2020–22 FOCAL season

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The 2020–21 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 2020–21 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, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Events in West Yorkshire and Blackpool were planned and announced after the re-opening of pubs in the UK, but had to be cancelled. It has been suggested that 2020 and 2021 will merge, rather than 2020 being cancelled outright.

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	—	—
	COLIN XVII	Lincoln	29 May 2021*
	COLIN XVII: The Hangover	Lincoln	30 May 2021*
5	CoPet 2021 (name tbc)	Peterborough	12 June 2021
6	Co:Wat?! 2021	Waterford	24 July 2021
7	Co-Blackpool 2021	Blackpool	14 August 2021
GF	2020–21 FOCAL finals	tbc	tbc

* COLIN XVII was postponed rather than cancelled, but was moved to being outside of the season.

Points table

Pos. Entrant 2020 2021 Points LIN LHO MAN WAT PET WAT BLA 1 Jack Worsley 2 1 2 — 2869 2 Callum Todd 3 3 6 — 2674 3 Tom Carey 11 5 1 — 2594 4 James Haughton 13 2 3 — 2578 5 Edward Byrne 6 13 — 1 2456 6 Bradley Horrocks 12 4 16 — 2160 7 Zubair Patel 15 10 9 — 2130 8 James Robinson 32 11 4 — 1887 9 Paul Worsley 23 7 15 — 1870 10 Tom Cappleman 4 6 — — 1744 11 Dave Ryan 25 16 14 — 1588 12 Tracey Mills 16 14 23 — 1584 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 Brendan Duke — — — 2 909 25 Rob Foster 5 — — — 894 26 Chris Marshall 38 21 24 — 871 27 George Armstrong 39 25 20 — 868 28 Hazel Drury — — — 3 864 29 Richard Williams — — 5 — 853 30 Dinos Sfyris 7 — — — 851 31 Conor Travers 8 — — — 830 32 Damian McEvoy — — — 4 818 33 Jon O'Neill 10 — — — 787 34 Sean Lonergan — — — 5 773 35 Chris Kirby — — 8 — 765 36 Sam Prouse 27 24 — — 740 37 Fiona Titcombe 29 31 26 — 732 38 Michelle Jackson — — — 6 727 39 Stewart Gordon 33 20 — — 727 40 Stephen Read — — 10 — 706 41 Kevin Jackson — — — 7 682 42 Tim Hebbes 24 29 — — 660 43 Phil Stanton 30 34 25 — 656 44 Jamie Rawson — — 12 — 647 45 Jessamine O'Connor — — — 8 636 46 Kai Laddiman — — 13 — 618 47 Shane Heylin — — — 9 591 48 Roger Stevens — — — 10 545 49 Mark McDonell — — — 11 500 50 Phil Hulme — — 17 — 500 51 Ned Pendleton 35 27 — — 484 52 Martin Thomas — — 18 — 471 53 Andy Platt 25 — — — 457 54 Finola Jackson — — — 12 455 55 Jerry Humphreys 37 28 — — 413 56 Tom Drohan — — — 13 409 57 Matt Morrison 28 — — — 404 58 Nathan Pace — — 21 — 382 59 George Drury — — — 14 364 60 Rachel Perkins 46 23 — — 364 61 Matty Artell — — 22 — 353 62 Liam Holton — — — 15 318 63 Mike Brown 34 — — — 277 64 Clodagh Irish — — — 16 273 65 Mark Mills 41 33 32 — 244 66 Heather Badcock 36 — — — 234 67 Elaine McCormick Dunne — — — 17 227 68 Ben Mills 42 32 33 — 221 69 Mike Springett 44 30 — — 207 70 Sam Hodkin — — 27 — 206 71 Liam T Davis — — — 18 182 72 Callum Carton — — 28 — 176 73 David Hilton — — 29 — 149 74 Mary McDonald — — — 19 136 75 Adam Dexter — — 30 — 118 76 Richard Finnegan — — — 20 91 77 Jacob Coventry-Peters — — 31 — 88 78 James Laverty 43 — — — 85 79 Sabrina Fleming — — — 21 45 80 Steve Hawdon 45 — — — 43