chestnuts) of the required 1.25-inch (30 mm) width are collected, drilled and strung ready by tournament officials. All conkers and laces are supplied by the World Conker Championships. Conkers are drawn ‘blind’ from a bag, and players may reject up to three selected conkers. Each game will commence with a toss of a coin, the winner of the toss may elect to strike or receive. A distance of no less than 8" or 20 cm of lace must be between knuckle and nut. Each player then takes three alternate strikes at the opponent's conker. Each attempted strike must be clearly aimed at the nut, no deliberate miss hits. The game will be decided once one of the conkers is smashed. A small piece of nut or skin remaining (less than a third) shall be judged out, it must be enough to mount an attack. If both nuts smash at the same time then the match shall be replayed. Any nut being knocked from the lace but not smashing may be re threaded and the game continued. A player causing a knotting of the laces (a snag) will be noted, three snags will lead to disqualification. If a game lasts for more than five minutes then play will halt and the "5-minute rule" will come into effect. Each player will be allowed up to nine further strikes at their opponent's nut, again alternating three strikes each. If neither conker has been smashed at the end of the nine strikes then the player who strikes the nut the most times during this period will be judged the winner. If this is equal, then play continues, one strike each in turn, until one player hits and the other misses. WCC Results history All players are British except where indicated with a national flag icon. WCC Roll of Honour Shown in alphabetical order by surname in the event of a tie. WCC Video History from 1974 to 2021 2021 World Conker Championship courtesy of Britclip 2017 World Conker Championship by thevideoclipplace on Youtube 2016 World Conker Championship by BBC Northampton on Youtube 2015 World Conker Championship by Trans World Sport on Youtube 2014 World Conker Championship courtesy of Youtube 2010 World Conker Championship by Ben Moseby 1974 World Conker Championship by ITV on Youtube References Sport in Northamptonshire Annual events in the United Kingdom Recurring sporting events established in 1965 1965 establishments in England