Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club Cuppers 2025 was a tiddlywinks tournament for teams of four, consisting of an all-play-all stage, from which the top two teams were placed into a final match for the title. This competition was open to anyone who is a current undergraduate or postgraduate at either the University of Cambridge or Anglia Ruskin University.
As usual, no prior experience was required; training was available. The winners received the Cuppers Trophy and “an undefined but extremely prestigious and valuable reward”.
For other multi-week events, CUTwC also has the Nick Ashley ladder tournament.
For the 2024 Cuppers competition, see the 2024 Cuppers tournament.
See also the 2023 Cuppers 2022 Cuppers, 2020 Cuppers and 2018 Cuppers tournaments — the 2019 tournament, while theoretically happening, seems to have been hypothetical.
11 17 |
Ameena Miah Tom Buick |
Agnes Jardin Juan Larusso |
Tiddlen Tepid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilary Bexfield Alison Craig-Greene |
1 6 |
7* 0* |
8 |
| Tara Doherty |
1 6 |
2 5 |
3 |
| A HAT | 12 | 5 |
| Jack Murphy Jody Holland (not r3-4) |
Petroc Vyvyan-Jones Josie Gaukrodger |
Agnes Jardin Juan Lorusso (not r3-4) |
Adam Sandhu Nicola Craciun (not r3-4) |
Tara Doherty Abby Hallett-Greene |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romy Negrin Francis Kelly (only r3) |
27¾ 4:0:4 |
1¼ 5¾ |
4 3 |
1 6 |
½ 6½ |
Carnovsky Cats |
| Alice Horton Finley Walsh |
1 6 |
25¼ 3:1:4 |
1 6 |
3½* 3½* |
3 4 |
Squopaholics |
| Ameena Miah Tom Buick |
4 3 |
3 4 |
32½ 4:1:3 |
3½ 3½ |
5 2 |
Tiddlen Tepid |
| Nat Riches (not r3-4) Elaine Tejici (not r3-4) |
0 7 |
0 7 |
2 5 |
19 1:2:5 |
3 4 |
Byron’s Bears |
| Hilary Bexfield Alison Craig-Greene |
2* 5* |
7* 0* |
4 3 |
6* 1* |
35½ 6:0:2 |
A HAT |
| Carnovsky Cats |
Squopaholics | Tiddlen Tepid |
Byron’s Bears |
A HAT |
| Feb 5th | Feb 19th | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 |
| Wins:Draws:Losses Total points |
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Please note that the deadline for signing up has now passed.
In order to form a team, all members of the team must be part of some common group, traditionally Cambridge colleges or departments. This group can be linked by something other than college/department, however it must be a reasonable link and what is considered reasonable is at the discretion of the tournament organisers. Collaborations are permitted (e.g. St John’s and Trinity Colleges could form an unlikely partnership) but this should be acknowledged in the team’s name where possible.
Participants cannot change teams midway through the tournaments; however, substitutes for absent players are permitted at the Tournament Organiser’s discretion. The Tournament Organiser must be informed of the name and college/department of all team members prior to their first involvement in a Cuppers match.
Each team member was provided with a personalised squidger for participation, and mats and winks were provided at Wednesday CUTwC meetings. If you needed to rearrange matches then it was your responsibility to ensure that you had a mat and a set of winks to use; these could be bought from the club or borrowed from other players.
If you had any specific requests for your team’s squidgers, you should have contacted the Tournament Organiser as soon as possible — this relates to colour, team name, logo design if not a college crest, etc. The Club squidger smith may have been able to accommodate requests where possible, but all squidgers made for the team must have been identical.
Jack Murphy was nominated as “the Tournament Organiser” for the purpose of the below rulings.
The games themselves were played using the standard ETwA rule set. A link to the simplified version of the rules (covering most aspects of play and being vaguely understandable for beginners!) as well as a link to the full rules are included below.
http://www.etwa.org/rules/simplerules.pdf
http://www.etwa.org/rules/rules2016.pdf
The rules and format of the tournament were to be as follows:
Any rule disputes should have been brought to the attention of the Tournament Organiser immediately. The Tournament Organiser’s decision regarding any rule dispute was final.
The Tournament Organiser reserved the right to alter or add rules to the tournament in order to prevent rule abuse.
For further information, please email the tournament organiser or see the CUTwC web site, https://cutwc.org.