Blitz Championship

This season, we are aiming to hold three separate Blitz evenings which together will form an overall Blitz Championship, the winner being the person who scores the most points across the three events.

Points will be awarded for the finishing positions in each event as follows: 1st: 40pts, 2nd: 30pts, 3rd 25pts, 4th: 22pts, 5th: 20pts, 6th: 18 pts, 7th: 16pts, 8th: 14pts, 9th: 12pts, 10th: 11pts; 11th: 10pts; 12th: 9pts; 13th: 8pts; 14th: 7pts; 15th: 6pts; 16th: 5pts; 17th: 4pts: 18th: 3pts; 19th: 2pts; 20th: 1pt.

All events will he played at Cambridge Park Bowls & Sports Club, Cambridge Park, Twickenham TW1 2PG on Thursday evenings, starting at 7:30pm. Each event will be a 5-round Swiss tournament with a maximum of 20 participants.

Standings

PosNameR1R2R3Pts
1Alexey Lapidus4040
2Alastair Armstrong3030
3Raghu Kamath2525
4Herve Eloundou2222
5Sampson Low2020
6Nick Von Schlippe1818
7Karl Stand1616
8Peter Farmakis1414
9Maks Gajowniczek1212
10James Yiming Wang1111
11Charlie van den Berg1010
12George Milligan99
13Tom Lloyd88
14Lewis Low77
15Roman Tuszhanov66
16Michael Larby55
17Adrian Cronan44
18David Heaton33
19Oscar Rounding22
20Ruth Nicklin11

Round 1

Date: Thursday 17th September 2026

Time control: 3 minutes + 7 second increments

Winner: Alexey Lapidus

Round 2

Date: Thursday 28th January 2027

Time control: 5 minutes + 5 second increments

Round 3

Date: Thursday 20th or Thursday 27th May 2027 (TBC)

Time control: 7 minutes + 3 second increments