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I have never disputed that 2 comps are not better than one but when you have spent 5 years building up an Open competition and its reputation not just in Croydon but across London and the South East you don't go changing it to a closed event and starting a new Open competition on a different date 'to be decided' and lose all the goodwill built up by that hard work.

I've had at least 10 people ask me what has happened to the Croydon Open this year and I've had to be diplomatic and say I don't know.

Now I've had an 'organiser' call me a *******stirrer for having an opinion. It just gets better and better.