Where is Everyone?
Registration for Day 1b has been closed for about an hour, and the staff has finished triple-checking all the paperwork.
Officially 195 runners turned up for this middle starting day, putting our combined field at 397 with one starting day left. The staff has been optimistic of reaching 731 runners to make this the largest-ever UK tournament, but that will be a tall task for tomorrow, requiring a capacity crowd of 334 players to turn up on Sunday. We shall see.
In any event, we've already lost about eight tables worth of players in just over three levels. The board shows 120 left in the field.