On Tues 16th Jan we had our second round of the Rosebowl, excellently hosted as a hybrid session by Northfields CC and against Stoke Poges PS and Croxley CC. Our original judge Paul Burwood was unable to judge the competition for us and Kathy Chantler, Chair of the CACC no less, very kindly undertook the role. There was an extremely disappointing turnout with only 13 people online and 6 members in physical attendance at NCC which did make me query once again whether there was much support for our longstanding large external competitions.

Anyway to the night…..

It has to be said I was in a mild state of panic when our first image out received a 14, however I fairly quickly realised that all was not lost as Kathy’s scores were pretty low overall. In fact she awarded 10 x 14’s and 13 x 15’s which equates to over 38% of all images (60 in total) scoring a pretty low mark in my book, given this is a Rosebowl competition and clubs are therefore submitting their very best images.

15 images scored 16 and 13 images scored 17 with 8 images being held back, two from each club and scores being quite a close run thing it was anyone’s game, but I’m delighted to be able to tell you that EHHPS won!! I don’t think I’ve been able to say that for a long time, so thank you Kathy!

Final Scores