The East Anglian Federation organises a number of tournaments open to individuals for both Association and Golf Croquet. Entry forms for many of them are sent to Club Secretaries at the beginning of the year. For details of this year's tournaments follow the corresponding links.
Association Croquet
The
Club Champions DayClubs are invited to enter their representatives (mostly winners from internal club tournaments in the previous season) in a one day tournament in one of three categories, Advanced, B-Level Advanced and Handicap.
Indoor tournaments are held at Soham on
Saturdays and Sundays over four to six winter weekends
a year. Games are 14 point handicap doubles with a time limit of 25 minutes
for each side, though details of the format vary between events. See Indoor croquet formats
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The Anderson ShieldThis was a two-day AC 'B-Level' team tournament organised at county level for the 6 counties in the Region. It was last played as a tournament in 2012, and usually took place over the Saturday and Sunday of a weekend in May, at about the same time that the national AC Inter-Counties Championship took place in Southwick and Compton. Unfortunately it lapsed in recent years when some counties found it difficult to raise teams. Teams of four from each of the six counties played each other in Level Advanced Doubles. Entry was restricted to players in an AC 'B-Level' range (typically 1+).
Then in 2022 the competition was resurrected in a new format as a Federation league for B-Level Advanced play, with matches played between pairs of clubs over the course of the summer season, and with slightly modified handicap restrictions for teams. See the Leagues pages for more details.
Golf Croquet
The Ken Wheeler ShieldThis is a one-day GC team tournament first introduced in 2011, with six teams selected from EACF affiliated clubs to represent each of the six counties in East Anglia comprising the Federation.
The
Club Champions DayClubs are invited to enter their representatives (mostly winners from internal club tournaments in the previous season) in a one day tournament in the following year.
Indoor
tournaments are sometimes held at Soham over a winter weekend. Handicap
doubles matches are played with each match played within a time limit. See
Indoor croquet formats
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Open TournamentsIn addition to the above, some clubs in East Anglia organise their own open tournaments which are available to all individuals who are associates of Croquet England, and which appear in the official CqE fixture list. A summary of these can be found in this site under Open Tournaments in East Anglia, along with links to tournament reports where available.