Seoul Gentlemen Spoofers
Seoul National Spoofing Champions
- 1994 Murray Mexted
New Zealand - 1995 Richard Johnson
- 1996 Mark Dawson
England
- 2000 Jan Jensen
Denmark - 2001 Susan Edwards
Canada - 2002 Jeremy Powell
Wales
- 2003 Mark Redmond
Australia - 2004 Martin Watts
England - 2005 Trevor Lewis
Canada
- 2006 Martin Watts
England - 2007 Mark Redmond
Australia - 2008 Jooyon Kang
South Korea
Seoul Autumn Spoofing Champions
- 1996 Alan Timblick
England - 2000 Mark Hedley
Australia - 2001 Stephanie Kim
South Korea
- 2002 Judy Dalziell
Australia - 2003 Marie Galloway-Bussi
France - 2004 Martin Watts
England
- 2005 Frank Gamble
Scotland - 2006 David Gate
New Zealand - 2007 Walter Jury
AUSTRIA
- 2008 Tim Basford
England
Seoul Winter Spoofing Champions
- 2001 K.W.Ching
Singapore - 2002 Millie Gilbert
New Zealand - 2003 Steve Reichenberg
USA
- 2004 Les Edwards
New Zealand - 2005 Mark Bradbury
Australia - 2006 Anita Gate
New Zealand
- 2007 Martin Watts
England - 2008 Julia Burks
England
Spoofing is a non-contact activity defined in the Encyclopedia of Sport and Recreation as an ancient art of mental calculation played among Gentlemen. Spoofing has its imitators, such as the NZ pub game of "matches", however true Spoofing is played with coins.
The game, though not the name, is based on a Dutch Royal Court game of some centuries ago. That, anyway, is what Spoofers propose although there are some local skeptics who believe it was invented in Korea 5,000 years ago.
Spoofing is done in groups or 'schools'. Each member of the school holds three coins. He presents, hidden in the fist, any number of those coins or none at all. Spoofers then call, in turn, what they believe to be the total number of coins in circulation, and it is in this progressive assessment of the total number of coins held by the School that the art lies.
The Seoul Gentlemen Spoofers was founded in 1993 by Andy "GBH" Grieve of England and held its inaugural Championship in 1994, won by two-time World Spoofing Champion, Murray Mexted of New Zealand. The Seoul School has been strongly represented in international and World Championships since then.
An Autumn Spoofing Championship was held in 1996 and reintroduced in 2000 and in 2001 the Winter Spoofing Championship was inaugurated.
The Seoul Gentlemen Spoofers is unique in that, along only with the Dublin and Paris schools, it includes Ladies within its definition of Gentlemen.
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