| Right through the Pack Pro Am Teams July 2025—Report |
Pro Am July 2025 winning team of Éva Balázs‑Elek, Sara Chiappara, Guy Hart and Mark Lehto
The evening of Wednesday 16 July saw the debut of a “Right through the Pack” Pro Am teams tournament at the club. The motivation behind this fun event was to provide a competition in which the Ams (less experienced players) could take part alongside the Pros (mostly not actually professionals, but still very experienced players). The format had every pair of Ams matched with a pair of Pros to form a team to play a multiple teams IMP event. The movement wasn’t a regular teams one, but designed so that Ams played only Ams while Pros played only Pros. In other words, the Ams didn’t have to directly face any of the (perhaps fearsome) Pros at the table.
A free glass of Pimms all round kicked off the evening while the Ams got to socialise with their respective Pro teammates. The event attracted twelve teams and ran for nine two‑board rounds. Congratulations to the winning team of Éva Balázs‑Elek (MindSports centre manager), Sara Chiappara, Guy Hart and Mark Lehto who received modest prizes.
Results
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Thank you to all the players who came along and supported this new event, to Gitte Hecht‑Johansen for directing a previously untried movement, and to Jonathan Lillycrop for technical advice and work on the movement.
The club hopes to repeat this style of event occasionally in future, ironing out some of the glitches that come with trying anything new.
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Item posted 19 July 2025
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