Checkout Fires Burns Into Champs Contention

The Champion of Champions second stage will take place on Sunday, 22nd October with the players being whittled down from sixty-four to just sixteen.

The competition is raising money for MacMillan Cancer Support this year with £1251.49 currently in the pot that'll be dished out by the charity to locally based causes at the end of the annual charity event.

Kieran Burns 115 checkout in a 3-1 win over Danny Bull was the best moment of the previous round of matches, and he joins five former champions who have all made it to this stage unscathed.

The 2018 champion Neil White came through his preliminary round stage matchup at the same Fawn venue as Burns with an accomplished 3-1 win over Paul Goundry.

There were also 3-0 successes for Scott Cook and Aaron Wright whilst Dave Hollow was a 3-1 winner to claim a spot in the next round.

1989 winner Col Maddocks navigated the Indian Inn venue alongside 1996 champion Ralph Lancaster who ended the hopes of Neal Hotchkiss by a 3-1 score line.

White and Lancaster have been drawn into the King Billy venue for the last sixty-four and thirty-two stages alongside reigning and defending, three time champion John Mann.

There's a couple of banana skins in the Devonport pub that could throw a spanner into the works as 2022 runner-up Harry Bull and Cornwall county player Lee Hellings will also compete in the same venue.

Maddocks will hope to avoid five time champion Simon Stevenson in the open draw that'll take place at the Fawn as the long term friends will compete at the Greenbank club for a place at Final's Night.

In a cut throat variation to the traditional format of a tournament that's spanned five decades, competitors will need to win two games to progress to the sixteen player final event held at the Victory Inn on 12th November.

The format of each game will be the best of 5 over a 501 distance with the winner of the bull throwing first in the first, third and fifth legs should all be required.

PLAYING AT THE INDIAN INN: Andy Bates (Fawn), Mark Hopkins (St Levans), Luke Johnson (Victory), Damian Chalmers (Raffles), Billy Evans (Victory), Jaden Whitting (Fawn), Nathan Langdon (Colebrook), Ben Waters (Tradesman), Nick Miller (Cherry Tree), Glenn Halford (Bluebird), Zak Burden (King Billy), Reece Day (King Billy), Liam Taylor (Victory), Alex Truscott (Lugger), Jason Pinkerton (Victory), Dave Hollow (Colebrook).

PLAYING AT THE FAWN: Fred Goldsmith (Fawn), Col Maddocks (Cornwall Gate), Scott Lawrey (Victory), Logan Carroll (Lugger), James Duke (Hyde Park), Alan Masters (Bluebird), Scott Cook (Victory), Dan Jewell (Clifton), Russ Paxton-Denny (Hyde Park), Lewis Byrne (Tradesman), Marc Webber (Cherry Tree), Kelvin Rowe (Victory), Simon Stevenson (Cornwall Gate), Steve Mills (Cherry Tree), Dean Richards (Tap & Barrel), Dave Lee (Cherry Tree).

PLAYING AT THE KING BILLY: Chris Beale (Victory), Paul Gavican (Victory), Neil White (Octagon), Louis Yates (Indian Inn), Brian Lumsdon (St Johnston), Aaron Wright (Victoria), Ralph Lancaster (King Billy), Harry Bull (Indian Inn), Jason Goldsmith (Victory), Andy Hawes (Hyde Park), Dan Wilkinson (Indian Inn), Lee Hellings (Octagon), Jamie Roberts (Bluebird), Dan Giles (Colebrook), John Mann (Fawn), Tyler Borthwick (St Johnston).

PLAYING AT THE CHERRY TREE: Simon Wilbraham (Lugger), James Cook (Unattached), Paddy Archibald (King Billy), Anthony Pearn (Victory), Kyle Burden (King Billy), Kieran Burns (King Billy), Paul Palmer (King Billy), Frankie Stout (King Billy), Mark Hatherley (Indian Inn), Dave Matthews (Fawn), Steve Towl (Colebrook), Melvyn German (Cherry Tree), Lee Agar (Fawn), Reg Matthews (Saltram), Andrew Waters (Tradesman), Lee Roberts (Bluebird)