This is the consolation pairs events in the Summer Congress. In recent years it has been given to the highest non expert pairs in the main event. This is now defined as the leading pair in the C Strat Last updated: 17th August 2021
| Year | Players |
| 1967 | Mr & Mrs EJ Armstrong |
| 1968 | Keith Stanley & A Grant |
| 1969 | Bob Ferrari & Ken Hassell |
| 1970 | Mrs JE Marks & David Gritt |
| 1971 | J. Wheeler & Stuart Staveley |
| 1972 | GCH Fox & Betty Fox |
| 1973 | Steve Murphy & Steve Preston |
| 1974 | Tony Odams & DF Griffiths |
| 1975 | Sally Eggett & Simon Cochemé |
| 1976 | Peter Tobias & Jerry Harouni |
| 1977 | Jeremy Wyndham & Michael Clarke |
| 1978 | Steve Green & Ian Climie |
| 1979 | Gerald Soper & RD Welch |
| 1980 | Graham Bobby & JR St John Miller |
| 1981 | NI Smith & Stuart Matthews |
| 1982 | Not Known |
| 1983 | WJ Colman & SJ Andrews |
| 1984 | JS Hill & Peter Crouch |
| 1985 | Peter Clinch & Ian Payn |
| 1986 | Martin Garvey & Ian Franses |
| 1987 | Danny Davies & Young Gay |
| 1988 | Vernon Gaskell & Cameron Small |
| 1989 | Andy Bowles & Cameron Small |
| 1990 | John Cox & Cameron Small |
| 1991 | Dr D Newton & Mrs JI Newton |
| 1992 | James Deacon & Susan Bird |
| 1993 | Not known |
| 1994 | Not known |
| 1995 | DS Biroli & M Gandini |
| 1996 | Joan Murphy & Jane Dixon-Nutt |
| 1997 | DS Biroli & E Vaos |
| 1998 | RJ Payne & EA Sheehan |
| 1999 | Anne Hughes & David Hughes |
| 2000 | Kathy Kent & Pat Kent |
| 2001 | Not known |
| 2002 | Not known |
| 2003 | Luke Porter & Philip Smith |
| 2004 | Adam Dickinson & Luke Porter |
| 2005 | Paul Huggins & Dominic Pinto |
| 2006 | Paul Huggins & Dominic Pinto |
| 2007 | P Chan & D Tregear |
| 2008 | Helen Wildsmith & Tim Chanter |
| 2009 | David Arundel & Andrew Bannock |
| 2010 | Philip Nind & David Newman |
| 2011 | Paul Jones & Adam Jones |
| 2012 | Paul Thornton & Gerry Weston |
| 2013 | Chris Derrick & Kyle Lam |
| 2014 | Dave Muller & John Bowen |
| 2015 | Olivia Bailey & Nick Dean |
| 2016 | James Green & Alex Lawton |
| 2017 | Jonathan Davis & Kiril Delev |
| 2018 | K Rahman & Alex Crystol |
| 2019 | Jonathan Clark & Kripa Panchagnula |
| 2020 | Not held |
| 2021 | Benjamin Gardner & Liam Fegarty (picture) |