ODG 6-Bell Final 2019

Article written by Bobbie May

ODG 6- Bell Final at Chalfont St Peter on Saturday October 5th 2019

Eight teams dodged the inclement intervals and two entertaining judges, Louise Booth, Bermondsey, and Linda Georgiadis, St Giles, London, deliberated on the teams’ attempts. The church itself is ideally situated in front of an enormous car park, so ringers weren’t left scrambling for car-parking space!

Linda and Louise introduced themselves in true “Strictly” style and explained their methods of marking.

Team	Branch	Comment	Faults		Placing
Wokingham All Saints	Sonning Deanery	Rang doubles with a good open hand-stroke though the tenor behind had some issues. Quite good ringing with some unevenness.	50		5th
Oxford St Giles	Oxford	Rang plain courses. They had difficulty getting the right rhythm but it was a good attempt	135		8th
Aylesbury	Central Bucks	Fairly steady ringing. They made a recovery from a hairy moment and kept going!	98		7th
Woughton on the Green	North Bucks	They had a few ‘moments’ early on but it sorted itself out later.	78		6th
Abingdon	Old North Berks	A nice piece of ringing! The tenor kept a lot closer here encouraging the other ringers to keep it moving along!	38		1st
High Wycombe	EBSB	Another nice piece of ringing and the tenor also kept it moving.	40		2nd
Thatcham	Newbury	Much slower test piece and they struggled with hand-stroke leads but otherwise fair ringing.	48		4th
Drayton St Leonard	South Oxon	Treble and tenor were a good combination. Slower ringing but they rang as a team/		44	3rd

The judges agreed on the placings of the bands, though they didn’t go into great detail over individual attempts.

Deputy Master, Tony Crabtree, ensured that the day ran smoothly and thanked the local bands for their excellent catering and the stewards for their hard work.