They came, they saw, they 'conkered' - 61st World Conker Championships take place in Southwick

A bit more damage there. ...down there. A big sus purgatory. Can we get this over with? ...with the sheep hat from London. McFly, number 26. Just knocked out of a hand. So that's, this is the equivalent of a conker penalty shootout. I'll be back. No, it's not funny. So this is something that... And 29, Simon Carmichael, who claims he has a technique. Good news is, by the way, for those of you who are already getting slightly tired of this, no match is allowed to last long. I think this is a very British thing to do. The only thing we take really seriously is our sense of humour and the absurdity of this. I mean, it's not good enough that people are competing against each other with conkers. they've got to dress up as well it's just totally brilliant everyone's having fun we're poking fun at ourselves we're poking fun at people in authority and that's a very British thing to do waiting for this moment I've never won a trophy like this and now I'm going to have a picture with me on a crown and a throne in the front room and my wife's never going to hear the end of it do you know what it takes luck and support of a great group of friends who are cheering you on the sidelines I think that's it honestly I didn't have a technique but I was talking someone earlier and they said I was the only person going diagonal so I didn't realize I was even doing that but clearly that's the technique guys go diagonal not straight