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18/11/2021 OTB 4NCL 2021-22
Over-the-board 4NCL inter-team competition resumes on the weekend of 20th-21st November 2021. Things have been rehashed in a few ways.
Divisions 1 and 2 have been combined into a single Swiss event, rather than all-play-all, which makes things organisationally simpler if the event is again curtailed by Covid restrictions.
Divisions 3 and 4, which are run on a regional basis, have been combined and have had the North and South approach refined to a North, Central and South format.
Entries in the combined Division 1/2 number 28, 4 down on the total in Divisions 1 and 2 of 2019-20. Meanwhile entries in new Division 3 Central combined with those of Division 3 South total 48 which is only 2 down on Divisions 3 and 4 South of 2019-20. Thus, superficially at least, “Central” seems to have attracted the more northerly of the “South” teams of before.
Division 3 North is were the main reduction in numbers is found, with the 16 teams of 2019-20 having fallen to only 8 for 2021-22.
This can be illustrated in tabular form as follows:
Yorkshire-based entries across all divisions number 6 for 2021-22, which is 4 down on the total of 10 in 2019-20, those 6 Yorkshire entries being:
The “Bradford” and “Hull” teams, especially the former, will again presumably again include players outside the eponymous geographical locality, assuming a broader “Yorkshire” complexion.
Things kick off, for Division 3 only, on 20th-21st November 2021, with Division 3 North playing at the Holiday Inn, Doncaster. Division 1/2 starts on 27th-28th 2021. |
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