2020–22 FOCAL season

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The 2020–22 FOCAL season is the current season of FOCAL.

The season was heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and most tournaments were cancelled.

Changes from 2019

The main change between 2019 and 2020–22 was the move to a new scoring system, following complaints the previous system was heavily biased in favour of middling performances at big tournaments over superstar performances at smaller ones. Whilst a distinction over the number of entrants was retained, such a bias was the basis of the new system, designed by Gevin, and uses the formula of (1 − [position] ÷ ([players] + 1)) × 1000. For an event that has 50 entrants, therefore, the winner now receives 980 points.

Original 2020 calendar

Manchester returned to the calendar after no event in 2018 and 2019 there, whilst Edinburgh moved to later in the year. A Leeds event returned, but would be played using Goatdown rather than standard Countdown. A new event in Peterborough was planned, replacing the Cambridge event.

Cancelled events due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Several events, usually on the calendar, had not been announced prior to the pandemic, and it is therefore unknown whether they would have been continued or not. Several events were cancelled owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Events in West Yorkshire and Blackpool were planned and announced during the summer 2020 relaxation of restrictions, but had to be cancelled due to the onset of the second wave over the 2020–21 winter.

It has been confirmed that 2020, 2021, and 2022 will merge, rather than 2020 being cancelled outright. This meant that some events will take place up to three times over the course of the championship: Waterford (twice) was able to go ahead between February 2020 and August 2021.

COLIN was initially planned in its usual January slot for 2021, but was postponed initially to May 2021, before being cancelled outright as an event. As COLIN has adopted a roman numeral numbering system since COLIN X in 2014, the COLIN XVII name and its "hangover" spin-off are shown here as being postponed to January 2022, rather than being cancelled.

Events

Round	Event	Location	Date	Entrants	Winner
1	COLIN XVI	Lincoln	25 January 2020	46	Jonathan Wynn
2	COLIN XVI: The Hangover	Lincoln	26 January 2020	34	Jack Worsley
3	Co:Man2020	Manchester	15 February 2020	33	Tom Carey
—	CoNuT 2020	Newcastle	28 March 2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
	CO:York 2020	York	18 April 2020
	Co:LON 2020	London	16 May 2020
	CoPet	Peterborough	6 June 2020
	CoEdi5	Edinburgh	27 June 2020
4	Co:Wat?! 2020	Waterford	15 August 2020	21	Edward Byrne
—	Co:WY 2020	West Yorkshire	5 September 2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
	Co Blackpool 2020	Blackpool	10 October 2020
	Goat:Leeds 2020	Leeds	7 November 2020
	2020 FOCAL finals	—	—
	CoPet 2021	Peterborough	12 June 2021
5	Co:Wat?! 2021	Waterford	24 July 2021	22	Edward Byrne
6	Co-Blackpool 2021	Blackpool	14 August 2021	55	Bradley Horrocks
—	2021 FOCAL finals	—	—	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
7	Co:Braintree 2021	Braintree	13 November 2021	25	Rob Foster
8	COLIN XVII	Lincoln	29 January 2022
9	COLIN XVII: The Hangover	Lincoln	30 January 2022
10	Countdown in Manchester 2022	Manchester	26 February 2022
11	Co:LON 2022	London	9 April 2022
GF	2022 FOCAL finals	tbc	tbc

* COLIN XVII was originally scheduled for January 2021, but was postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Points table

Pos. Entrant 2020 2021 2022 Points LIN LHO MAN WAT WAT BLA BRA LIN LHO MAN LON 1 Eddy Byrne 6 13 — 1 1 8 2 5190 2 Callum Todd 3 3 6 — — 7 7 4269 3 Thomas Carey 11 5 1 — — 13 5 4162 4 Jack Worsley 2 1 2 — — 6 — 3762 5 James Haughton 13 2 3 — — 2 — 3542 6 James Robinson 32 11 4 — — 3 13 3313 7 Bradley Horrocks 12 4 16 — — 1 — 3142 8 Rob Foster 5 — — — — 4 1 2783 9 Thomas Cappleman 4 6 — — — — 3 2624 10 Zubair Patel 15 10 9 — — 30 — 2594 11 Tracey Mills 16 14 23 — — 14 — 2334 12 George Armstrong 39 25 20 — — 9 14 2147 13 Dave Ryan 25 16 14 — — 26 — 2124 14 Paul Worsley 23 7 15 — — 43 — 2102 15 Anthony Endsor 22 — 11 — — 15 — 1940 16 Brendan Duke — — — 2 2 — — 1822 17 Graeme Cole 9 18 — — — — 12 1815 18 Paul Anderson 17 19 — — — 18 — 1774 19 Matthew Brockwell — — — — — 5 4 1751 20 Gevin Chapwell 18 9 — — — — 17 1680 21 Suzy Turner 40 21 19 — — 17 — 1672 22 Dinos Sfyris 7 — — — — 10 — 1672 23 Fiona Titcombe 29 31 26 — — 32 16 1521 24 Sean Lonergan — — — 5 6 — — 1512 25 Jonathan Wynn 1 17 — — — — — 1493 26 Jeff Clayton 14 26 — — — 29 24 1481 27 Jon O'Neill 10 — — — — — 8 1467 28 Stewart Gordon 33 20 — — — 16 — 1441 29 Jessamine O'Connor — — — 8 5 — — 1419 30 Chris Marshall 38 21 24 — — 42 18 1401 31 Michelle Jackson — — — 6 8 — — 1379 32 Jonathan De Souza 21 — 7 — — — — 1347 33 Jennifer Steadman 20 8 — — — — — 1345 34 Stephen Read — — 10 — — 22 — 1313 35 Tim Hebbes 24 29 — — — — 9 1300 36 Phil Stanton 30 34 25 — — 20 — 1299 37 Andy Platt 25 — — — — 11 — 1261 38 Matt Bayfield 19 12 — — — — — 1253 39 Kevin Jackson — — — 7 11 — — 1204 40 Sam Prouse 27 24 — — — — 15 1140 41 Mark McDonnell — — — 11 10 — — 1065 42 Roger Stevens — — — 10 12 — — 1023 43 Tim Down 31 15 — — — — — 911 44 Finola Jackson — — — 12 13 — — 890 45 Troy Prendergast — — — — 3 — — 870 46 Hazel Drury — — — 3 — — — 864 47 Richard Williams — — 5 — — — — 853 48 Elaine McCormick Dunne — — — 17 10 — — 836 49 Conor Travers 8 — — — — — — 830 50 Gerry Tynan — — — — 4 — — 826 51 Damian McEvoy — — — 4 — — — 818 52 Elliott Mellor — — — — — 12 — 786 53 Joseph Bartram — — — — — 44 11 774 54 Chris Kirby — — 8 — — — — 765 55 Jack Hurst — — — — — — 6 760 56 James Burley — — — — — 23 22 709 57 Alan O'Sullivan — — — — 7 — — 696 58 Adam Dexter — — 30 — — 24 — 689 59 Robin McKay — — — — — 19 — 661 60 Jamie Rawson — — 12 — — — — 647 61 Rachael Montgomery — — — — — 21 — 625 62 Liam Holton — — — 15 16 — — 622 63 Kai Laddiman — — 13 — — — — 618 64 Ruth Cappleman — — — — — — 10 600 65 Shane Heylin — — — 9 — — — 591 66 MS Rutherford — — — — — 35 20 575 67 Darren Godfrey — — — — — 25 — 554 68 Nathan Pace — — 21 — — 48 — 525 69 Phil Hannan — — — — — 27 — 518 70 Phil Hulme — — 17 — — — — 500 71 Stu Harkness — — — — — 28 — 500 72 Ned Pendleton 35 27 — — — — — 484 73 Martin Thomas — — 18 — — — — 471 74 Adam Latchford — — — — — 30 — 464 75 Jerry Humphreys 37 28 — — — — — 413 76 Paul Welsh — — — — — 33 — 411 77 Tom Drohan — — — 13 — — — 409 78 Matt Morrison 28 — — — — — — 404 79 Liam T Davis — — — 18 18 — — 399 80 Ashwin Abinashi — — — — — 34 — 393 81 Sarah Tynan — — — — 14 — — 391 82 Rachel Perkins 46 23 — — — 55 — 382 83 George Drury — — — 14 — — — 364 84 Coral Heath — — — — — 36 — 357 85 Matty Artell — — 22 — — — — 353 86 Sarah Langan — — — — 15 — — 348 87 David Hilton — — 29 — — 45 — 343 88 Fiona Thorne — — — — — 37 — 339 89 Callum Carton — — 28 — — 47 — 337 90 Alan Jones — — — — — 38 — 321 91 Dan Byrom — — — — — 39 — 304 92 Mike Springett 44 30 — — — — 23 287 93 Jason Turner — — — — — 40 — 286 94 Mike Brown 34 — — — — — — 277 95 Clodagh Irish — — — 16 — — — 273 96 Fred Whibley — — — — — 41 — 268 97 Mary Grehan — — — — 17 — — 261 98 Mark Mills 41 33 32 — — — — 244 99 Jill Thwaites — — — — — — 19 240 100 Heather Badcock 36 — — — — — — 234 101 Ben Mills 42 32 33 — — — — 221 102 Sam Hodkin — — 27 — — — — 206 103 Steven Grady — — — — — 46 — 179 104 Annalisa Byrne — — — — 19 — — 174 105 Eeshan Malhotra — — — — — — 21 160 106 Mary McDonald — — — 19 — — — 136 107 Annette Martin — — — — 20 — — 130 108 Taz Turner — — — — — 49 — 125 109 Chloe Jones — — — — — 50 — 107 110 Richard Finnegan — — — 20 — — — 91 111 Lesley Anne Jeavons — — — — — 51 — 89 112 Jacob Coventry-Peters — — 31 — — — — 88 113 Dick Winters — — — — 21 — — 87 114 James Laverty 43 — — — — — — 85 115 Tasneem Rana — — — — — 52 — 71 116 Mike Brailsford — — — — — 53 — 54 117 Sabrina Fleming — — — 21 — — — 45 118 Mo Fakhar Usman — — — — 22 — — 43 119 Steve Hawdon 45 — — — — — — 43 120 Dave Lord — — — — — 54 — 36 Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Top 10 finish Blue Other finish White Did not participate