City of Bath Pétanque ClubThere is currently a problem with the Event Calendar where the monthly view is not displaying events correctly. This is caused by a software error and requires a software update which is awaited. In the meanwhile the rolling panel on the right hand side of the Home page is the only view of up and coming events.
A reminder that next Saturday, 7th October, is the next monthly melee, registration at 09.45 for a 10.00 start.
Box are having a Bastille Day at the back of the Rec and at the Queens Head in Box! The event starts at 4.00pm finishing at 10.30pm on Saturday 13th July.
It’s going to be an amazing event showing the community how Bastille Day is celebrated in France. There will be music, games, boules and so much more. it should be a great day for all the family and club members are invited to attend to join in with the celebrations.
More information can be found here.
Information for City of Bath Pétanque Club Members
The Bath-Alkmaar Twinning Association is celebrating 70 years of friendship with the city of Alkmaar (Netherlands) during July. There has been a lot of coverage about this in the local press and on the Bath Newseum website https://bathnewseum.com/
CoBPC is a corporate member of the twinning association and there are a number of events during that week that might interest you.
Buffet lunch followed by melee at LSC: Thursday 13th July
Lunch from 12.30 £5 per head. Please RSVP to dianabathboules@yahoo.co.uk by Sunday 9th July
Melee starts at 14.00 prompt. Entry £3. No need to book. Contact Chris McGinn for further information. We hope to welcome members of L’Autre Chemin Pétanque Club of Alkmaar to this event.
The Great Bath Cheese Trail organised by Bath Comedy. HOW DOES IT WORK? During Alkmaar Week, 75 cheeses, kindly donated by the Alkmaar cheese merchants, will be placed in the windows of independent Bath shops and other prominent places. Each cheese will have a fascinating fact about the history of the twinning attached, linked to a numbered quiz question on the accompanying entry form. Answer as many questions as you can and those with the most correct answers will be placed in a draw to win a fabulous prize: a giant cheese! Some cheeses will be hard to find, don’t worry if you don’t get them all.
WHERE DO I PICK UP MY ENTRY FORM?
The entry forms will be distributed to hotels, pubs, the Visitor Information Centre and to the participating shops. The entry form will also be available to download at www.bathcomedy.com
Dutch Comedy night: Tuesday 11th July 7.30pm for 8, Widcombe Social Club. Four highly-regarded up-and-coming Dutch comedians from the Toomler Comedy Club Amsterdam. Tickets £11 from bathboxoffice.org.uk
Concerts by the Artiance Youth Orchesta of Alkmaar, on Saturday 15th July 7pm to 9pm at the Roper Theatre, Hayesfield School, and on Sunday 16th from
3.30 pm to 5.30 at St Michaels Without, Broad St. Both concerts will tell a tale of daring escape, tragedy and international friendship through music and readings, and an arrangement of Lily Marlene has been written specially for the occasion.
Tickets are £6.50 per head and are available from www.eventbrite.co.uk or via twinning association website www.bath-alkmaar.eu
More information on all these events can be found on www.bath-alkmaar.eu or contact Diana Lockwood dianabathboules@yahoo.co.uk.
The Summer Doubles has been launched from today. A couple of Winter Doubles teams have dropped out with one new team entering. As there may be new players, (possibly some existing players) who would be interested in joining, Cary left 3 open spots in league B. If any of you are aware of a team that would like to enter could you please have them contact Cary.
http://cobpc.leaguerepublic.com/l/fg/1_489993786.html
We will be using the same format as we did for the Winter Doubles which proved to be very successful.
• Although dates are shown on the website, these can be ignored and you are free to set your own dates in agreement with your opposition
• Games may be played at any location.
• There is one game per match played to 13. Winners receive 3 points, losers 1 point. Points scored during the games will also be counted giving a point differential which could be important at the end of the season.
• The games must be finished by October 31st when we will start a new Winter Doubles
• Winners and Runners up will receive medals and there will be a cup for winners of each league.
• Promotion and Relegation will now kick in and it will be a 2 team up and down.
To decide the cup for the Winter Doubles could I ask Montys and Ship Mates to play a decider match (best of three) and if possible by the end of August so that you can be presented with your medals and cup at the Thursday League Dinner.
Good luck and have a good season.
Cary
The morning of the Spring Open dawned bright and clear with the early arrivals at LSC checking in at 08:45, ready for a 09:30 kick off. Teams had been drawn into groups of four and after welcoming our guests from Cork, play got under way.
A great day of competition amid friendly banter was had by all in glorious sunshine, apart from one deluge that stopped play for half an hour and briefly flooded the pistes!
Thanks must go to Mary, Mel and the team for a lovely lunch, and of course to Cary, who organised the event with panache and was the chief scorer, umpire, and presenter of prizes.
Main Competition
Winners – MM & BW
Runners Up – The Fuse Box’s
Plate Competition
Winners – Le Provencal
Runners Up – Ruff
Consolage A
Winners – Farmer John
Runners Up – Vigilant
Consolage B
Winners – Greenways
Runners Up – Northey Belles
Best City of Bath Team
Les Pistes Artistes
If any club members are interested in becoming a qualified Umpire then this post is for you.
The second of a possible three umpire courses is to be held on Saturday 17 June at the Burwell Ex-Service & Social Club.
The club is located at:
Burwell Ex-Service & Social Club
21 The Causeway
Burwell
Cambridge
CB25 0DU
website : www.burwellsocialclub.org.uk
The course will start at 09:00 and end at approximately 17:00
This course is aimed primarily as a refresher course for existing umpires although new candidates are very welcome.
The day will include a full review of the rules plus some practical sessions.
Course fee:
• Existing EPA Umpires – FREE
• All other candidates – £20 (payable on the day)
Coffee and Tea will be available and perhaps bacon rolls on arrival.
Lunch may also be provided (chips & burgers etc) by the club at at a small charge.
*Please note that it is now mandatory for existing umpires to attend at least 1 refresher course this year, failure to do so may result in the umpire licence being suspended*
To book a place on this course (17 June) please reply to this email no later than the 31 May stating the following:
• Name:
• Licence number:
• Region:
• Email address:
New candidates are required to complete the attached form and return it to me by email to:
mike.pegg@fipjp.com
or by post to:
Umpires Course
Bones Roost
Chapel Road
Parkham
EX39 5PG
CONGRATULATIONS are in order to all of our members who entered the Jersey Open this year.
New friends were made and old friendships renewed as our teams were welcomed so warmly.
Weather was very kind on Saturday with great results from all of our teams.
Sunday could only be described as wet and cold but the teams put on waterproofs and battled through.
The two days consisted of 6 matches on Saturday after which teams (68 in all) were allocated into 4 divisions being, Main, Plate, Consolage 1 and Consolage 2.
Sunday morning was a Round Robin followed by semi-finals and finals in the afternoon.
The pistes, numbering over 40 , were challenging with 4 different surfaces so adjustments had to made throughout the day.
This is undoubtedly City of Bath’s best set of results yet with all of our teams in the top half of this very competitive Open.
On the first day 1 team had 5 wins and 1 loss and the other teams all had 3 wins and 3 losses.
This resulted in 1 team in the Main Competition and the others in The Plate.
Play continued on Monday at another club called Carrefour in Jersey.
This was much shorter and the games were timed in order that visiting teams could return home later that day.
Unfortunately the weather was so appalling that even the ferries were cancelled!
Our teams battled through the wind and rain with various degrees of success.
WELL DONE TO ALL.
Please see the Club’s Facebook page for pictures of the weekend.
A reminder that tomorrow’s session, ie 10th May, is cancelled as the surfaces are being re-dressed with the 5 tons of grit (6mm free limestone). This work is scheduled to commence mid morning so the square will be unavailable for play this week.
The Bath Grand Cru Petanque Club (Chris Garratt) has made arrangements for this with the supplier and is to supply the labour for distributing the grit onto the playing squares. Any other help would very welcome of course.
The intention is to create an improved playing surface, and to enhance the visual aspect of the square.
The process will be for a first layer of grit to be laid and pressured down, followed by a top surface.
Larkhall FC have a home fixture against Hereford this Saturday. This is by far the biggest fixture of the year for the Club and will be an all ticket match. Hereford will bring a significant number of supporters who are expected to start arriving from midday.
As part of their crowd management plan Larkhall will be fencing off access to our terrains to keep supporters away from our playing areas. The club house will also be mainly standing room only to accommodate the numbers expected. As a consequence the EC have decided to cancel this Saturday’s club session.
The next club session will be Tuesday 21st February.
Robin in his capacity as GWR Regional Umpire has provided the following information for players in the GWR:
I am sure that by now many of you will have already seen the change of Official Petanque Rules which come into effect on the first of January 2017. The Rules are obtainable by hyperlink on the EPA website where the changes are highlighted in blue, and will be on the GWR website.
I suggest that you all acquaint yourselves with the new rules which should not present any problems, because some we already use in timed games, all the rules have been tested by the French Federation and some World and European Championships and for the change in Article 6, 7. We have used it at City of Bath Petanque Club in an Open Competition without any problem.
Some of the new changes are listed here, but the new rules should be read by all players before we start the new season.
1. Jack besides measuring 30+/- mm it must also weigh between 10-18 grams,
2. Prefabricated circles In all cases the circle must be marked before the jack is thrown.
3. Start of game or end The team winning the toss or previous end will have only one attempt to throw the Jack; if the jack is not valid it is handed the opponent who will place it at any valid position on the designated terrain. The team placing the jack must do so immediately. The valid position can be measured, for instance if it is close to the 6 or 10 meter line but if not valid is NOT passed back to the team that first threw the jack.
4. Feet in circle must be entirely inside the circle and not encroach on its perimeter failure to concur will now incur the penalties of Article 35
5. Picking up circle while there are boules to be played, the marked circle is replaced but only the opponents are allowed to play their boules.
6. Displacement of obstacles It is now forbidden to sweep in front of the boule to be shot, the offending player incurs the penalties outlined in Article 35.
7. Removed Boules If a player picks up his boules from the playing area while their partner(s) have boules remaining they will not be allowed to play them.
8. Exceeding time Limits A yellow card for exceeding the time limit will be imposed on All the players of the offending team. If one of these players has already been given a yellow card they will be penalised by disqualification of the boule played or to be played.
9. Correct Dress etc. Specifically it is forbidden to play without a top and for safety reasons, the players must wear fully enclosed shoes protecting the toes and heels; It is forbidden to smoke during play, including electronic cigarettes and it is also forbidden to use mobile phones during the game.