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 Eddy Byrne 6 13 — 1 1 8 4270 2 Jack Worsley 2 1 2 — — 6 3762 3 Callum Todd 3 3 6 — — 7 3549 4 James Haughton 13 2 3 — — 2 3542 5 Thomas Carey 11 5 1 — — 13 3362 6 Bradley Horrocks 12 4 16 — — 1 3142 7 James Robinson 32 11 4 — — 3 2833 8 Zubair Patel 15 10 9 — — 30 2594 9 Tracey Mills 16 14 23 — — 14 2334 10 Dave Ryan 25 16 14 — — 26 2124 11 Paul Worsley 23 7 15 — — 43 2102 12 Anthony Endsor 22 — 11 — — 15 1940 13 Rob Foster 5 — — — — 4 1823 14 Brendan Duke — — — 2 2 — 1822 15 Paul Anderson 17 19 — — — 18 1774 16 Thomas Cappleman 4 6 — — — — 1744 17 George Armstrong 39 25 20 — — 9 1707 18 Suzy Turner 40 21 19 — — 17 1672 19 Dinos Sfyris 7 — — — — 10 1672 20 Sean Lonergan — — — 5 6 — 1512 21 Jonathan Wynn 1 17 — — — — 1493 22 Stewart Gordon 33 20 — — — 16 1441 23 Jeff Clayton 14 26 — — — 29 1441 24 Jessamine O'Connor — — — 8 5 — 1419 25 Michelle Jackson — — — 6 8 — 1379 26 Gevin Chapwell 18 9 — — — — 1360 27 Jonathan De Souza 21 — 7 — — — 1347 28 Jennifer Steadman 20 8 — — — — 1345 29 Stephen Read — — 10 — — 22 1313 30 Phil Stanton 30 34 25 — — 20 1299 31 Graeme Cole 9 18 — — — — 1295 32 Andy Platt 25 — — — — 11 1261 33 Matt Bayfield 19 12 — — — — 1253 34 Kevin Jackson — — — 7 11 — 1204 35 Fiona Titcombe 29 31 26 — — 32 1161 36 Chris Marshall 38 21 24 — — 42 1121 37 Mark McDonnell — — — 11 10 — 1065 38 Roger Stevens — — — 10 12 — 1023 39 Tim Down 31 15 — — — — 911 40 Matthew Brockwell — — — — — 5 911 41 Finola Jackson — — — 12 13 — 890 42 Troy Prendergast — — — — 3 — 870 43 Hazel Drury — — — 3 — — 864 44 Richard Williams — — 5 — — — 853 45 Elaine McCormick Dunne — — — 17 10 — 836 46 Conor Travers 8 — — — — — 830 47 Gerry Tynan — — — — 4 — 826 48 Damian McEvoy — — — 4 — — 818 49 Jon O'Neill 10 — — — — — 787 50 Elliott Mellor — — — — — 12 786 51 Chris Kirby — — 8 — — — 765 52 Sam Prouse 27 24 — — — — 740 53 Alan O'Sullivan — — — — 7 — 696 54 Adam Dexter — — 30 — — 24 689 55 Robin McKay — — — — — 19 661 56 Tim Hebbes 24 29 — — — — 660 57 Jamie Rawson — — 12 — — — 647 58 Rachael Montgomery — — — — — 21 625 59 Liam Holton — — — 15 16 — 622 60 Kai Laddiman — — 13 — — — 618 61 Shane Heylin — — — 9 — — 591 62 James Burley — — — — — 23 589 63 Darren Godfrey — — — — — 25 554 64 Nathan Pace — — 21 — — 48 525 65 Phil Hannan — — — — — 27 518 66 Phil Hulme — — 17 — — — 500 67 Stu Harkness — — — — — 28 500 68 Ned Pendleton 35 27 — — — — 484 69 Martin Thomas — — 18 — — — 471 70 Adam Latchford — — — — — 30 464 71 Jerry Humphreys 37 28 — — — — 413 72 Paul Welsh — — — — — 33 411 73 Tom Drohan — — — 13 — — 409 74 Matt Morrison 28 — — — — — 404 75 Liam T Davis — — — 18 18 — 399 76 Ashwin Abinashi — — — — — 34 393 77 Sarah Tynan — — — — 14 — 391 78 Rachel Perkins 46 23 — — — 55 382 79 Matthew S Rutherford — — — — — 35 375 80 George Drury — — — 14 — — 364 81 Coral Heath — — — — — 36 357 82 Matty Artell — — 22 — — — 353 83 Sarah Langan — — — — 15 — 348 84 David Hilton — — 29 — — 45 343 85 Fiona Thorne — — — — — 37 339 86 Callum Carton — — 28 — — 47 337 87 Alan Jones — — — — — 38 321 88 Dan Byrom — — — — — 39 304 89 Jason Turner — — — — — 40 286 90 Mike Brown 34 — — — — — 277 91 Clodagh Irish — — — 16 — — 273 92 Fred Whibley — — — — — 41 268 93 Mary Grehan — — — — 17 — 261 94 Mark Mills 41 33 32 — — — 244 95 Heather Badcock 36 — — — — — 234 96 Ben Mills 42 32 33 — — — 221 97 Joseph Bartram — — — — — 44 214 98 Mike Springett 44 30 — — — — 207 99 Sam Hodkin — — 27 — — — 206 100 Steven Grady — — — — — 46 179 101 Annalisa Byrne — — — — 19 — 174 102 Mary McDonald — — — 19 — — 136 103 Annette Martin — — — — 20 — 130 104 Taz Turner — — — — — 49 125 105 Chloe Jones — — — — — 50 107 106 Richard Finnegan — — — 20 — — 91 107 Lesley Anne Jeavons — — — — — 51 89 108 Jacob Coventry-Peters — — 31 — — — 88 109 Dick Winters — — — — 21 — 87 110 James Laverty 43 — — — — — 85 111 Tasneem Rana — — — — — 52 71 112 Mike Brailsford — — — — — 53 54 113 Sabrina Fleming — — — 21 — — 45 114 Mo Fakhar Usman — — — — 22 — 43 115 Steve Hawdon 45 — — — — — 43 116 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