With Gortin being the last colour event of the year, the tables are now published in their final form. Apologies for the delay in getting the sums done, but with 2 events in the week folllowing Gortin it was map printing that had to take priority.
The official NISeries tables are on the NIOA website but you can find a copy in the LVO website at:
Resources>OneDrive Public>[1] League & Series Tables>NISeries>NISeries2025.pdf
Congratulations to all our winners but, as I pointed out after Tyrella, there are several non-LVO names in there so there’s still room for improvement. There was also a number of classes (at the less technical end) without sufficient results to get classified but they were mainly led by LVO names; let’s hope that the increased emphasis on training will start to bear fruit in 2026.
The Colour Standards list can be found at:
Resources>OneDrive Public>[2] Club Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf
This table has several functions. The first is as a membership list, with the one-year (red) and two-year (yellow) lapsed members included. At the end of the year the yellow entries will be erased and the red entries will turn yellow. Have a look for any folk that you recognise and try to persuade them back into our wonderful sport. The second function is a record of your colour standard achievement with your best 3 results in 2025 defining your current colour standard (those 3 are shown as capitals). There is also a column showing the best colour standard achieved during the year (that may have been using some 2024 results) – it will be this that will be recorded in the Colour History table.
The hCOW results can be found at:
Resources>OneDrive Public>[3] hCOW>hCOW2025 and the four bottom entries. The event results “Event8Gortin.pdf” show all the course 3 & 4 (Green & Short Green) competitors to have beaten handicap so there must have been a considerable terrain disparity with courses 1 & 2. A big congratulations to Chris Colwell for coming top of the hCOW (consistency) table for the 3rd year in a row! And well done to Liam Hopkins for topping the Regatta (improvement) table. Looking at the Handicap table shows that Liam is not the fastest in the club but reveals a gradual improvement throughout the year.
Those with a handicap recorded this year will take it forward into next year’s series and will therefore start scoring from their first event; those without one will have to use their first event to set a new handicap rather than score points.