This week’s winner was Jack Wootton’s team Real Madras with a breathtaking 109 points, winning him a free Top Corner match for his team Baker Tilly from the Southwark Tuesday Premiership league.  Jack’s Real Madras moves up to 266^th in the league with 1075 points!

Next week the same fantastic prize is there to be won – enlist your team-mates to the cause!  The more of your team’s players that are taking part the greater your chances of being awarded a free league game!!

Full details of how to join are here.

The top 10 stays the same with just a few moving positions:

The Top Corner Top 10*

* Eligibility: players joining before Gameweek 1

David Oliver is still holding on to top spot at TC, racking up 59 points rising to 121^st.  David is being caught week by week by Top Corner’s MD Kevin Burns now just 67 points behind!  Paul Edwards made a big impact on the league this week with a huge 13 points!

A reminder that late entries are not eligible for the annual prize, and you must be in the competition for at least a week before you can win a weekly prize.

We hope your all enjoying the New Year so far!

We wanted to let you know about some exciting netball league opportunities we have coming up in February. We currently have a few spaces left in the Southwark ladies league spring 2012 season:

Southwark Division 1 Tuesday – starting Tuesday 7th February – 1 space

Southwark Division 2 Tuesday - starting Tuesday 7th February – 1 space

Southwark Division 3 Wednesday – starting Wednesday 8th February – 1 space

Our Southwark league is our biggest netball league with 5 divisions. It always proves popular and being a promotion and relegation league, it’s always exciting to be part of.

Our Southwark courts are in a great location; they are only a short walk from Southwark and Waterloo underground stations.

If you would like to know more about the Southwark ladies league please email Carly Bacon or call 020 7036 9917.

The sports club is situated in Canada Square, Canary Wharf, in the heart of London’s vibrant business district. Occupying 100,000 square feet over three floors, the Reebok is one of Europe’s most exciting fitness spaces with a vast array of facilities and services.

The club has been named as ‘Britain’s Best Gym’ by Men’s Health Magazine as well as being commended as Time Out’s Most Luxurious Gym so we were delighted when they approached us about a collaborative project to develop women’s netball.

Top Corner will be lending it’s expertise and passion for netball to deliver an engaging and rewarding alternative to the your average work-out. We will provide two fully qualified umpires and all your equipment so all you’ll need to do is to pop down and play!

We will be running a FREE taster session this Friday lunch between 12.00 and 13.00 with our inaugural league to launch the following week on February 3rd. Both the taster and the league will be open to members and non-members alike who will be able to enjoy use of the changing facilities and shower.

For more information about this fantastic opportunity please call Jen Hart on 0207 036 9911. To enter this league click here

Top Corner will have a big presence at the 2012 National Netball Festival, sponsoring the Cider Cup and bringing 24 teams from their leagues to the Festival. Top Corner are giving away 24 FREE team entry packages available to women only teams that are registered to Top Corner leagues. Included in this package is entry into the tournament, entry to the weekend festival and an exclusive £80 weekend camping discount. Please call Amy Cowd @ Bournemouth 7s to sign-up- 01202 545 630

The National Netball Festival is set to be the biggest yet, attracting over 100 Netball teams, including Superleague players and England FastNet World Champions.

Make sure you don’t miss out and Enter Your Team today.

League Manager Jen Hart has been working tirelessly behind the scenes for the last few months to ensure all was ready for our opening night and we’re delighted to report she wasn’t left disappointed as everything clicked into place. Jen has assembled a crack team of officials to deliver the best possible league and her line-up includes two hawk-eyed table officials supporting her two referees on court.

With everything in place it was great to see the teams finally playing, especially to such a high standard. Ernst & Young took home the opening night plaudits and ended up as the evenings high-scorers racking up 43 points. JP Morgan and Deloitte both scored 30 apiece and also started their campaigns with wins. Our MVPs for the night were Allan Lang (Moody’s), Richard Welch (JP Morgan) and James Farley (Deloitte). Cube Capital will play their first game next week.

We’ll leave the last word with the teams:

‘Thank you for organising the matches last night and it was really fun to play competitively in the league.’ Ernst & Young

‘We had a blast!’ Informa

To see the gallery from our opening night please check out our facebook page

Our short list below includes one of our first basketball teams (guess who?), plenty of new entrants and a few oldies who are finally seeing recognition for years of service in the name game. Make no mistake, crafting a name is a fine art and this year’s winner can expected to be rewarded! Prize TBC.

Halal— Is It Meat You’re Looking For?, Hoxton Netball
Sian Massey’s Mates, Holloway Women’s League
Space Jam Changed My Life, Mile End Basketball
Dissent Ettiene, Islington Football
Fiorentina Turner, Finsbury Park Sunday League
One Firm One Team
Powerleague Fatigue Holloway Women’s League
Notinyourmums Forest Holloways Men’s League
Fc Twente Somethings Waterloo Football
Sparta Lebowski Waterloo Football
Standard Liaison
Big Balls Vauxhall Netball
Dyslexia Untied Paddington Football
Sheffield Tuesday Islington Football

Football (Men’s 5-a-side unless stated) - Battersea, Waterloo, Holloway, Vauxhall and Hackney.

Netball (Ladies’ unless stated) - Vauxhall, Oval and Canary Wharf (BRAND NEW ) .

Basketball  -  BRAND NEW - Mile End

Full details of all our spaces

Set within Lilian Baylis Old School (LBOS) on a fantastic 4G surface, the newly revamped Vauxhall 7 a-side leagues promise to be London’s finest small sided footballing experience. This is the league for both pass-masters and cloggers alike as our huge pitch caters to all football styles and makes for some fascinating match-ups.

Last summer’s competition was a great success and the past few months have seen huge improvements works taking place which will bring facilities on par with the very best venues in London.

Initially we will offer shortened seasons with a change in format to taking place over the summer when we hope to run a tiered divisional structure incorporating a Premier League, Championship, League One and Conference.

Our starter shortened seasons are slated to begin the week of February 13^th, and will run as follows:

• Vauxhall Monday 7 a-side League – starting Feb. 13^th
• Vauxhall Tuesday 7 a-side – starting Feb. 14^th
• Vauxhall Prem/Champ 7 a-side – starting Feb 15^th & 16^th

There is further detail on pricing and games times on the website and I’m pleased to say that there will be no increase in costs for the season meaning we will continue to offer 45 minute games at an outstanding £60 (inc VAT). Get your applications in to avoid disappointment.

Our first basketball league is starting in January at Mile End Leisure Centre and more central London leagues are due to follow in the forthcoming months.

If you are interested in being a Top Corner basketball official and joining our team please call Jen on 0207 036 9911 or email on jen.hart@topcorner.co.uk

We hope you are all enjoying a well-earned rest after another fantastic year’s netball.

As we cast an eye into the 2012 and beyond we have a couple of league opportunities I’d like to draw your attention to:

Waterloo Monday – Starting Janaury 9th 2012 – 1 SPACE (DIVISION 1)

Hoxton Monday – Starting January 9th 2012 – 1 SPACE

Hoxton Tuesday – Starting January 10th 2012 – 1 SPACE

Our Waterloo league is long established and always proved popular so the upcoming the winter season represents a rare opportunity to get a place in our of our benchmark leagues.

Our Hoxton league is situated just behind Kingsland Road in thriving creative and commercial heart of East London. We have state-of-the-art facilities at our disposal and perhaps more importantly an indoor court for the chilly days ahead.

If you’d like to know more about either league please drop Carly Bacon an email or call on 0207 036 9917