2020–22 FOCAL season

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The 2020 FOCAL season is the current season of FOCAL.

The season was heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and several tournaments were cancelled, with Edinburgh likely to follow.

Changes from 2019

The main change between 2019 and 2020 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.

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. 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 officially, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The FOCAL website does not list any events prior to September, although those prior to that date listed here have not been formally cancelled yet. It has been suggested that 2020 and 2021 will merge, but this has not yet been confirmed.

Events

Round	Event	Location	Date	Entrants	Winner
1	COLIN XVI	Lincoln	25 January	46	Jonathan Wynn
2	COLIN XVI: The Hangover	Lincoln	26 January	34	Jack Worsley
3	Co:Man2020	Manchester	15 February	33	Thomas Carey
—	CoNuT 2020	Newcastle	28 March	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
—	CO:York 2020	York	18 April
—	Co:LON 2020	London	16 May
—	CoPet	Peterborough	6 June
4	CoEdi5	Edinburgh	27 June	Currently under review due to the COVID-19 pandemic
5	Co:WY 2020	West Yorkshire	5 September
6	Co-Blackpool 2020	Blackpool	10 October
7	Goat:Leeds 2020	Leeds	7 November
GF	2020 FOCAL finals	tba	tba

Points table

Pos. Entrant LIN LHO MAN EDI WYK BLA LEE Points 1 Jack Worsley 2 1 2 2869 2 Callum Todd 3 3 6 2674 3 Thomas Carey 11 5 1 2594 4 James Haughton 13 2 3 2578 5 Bradley Horrocks 12 4 16 2160 6 Zubair Patel 15 10 9 2130 7 James Robinson 32 11 4 1887 8 Paul Worsley 23 7 15 1870 9 Thomas Cappleman 4 6 — 1744 10 Dave Ryan 25 16 14 1588 11 Tracey Mills 16 14 23 1584 12 Edward Byrne 6 13 — 1501 13 Jonathan Wynn 1 17 — 1493 14 Gevin Chapwell 18 9 — 1360 15 Jonathan De Souza 21 — 7 1347 16 Jen Steadman 20 8 — 1345 17 Graeme Cole 9 18 — 1295 18 Matt Bayfield 19 12 — 1253 19 Anthony Endsor 22 — 11 1208 20 Paul Anderson 17 19 — 1095 21 Suzy Turner 40 21 19 976 22 Jeff Clayton 14 26 — 959 23 Tim Down 31 15 — 911 24 Rob Foster 5 — — 894 25 Chris Marshall 38 21 24 871 26 George Armstrong 39 25 20 868 27 Richard Williams — — 5 853 28 Dinos Sfyris 7 — — 851 29 Conor Travers 8 — — 830 30 Jon O'Neill 10 — — 787 31 Chris Kirby — — 8 765 32 Sam Prouse 27 24 — 740 33 Fiona Titcombe 29 31 26 732 34 Stewart Gordon 33 20 — 727 35 Stephen Read — — 10 706