Registration is now open for the 2024 Times Crossword Championship via this website:
https://times-event.com/crossword-championship/
The top 50 finishers from 2023 are guaranteed a place if they book by September 19.
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Time: Doors open at 10.45 for registration and breakfast. The first heat will start at 11.30am. Contestants who make it successfully through the heat will take part in afternoon session too. The event will end no later than 5.30pm.
Venue: 1 London Bridge St, London SE1 9SG
Ticket Price: £45 which includes all materials, breakfast, refreshments and a sandwich lunch. Times subscribers are eligible for a 20% discount to the entry fee.
Prizes: £1000 for 1st place and the Times Crossword Championship trophy. £500 for second place, £250 for third place and £200 plus the Richard Rogan Prize to the highest-ranking first-time competitor.
For any queries, please email [email protected]
Thanks for the heads-up.
I’ve just entered for the first time and I look forward to putting some faces to the names of some site regulars.
I too have registered for the first time, as it happens to be adjacent to a business trip in France – but I was a little overhasty, failing to claim the subscriber discount.
Perhaps I will be the furthest-flung competitor this year (resident in Melbourne).
Oh I’m so pleased! I bet BletchleyR will be glad too, he was keen to see you give it a go when we all met up
Yes he was! Hope I can do our Aussie band of solvers proud
Good luck! You’re going to be awesome. And you’re going to meet so many people! That will be fun.
That’s great – never thought I’d see you there. You should be very competitive if you can keep your nerves quiet under competition conditions.
Excellent! That fits nicely into my birthday weekend in London, seeing Dr Strangelove, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank and Pats v Jags (NFL) at Wembley.
Got my entry in – managed to get through to semis last year (at the 3rd attempt), not fooling myself that I’ll go further this year but never say never!
As magoo has only won once out of my previous 3 visits, statistically* that must mean he only has a 33% chance this year.
*By statistically I mean, of course, “spuriously invented based on some vaguely matching numbers. On a survey sample 3, in a survey commissioned by me, for me”. Well it works in news reporting.
Although I’m automatically qualified, I won’t be there. It’s now 16 years since my peak performance of 3rd place at Cheltenham, and I’ve got to accept that advancing age (77 this year) has dulled my performance. Although I’ve always treated the Championships as a social event as much as a competition, every year there seems to be an increasing decline in the number of old friends in evidence. After last year’s event, I shook hands with a number of respected friends and rivals and said that I was unlikely to be taking part again. I’m standing by that decision. My very best wishes to everybody who will be participating.
Sorry you won’t be there Phil. As I’m only 74, obviously age has not started to dull my performance as yet. I’ve always been that slow… but I do enjoy the social side of things.
Best of British “Break a Leg” to all entrants! No chance of getting to attend – not good enough, nor geographically/logistically possible. High time we get the thing live streamed on You Tube with the puzzles being posted………maybe even commentary too….!
Mrs S and I will be there, also visiting from Australia. We have entered the competition, but don’t expect to come close to being competitive.
More importantly, we’d love to catch up with anyone who is around on the day.
Anyone know if it’s possible to join even though ‘entry is closed’? Maybe there’s a waiting list?
Email [email protected] to go on the reserve list in case of cancellations.