The final day of the Tournament saw France win over Morocco 13 - 7 in the Triples and Dylan Rocher of France win the Shooting Competition.  Both twins were predicable on form.  The only upset was when the Umpire in the shooting red carded the Madagascan player twice fo...

We started day three in the Nations Cup with a knock out game against Cambodia.  A bad start again had us down 6-0 after three ends.  We then started coming back with some good pointing by Harold Dercy and shooting from both Lionel Chazal and Patrick Dufresne. After ei...

The second day of play saw the Australian team play three games, losing two of them (to Turkey and Taiwan, that one by just 1 point!)  The winning game against Scotland was 13-0.  That left us on a win loss ratio of 2-3 and a delta of +2

At the end o...

In unprecedented scenes for FIPJP World Championships (according to old hands who've been to many) Day One ended with all participant nations marching behind their national flags down the street from the site of the competition to a massive tent near the town hall wher...

Ten love down after two ends isn't the greatest start to a World Championship... but more on that later. 

The world mens triples championships commenced on Sept 13 in a small town north of Quebec City in Canada.  The town is Desbiens and, at first place, its not that im...

The annual Super 4 competition was held in Adelaide last weekend (Sept 8/9).  Super 4 is a competition where the best teams from each State compete against each other - two men and two women in Open and Sixty Plus classes.

The results:  (List of teams bel...

See the attached link for a short 2min video from the Confédération Européenne de Pétanque.  Its in English.  Good for demonstrating Petanque at open days or other presentations.

Confédération Européenne de Pétanque