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JUST A WEEK AND A HALF TO GO NOW!!!

And we have now hit 22, thanks to the surprising, but most welcome, entry of Series 60 semi-finalist, Neil Zussman.

With another 4 on guaranteed pay, and another 2 highly likely, a total heading upto and above 30 still doesn't seem unrealistic.

Places are still available, payments can be accepted upto the day before now, so you can pay up on June 29th, if you desperately need to wait to the last minute to decide if you are coming.

So, if you're still interested, get in touch ASAP.

The date has somewhat crept up on me! Count me probably in.

James, can you please arrange a special prize for the person who comes last?

(I think it might be me)

kerryalcock wrote:James, can you please arrange a special prize for the person who comes last?

(I think it might be me)

Lol, I'll see what I can do, Kerry.

In the meantime, Jack has now paid up, so we have hit the dizzy heights of 27.

James Robinson wrote:

kerryalcock wrote:James, can you please arrange a special prize for the person who comes last?

(I think it might be me)

Lol, I'll see what I can do, Kerry.

What are you going to do about all the games that finish 0-0, with both players refusing to answer the tie-break conundrum because then they'll be out of the running for this prize?

Stewart Gordon wrote:

James Robinson wrote:

kerryalcock wrote:James, can you please arrange a special prize for the person who comes last?
(I think it might be me)

Lol, I'll see what I can do, Kerry.

What are you going to do about all the games that finish 0-0, with both players refusing to answer the tie-break conundrum because then they'll be out of the running for this prize?

I'll eject them!

JUST 24 HOURS TO GO NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS ALMOST AS EXCITING AS WAITING FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE'RE NOW AT 30, THANKS TO THE ARRIVAL OF PLAYER X. (All will be revealed tomorrow. )

James Robinson wrote:WE'RE NOW AT 30, THANKS TO THE ARRIVAL OF PLAYER X. (All will be revealed tomorrow. )

Wouldn't that be player XXX?

Is it Apterous Caesar?

Graeme Cole wrote:

James Robinson wrote:WE'RE NOW AT 30, THANKS TO THE ARRIVAL OF PLAYER X. (All will be revealed tomorrow. )

Wouldn't that be player XXX?

Is it Apterous Caesar?

Lol, no.

P.S. If Matt Bayfield (who is a bit ill at the moment) doesn't show, then Player X(XX) won't either, just to even the numbers out.

Well, yesterday was an absolutely fantastic day. A big thank you to all the 30 contestants who took part, including Player X, who I might as well reveal now, is my mum, who replaced Steve Ball at the last minute.

The first 3 15-rounders were very well fought out. We also had some very high scores, with both Kirk and Dan scoring 134 in their first game.

After all the 15-rounders, we had 6 players with 3 wins out of 3. They were Ryan Taylor, Dan McColm, Kirk Bevins, Joseph Krol, Graeme Cole and debutant Tracey Mills. And the highest two 2/3 winners were Matt Bayfield (who performed remarkably well considering he was under the weather for most of the day) and Dylan Taylor, who squeezed out Richard Priest by just 2 points.

The quarter-finals, saw the #1 seed, Ryan Taylor, lose to his namesake, the #8 seed, Dylan Taylor, by a single point. Dylan joined Kirk, Dan and Graeme in the semis.

The tightly-fought semis saw Kirk defeat Graeme and Dan defeat Dylan. Graeme would then defeat Dylan to win 3rd place. In the other groups, Jack Worsley beat Andy McGurn in the Group B final, Andy Platt beat Phil Jarvis in Group C and Michelle Nevitt beat Roger Edwards in Group D.

So, the grand final took place between Kirk and Dan. After a stalemate in the first 4 rounds, Kirk hit another gear in winning 3 out of the next 4 rounds, including getting the first conundum, CIGARILLO, as well as the brilliant 8's of BOROUGHS and TOSTADOS.

Then in the last letters game, Dan pulled out a trump card by spotting the brilliant LAAITIE to cut the gap to 19 points, with just the last numbers and conundrum to go. Unfortunately for him, Kirk had the pick and an easy 1 large appeared. But, Kirk's hopes of a century were dashed thanks to the final conundrum, DIAERESIS, meaning that Kirk won the final by a score of 98-79.

May I just say that everyone who came yesterday made the day absolutely magical, it was a completely new experience to be a host, and while I missed being a contestant, it was thrilling being in charge. It was also brilliant meeting so many new people for the first time (we had TWELVE CO-event débutantes), and I hope that we can reconvene next year for COHUD2.

P.S. No-one mention MOFOS again.

Fun as always - thanks again for running it, and running it well.

And here's the long-awaited photo montage: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 163&type=1

Recaps will be up later.

Enjoyable event and I had lots of fun very well run by you and Jeff Hoping to be back next year and for any future events

Looked like great craic James. Absolutely love your Facebook montages of different events, the closest I'll get to being there. Congrats to Kirk and Dan and the two hosts.

It's my mission to attend one of these!!! (You'll all stick around for the next few years, right? )

What Andy said. And as ever, great to see faces from the 'old school' and from the 'new school' too. Roll on the next one...

Many thanks, Jeff and James. A very enjoyable and well run event.

Really enjoyed the day. Not enough photos of Kirk's bottom have ended up on Facebook though...

Hi again everyone,

I've finally been able to send out the results from COHUD, which you should have received by e-mail.

If you haven't, then I haven't got it. If you want it, pm your address to me and I'll sort it out for you.

And thanks once again to everyone for coming.

Why not post the results on here?

Gavin Chipper wrote:Why not post the results on here?

Or even the wiki?

Ben Wilson wrote:

Gavin Chipper wrote:Why not post the results on here?

Or even the wiki?

A small version will be available on the Wiki shortly.