Monday 1 April 2013

National 12-Bell Striking Contest 2013

Each year there is a national 12 bell striking contest opened to any tower that regularly rings 12 bell music.

The contest is in two parts, the first part are the eliminators. These are held usually on the forth Saturday in March. The teams are then split across the eliminator venues evenly so that there are between 6 - 9 teams per venue, usually meaning that there are three venues in total. The top three from each venue is then proceed to the final.

23rd March saw the eliminators taking place, the results were as follows:

KetteringLeicesterTowcester
1st
York - 90%
SRCY - 85%
Towcester - 84%
2nd
Bristol - 86%
Leeds - 83%
Birmingham - 83%
3rd
ASCY - 85%
Melbourne - 81%
Cambridge - 77%
4th
St Paul's - 76%
Guildford - 80%
Exeter - 75%
5th
Southwark - 64%
Norwich - 71%
Stockton-on-Tees - 71%
6th
Southampton - 59%
Newcastle-under-Lyme - 57%
Oxford - 62%
7th
 
Liverpool - 55%

This means that the Ancient Society of College Youths, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths, Towcester, and York who will contest the final at Ripon Cathedral on Saturday June 22.

For more information please see http://www.12bell.org.uk/

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