Who, HOW, WHY?!

Gentlemen’s Operations is an obsessively tight-knit, exclusive social group of Coventry University Alumni.

From the fires of a messy few years at Uni, Target Master was forged. Worthington Bitter released a ‘Glass Target’ beer mat in 1999, and we knew immediately what to do with it.

A game was born, in which two fully-grown men attempt to place a beer glass more accurately than the other on to a glass target beer mat, while maintaining an unbroken gaze into one another’s eyes.

No part of the player’s hands or arms may come in to contact with the table.

A judge decides which player has placed his glass with the greatest accuracy and awards them the tie.

“I’ve seen grown men crying tears of victory and defeat in Target tournaments. It makes you feel alive.”

Al Rees (1999, 2013)