Paul Bennett made it three in a row when he won the Kings Lynn ABC in a repeat of the Newmarket final.
Lee Lagan started the competition in top gear, putting in breaks of 98, 87, 67 and 59 in his first round match against Derick Townend. This established the competition´s highest aggregate score of 513 for the one hour games. In the same round, Darren Kell made breaks of 113, 110 and 72 to win easily against M. Phillips. James Chambers also made a century, but his 103 was not enough, as Phil Welham countered with breaks of 84 and 72 to win by 73 points. Despite their good starts, both Lagan and Kell failed to survive the second round as they were defeated by Peter Shelley and Stephen Crosland respectively.
The meeting of these latter two players in the quarter-finals resulted in a comfortable win for Crosland who made three breaks over 50. Bill Andress found his touch to rattle up a total of 448 in his match against Ian Dennis. In the course of this, he fell just short of the century— making a break of 96. Meanwhile, Paul Bennett, who was proceeding with comfortable if unspectacular victories, registered a break of 84 in easing past Phil Welham, while Tony Keeling completed the semifinal line-up.
In the Semi´s, the consistency of Crosland proved too much for Bill Andress as he had to concede defeat by a 129 point margin. This set up a second consecutive final against Paul Bennett, who returned to top form with a break of 134 in a 431 winning total against Tony Keeling. If Crosland had felt aggrieved at victory being snatched from his grasp by Bennett at the Newmarket event, he was very soon given the prospect of another defeat as Bennett sailed into a commanding lead, running in a break of 142, which was the highest of the competition. To his credit, Crosland fought his way back into the match, but was unable to close the gap sufficiently as Bennett held on to win by 56 points.
| Stephen Crosland 70, 59, 50 | 353 | Peter Shelley 52 | 195 | ||
| Bill Andress 96, 55 | 448 | Ian Dennis | 149 | ||
| Tony Keeling | 277 | David Nichols | 155 | ||
| Paul Bennett 84 | 332 | Phil Welham | 224 |
| Stephen Crosland | 388 | Bill Andress | 259 | ||
| Paul Bennett 134 | 431 | Tony Keeling | 144 |
| Paul Bennett 142 | 288 | Stephen Crosland 50 | 232 |
After losing out to Peter Shelley in the first round of the main competition, Gary Rogers took the Plate in some style, making a break of 110 in defeating Joe Bird 311-187 in the one-hour final.