Bristol Backgammon

Rookie of the Year Award

Pictured on the left is the trophy
won each year by the player
who, in the opinion of Ian Tarr,
is the best newcomer to
Bristol Backgammon competition

In January 2003 Gammonitis boss Liz Barker offered to sponsor a new annual award for Bristol Backgammon, an offer which is also open to other clubs in the UK.
As the first "club" in the UK to be made this offer, we were honoured to accept.
This award, consisting of an engraved memento and a year's free membership to Gammonitis, was for the "Rookie of the Year".
Sadly Gammonitis has ceased to exist, so from the 2007 award this has been funded by Bristol Backgammon.
Qualifiers for this prize will be any player making his/her Bristol Backgammon debut during the current calendar year, and the award will go to the player who, in the opinion of Ian Tarr, has made the most impact.
Players with significant previous experience elsewhere will be exempt from this award, however.

New players eligible for consideration for the 2008 award are:

TOM BROWNING; RICHARD HOLNESS; MALCOLM PATTERSON; SUE BURNETT;
HELEN CLEW; PATRICK DUGGAN; NICK HILL; SIMON TEMME;
MIKE CLEW; LOTTE RYAN; BARRY VASILI; DUNCAN THOMSON;
RUFUS ROZELAAR; MIKE WEBB; PAT HOLLY;

Those eligible for consideration for the 2007 award were:

MARCUS WRINCH; PHIL WARD; COLIN SARA; PETE WRIGHT;
JOHN CORRADO; MATTHEW THOMAS; SEBASTIAN AKKAM; THERESA ROOK;
GEORGE PALFRAMAN; PAUL GLASSON; HAYLEY YOUNG; JIM BEST;
NICK MARTIN; DAVID OLMO; SIMON HUGHES; KELLY WERRETT;
PAUL PARSONS; MANDY MACDONALD; DEREK CLEW; JEROEN WIELAND;
COSTAS EFTHYMIOU; LARS ERICSSON; GIORGOS KALOGRIDIS;

The 2007 winner was Marcus Wrinch, not least for the fact that he won his first sixteen matches in the Bristol Conference League!
	Nick Barham, runaway winner of the 2006 IGP, outstripped a strong challenge from fellow rookie Steve Morris to scoop the 2006 award
Our third winner Tim Line, whose performance over less than four months was enough to sway the judges for the 2005 award
	Richard Cartwright arrived in May, and won so much that he was the obvious winner of the 2004 award
Inaugural Award winner Richard Owsley, conqueror of four high-ranking players in grand prix events, with his trophy

Bristol Backgammon

Rookie of the Year Award

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Most Improved Player sponsored by Martin Hemming

Handicap Trophy sponsored by Ed Turner