ESMBA: NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Four of the recognised disciplines were held at Melton Mowbray IBC from Thursday 11th April to Sunday 14th April 2024.
Following our own national qualifiers Cambridgeshire were allocated two team places in both the singles and pairs events and one team in the triples.
As would be expected competition is tough as its the top 64 teams from around the country allocated places against a rather complex but working algorithm.
Team places are largely based on total number of county members, total numbers entering respective national qualifiers and final placings within the county qualifiers.
Teams representing the CSMBA were as follows:
Singles : Billy Chapman and Chris West
Pairs : Hazel & Phil Spry and Neville Gill & Michael Gillett
Triples : Maureen Bell, David Wilcox and Roly Fincham
Roly was accepted by the ESMBA as a legitimate reserve as Josie Charter was still recovering from her broken leg.
All teams play three matches in the round robin groups and it is not easy to get out of these groups and progress to the knockout rounds.
Congratulations to all our teams for representing the CSMBA and for reaching the National Finals.
Well done to both Chris West and our triples team for progressing to the last 32 and good luck for next year.
David Wilcox
Interim Competitions Secretary