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4NCL On Line League Season 3, Round 1

 

The first round of the new season of the on-line 4NCL (senior) league was played on Tuesday 26/01/2021.

 

Last “season”, Divisions 1 to 5 were each split into 4 all-play-all 8-team sections, followed by knock-out semi-finals and final contested between section winners.  The bottom division, Division 6, was run as a 68-team Swiss.  That all involved a total of 228 teams.

 

This season, the number of teams is up to a record 258, these teams being arranged in 7 divisions.  Divisions 1 to 6 are of 32 teams, while Division 7 is of 66 teams.  The idea of Sections has been scrapped for the new season, with each Division being run initially as a 7-round Swiss tournament, using start rankings based on the previous season’s placings.  There are then to be knock-out semi-finals and final in each Division.

 

Division 4 contains two Sheffield-based team are playing, both in Division4: Darnall & Handsworth, and Sheffield Deaf (the latter promoted from last season).

 

Round 1 results of the 2 Sheffield-based teams were as follows:

 

Spirit of Atticus B

2-2

Darnall & Handsworth

David A Phillips

½-½

Marek Gajdosz

Roy Ellames

1-0

Geoffrey D Brown

Colm Buckley

½-½

Nathaniel Holroyd‑Doveton

Colin White

0-1

Craig Chatterton

 

Bude Surfers

2½-1½

Sheffield Deaf

WFM

Petra Fink-Nunn

1-0

Mark Kirkham

Christine F Constable

½-½

Michael P Freund

Maurice A Richards

1-0

Stephen Gibson

Lloyd Russell

0-1

Reuben Litherland

Nick D Holmes

0-1

Bradley Triffitt

Andrew Jones

0-1

Ian Scott