The English open teams-of-four championship

Holders 2010/2011

Paul Denning; Patrick Shields; Peter Goodman; Adrian Thomas

 

The Crockford's is England's premier teams championship consists of five rounds of knock-out matches played privately, qualifying eight teams to contest an all-play-all final. 

Up to 16 teams will be seeded, including the finalists in last year's competition (provided that they enter with substantially the same players).  Seeded teams will be exempt until round three (the round of 64), and will not be drawn to meet each other before the round of 16.  Any team that defeats a seeded will attain seeded status themselves.

Unseeded teams losing their first match will have automatic entry into the Plate.

 

Entry Fee

The fee is £80 per team (includes the Plate).  Closing date for entries is 1st August 2011.  Please fill in the form below, and send to the address on the back of the form.

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Finals

The finals will be played over the weekend of 12 -13 May 2012, starting at 1:00pm.  The venue will be the Barcelo Hinckley Island Hotel, LE10 3JA. Timetable is below:

Saturday:

Session 1	1:00pm - 2:05pm 2:10pm - 3:15pm	Match 1
	3:30pm - 4:35pm 4:40pm - 5:45pm	Match 2
Session 2	7:30pm - 8:35pm 8:40pm - 9:45pm	Match 3
	9:55pm - 11:00pm 11:05pm - 12.10am	Match 4

Sunday:

Session 3	10:30am - 11:35am 11:40am - 12:45pm	Match 5
Session 4	1:00pm - 2:05pm 2:10pm - 3:15pm	Match 6
	3:25pm - 4:30pm 4:35pm - 5:40pm	Match 7

Trophies are at 6:00pm

New for this season – the last 8 from the Crockfords Plate will play alongside the main final (same dates, venue and format).

Ongoing draws & results for Crockfords & Crockfords Plate can be found here

 

Holders 2009/2010

Janet de Botton, Jason Hackett, Justin Hackett, Artur Malnowski, Andrew McIntosh, Nick Sandqvist

Holders 2008/2009

Chris Jagger, Catherine Jagger, Jonathan Mestel, Ian Pagan & Julian Wightwick

Holders 2007/2008

Tony Forrester, David Bakhshi, Alexander Allfrey and Andrew Robson

Holders 2006/2007 :

Janet de Botton, David Burn, Jason Hackett,
Justin Hackett, Artur Malinowski, Nick Sandqvist (pictured left with the magnificent trophy). Click here for the full results

Holders 2005/2006:

Paul Gibbons, Richard Probst, Jon Cooke, John Cox, Alex Hydes

Holders 2004/2005:

Alexander Allfrey, Andrew McIntosh, Andrew Robson & David Bakhshi.

Holders 2003/2004:

Brock: (Sally Brock, Raymond Brock, Danny Davies, John Armstrong & Margaret James) (trophy winners on split-tie)

Master Points

This is a Green Point event, and the point awards are:

Round	1	2	3	4	5	Final
Points	2	2	3	4	6	See below
1 point per match won (½ for a draw), plus ranking points to the top four teams: 1st  24;  2nd  12;  3rd  7;  4th  3.