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Rendez-vous in Ashton (England)
10 000 persons, 450 players, all the present English media, arbitrators and officials everywhere around us.
It is incredible, crazy, raving, they are Conkers's world championships. The second Sunday of October becomes the compulsory meeting of all the followers of the Conkers.
42 th world conker championship
SUNDAY the 8th OCTOBER 2006 as of10h30 in Ashton ( NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ).
Entrée gratuite.
Cent fois sur le métier…
Every year since 1995, the members of the Team of France go in this temple to pick up the supreme title. At the moment, our best place is the second in male individual classification because 4 years ago, our team returned to France with the Vice - champion of Conkers's world, but the second place in this game, it is the place of the idiot!!!
It is for that reason that we train more and more, multiplying as well the competitions to return really with The World champion title in our luggage.
Luck 'conkers' all
Mr Stewart told BBC News Online that it had been a "fantastic day", and that he would not have won without practising with his daughter, Jacqueline, seven, who was in the junior event.
"It's all down to her. This is the furthest I've got as normally I go out in the first or second round," he said.
He did admit, however, that luck had played a major part in his win.
"I'd love to say it was all the hard practice, but really a lot of it is purely luck."
The championships were briefly threatened when sweltering summer temperatures caused horse chestnut trees to drop their conkers early.
Those that fell were deemed too small for competition status, and even led to the creation of a black market in conker specimens.
But organisers eventually managed to gather the 1500 conkers required for the contest.
Monday, 13 October, 2003 BBC News