Kent Team Championship 2024, 2 March in Canterbury
Last year we ran a collaborative event between the Kent leagues as an invitational event . This was a team tournament following the rules of UKTC with 30 coaches competing. This year we opened it up as a NAF event and as part of the new South East Tournament Series. I was expecting to get somewhere around 40-50 coaches but we soon realised it was going to be much more popular than we expected and we managed to hit 120 coaches, or 30 teams, which was as many as we expected to be able to fit in. I had been worried about ending up with an odd number of teams as we did last year, so offered all teams the option of bringing along a spare player who would be guaranteed a game either as part of a mercenary squad or against another spare player. It was thought that this, along with a couple of other spare players, would allow us to cover all eventualities. As it turns out, all the teams with spare players had drop outs so they were down to 4 players, and of the other teams, there were 2 drop o