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* 2010 Association Inter-District Striking Competition: The
2010
inter-district 8 bell competition was held on Saturday evening 3rd
July at Great Bentley, the 8-bell competition touch being 264
Gainsborough Little Bob Triples.
Congratulations to the
District team under organiser Maurice Downs for coming 4th
with 149 faults, the highest "northern" team
placing. However
that is not really the whole story... This
was a disastrous evening for the other "northern" teams
- a really top-notch performance by the local NE District team was
heading to be the winner (in your editor's opinion) when a
missed Bob meant that the touch was stood and the team
disqualified. Later the NW team was well into their piece when the
tail end of a rope came un-tucked (sabotage by previous team?)
and this proved so distracting to the team that they fired out and
were also disqualified. Unfortunately
the 6-bell District Striking Competition heat was cancelled this
year (again) due to
insufficient teams entering; our only entry going forward as a
combined Braintree and Felsted band. They rung at Tendring during the afternoon and were placed
9th out of 9 entries with
only 179 faults ringing St. Martins Doubles. Perhaps a
rule-change is in order? The
judges for both competitions were (one-time Essex boy) John
Loveless and Linda Garton.
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