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As just posted on Facebook R15 group. The timetable for the new 2016/17 Random 15 Championship season.

Round 1: 10th September 2016 (Champion's Twist)
Round 2: 19th November 2016 (Normal round- live draw)
Round 3: 14th January 2017 (Twist round)
Round 4: 25th March (Normal round)
Round 5: TBC (Late April)
Round 6: 3rd June 2017 (Normal round)

All events will start at 12:30 UK local time unless advertised differently in each individual event details posted nearer the time.

I hope these dates are convenient for the majority of challengers- I cannot please everyone!

Tangy
BERC

Thank you for the dates tangy!

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Although I'm happy that u put the dates up perhaps a revolving future date predictor might be the way forward end of round 6 round 1 and 2 are known etc.

Sept 10th hasn't given me much time to get off but I will try and swap that Saturday working. Knowing Kevin it be an awful champions choice so I might sit it out.

palkanetoijala31 wrote: Sept 10th hasn't given me much time to get off but I will try and swap that Saturday working. Knowing Kevin it be an awful champions choice so I might sit it out.

How dare you

Going Underground wrote:

palkanetoijala31 wrote: Sept 10th hasn't given me much time to get off but I will try and swap that Saturday working. Knowing Kevin it be an awful champions choice so I might sit it out.

How dare you

So Kevin, have you decided what the twist will be, there is less than three weeks to go. I need to post event details pretty soon!

interesting Mr chilcraft has done his volunteer parkrun that date for round 2

The twist will be "ABC easy as 1,2,3"

LU stations only Z1-2 but you must visit in the order of the total words in the drawn stations (Including the starting station if this has more then one word....) So for example looking at the set of stations used in round 4 in last years championship...

"Highbury & Islington
--Great Portland Street
--St. Paul's
--Canada Water
--Queen's Park
--Holborn
--Bayswater
--Pimlico
--Swiss Cottage
--Paddington (Bak/Dist)
--Edgware Road (Circle)
--Westbourne Park
--Marble Arch
--Kennington
--Vauxhall (LU)"

You would have to visit first (in any order)
Holborn
Bayswater
Pimlico
Paddington
Kennington
Vauxhall

Then secondly (in any order)
St Paul's
Canada Water
Green Park
Swiss Cottage
Edgware Road
Westbourne Park
Marble Arch

Then thirdly (in any order)
Highbury & Islington
Great Portland Street

As an example if you have passed through Great Portland Street and Edgware Road on the way to and before you have visited Bayswater then they still need to be visited in 2 and 3 word station order.....

Also if the starting station is more than 1 word and you will re-visiting you can leave that station by any means, or catch a bus or leave on foot as you will have to re-visit later anyway....

I will let the BERC decide on time limit, 5 hours maybe?

(PS Andi was right )

So if Kings Cross St Pancras comes up, that would count as 4 and everyone would have to finish there?

Might be easier to just deliberately pick a single word starting station?

greatkingrat wrote:So if Kings Cross St Pancras comes up, that would count as 4 and everyone would have to finish there?

Might be easier to just deliberately pick a single word starting station?

Yes exactly that Peter, it could be that we have a single finishing station

I will let Martin decide on the starting station option...

What about Kensington (Olympia) - one word or two? Ditto Bromley-by-Bow - one or three?

Olympia could be really quite painful, actually...

The Orange One wrote:What about Kensington (Olympia) - one word or two? Ditto Bromley-by-Bow - one or three?

Olympia could be really quite painful, actually...

Ken Oly is 2 words, Bromley by Bow would count as 3.....

This could be pretty good fun actually! One thing I could see there being less of is out of station connections though.

I wonder - what are the chances of someone's finishing station not being one of the 11 stations with three or more letters? These being Bromley-by-Bow, Elephant & Castle, Great Portland Street, High Street Kensington, Highbury & Islington, Hyde Park Corner, Notting Hill Gate, Shepherd's Bush Market, St. John's Wood, Tottenham Court Road or King's Cross St Pancras. In addition to the chance none of these actually come out, there's the chance we might arrive at one by other modes (quite possible for GPS, SBM or H&I and not out of the question for HSK, HPC or SJW).

If King's Cross St Pancras turns out to be our starting station, we should just sort a darts pub near there because we will all know where we'll be finishing.

You missed St James's Park.

I make the chance of no 3 or 4 word stations being drawn to be about 7.5%.

Any news for Round 2 yet as this is under 3 weeks away?

On the closure front, looks like we're playing without quite a lot of stuff:

- No Circle Line
- No District Line east of Embankment (well, the closure's Embankment - Dagenham East, but the Dagenham East - Upminster bit won't help anyone at all unless they're travelling in)
- No H&C east of Liverpool Street (diverted to Aldgate instead)

In addition:
- Only one ticket hall is open at Liverpool Street, and it's the one underneath platforms 1-10
- Only one ticket hall is open at Charing Cross (and there will only be for quite a while), and it's the Bakerloo one under Trafalgar Square
- The escalators are out of action at Moorgate (for the month)

Lambeth North and the GOBLIN are, of course, closed...