2025 FOCAL season

< Previous |

The 2025 FOCAL season is the eighth and current season of FOCAL tournaments. It is the first season under the chairmanship of George Armstrong, who took over the role from Darren Godfrey at the end of 2024.

Events

The 2025 season will see a noticeable increase in the number of tournaments as a result of additional multi-event weekends and shorter breaks between some (two weeks as opposed to the conventional three or four).

As ever, the season kicked off in Lincoln on the last weekend of January. However, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, COLIN was a triple-header this time around, with a Friday night "predrinks" tournament preceding the main event on the Saturday; the "hangover" counterpart then followed this as normal. The February slot was occupied by Liverpool, returning for its third instalment. March oversaw three tournaments altogether: one in Oxford, then a double-header in Rugby three weeks later. April included London, followed by Sligo at the end of the month. Sheffield will once again hold a slot in May, after which there will be two debuting locations on the co-event circuit: Tunbridge Wells, at the end of May, and Stockport in June. The second Durham tournament will be held at the beginning of July, and for the fourth successive year, Birmingham will run in early August. Reading will return at the end of August.

Among others, later tournaments planned to go ahead in 2025 include Dublin, Blackpool and at least two others. Locations absent from this season will be Glasgow and Braintree, with Braintree provisionally being replaced by the debuting town of Hemel Hempstead.

Round	Event	Location	Country	Date	Entrants	Winner
1	COLIN XX: The Predrinks	Lincoln	England	24 January	36	Callum Todd
2	COLIN XX			25 January	42	Tom Cappleman
3	COLIN XX: The Hangover			26 January	37	Dylan Taylor
4	Co:Liverpool 2025	Liverpool		15 February	27
5	Co:Oxford 2025	Oxford		1 March	36	Tom Cappleman
6	Co:Rugby 2025: Warm-up	Rugby		21 March	16	Dylan Taylor
7	Co:Rugby 2025			22 March	35
8	Co:London 2025	London		12 April	50	Tom Carey
9	Co:Mon 2025	Sligo	Ireland	26 April	TBC	TBC
10	Co:Sheffield 2025	Sheffield	England	10 May	TBC	TBC
11	Co:TW 2025	Tunbridge Wells		24 May	TBC	TBC
12	Co:Stockport 2025	Stockport		14 June	TBC	TBC
13	Co:Durham 2025	Durham		5 July	TBC	TBC
14	Co:Brum 2025: Warm-up	Birmingham		1 August	TBC	TBC
15	Co:Brum 2025			2 August	TBC	TBC
16	Co:Reading 2025	Reading		30 August	TBC	TBC

Leaderboards

Since the 2020–22 FOCAL season, the number of FOCAL points has been determined by the formula (1 − [position] ÷ ([players] + 1)) × 1000. In each tournament, points from both wins and losses count towards a player's final standing. If two or more attendees finish an event in the same position, they will receive the same number of FOCAL points. However, it the contenders in second and third place are tied, the event host will conduct either a play-off match or tiebreak conundrum.

Once all of the season's preliminary rounds have been played, the top eight contenders will be invited to play in the end-of-season finals tournament. Should any of the top eight not attend this, they will be substituted by the next highest-ranked player(s) in attendance. Each player's FOCAL points total will be the sum of their best eight performances across the season; all others are discounted.

Top 8

Following Co:London 2025, the standings were as follows:

Pos. Entrant LPD LIN LHO LIV OXF RWU RUG LON MON SHE TUN STK DHM BWU BIR REA {{{17}}} {{{18}}} {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} {{{26}}} {{{27}}} {{{28}}} {{{29}}} {{{30}}} Points 1 Tom Carey 6 6 15 4 23 3 4 1 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 6231 2 Matthew Brockwell 14 10 7 – 3 2 9 4 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 5678 3 Tim Hebbes 11 18 8 2 16 8 12 6 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 5619 4 Dylan Taylor 7 3 1 1 – 1 1 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 5592 5 Dan Byrom 8 17 6 11 5 – 5 13 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 5309 6 Tom Cappleman 2 1 3 – 1 – – 3 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 4758 7 MSR 33 14 25 13 18 10 17 7 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3964 8 Ed Byrne 3 9 9 – – 4 10 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3960

Remaining contenders

Following Co:London 2025, the standings were as follows:

Pos. Entrant LPD LIN LHO LIV OXF RWU RUG LON MON SHE TUN STK DHM BWU BIR REA {{{17}}} {{{18}}} {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} {{{26}}} {{{27}}} {{{28}}} {{{29}}} {{{30}}} Points 9 Adrian Fletcher 10 19 13 8 – 15 25 10 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3888 10 George Armstrong 13 8 19 9 – – 3 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3546 11 Adam Latchford – – – 5 4 – 6 14 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3271 12 Graeme Cole 31 20 27 – 7 7 7 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3191 13 Bradley Horrocks 17 15 10 – 15 – 13 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3163 14 Sean Fletcher 9 30 25 19 17 – 18 30 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3151 15 Tim Down 15 16 19 – 8 – 14 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 3105 16 Ronan Higginson – – – – 2 – 2 2 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2851 17 Coral Heath – – – 7 10 11 20 24 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2806 18 Jack Hurst 4 2 2 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2792 19 Callum Todd 1 4 5 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2748 20 Jason Cullen – 30 16 10 20 – – 19 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2599 21 Adam Dexter 19 23 30 – 24 5 30 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2386 22 Jonathan De Souza – – – – 9 – 11 9 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2275 23 Fiona Titcombe 20 29 32 – 12 – – 28 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2070 24 Samuel Stock – – – – 11 6 31 23 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2038 25 James Robinson 16 11 11 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 2023 26 Ian Wray 28 36 29 – 27 14 19 29 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1979 27 Phil Stanton 27 32 28 12 26 – 26 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1935 28 Dave Robjohns 23 12 23 – 25 – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1818 29 Zohaib Rehan 5 5 – – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1749 30 Mike Lee – – – – 29 12 16 17 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1733 31 Jack Worsley – 7 4 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1732 32 Matt O'Connor – – – 3 – – – 12 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1658 33 Richard Priest 12 25 17 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1648 34 Tom Stevenson – – – – 6 – 8 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1616 35 Sam Prouse 21 21 14 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1576 36 Chris Marshall 30 13 24 – – – – 36 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1549 37 Tracey Mills 25 22 12 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1496 38 Oliver Garner – – – – – – 15 5 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1485 39 Stewart Gordon 24 34 21 – – – 23 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1355 40 Steven Grady – – – 16 – 8 21 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1346 41 Jeff Clayton 22 27 18 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1303 42 Toby Pereira 18 26 36 – – – – 35 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1276 43 Darren Godfrey – – – 14 32 – – 20 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1243 44 Amar Chotai – 24 31 – – – – 22 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1195 45 Ross King – – – – – – 22 11 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1173 46 Jessica Pratesi – – – – 21 – – 15 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1138 47 Annie Henry – – – 23 22 – 28 41 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 1002 48 Dan Spinks – – – – 13 – – 34 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 982 49 Ashwin Abinashi – – – – 28 – 24 32 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 949 50 Mike Springett 34 35 33 – – – – 26 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 889 51 Zubair Patel 26 38 21 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 847 52 Matthew Tassier – – – – – – – 8 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 843 53 Stephen Read – – – 6 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 786 54 Gabriel Thallon – – – – – – – 16 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 686 55 David Holmes – – – – – – – 18 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 647 56 Dave Ryan – – – – 14 – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 622 57 Frank Wharton – – – – – – – 21 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 588 58 Sandie Simonis – – – – – – – 25 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 510 59 Andy Evans – – – – 33 – – 31 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 500 60 Suzy Turner – – – – 19 – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 486 61 Toby Byfield – – – – – – – 27 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 471 62 Ljubica Lazarevic – – – 15 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 464 63 Kate Scranage – – – – – – 29 39 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 429 64 Matty Artell – – – 17 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 393 65 Steve Hyde – 37 – – – – 27 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 390 66 Kevin Nelson – – – 18 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 357 67 Joseph Bartram – – – – 34 – – 37 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 356 68 Jonny Rye – – – – – – – 33 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 353 69 Anthony Endsor – 28 – – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 349 70 George Baker 36 41 34 – 35 16 35 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 320 71 Euan Crabb – – – 20 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 286 72 Caroline Wood – – – – – – – 38 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 255 73 Jane Peet – – – 21 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 250 74 Jack D 32 42 35 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 237 75 Scott Babb – – – – – 13 – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 235 76 James Laverty – 33 – – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 233 77 Adam Beach 28 – – – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 230 78 Mauro Pratesi – – – – 30 – – 49 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 228 79 Phil Hannan – – – – – – – 40 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 216 80 Jeremy Phillips – – – 22 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 214 81 Joe Henry – – – 27 36 – – 44 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 200 82 Josephine Sinclair – – – – – – – 42 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 176 83 Mark Mills 35 39 37 – – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 173 84 Richard Barnett – – – – 31 – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 162 85 David Millar – – – – – – – 43 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 157 86 Thomas Roebuck – 40 – – – – 33 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 153 87 Alan Jones – – – 24 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 143 88 Marc Meakin – – – – – – – 45 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 118 89 Peter Littleton – – – – – – 32 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 111 90 Jay Roberts – – – 25 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 107 91 Lynne Cumberland – – – – – – – 46 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 98 92 Tim Scott – – – – – – – 47 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 78 93 Colin Peet – – – 26 – – – – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 71 94 Ellen Harrison – – – – – – – 48 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 59 95 Michael Armstrong – – – – – – 34 – {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 56 96 Gabriel Sinclair – – – – – – – 50 {{{19}}} {{{20}}} {{{21}}} {{{22}}} {{{23}}} {{{24}}} {{{25}}} 20

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Top 10 finish
Blue	Other finish
White	Did not participate