On Sunday 25th September, for the first time since 2019, Cambridgeshire hosted what has previously been the Six Counties event, but this year, with Bedfordshire not in a position to field a team, it was down to just 5 counties. Hopefully, with Bedfordshire's league now about to resume after a long break, we will see them return.

Session 1 Suffolk led the way, but only because all of their blocks played, while all the other teams only had have their blocks playing. They picked up 3 wins over Norfolk, and one over Cambridgeshire. Cambs, took two wins over Suffolk, and it was the same for Essex over Hertfordshire. Norfolk were unlucky two lose three close games against Suffolk.	S1 Pl Pts Suffolk 6 8 Cambridgeshire 3 4 Hertfordshire 3 4 Essex 3 2 Norfolk 3 0
Session 2 Suffolk remained top by taking 3 tight wins over Hertfordshire, while Cambridgeshire, with 2 wins and a loss against Norfolk, were still well set with games in hand. Norfolk picked up their first points, picking up 6 in their 6 games against Essex and Cambs.	S2 Pl Pts Suffolk 9 14 Cambridgeshire 6 8 Norfolk 9 6 Essex 6 6 Hertfordshire 6 2
Session 3 With Cambridgeshire taking their turn at having a session where all their blocks were playing, they took 5 points against Hertfordshire, and 4 against Norfolk, closing the gap to Suffolk, who won 2 and lost 1 against Essex, to just one point.	S3 Pl Pts Suffolk 12 18 Cambridgeshire 12 17 Essex 9 8 Norfolk 12 8 Hertfordshire 9 3
Session 4 Hertfordshire took their turn to play their full team, and picked up 8 points, their best session by far after a very slow start to the day. That included 2 wins out of 3 against Norfolk, and the same against Cambridgeshire, who, with Suffolk winning all 3 games against Essex, had now dropped 5 points behind the leaders.	S4 Pl Pts Suffolk 15 24 Cambridgeshire 15 19 Hertfordshire 15 11 Norfolk 15 10 Essex 12 8
Session 5 Essex had their chance to improve their position with all 6 blocks playing, and did just that, picking up 2 wins each against Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. Meanwhile Suffolk took 3 convincing wins over Norfolk. And with those games played all the teams were on and equal footing. Suffolk now had a 9 point lead over Cambridgeshire, with 12 still on offer, and 3 games still to be played between the two of them.	S5 Pl Pts Suffolk 18 30 Cambridgeshire 18 21 Essex 18 16 Hertfordshire 18 13 Norfolk 18 10
Session 6 Cambridgeshire had to entirely sit out the penultimate round, which mean that Suffolk had the chance to wrap things up with their games against Hertfordshire. Two wins would do it for them, and that's what they got. Norfolk, meanwhile, took all 3 wins over Essex, which meant that Essex, Norfolk and Herts were now seperated by a single point.	S6 Pl Pts Suffolk 21 34 Cambridgeshire 18 21 Essex 21 16 Norfolk 21 16 Hertfordshire 21 15
Session 7 The final session saw Cambridgeshire and Suffolk take 3 points each from their matches, while Cambs also won all 3 games against Essex, and Norfolk more than settled the squabble over third place by taking all 3 of ther games against Herts. Essex were no doubt happy to avoid finishing bottom, a position which was left for Hertfordshire to surprisingly fill, which can be explained by the fact that they were missing a few key players, while Norfolk will rightly be more than happy with having secured a comfortable 3rd place. Cambridgeshire can content themselves with the knowledge that they were the only county to beat Suffolk overall, taking 7 of the 12 points on offer, but will rue having let them pull away in the day's middle session. In the end, what really made the difference for Suffolk were their results against Essex, Herts, and Norfolk, dropping only 2 out of a combined 18 games. And the overall win meant that in lieu of a Eastern Counties League, which wasn't played over the previous winter, Suffolk would represent the East in the pre-Nationals North v East match.	Final Pts F A Suffolk 37 232 135 Cambridgeshire 30 186 173 Norfolk 22 172 189 Essex 16 166 211 Hertfordshire 15 169 217

A full copy of all the day's results can be found here.