Hello all,

Its been a while since you have had any news on the competition front so here goes. The next uni competition is up in Warwick on the 9th Feb. As of yet, Imperial are yet to grace these country bumpkins with our presence but this year will be different! Apologies for the late notice, but if you're at all interested, please reply asap to philip.rudden09@imperial.ac.uk- entries need to be in by the 28th Jan if we want to pay a lower fee (£15 rather than £20, possible as low as £12 if we get enough players). If you feel that aggrieved by the lack of time, I will even let you throw me at training, although this is no hard task at the moment! They also have the options of accommodation on the Friday and Saturday nights as well as post-competition meal/social on the Saturday (see attached file).

Regarding the competition itself, there are 5 categories. For men there is a novice individual competition (yellow belt and bellow); an ideal opportunity for our beginners to have a crack at their first competition so it would be great to hear from you guys. The men's intermediate (blue and green) and advanced (brown and higher) will be run as a team competition. This will be great fun and always has a great atmosphere so I would really encourage those interested to get involved. In the women's categories, it is all individual competitions split into intermediate (green and below) and advanced (blue and higher). Promises to be a great day even if you just want to come and support, especially with the team format!

As I said, we have never been to this competition before so any feedback is welcome to gauge peoples interest and preferences regarding accommodation, travel etc. I look forward to hearing from you all, even if it it just to compliment my colour coding.

There is also a competition being run on Sunday 10th Feb in High Wycombe (http://www.britishjudo.org.uk/sites/default/files/events/documents/10Febseniorandveterans.pdf). This competition looks to be more targeted at the slightly more experienced players as there is no minimum or maximum grade boundaries. Anyone keen for it?

Phil
Comp Sec