2023 FOCAL season

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The 2023 FOCAL season is the sixth and current season of FOCAL tournaments. It is the first standalone season since 2019, as the previous three were amalgamated due to the COVID-19 pandemic preventing many events in 2020 and 2021 from going ahead.

As per tradition, the season commenced at the end of January with the Lincoln event — the eighteenth annually, titled COLIN XVIII — and its ‘hangover’ counterpart the following day. For the second year running, the February event took place in Manchester, wherein the grand final was a rematch from the previous year. The fourth, held in March, saw the town of Rugby make its debut on the co-event scene.

Later tournaments either confirmed or in discussion for 2023 include Leeds, Brighton, Newcastle upon Tyne, Birmingham, London, Blackpool and Braintree. At the Leeds event in April, games will be played using the Goatdown variant, the first FOCAL co-event to do so. 2023 will be the first season in which three tournaments will be based in the Republic of Ireland within a single calendar: Dublin, Waterford, and — for the first time under the FOCAL name — Sligo (Co:Monasteraden).

Events

Round	Event	Location	Country	Date	Entrants	Winner
1	COLIN XVIII	Lincoln	England	28 January	44	Conor Travers
2	COLIN XVIII: The Hangover	Lincoln		29 January	31	Tim Down
3	Co:Man 2023	Manchester		25 February	41	Jack Worsley
4	Co:Rugby	Rugby		18 March	35	Rob Foster
5	Goat:Leeds	Leeds		15 April	TBC	TBC
6	Co:Mon 2023	Sligo	Ireland		TBC	TBC
7	Co:Brighton 2023	Brighton	England	13 May	TBC	TBC
8	Co:Dublin 2023	Dublin	Ireland	10 June	TBC	TBC
9	Co:Waterford 2023	Waterford		TBC	TBC	TBC
10	Co:NuT 2023	Newcastle	England	8 July	TBC	TBC
11	Goat:Brum 2023	Birmingham		4 August	TBC	TBC
12	Co:Brum 2023			5 August	TBC	TBC
13	Co:London 2023	London		TBC	TBC	TBC
14	Co:Blackpool 2023	Blackpool		TBC	TBC	TBC
15	Co:Edinburgh 2023	Edinburgh	Scotland	TBC	TBC	TBC
16	Co:Braintree 2023	Braintree	England	TBC	TBC	TBC
17	2023 FOCAL Finals	TBC		TBC	TBC	TBC
	2023 Finals Open	TBC			TBC	TBC

Points table

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