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24 March – Close of nominations

26 April – Preliminary Round (where required)

10 May – Open, Minor Counties, U1850 & U1450 Quarter Finals

17 May – U2050 & U1650 Quarter Finals

07 June – Semi Finals of all championships

05 July – Finals of all championship sections

The 2025 finals will be held regionally, combining finals where practical to do so.

MCCU

Lincolnshire and Worcestershire have accepted nominations to play in the Minor Counties Championships. In the rated limited competitions, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire will be playing in the u1850; Worcestershire and Lincolnshire in the u1650 and Staffordshire in the u1450

SCCU

Nominations to the ECF County Championships (confirmed entries shown in bold) are:

Open: 1. Surrey, 2. Middlesex
Minor Counties: 1. Kent
u2050: 1. Middlesex, 2. Surrey
u1850: 1. Kent, 2. Middlesex
u1650: 1. Surrey, 2. Kent
u1450: 1. Kent, 2. Surrey

In the NCCU, G Man will be entering all 5; I think Yorks will be in the Open, u2050 and u1650, but not the u1450; the u1850 final match is on Sunday, with Merseyside needing to beat York to pip them to the qualifying place

NCCU now confirmed as G Man for all 5, and Yorks for all but the u1450

u1450 entries are Staffs, G Man, Kent & Essex, so will go straight to the semifinals

Open - G Man v Middlesex; Surrey v Yorkshire

Minor - Devon v Worcs, winners play Norfolk; Lincs v Cambs, Sussex v Somerset

u2050- Middlesex v Yorks; G Man v Surrey

u1850 - Kent v Yorks; Lincs v Suffolk; G Man v Middlesex; Cambs v Derbys

u1650 - Worcs v Kent, winners play G Man; Surrey v Lincs; Hants v Yorks

u1450 - G Man v Kent; Staffs v Essex

So, 4 G Man teams in the semis

Worcs v Kent 1650s to be played in Reading on 17 May 2025.

U1850 Cambs beat Derbyshire

G Man v Middlesex at Syston tomorrow

Good luck to Middlesex against Cambridgeshire in the semifinal, worthy winners today

Great to meet the Kent team today and fantastic to chat afterwards over a beer. It was nice both teams paid a bit extra to hold this at the Holiday Inn at Peterborough and made for a brilliant weekend.

U1850 Yorkshire v Suffolk; Middlesex v Cambridgeshire

Sussex 11-5 Somerset, not surprising as the latter were out-rated on each board. There were no short games though.

Venue was Newton Tony, which I initially thought was a typo, but it turns out to be a lovely village near Amesbury, the sort where you would expect to find Miss Marple (although hopefully without all the deaths).

Minor - Devon v Norfolk; Sussex v Cambs

Stephen Westmoreland wrote: ↑

Sun May 11, 2025 12:13 am

Great to meet the Kent team today and fantastic to chat afterwards over a beer. It was nice both teams paid a bit extra to hold this at the Holiday Inn at Peterborough and made for a brilliant weekend.

A county match held in a genuinely pleasant venue? My goodness
(Not that the various village halls etc I've seen have been bad, and the dolphin center in Darlington was quite nice.).

Both teams put individual contributions in. A few of us stayed over too.

I spent a small fortune but it was worth it!

U1650 Kent beat Worcestershire so it's G Man v Kent in the u1450 and U1650 Semifinals

Surrey beat Lincolnshire also in the U1650, and will play Yorkshire who beat Hampshire