Tiddlywinks Tournaments

What Types of Winks Tournaments Are Held in All of Winkdom?

• Team. Each team has from 4 to 8 winkers (plus rotating extras) which plays, usually in fixed pairs, for a team title.  In the US. the traditional team tournament was the Continentals, traditionally played in February.   In the UK, there have also been collegiate matches, such as the Varsity match, as well as various Teams of Four
• Pairs.  A partnership attempts to win against all other pairs, typically in an all-play-all round-robin format
• Singles.  A solo winker plays both colors in the official game of tiddlywinks and plays against other singles.
• Individuals.  This is quite unlike the Singles.  In an Individuals tournament, usually deemed an Individual Pairs, each winker partners with different partners, as many as the tournament format permits, and the winner might generally be considered the best partner.
• Random.  Tournaments in which teams may be chosen by team leaders at the start of the tournament, and during which the competing pairs may be any arbitrary pair of winkers within a team (and sometimes, without regard to any arbitrary team arrangements!)
• Handicap.  Typically employed when novice players are playing with or against veteran players.  A handicap system is employed to balance the experience levels.  The handicap may take the form of allowing two shots in the space of one for a novice, or to redo a failed shot, or to transfer points from the more veteran pair to the more novice pair according to a realistic formula.

Tournament Rotations

Tournament rotation scoresheets are available at http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/tournaments/tournaments.html

World Championships

Sanctioned by the International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations (IFTwA).  A winner of a national title (from NATwA, ETwA, or ScotTwA) earns the right to challenge the current World titleholders.

• World Pairs
• World Singles

North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA) Tournaments

NATwA has been holding tournaments since 1966.

• Coming soon to this web site, NATwA tournament results by year, by tournament, by winker, by pair.
• NATwA Singles
• NATwA Pairs
• Continentals (team championships)
• Individual Pairs
• Others...

English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA) Tournaments

ETwA has been holding official tournaments since 1958, and other matches since 1955 (and perhaps before).

• ETwA Singles
• ETwA Pairs
• Varsity Match
• etc. to be provided

Scottish Tiddlywinks Association (ScotTwA) Tournaments

• ScotTwA Pairs

Elsewhere on the Winking Front

and, well, yes, we have heard of other local centers of winking, e.g. the VFW post in Milwaukee WI... coming soon

The Ratings

The inscrutable winks ratings from the scrupulous Patrick Barrie, and before that Tim Hedger, who revived them 1997. Originally festered by Nick Inglis on his now antiqued BBC micro. What hath math wrought?

The Championships

• World, NATwA, ETwA, and ScotTwA championships, all rolled up for slicing and dicing.