It’s been a great couple of days and I’m afraid staying glued to the live stream has taken priority over writing about it! A fuller report of the event will come later, but for now, here’s the headlines:
Team UK reach the European semi-finals…
What a difference a year makes! In 2015 we were the plucky underdogs finding our feet in the European Team Championships. This year Team UK go into the “rest day” – well, the day devoted to the individual tournament instead – as one of four semi-finalists…
Teams for European Championships Announced
The European Online Championships 2016 are about to begin and as usual these days the UK is represented by a very strong team – of Gaz Owen, Simon Barget, Sebastian Wilkinson, Charles Hill and Chris Hamilton with myself as non-playing captain.
After reaching the 3 way final in 2015 we have a lot to live up to but I am extremely confident that the team selected is up to the job.
The flagship event of European backgammon is the European Team Championships which last year was held in Budapest, Hungary and won by Croatia. This year it is in Helsingor, Denmark and the UK team will be based around the successful UK team from the World Trophy in Georgia earlier this year. The team is Raj Jansari, Eric McAlpine, Gaz Owen, Lawrence Powell, Chris Rogers, Sebastian Wilkinson with myself as captain.
In an already excellent year for UK backgammon, success in these events would put the icing on an extremely delicious cake.
EUBGF Update and Bids for the European Team Championships
A brief update on the EUBGF, the forthcoming 2016 European Team Championships in Denmark and an invitation to submit proposals to host the 2017 European Team Championships
The board of the EUBGF (European Backgammon Federation), chaired by its president Denmark’s Steen Grønbech, has been working hard over the past year and at its last Annual General Assembly voted in its formal statutes (constitution) and official tournament rules, which fully mirror the UKBGF Rules.
UK Team Selection for the European Team Championships
The time has come to select the UK Team for the prestigious European Team Championships to be held in Copenhagen in September 2016. I have been appointed Captain of the UK Team by the UKBGF – a position I hold with pride as well as a certain amount of trepidation – so team selection is my next task.
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