2025-2026 InterClub Competition Round 3 at Novar Gardens Petanque Club 30 November, 2025

A strong turnout of thirty-two teams participated in Round 3 at Novar Gardens. Once again, our extraordinary run of luck with the weather continued. Of the five SAPL events held so far this season, this was the fourth to follow the same pattern. Coming after a major rain event, with more showers forecast for Sunday, the conditions cleared just in time to make way for a pleasant sunny day of petanque. The only difference this time was that the preceding rain continued until 9am, rather than 3am, and the following rain didn’t come until midnight, rather than 5 or 6pm.

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2025/26 SA State Doubles Championships at:  Club de Pétanque d’Adelaide 26 October, 2025

This year’s State Doubles Championships were held at Club d’Adelaide. The weather conditions followed a pattern that has become strangely familiar this season. It was wet on Saturday with a forecast of more significant rain on Sunday. But it turned out to be a lovely, mostly sunny day until a few showers came in the evening soon after we were finished.

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2025/26 SAPL Mixed Doubles Championship at: Prospect Pétanque Club 17 August, 2025

This year’s SA Mixed Doubles Championship was held at Prospect. After several late withdrawals we were left with 24 teams.

It would seem that the pétanque gods have done a good deal with the weather gods. In a scenario remarkably similar to the Interclub event held three weeks earlier, there was a rather grim weather forecast for up to 15mm of rain but it turned out to be a quite pleasant sunny day. On both occasions, the rain stopped at about 3am with not another drop until just after 5pm.

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