The sun was certainly shining on Sean Collins of the Red Lion, Lindfield at the Farmhouse Inn, Portsmouth when he beat off stiff competition from 119 other runners at the South England regional final. Going into the final table, Sean was the chip leader with 99,000 chips shortly followed by Craig Poole of the Broadwater, Worthing who had 94,000 chips. Unfortunately Craig couldn’t keep hold of his chips and only managed to finish 4^th being beaten by David Bond of the Cranleigh, Bournemouth and Chris Guy of the Star & Garter, Portsmouth.

 National Final Qualifiers and Cash Prize Winners

• 1^st Sean Collins, Red Lion, Lindfield
• 2^nd Chris Guy, Star & Garter, Portsmouth
• 3^rd David Bond, Cranleigh, Bournemouth
• 4^th Craig Poole, Broadwater, Worthing
• 5^th Alex Feast, Mudeford & District Mens Club, Christchurch
• 6^th John Grant, Silver Fern, Southampton

Other Cash Prize Winners

• 7^th Justin Vaughan, Fox & Hounds, Westerham
• 8^th Jon Edwards, Half Moon, Crawley