Well, it has been a fun first year as the ABT Manager, lots to learn and still learning I might add.  However, it has been a difficult first year with our NoE selection shoots clashing with changes to the England selection shoots and also finding that the rules around team submission are not followed by other regions which meant that the NoE missed out on winning the Seniors in the English open (it won't happen next year).  Even with the team selection changes the English ABT team still won overall winning 5 out of the 6 Categories this was possible with over 41% the England team from the NoE.

              

There have been some noticeable shooters from our region this year in no particular order they are:

 

David Lloyd - Runner up ABT Home internationals, Runner Up English Open ABT, British Open Veteran Runner up

Shaun Wood - ABT Eng team

Gordon Branthwaite - ABT Eng team

Chris Tate - ABT Eng team

Rob Bright - ABT Eng team

Martin Jeminson - ABT Eng team

Andrew Dunn - ABT Eng team

Andy Cooper - ABT Eng team, B Class Winner Fauxdegla World's ABT

Adam Holmes - ABT Eng team, B Class winner English Open

Andrew Dunn - Runner up ABT Worlds

 

And lastly, young Cory Doble who has a fantastic list of results this year to add to his DTL results:

ABT Eng team(2nd year running)

England ABT Junior high gun

British Open ABT colt high gun

Fauxdegla World's ABT Junior high gun

North of England ABT championship overall high gun out of 35 shooters

 

Apologies if I have missed anyone but congrats to all the regions ABT shooters.

 

So what's up for next year, the dates below have been booked in already for our NoE ABT selection shoots and the NoE ABT Championships.  Next year is already looking better with one of our Premier Grounds(EYCSG) back up and running and I must say I am looking forward to next year, fingers crossed we don't have any clashes!!!

 

19th April 2020 - Bywell

24th May 2020 - EYCSG

11 October 2020 NoE Championships (alongside the NAT I/C)

 

Finally a big thank you to to all of the ABT shooters who attend the shoots and to our NoE grounds who run registered shoots for our ABT discipline.