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	Conker Information
		Conker is the name used in Britain, Ireland and some former British colonies for the nuts of the Common Horse-chestnut tree, when used in a game traditionally played by children, Conkers.
		In 1993 ex-Python Michael Palin was disqualified from the World Conker Championships for baking his conker and soaking it in vinegar.
		At the British Junior Conkers Championships on the Isle of Wight in October 2005, contestants were banned from bringing their own conkers due to fears that they might harden them.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Conker (1006 words)

	conker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Conker is the name used in Britain, Ireland and some former British colonies for the nuts of the Horse-chestnut tree Aesculus hippocastanum, when used in a children's game, Conkers.
		Conkers are also known regionally as "obblyonkers" or "cheggies".
		In 1965 the World Conker Championships were set up in Northamptonshire, England, and still take place on the second Sunday of October every year.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Conker.html (484 words)

	Conker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This page is about the children's game of Conkers; Conker is also the name of a video game character.
		Conker is the name used in Britain, Ireland and some former British colonies for the nuts of the Common Horse-chestnut tree, when used in a game traditionally played by children, Conkers.
		In 1965 the World Conker Championships were set up in Ashton (near Oundle) Northamptonshire, England, and still take place on the second Sunday of October every year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conkers (537 words)

	Read about World Conker Championships at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research World Conker Championships and learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The World Conker Championships are held annually on the second Sunday in October in the village of
		Since 1965, conker players from around the world have gathered on the village green to compete for the world title.
		The idea for the championships was dreamt up by friends as they sat in their local pub; at first the event was modest in size but in the last twelve years, rising numbers of participants and more interest from abroad have brought it into the headlines.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/World_Conker_Championships (249 words)

	Newsletter - Spring 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For many years schoolchildren have attempted to become the all-conquering conker conqueror, devising some bizarre methods to make sure they are champion of the playground and the envy of all their friends.
		There are various ways of trying to create the perfect championship conker but the one method that everyone seems to agree on is to give yourself time.
		Now the World Conker Championships are held in England every year with people travelling from all over the world to compete.
	www.elddisowners.co.uk /newslet/20000119.htm (407 words)

	Hail the Conkering Hero
		The 2nd Sunday in October is the traditional date for the World Conker Championships.
		The conker is held lightly by the free hand, the stringed end forward, as if holding a catapult or pinging a rubber band.
		Though not allowed at the World Championships, there are many supposedly foolproof ways to toughen up one's conkers, and school-kids have been employing them for a hundred years.
	www.timetravel-britain.com /05/April/conkers.shtml (786 words)

	Eric Shackle's eBook - Sandy the Conkerer wins conker contest
		Britain maintained its long-held possession of the over-all world championship title when Chris Jones, a 48-year-old computer worker from Kennington, South London, defeated (or deconkered) his opponents, proving he was the best of 256 male contestants from the UK, France, Germany, Austria and 11 other countries.
		To avoid the schoolboy tricks of either baking or pickling their conkers to make them harder, or using elastic string to absorb some of the shock of impact, the organisers dole out the ammunition to each competitor.
		The French Conkers federation was born 15 years ago in the Dordogne in Green Périgord to Abjar-sur-Bandiat It counts more than hundred of members today.
	bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/sandy_conkeror.htm (660 words)

	Oundle Chronicle - Another nutty day for Conker Champions
		Conkers has been condemned recently by some local education authorities as a dangerous sport and has been banned in certain school playgrounds for fear that severe injuries caused by flying splinters of conker might result in litigation by parents.
		Over 1,000 conkers were smashed by competitors who came from all walks of life including lawyers, farmers, microbiologists, tyre fitters, tree surgeons and telephonists, to name but a few.
		Ashton Conker Club Chairman Richard Howard explains: Whilst the main objective of the Championships is to have a Great Family Fun Day, there is also a more serious side to the event and that is to raise urgently needed funds for those with a visual impairment.
	www.oundlechronicle.com /articles/features/276 (1022 words)

	explore - Travel in Ireland \| Irish Festival
		The Championships are the only one of its kind in Ireland and are largely modelled on the World Conker Championships that take place each year since 1965 in Northamptonshire, England, where the winners from the men’s, women’s and children’s category at Freshford will go on to represent Ireland.
		The parallel between this village and conkers soared to new heights when a Freshford man, Eamon Dooley of Dooley’s electrical store, entered the Guinness book of world records in 2002 by smashing 306 conkers in one hour at the World Conker Championships.
		There is strict protocol that only conkers that have fallen — unassisted — to the ground are suitable to be picked and played, with a ‘most collected conkers’ competition running between the children.
	www.explore.ie /ireland/article.php?ID=189 (335 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Northamptonshire \| Enough nuts for conker champions
		The championships began in 1965 after a group of people in Ashton held a conker contest because the weather was too bad to go fishing.
		Since then the annual championships have raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity and regularly attract entrants from a variety of countries.
		Conkers is a traditional sport played in September and October when nuts from the horse chestnut tree ripen.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/northamptonshire/4801933.stm (371 words)

	Tom and Ann's Patch - World Conker Championships
		Conkers is the name given to a game played between two people at a time.
		If you are the one whose conker is to be hit first, let it hang down from the string which is wrapped round your hand.
		Releasing the conker he swings it down by the string held in the other hand and tries to hit his opponents conker with it.
	www.tom-and-ann.demon.co.uk /patch/conker.htm (871 words)

	Conkers - Icons of England
		To most adults, the appearance of horse chestnut seeds, their shiny russet colours enclosed in a green spiky case, are a sign that autumn has arrived in England.
		For many of us, they are also a reminder of childhood memories of conkering – collecting the tree’s harvest for use in a schoolyard game that dates back to the mid-1800s.
		A hole is made through the centre of the conker and a piece of string threaded through and knotted.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/conkers (264 words)

	Conkers, black pudding-chucking, fat ballerinas, long-haired policemen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		An early fall of conkers caused by Britain's heatwave is threatening to disrupt next month's World Conker Championships to be held in central England.
		This year's conkers, he said, were too small and too soft to string up for the traditional combat.
		The party, which attracted celebrities from the world of television and business last June, was the largest in a recent wave of events bringing together Portugal's growing legion of cigar smokers.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/do/Qlifestyle-briefs.R5Hs_DO2.html (1199 words)

	Conkers - How to play this Traditional Game
		The conker is held at the height your opponent chooses and is held perfectly still.
		Releasing the conker he swings it down by the string held in the other hand and tries to hit his opponents conker (yours) with it.
		Conkers are edible by deer, cattle and not surprisingly, horses.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/conkers.html (1606 words)

	World Series Conker Competion
		The competition, under WCC rules, was held during the Wadard Morris Men's Winter Ale at the Village Hall, Farningham, Kent, England on the 25th November 2000.
		One contestant suspends his conker from one hand while the other contestant attempts, by swinging his conker, to break the other with a single blow.
		Thus one conker was said to be a two-er if it had notionally two wins, and a six-er if it had had six wins.
	www.compulink.co.uk /~l-hodges/wadard/conkers.htm (306 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Teams from all over Europe competed in the recent World Conker Championships in Ashton, Northamptonshire -- but it was still a Barnet pub which triumphed.
		Sebright Arms team member Sandra Shiels reached the individual ladies' final but was crushed when her conker cracked under the pressure.
		Gill might be modest about their achievements but the Sebright Arms must be doing something right when it comes to conkering the world -- two years ago it won the men's team championship.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=79759 (209 words)

	Orange - the future's bright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		English competitors in the World Conker Championships have won back the title after a humiliating defeat at the hands of a French woman in last year's event.
		The annual contest, held on the village green in Ashton, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, saw almost 400 challengers of all ages fight it out for the winning trophies.
		John Hadman, secretary of event organisers at the Ashton Conker Club, said he was pleased with the turnout which was higher than last year's figure of 5,000.
	web.orange.co.uk /news/story/sm_689212.html?menu=news.quirkies.sportingquirkies (230 words)

	Bleeding canker destroying our conkers
		Conker fans are going bonkers after a string of natural disasters left them without ammo.
		Hundreds of nutty Brits had been gearing up for the World Conker Championships, but might now have to fly abroad to collect fighting conkers for the first time in 30 years.
		Now contenders for the championships fear they might be forced to cancel – unless they manage to import hundreds of crates into Britain in time.
	www.kentnews.co.uk /kent-news/Bleeding-canker-destroying-our-conkers-newsinkent1321.aspx (342 words)

	Irish Examiner - 2001/10/22: Dooley goes bonkers as conker record smashed
		And the two-year-old Irish Conker Championships, which tests the might and skill of the greatest conker conquerors in the country, has now truly become an international event.
		Local man, Eamon Dooley, who competed in the World Conker Championships in Ashton in England last weekend, opened the home event in spectacular style.
		Everyone chose their conkers and laces from the committee and had to keep a distance of eight inches between their knuckles and the nut.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/2001/10/22/story15344.asp (319 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In pictures: World Conker Championships
		Thousands of people gather in a small English village to watch the 40th annual World Conker Championships.
		They use 2,283 horse chestnuts painstakingly collected, drilled and strung by officials from Ashton Conker Club.
		The games follow strict rules and are played out under the watchful eye of two stewards.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/uk_world_conker_championships/html/1.stm (81 words)

	Taipei Times - archives
		John Hadman, organizer of the conker championships, said it was "mainly the honor and glory, and exposure to ridicule in the media" that attracts competitors to his tournament.
		Britain's summer heatwave almost scuppered this year's conker showdown after soaring temperatures resulted in many of the brown nuts falling too early from their horse chestnut trees, leaving them too small and soft to pass competition standards.
		Sunday's event follows last month's World Black Pudding Throwing Championship, in which competitors from around the globe were tested on their ability to hurl the sausage-like delicacy of cooked pigs' blood, fat and rusk, set in a length of intestine, at a wooden platform 20m high.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/sport/archives/2003/10/11/2003071331/print (598 words)

	Backstory: Everyone's going conkers \| csmonitor.com
		Conkers proponents suggest that to deny children of this tradition is to rob them of the independence, grit, and sportsmanship instilled in generations of British boys and girls before them.
		Having picked your conker, you bore a hole in it with a skewer or screwdriver, thread a shoelace through, then tie a knot at the end to hold the nut in place.
		Iggulden tells me during a break in his duties as a judge at the World Conker Championships which were held last month in Ashton, a hamlet in Northamptonshire, England.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/1114/p20s01-lifp.html (1386 words)

	BBC - Cambridgeshire Out & About - World Conker Championships 2003
		The Conker Championship began in 1965 when a group of pub regulars decided to start playing the game as an alternative to fishing.
		This is conker territory, and this is war...
		The Conker World Championships are now in their 39th year, and attract hundreds of competitors from all over the world, as well as thousands of spectators.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cambridgeshire/out_about/2003/09/conkers.shtml (301 words)

	Irish Farmers Journal Interactive - Journal 2
		The highlight of the World Championships for the Irish team had to be Eamon Dooley's name entering the Guinness Book of Records for smashing 306 conkers in an hour.
		As the play continued, all around the green there was plenty to do, with pony rides, face painting, snooker and a bouncy castle, which caused merriment throughout the crowd when it suddenly deflated and its owner had to be called.
		Back in the centre of the action, the compere called on the next batch of contestants to come to the "holding pen" and had to assure two startled women that they would not be having their ears tagged.
	www.farmersjournal.ie /2001/1027/journal_2/country.html (588 words)

	RDF Rights \| Shorts \| Conker Championships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Three hundred budding conker kings gathered on a quiet green in Ashton, Northamptonshire for the annual World Conker Championships.
		Now in its 32nd year the championship attracts interest from all over the world.
		One conkerer was particularly disappointed - he'd dressed up especially for the occasion in a suit made entirely from conkers.
	www.rdfinternational.com /catalogue/prodexd.asp?catalogid=694 (119 words)

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		A summer of drought, hot weather and disease has caused supplies of horse chestnuts to dwindle, leading to a crisis for the organisers of the 42nd annual World Conker Championships.
		John Hadman, the secretary of the Ashton Conker Club, said that the teams were well on their way to gathering the 2,000 conkers needed for the championship.
		"The conkers are a bit smaller and softer than normal but competitors will just have to sharpen up their aim," he said.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XPJ4F313KGM1FQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2006/09/30/nconker30.xml (303 words)

	Conker worries prove unfounded
		Officials in the British village of Ashton say the upcoming World Conker Championships will probably not be hindered by the presence of soft conkers.
		With over 250 men and 60 women expected to compete in the 2006 version of the annual competition, many were concerned that a drought in September would lead to smaller nuts for the event.
		Conkers -- a game that uses the nuts from area Horse-chestnut trees as tools to garner points -- has been a popular British tradition since it was created in 1965 by area fishermen.
	news.webindia123.com /news/articles/World/20061009/473687.html (212 words)

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	Oundle Chronicle - Family fun and fundraising combine with national pride in a unique spectacle
		Conker Championships Chairman Richard Howard presents a conker tree donated by Plantation Nursery.
		The aim is not only to crown the Conker King and Queen, but also to raise money for the visually impaired.
		The Championships represent a considerable amount of work for the volunteers who coordinate the event.
	www.oundlechronicle.com /articles/features/440 (285 words)

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