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"Same old, same old" would be a good way to
describe the 2025/26 season as we get underway. No new teams;
no drop outs; same venues and team captains. Just one change
to team names ...
Predictably KFD have changed their handle.
Henceforth they're to be known as ...
Советские космические собаки.
Apparently it means 'Soviet Space Dogs' (no,
I've no idea) and to accompany this change there's a picture of
Russian astromutts, Belka and Strelka, below which becomes the new
team logo.
Thankfully Kieran has given permission for us
to call them CKC which is the name adopted throughout this
site.
Belka &
Strelka - CKC's new logo
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The first match of the new season
will be the traditional inter-league friendly between representative
teams from WithQuiz and the Stockport League played at the Parrswood
Hotel on Thursday October 2nd starting at 8.30. It's 6-a-side
and everybody who turns up will be guaranteed at least half a match
on the WithQuiz team. The paper format is as for WIST cup
matches, i.e. a mash-up of the formats used by the 2 leagues.
At present Stockport have held the trophy for this match for the
past 3 seasons so we want it back!
Do please put this in your diary and
come along - its a great way to kick off the season.
WithQuiz league matches start the
following Wednesday on October 8th with the Opsimaths setting.
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The structure of the fixtures
programme is much as last season. The only significant change
is that I've reduced the Christmas break to 2 weeks and put an extra
'Free' week in early in 2026. Hopefully football fans will
find 'Free' weeks coincide with important home matches. Many
thanks again to Roddy for working out the fixtures for each week;
they would have been published a little earlier if I hadn't lost
Roddy's email in my voluminous inbox. Sorry!
This year WithQuiz is responsible for
setting the WIST papers so I'll be looking for a setter from amongst
the non-WIST Cup teams (i.e. teams that finished last season outside
the top 4 in the table) for setting the paper to be used on December
4th.
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As you
know a lot of effort goes into producing a fresh Home page for the
website each week, with reports and sideways comments on the matches
and week's question paper. Compiling this has become my winter
labour of love each Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Your
match reports are the grist to my mill so do please keep them
coming. It's helpful to have your reports by 11am on Thursday
at the latest. Many thanks in advance.
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always keep a careful watch on the TV quiz shows to see if any
WithQuizzers have been on air. This close season I'm delighted to
have watched quizzing friends on Only Connect on
consecutive weeks: James Haughton from former WithQuiz team
Compulsory Mantis Shrimp captained the 5KS team on August 11th and
the following week Opsimaths' own queen bee Charlotte Orland-Jackson
captained the Worker Bees. Only Connect airs at 8pm
each Monday on BBC2 and both programmes are easily found on iPlayer.
Both James' and Charlotte's teams will be back later in the Only
Connect season.
Finally ... though we have a very similar structure to last season and
have no new teams, we have had plenty of new faces in our existing
squads over the past year or two and this bodes well for the future.
There's life in this old dog yet (though sadly not for CKC's new
logo it seems).
Have a
good season, see you soon and good luck!
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