IFTwA World Singles 77 will (probably) be contested on the afternoon of Friday 28th of March in Emmanuel College.
The ETwA National Handicapped Singles will be held on Saturday 29th in The Turk’s Head, 28 Winchester Road, Twickenham, Middlesex TW1 1LF (nearest stations are St Margarets and Twickenham), from 10am-for-a-10:30 squidge-off; it will conclude around 5:30pm. Please contact Edward Brown if attending, and bring a mat if possible.
There will be a Zoom meeting from 7:30pm on Thursday 3rd of April; please see the mailing list for details.
The ETwA National Singles will be held from 10:30am on the weekend of 26th and 27th of April, in the Tim Cadbury/Music Room (upstairs in E staircase) of Downing College. Table fees (£5 for non-members) will apply.
The Varsity Match will be held on Sunday 11th of May in Oxford; more details TBA. Please try to win this one.
The Charles Relle Trophy for Lent Term 2025, “Rage Cage”, was won by Petroc Vyvyan-Jones, with Finley Walsh a close second (March 19th).
The ETwA Jubilee Trophy was retained by Patrick Driscoll over Adam Sandhu, 18-3 (March 12th).
Cuppers was won by Tiddlen Tepid, who beat A HAT 17-11 (March 5th).
The Manchester & Somerset Society (University Singles) Trophy was tied between Patrick Driscoll and Patrick Barrie (February 26th).
IFTwA World Pairs 50 was won by Andy Purvis and Patrick Driscoll, from Jon Mapley and Matthew Rose (February 22nd).
The ETwA Jubilee Trophy was retained by Patrick Driscoll over Hilary Bexfield, 18-3 (February 18th).
The Peterhouse Pot was won by Patrick Driscoll (February 12th).
The ETwA Jubilee Trophy was retained by Patrick Driscoll over Jack Murphy, 21½-13½ (February 11th).
The Cambridge Open was won by Harley Jones (January 25th-26th); rantings have been updated.
The Silver Wink was won by Cambridge, defeating Oxford 72½-30½ (November 16th).
British Comedy Guide has a piece on the Goons match.
Emmy, our President, was on Radio 5 Live (from ~1:56:30) on Tuesday January 14th re. the Club’s 70th birthday.
There is a PA Media article on the start of modern tiddlywinks, featuring the founders and the current President. It has been picked up by the Telegraph and the BBC. The PA Media article has been replicated to the Sun, Mirror, Express, iPaper, Daily Star and Telegraph, and the online Independent, Evening Standard, Mail Online. It’s now hosted on the web sites of Christ’s and Cambridge. The founders were on the BBC Today Programme (2:56:10 in).
Vernon Kay’s radio 2 show played an archive clip of Southampton University playing MIT in 1972 (starting at 45 minutes).
An introductory video has been posted by Ex-Prezzy B.
There is now a CUTwC YouTube channel.
