Six members of the club qualified to represent Wales at the recent Home Nations Championship hosted by the English Pétanque Association, the venue was the Mansfield Pétanque Club.
All the members attending the competition would like to congratulate and thank the members of the Mansfield Pétanque Club for their generous hospitality during the weekend.
Peter, Bernard, John, Nai, Roger & Tony
The WPA have published the preliminary round of this year’s National League Cup and can be accessed by following this link.
Monkstone Monarchs have been drawn away to the Golden Mile,
Monkstone Marauders have been drawn at home to the Penarth Predators and
Monkstone Minotaurs have been drawn at home to the Pontyclun Badgers.
Good luck to all the teams concerned.
Members of the club have had a busy weekend playing in the annual Grand Prix (GP) Series to endeavour to qualify to play for Wales in two important competitions, the Home Nations and the EPA Inter-Regional Championship.
| Monkstone Musketeers | Roger Griffin | John Barnes | Bernard Adshead | Peter Kensett |
| Binary Data | Tony Smith | Derek Jones | Peter Beresford | Inthrayut Kongchun |
| Three French Hens | Linda Hodges | Pat Daviss | Rose Fiera | |
| The Monkies | Peter Westall | Matthew Franks | Glyn Attley |
On Saturday the members of the club were playing at Wenvoe PC in GP1, the results at the end of the day saw the teams lying 9th and 10th.
| 3 | The Monkies | 4 | 21 | 111 | 64 | 36 | 28 |
| 9 | Binary Data | 3 | 18 | 104 | 61 | 49 | 12 |
| 10 | Monkstone Musketeers | 3 | 17 | 101 | 54 | 49 | 5 |
| 14 | Three French Hens | 2 | 17 | 102 | 45 | 68 | -23 |
On Sunday they popped up again in Abergavenny on wonderfully sunny day for GP2, the final results saw both teams lying in 7th and 9th position.
| 2 | The Monkies | 5 | 16 | 125 | 75 | 34 | 41 |
| 7 | Binary Data | 3 | 23 | 114 | 56 | 50 | 6 |
| 9 | Monkstone Musketeers | 3 | 17 | 106 | 60 | 55 | 5 |
| 16 | Three French Hens | 0 | 16 | 86 | 25 | 78 | -53 |
Both teams have a final GP to improve their positions on 27th April in Brecon. Good Luck to both teams concerned.
The following playing format has been posted on the WPA website.
if you have any questions, please ask.
Morning play:
There will be three pools of four teams play a round robin. The games will be timed with a 10 minute break between each game.
The top eight teams will qualify to play in the main competition. The next four teams will play in a plate competition (if requested).
Afternoon play:
The main competition will be a knockout from the quarter final stage for the 8 qualified teams.
The plate competition (if requested) will be a round robin for the 4 qualified teams.
The games in the afternoon will not be timed.
