The day started with a review of the fairly complicated rules. For example, red group and blue group players, blue group players each serve once and then all change ends. Red group players serve once and then people swap partners. Then repeat with new pairings. Everyone scores their individual game wins. Two pools of players for play a round robin and the winning red and blue players from each pool play in the final.
Here is a picture of one of the games. It is not so much mixed doubles as unisex doubles. In the picture below Vicky and Doug are facing Paul and Martin.
The way the scores should work is that, for each match, the total scores of both red group players adds up to 8 and likewise for the blue group.
From the scorebooad picture – below – I think I can see a couple of times when this was not quite perfectly counted and recorded.
Lets hope at least the correct finalists were identified. They were James Driscoll and Steve Maller from the blues and Paul Thompson and Pete Brownlow from the reds.
Given that your correspondant was playing you can guess that nobody thought to take a picture of the final. Oh Well. Below is a picture of the crowd at some point in the afternoon showing quite a good turnout. I think we can say that the club social scene is working well
For the record, the winners of the Roy Gibbs tournament for 2023 were Steve Maller and Pete Brownlow.