There will be a Zoom meeting from 7:30pm on Wednesday 22nd of January (not Tuesday 21st as previously advertised); please see the mailing list for details.
The Club Dinner celebrating the 70th birthday of CUTwC will be held on Saturday 25th of January 2025 in Selwyn College: a reception in the Chadwick Room from 6:45pm and dinner in the Hall from 7:30pm.
The Cambridge Open will be held on the weekend of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of January from 10:30am in Selwyn Diamond.
The ETwA National Singles will be held on the weekend of 26th and 27th of April, likely in Downing College in the Howard Assembly Room, upstairs in the Howard Building.
The Hampton Court Invitational was won by Hilary Bexfield (January 5th/6th).
The Somerset Invitation was won by Patrick Driscoll (January 3rd/4th).
The NATwA Singles was won by Prabhas Pokharel (December 7th).
The Charles Relle Trophy was arguably won by Harley Jones (December 4th).
The ETwA Jubilee Trophy was retained by Patrick Driscoll (November 30th).
The Manchester & Somerset Society Trophy was won by Patrick Barrie (November 27th).
The Peterhouse Pot was won by Jack Murphy (November 20th).
The Oxford Open was won by Harley Jones; the highest-placed novice was Alison Craig-Greene (November 17th).
The Silver Wink was won by Cambridge, defeating Oxford 72½-30½ (November 16th).
The Paul Thorpe University Pairs was won by Jack Murphy and Tom Buick (November 6th).
IFTwA World Pairs 49 was retained by Jon Mapley & Matthew Rose over David and Jon Lockwood, 26-16 (November 3rd).
The ETwA National Pairs was won by Jon Mapley and Matthew Rose (October 27th); the non-qualifiers’ Plate was won by Katherine Drew and Natasha Holmes.
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).
There is a Varsity match compilation on YouTube.
There is a CUTwC TikTok channel.
The BBC’s “from the archive” has coverage of the Goons Match from 1958.
We have a Valentine’s Day video!
The Somerset Invitation features in the Mendip Times issue for February 2023 (page 75).
See ETwA’s Christmas advert (2022) on YouTube!
A video of World Pairs 46 has been posted by SNTV.
An introductory video has been posted by Ex-Prezzy B.
There is now a CUTwC YouTube channel.