The October Big One took place on a beautiful sunny day which drew out 24 teams into the sunshine. Congratulations to the winners Jonathan and Adrian and to runners up, Ameen and Andy ..read more

Each year any Petanque England registered club has the option of entering a club squad for the Eurocup competition. The format of the competition is knock-out matches initially drawn against any other teams entered from your region, or adjoining regions if you are the only one. Each knockout match consists of a round of two triples games and a second round of three doubles games. Each game won gets one point, anybody winning 3 games has therefore won the best of 5 and will proceed to the next round of the knockout. If you get through these first three rounds you go to a days semi-final at a na ..read more

The Friendship Games is the brainchild of Matt Blyton and two of his European boules-playing friends. ‘Let’s have a cross border pétanque competition!’ The first event took place in Germany in the autumn of 2022. Participating were three clubs - one from London, one from Regensburg, and a mixed club from Bratislava, Prague and Ljubljana.  There were two parts to the event: a serious competition (with London victorious by a single point) and a relaxed mixed melee. Of course, it wasn’t just about pétanque. There was a tour of Regensburg, a beautiful medieval city. Followed by a traditional ..read more

Winners: Olivier Grau & Federico faucher (left) runners-up: vince wills & tom hitchman (right) Hello LPC, July's Big One was a terrific event of quality petanque. The entry was a little sparer than usual with 10 doubles teams battling it out in five games for the morning leagues. After the leagues, the top four teams went straight into the semi-finals and then the finals. The final saw Vince and Tom squaring off against Federico and Olivier and was a good scrap. Fed and Olivier bested their opponents to take the win and the prize. Overall, all the doubles teams who entered seemed to m ..read more

View fullsize View fullsize Six teams participated in this event, two Triples and four Doubles. With a round robin format, each team played the other five teams. By participant consensus it was decided that the results of the competition would be decided by the five matches, the final table rankings based on the Win / Loss records and point difference. Teams were well balanced with everyone winning at least one match. Most games, except for one 13 - 0 blowout, were very tight. Third place went to Keith-Christian-Su Koe, runners up were Barry-Matt-Lou; both teams won 3 and lost 2. The winners ..read more

Sunday 20th June saw London region’s best and upcoming players as well as newcomers battle it out from 10am to 9pm to qualify to represent the region in the Inter-Regional Championships in September. Teams were split into four groups of four teams with one group containing a BYE. The winners of each league would move into the top 4 and compete for ranking against each other. Second and third teams in the morning’s groups met against each other in two afternoon group with first in each group qualifying as team 5/6 and second teams qualifying in team 7/8 of the Championship squad. Third place ..read more

View fullsize Barry & Claire View fullsize Nic Baxter View fullsize Matt Blyton View fullsize Mal, Nick & Tom On the weekend of June 5th and 6th, the newly formed Leicester Pétanque Club hosted a qualifier to represent England at the European Championships in the Veterans category. The event was well represented by LPC members. The London teams attending had a strong showing with three of the four teams reaching the quarter-finals, two of which progressed to the semi-finals. One team had made it to the final, but was unfortunately defeated after a good display. Nic Baxter (alongsid ..read more