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	COLIN XVII	Lincoln	29 January 2022
8	COLIN XVII: The Hangover	Lincoln	30 January 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 LIN LHO 1 Edward Byrne 6 13 — 1 1 3413 2 Jack Worsley 2 1 2 — — 2869 3 Callum Todd 3 3 6 — — 2674 4 Tom Carey 11 5 1 — — 2594 5 James Haughton 13 2 3 — — 2578 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 Brendan Duke — — — 2 2 1822 11 Tom Cappleman 4 6 — — — 1744 12 Dave Ryan 25 16 14 — — 1588 13 Tracey Mills 16 14 23 — — 1584 14 Sean Lonergan — — — 5 6 1512 15 Jonathan Wynn 1 17 — — — 1493 16 Jessamine O'Connor — — — 8 5 1419 17 Michelle Jackson — — — 6 8 1379 18 Gevin Chapwell 18 9 — — — 1360 19 Jonathan De Souza 21 — 7 — — 1347 20 Jen Steadman 20 8 — — — 1345 21 Graeme Cole 9 18 — — — 1295 22 Matt Bayfield 19 12 — — — 1253 23 Anthony Endsor 22 — 11 — — 1208 24 Kevin Jackson — — — 7 11 1204 25 Paul Anderson 17 19 — — — 1095 26 Mark McDonell — — — 11 10 1065 27 Roger Stevens — — — 10 12 1023 28 Suzy Turner 40 21 19 — — 976 29 Jeff Clayton 14 26 — — — 959 30 Tim Down 31 15 — — — 911 31 Rob Foster 5 — — — — 894 32 Finola Jackson — — — 12 13 890 33 Chris Marshall 38 21 24 — — 871 34 Troy Prendergast — — — — 3 870 35 George Armstrong 39 25 20 — — 868 36 Hazel Drury — — — 3 — 864 37 Richard Williams — — 5 — — 853 38 Dinos Sfyris 7 — — — — 851 39 Elaine McCormick Dunne — — — 17 10 836 40 Conor Travers 8 — — — — 830 41 Gerry Tynan — — — — 4 826 42 Damian McEvoy — — — 4 — 818 43 Jon O'Neill 10 — — — — 787 44 Chris Kirby — — 8 — — 765 45 Sam Prouse 27 24 — — — 740 46 Fiona Titcombe 29 31 26 — — 732 47 Stewart Gordon 33 20 — — — 727 48 Stephen Read — — 10 — — 706 49 Alan O'Sullivan — — — — 7 696 50 Tim Hebbes 24 29 — — — 660 51 Phil Stanton 30 34 25 — — 656 52 Jamie Rawson — — 12 — — 647 53 Liam Holton — — — 15 16 622 54 Kai Laddiman — — 13 — — 618 55 Shane Heylin — — — 9 — 591 56 Phil Hulme — — 17 — — 500 57 Ned Pendleton 35 27 — — — 484 58 Martin Thomas — — 18 — — 471 59 Andy Platt 25 — — — — 457 60 Jerry Humphreys 37 28 — — — 413 61 Tom Drohan — — — 13 — 409 62 Matt Morrison 28 — — — — 404 63 Liam T Davis — — — 18 18 182 64 Sarah Tynan — — — — 14 391 65 Nathan Pace — — 21 — — 382 66 George Drury — — — 14 — 364 67 Rachel Perkins 46 23 — — — 364 68 Matty Artell — — 22 — — 353 69 Sarah Langan — — — — 15 348 70 Mike Brown 34 — — — — 277 71 Clodagh Irish — — — 16 — 273 72 Mary Grehan — — — — 17 261 73 Mark Mills 41 33 32 — — 244 74 Heather Badcock 36 — — — — 234 75 Ben Mills 42 32 33 — — 221 76 Mike Springett 44 30 — — — 207 77 Sam Hodkin — — 27 — — 206 78 Callum Carton — — 28 — — 176 79 Annalisa Byrne — — — — 19 174 80 David Hilton — — 29 — — 149 81 Mary McDonald — — — 19 — 136 82 Annette Martin — — — — 20 130 83 Adam Dexter — — 30 — — 118 84 Richard Finnegan — — — 20 — 91 85 Jacob Coventry-Peters — — 31 — — 88 86 Dick Winters — — — — 21 87 87 James Laverty 43 — — — — 85 88 Sabrina Fleming — — — 21 — 45 89 Mo Fakhar Usman — — — — 22 43 90 Steve Hawdon 45 — — — — 43 Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Top 10 finish Blue Other finish White Did not participate