Larry Kahn Wins 2008 NATwA Singles

Larry Edges Out Matt Fayers by 11-10 in Final Knock-Out Match

On 4 August 2008, Larry Kahn won his twentieth NATwA Singles in a closely fought and very intense battle against top British winker Matt Fayers in a knockout final round.

Matt won the first game of the final knockout match by a 6-1 score. Larry responded in the second game with a pot-out and a 6-1 to Larry, resulting in a tie after two games. Though Larry missed three pots with winks rolling far from the the pot during this game, he ran all 6 winks in the end to pot out. The third game was the most turbulent, and of course, the final test for both. All either winker needed to win the tournament was a 4, the smallest possible margin of victory in any individual game. And, indeed, the final game went down to the end and resulted in a 4 for Larry, with many twists and turns.

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The 2008 NATwA Singles tournament was held in Vienna, Virginia. It was a splendid tournament for winkers of all skill levels, and the Kahn-Furlong gardens were verdant and in full bloom.

The Plate tournament (played by winkers not qualifying for the final) was won by Sahil Shah. The four winkers reaching the knock-out semi-finals after leading their starting divisions were Matt, Larry, Dave Lockwood, and Bob Henninge. Jon Lockwood had a fabulous tournament, increasing his winks rating by 108 points and jumping up 4 spots in the rankings. score sheets · rankings after 2008 NATwA Singles (and Plate)

Stroboscopic Winks!

Image of a wink being potted by Yan Wang for MIT class 2.671, Spring 2008 · more

Royal Tiddlywinks Match: the 50th Anniversary!

Prince Philip designated members of the Savage Club as his royal champions to compete against the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC) on 1 March 2008 to commemorate the 50th anniverary of the first royal match. CUTwC won!

Other nations are before us
With their `Sputniks' and `Explorers',
What can confidence restore us?
NAUGHT BUT TIDDLYWINKS.
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Fifty years ago, on 1 March 1958, Prince Philip selected the famed radio comedy troupe, The Goons, to compete against CUTwC in response to an intriguing report in the influential newspaper, The Spectator, which in a headline posed the question, "Does Prince Philip Cheat at Tiddlywinks?". The rest is history. Read more about the early years of tiddlywinks competitions in On the Mat and Winks Rampant, both by Guy Consterdine of ETwA.

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	Fred Shapiro's Yale Book of Quotations ▪ Amazon.com (ISBN 0300107986)
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