment link here (uses real name and says last year’s event, but it is fine. Select Friends and Family please!) https://paypal.me/CoBrum2022?country.x= ... le.x=en_GB
TIMINGS
Goat:Rugby/Friday 22nd March
18:30-Doors open
19:00-First round draw is made and things kick-off
20:15-Second round starts
21:30-Grand final
Co:Rugby/Saturday 23rd March
10:00-Doors open
11:00-First round draw and kick-off
12:15-Second round
13:30-Lunch
14:30-Third round starts
15:45-Fourth round starts
17:00-Grand Final
17:30-Prizegiving
After-evening plans in the works (buzz Latchford-he’ll have more details if you want them)

OTHER INFO
Food and Drink-Bar will be open at the venue, but they don't do food. Some shops are nearby in Rugby town centre and a WH Smith’s at the railway station

Hotels-Travelodge nearby, some other hotels in the vicinity.

Parkrun-Rugby has a local one nearby (and no, I’m not doing it-don't go there)

Facebook-https://www.facebook.com/events/712633250770320

Any further questions drop me a line. Hope to see you there!


CONTENDERS (Ready)
Goat (18)
Jack Hurst
Phil Stanton
Fiona Titcombe
Coral Heath
Thomas Carey
Dan Byrom
Adam Dexter
Eddy Byrne
Dave Robjohns
MSR
Adrian Fletcher
George Armstrong
Adam Latchford
Stephen Read
Tim Hebbes
Eeshan Malhotra
Dylan Taylor
Zohaib Rehan

Co (37)
Jack Hurst
Phil Stanton
Fiona Titcombe
Coral Heath
Thomas Carey
Darren Godfrey
Steven Grady
Dan Byrom
Mike Lee
Ashwin Abinashi
Sam Prouse
Adam Dexter
Sean Fletcher
Jonny De Souza
Eddy Byrne
Dave Robjohns
Adrian Fletcher
George Armstrong
Ian Wray
Adam Latchford
David Hilton
Jonathan Wynn
Matt O'Connor
Tom Cappleman
Steve Hyde
Brendan Whitehurst
Stephen Read
Gabriel Thallon
Stewart Gordon
MSR
Ali Stevenson
Tom Stevenson
Tim Hebbes
Eeshan Malhotra
Dylan Taylor
Zohaib Rehan

[JackHurst]

Looks great! Count me in for both.

[Matt Rutherford]

Was informed PayPal link was broken. Have edited it accordingly-if there are still any issues, let me know!

[JackHurst]

How's it going with setting the Goatnundrums?

If it helps, I could provide a script that runs locally on your machine to batch check a set of potential goatnundrums and highlight invalid ones.

[Fiona T]

Parkrun! https://www.strava.com/clubs/964003/gro ... ts/1606026

[Matt Rutherford]

How's it going with setting the Goatnundrums?

If it helps, I could provide a script that runs locally on your machine to batch check a set of potential goatnundrums and highlight invalid ones.

I need to check this more often!

Have got Goatundrums, that have been checked, written (any errors that slip through are mine alone), but that would be very useful fro any future Goat events, of which I hopefully will be doing more

[Adam Dexter]

Looks like George has entered twice (ooer missus) for the main event

[Steve Hyde]

Second George should be George Baker I think

[Matt Rutherford]

Not quite (Ta for pointing out tho!)

I'd bunged George money for a hotel room-he appeared in the list, and you can tell I virtually copy-pasted

[Tom S]

Am sure it will, but the other attendee in the family wants to know if wifi will be available as she'll be bringing a tablet for word checks etc...TIA!

[Matt Rutherford]

So thank you all for coming for what was a very enjoyable two days. You are all lovely, and it was sublime to see you all. Thanks must go to Beachy and Rach, without whom this would have been a ballache of cosmic proportions. Congrats to Zohaib and Jack for their respective victories-watch this space for Brum, and get your arses to Sligo/Reading/Sheffield/Oxford/Durham, pronto! Until next time-Godspeed!

[Matt Rutherford]

GOAT RUGBY
1 Zohaib Rehan W 4 4 291
2 Jack Hurst L 4 4 252
3 George Armstrong 4 3 260
4 Adam Latchford 4 3 256
5 Adam Dexter 4 3 233
6 Dan Byrom 4 3 222
7 Eeshan Malhotra 4 3 207
8 Stephen Read 4 2 265
9 Tim Hebbes 4 2 248
10 Dylan Taylor 4 2 246
11 Thomas Carey 4 2 244
12 Eddy Byrne 4 2 225
13 Dave Robjohns 4 2 200
14 Phil Stanton 4 2 197
15 Coral Heath 4 1 198
16 Adrian Fletcher 4 1 195
16 MSR 4 1 195
18 Fiona Titcombe 4 1 192
19 Mel Coupe 4 1 111
Results
Round 1
Table 1
Dan Byrom 77 - 44 Fiona Titcombe
Fiona Titcombe 51 - 45 Coral Heath
Coral Heath 36 - 42 Dan Byrom
Table 2
Jack Hurst 61 - 12 Mel Coupe
Mel Coupe 29 - 74 Tim Hebbes
Tim Hebbes 44 - 68 Jack Hurst
Table 3
Thomas Carey 48 - 59 Adam Latchford
Adam Latchford 79 - 52 Adrian Fletcher
Adrian Fletcher 63 - 62 Thomas Carey
Table 4
MSR 48 - 56 Eeshan Malhotra
Eeshan Malhotra 42 - 53 Dave Robjohns
Dave Robjohns 28 - 56 MSR
Table 5
Adam Dexter 50 - 68 Zohaib Rehan
Zohaib Rehan 79 - 40 Phil Stanton
Phil Stanton 33 - 58 Adam Dexter
Table 6
Dylan Taylor 67 - 42 George Armstrong
George Armstrong 78 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 68 Dylan Taylor
Table 7
Eddy Byrne 53 - 46 Stephen Read
Stephen Read 91 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 67 Eddy Byrne

Round 2
Table 1
Adam Latchford 64 - 50 Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor 61 - 79 Zohaib Rehan
Zohaib Rehan 65 - 54 Adam Latchford
Table 2
Eddy Byrne 52 - 62 Dan Byrom
Dan Byrom 41 - 66 Jack Hurst
Jack Hurst 57 - 53 Eddy Byrne
Table 3
George Armstrong 68 - 57 MSR
MSR 34 - 64 Stephen Read
Stephen Read 64 - 72 George Armstrong
Table 4
Adrian Fletcher 34 - 60 Eeshan Malhotra
Eeshan Malhotra 49 - 42 Tim Hebbes
Tim Hebbes 88 - 46 Adrian Fletcher
Table 5
Fiona Titcombe 45 - 70 Dave Robjohns
Dave Robjohns 49 - 56 Adam Dexter
Adam Dexter 69 - 52 Fiona Titcombe
Table 6
Coral Heath 82 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 78 Thomas Carey
Thomas Carey 56 - 35 Coral Heath
Table 7
Mel Coupe 54 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 69 Phil Stanton
Phil Stanton 55 - 16 Mel Coupe

Final
Zohaib Rehan 64 - 53 Jack Hurst

[Matt Rutherford]

CO RUGBY

Finals Played Wins Points
1 Jack Hurst W 8 8 575
2 Tom Stevenson L 8 6 518
3 Dylan Taylor 8 6 490
4 Eeshan Malhotra 8 6 428
5 Zohaib Rehan 6 6 422
6 Jonathan Wynn 8 5 487
7 Tom Cappleman 8 5 477
8 Matt O'Connor 8 5 470
9 George Armstrong 8 5 466
10 Dan Byrom 8 5 458
11 Thomas Carey 8 5 457
12 Phil Stanton 8 5 439
13 Jonny De Souza 8 5 438
14 Adrian Fletcher 8 5 405
15 Coral Heath 8 5 403
16 Tim Hebbes 8 4 493
17 Adam Latchford 8 4 486
18 MSR 8 4 438
19 Steve Hyde 8 4 432
20 Steven Grady 8 4 419
21 Mike Lee 8 4 400
22 Fiona Titcombe 8 4 396
23 Sean Fletcher 8 4 385
24 Ian Wray 8 4 380
25 Stephen Read 8 3 442
26 Dave Robjohns 8 3 439
27 Eddy Byrne 8 3 432
28 Brendan Whitehurst 8 3 419
29 Adam Dexter 8 3 396
30 Sam Prouse 8 3 379
31 Stewart Gordon 8 3 363
32 David Hilton 8 3 348
33 Mel Coupe 8 3 267
34 Darren Godfrey 8 2 388
35 Last Ashwin Hero 8 2 332
36 Ali Stevenson 8 2 328
37 Ellen Harrison 8 2 313
Results
Round 1
Table 1
Ian Wray 24 - 74 Dan Byrom
Dan Byrom 51 - 44 Darren Godfrey
Darren Godfrey 57 - 66 Ian Wray
Table 2
Tim Hebbes 82 - 17 Mike Lee
Mike Lee 55 - 60 Brendan Whitehurst
Brendan Whitehurst 47 - 62 Tim Hebbes
Table 3
Adam Latchford 77 - 44 Phil Stanton
Phil Stanton 59 - 42 Last Ashwin Hero
Last Ashwin Hero 32 - 62 Adam Latchford
Table 4
Thomas Carey 60 - 64 Jack Hurst
Jack Hurst 64 - 54 George Armstrong
George Armstrong 53 - 52 Thomas Carey
Table 5
Adam Dexter 42 - 49 Coral Heath
Coral Heath 47 - 64 Steve Hyde
Steve Hyde 56 - 54 Adam Dexter
Table 6
Ellen Harrison 32 - 58 Tom Cappleman
Tom Cappleman 56 - 73 Eddy Byrne
Eddy Byrne 60 - 48 Ellen Harrison
Table 7
Ali Stevenson 42 - 66 Tom Stevenson
Tom Stevenson 58 - 55 Steven Grady
Steven Grady 72 - 40 Ali Stevenson
Table 8
Sam Prouse 25 - 81 Jonathan Wynn
Jonathan Wynn 71 - 46 Eeshan Malhotra
Eeshan Malhotra 72 - 49 Sam Prouse
Table 9
MSR 62 - 52 Matt O'Connor
Matt O'Connor 61 - 56 Stephen Read
Stephen Read 59 - 49 MSR
Table 10
David Hilton 60 - 47 Adrian Fletcher
Adrian Fletcher 68 - 51 Stewart Gordon
Stewart Gordon 58 - 43 David Hilton
Table 11
Dave Robjohns 55 - 59 Jonny De Souza
Jonny De Souza 53 - 41 Sean Fletcher
Sean Fletcher 41 - 39 Dave Robjohns
Table 12
Mel Coupe 28 - 53 Fiona Titcombe
Fiona Titcombe 37 - 68 Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor 67 - 28 Mel Coupe

Round 2
Table 1
Tim Hebbes 62 - 72 Adam Latchford
Adam Latchford 36 - 64 Jonathan Wynn
Jonathan Wynn 50 - 36 Tim Hebbes
Table 2
Eddy Byrne 52 - 94 Jack Hurst
Jack Hurst 69 - 52 Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor 65 - 37 Eddy Byrne
Table 3
Tom Stevenson 71* - 61 Steve Hyde
Steve Hyde 38 - 64 Dan Byrom
Dan Byrom 29 - 68 Tom Stevenson
Table 4
Steven Grady 33 - 38 Eeshan Malhotra
Eeshan Malhotra 70 - 60 Jonny De Souza
Jonny De Souza 37 - 64 Steven Grady
Table 5
Adrian Fletcher 45 - 62 Tom Cappleman
Tom Cappleman 63 - 48 Stephen Read
Stephen Read 71 - 51 Adrian Fletcher
Table 6
Stewart Gordon 39 - 48 Brendan Whitehurst
Brendan Whitehurst 56 - 63 Matt O'Connor
Matt O'Connor 60 - 28 Stewart Gordon
Table 7
George Armstrong 55 - 63 Phil Stanton
Phil Stanton 61 - 48 MSR
MSR 59 - 61 George Armstrong
Table 8
Coral Heath 60 - 35 Fiona Titcombe
Fiona Titcombe 68 - 24 David Hilton
David Hilton 27 - 68 Coral Heath
Table 9
Sean Fletcher 21 - 73 Thomas Carey
Thomas Carey 53 - 29 Ian Wray
Ian Wray 53 - 46 Sean Fletcher
Table 10
Adam Dexter 46 - 43 Dave Robjohns
Dave Robjohns 63 - 49 Darren Godfrey
Darren Godfrey 31 - 50 Adam Dexter
Table 11
Ellen Harrison 43 - 81 Sam Prouse
Sam Prouse 56 - 34 Ali Stevenson
Ali Stevenson 37 - 50 Ellen Harrison
Table 12
Mike Lee 63 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 59 Last Ashwin Hero
Last Ashwin Hero 51 - 52 Mike Lee
Table 13
Zohaib Rehan 72 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 53 Mel Coupe
Mel Coupe 7 - 70 Zohaib Rehan

Round 3
Table 1
Jonathan Wynn 64 - 62 Tom Stevenson
Tom Stevenson 55 - 78 Jack Hurst
Jack Hurst 70 - 65 Jonathan Wynn
Table 2
Adam Latchford 68 - 72 Tom Cappleman
Tom Cappleman 70 - 54 Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor 55 - 45 Adam Latchford
Table 3
Phil Stanton 41 - 51 Eeshan Malhotra
Eeshan Malhotra 51 - 49 Matt O'Connor
Matt O'Connor 66 - 50 Phil Stanton
Table 4
Dan Byrom 50 - 63 Tim Hebbes
Tim Hebbes 69 - 38 Coral Heath
Coral Heath 31 - 62 Dan Byrom
Table 5
Stephen Read 49 - 54 Steven Grady
Steven Grady 32 - 64 Thomas Carey
Thomas Carey 46 - 37 Stephen Read
Table 6
Eddy Byrne 48 - 58 Steve Hyde
Steve Hyde 43 - 51 George Armstrong
George Armstrong 58 - 48 Eddy Byrne
Table 7
Sam Prouse 37 - 60 Jonny De Souza
Jonny De Souza 60 - 56 Brendan Whitehurst
Brendan Whitehurst 69 - 38 Sam Prouse
Table 8
Adam Dexter 54 - 60 Mike Lee
Mike Lee 61 - 45 Fiona Titcombe
Fiona Titcombe 40 - 61 Adam Dexter
Table 9
Zohaib Rehan 79 - 49 MSR
MSR 52 - 40 Ian Wray
Ian Wray 52 - 63 Zohaib Rehan
Table 10
Dave Robjohns 74 - 17 Last Ashwin Hero
Last Ashwin Hero 34 - 49 Adrian Fletcher
Adrian Fletcher 62* - 52 Dave Robjohns
Table 11
Ellen Harrison 35 - 43 Mel Coupe
Mel Coupe 27 - 52 Stewart Gordon
Stewart Gordon 58 - 42 Ellen Harrison
Table 12
Sean Fletcher 65 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 59 David Hilton
David Hilton 44 - 58 Sean Fletcher
Table 13
Ali Stevenson 54 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 66 Darren Godfrey
Darren Godfrey 61 - 24 Ali Stevenson

Round 4
Table 1
Tom Cappleman 49 - 56 Eeshan Malhotra
Eeshan Malhotra 44 - 72 Jack Hurst
Jack Hurst 64 - 47 Tom Cappleman
Table 2
Dylan Taylor 67 - 56 Matt O'Connor
Matt O'Connor 63 - 46 Jonathan Wynn
Jonathan Wynn 46 - 62 Dylan Taylor
Table 3
Tom Stevenson 67 - 49 Thomas Carey
Thomas Carey 60 - 53 Tim Hebbes
Tim Hebbes 66 - 81 Tom Stevenson
Table 4
Dan Byrom 52 - 56 Jonny De Souza
Jonny De Souza 53 - 61 George Armstrong
George Armstrong 73 - 76 Dan Byrom
Table 5
Zohaib Rehan 66 - 51 Adam Latchford
Adam Latchford 75 - 53 Mike Lee
Mike Lee 39 - 72 Zohaib Rehan
Table 6
Steve Hyde 47 - 60 Phil Stanton
Phil Stanton 61 - 51 Brendan Whitehurst
Brendan Whitehurst 32 - 65 Steve Hyde
Table 7
Steven Grady 62 - 52 Adam Dexter
Adam Dexter 37 - 47* Adrian Fletcher
Adrian Fletcher 56 - 47 Steven Grady
Table 8
Stewart Gordon 29 - 60 Sean Fletcher
Sean Fletcher 53 - 59 Coral Heath
Coral Heath 51 - 48 Stewart Gordon
Table 9
Stephen Read 49 - 66 Eddy Byrne
Eddy Byrne 48 - 63 Dave Robjohns
Dave Robjohns 50 - 73 Stephen Read
Table 10
Darren Godfrey 49 - 56 David Hilton
David Hilton 35 - 53 MSR
MSR 66 - 31 Darren Godfrey
Table 11
Fiona Titcombe 56 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 56 Sam Prouse
Sam Prouse 37 - 62 Fiona Titcombe
Table 12
Ellen Harrison 41 - 0 Prune
Prune 0 - 59 Ian Wray
Ian Wray 57 - 22 Ellen Harrison
Table 13
Last Ashwin Hero 51 - 35 Ali Stevenson
Ali Stevenson 62 - 35 Mel Coupe
Mel Coupe 56* - 46 Last Ashwin Hero

Final
Jack Hurst 73 - 55 Tom Stevenson

[Tom S]

So thank you all for coming for what was a very enjoyable two days. You are all lovely, and it was sublime to see you all. Thanks must go to Beachy and Rach, without whom this would have been a ballache of cosmic proportions. Congrats to Zohaib and Jack for their respective victories-watch this space for Brum, and get your arses to Sligo/Reading/Sheffield/Oxford/Durham, pronto! Until next time-Godspeed!

Thanks to you all for running a great event- really enjoyed it!

Just to settle the tie between Jonathan and Tom in the standings- the final scoreline in his game against me was 64-62, not 54-52. Have the proof if you need to see it.

Tom

[Matt Rutherford]

Have amended-cheers for pointing it out

[JackHurst]

So thank you all for coming for what was a very enjoyable two days. You are all lovely, and it was sublime to see you all. Thanks must go to Beachy and Rach, without whom this would have been a ballache of cosmic proportions. Congrats to Zohaib and Jack for their respective victories-watch this space for Brum, and get your arses to Sligo/Reading/Sheffield/Oxford/Durham, pronto! Until next time-Godspeed!

Thanks to you and everybody else who made the event happen!

GG WP to both Zohaib and Tom S in the finals!

[Fiona T]

Thanks MSR, Beachy and Rachael - good stuff!

See you all in Reading