Happy Holidays to the global croquet community! Here at Croquet Network and Goodwin World Media, we hope you have the chance to spend time with family and those important to you. Starting with Thanksgiving in the U.S., this is always a wonderful time of year to look forward to events with friends and family and do some reflection as well. With that in mind, Croquet Network is pleased to present the most-read articles over the past year to showcase some of the top moments for the sport in 2025.
Read MoreUSCA Announces New Home for YouTube Channel
The USCA video team continues to develop our live streaming capabilities and recorded video. So far the results have been excellent. Now, we are excited to announce the new USCA YouTube channel, @uscroquetassociation, which will incorporate new recordings, as well as important events from the recent past. Consider it the center for all USCA broadcasts and recordings.
Read More2017 Best of Croquet Network
As we roll into 2018, here's our brief annual look at the most popular articles and pages on the Croquet Network site for 2017. It's always interesting to see what rose to the top over the past year. This year the big change is that for overall content we saw the popular Backyard Warrior and Why Croquet Players Wear White articles knocked out of the top slots by the 2017 mallet directory and poll.
Read MoreMorning Coffee: Time to Get Out and Play
It's 81 degrees in Kansas City, so it's time to stop writing about croquet and start playing. Here's your speed version of the Tuesday Morning Coffee ...
CROQUET WEEK GC: To kick of the USCA's Croquet Week and Club Teams festival of croquet, Sandra Knuth Walsh took a 7-5, 7-1 win to snag the USCA Croquet Week Golf Croquet Tournament title. Larry Cranfield took the first flight final with a 7-1, 7-4 win over Karen Heckman.
2016 Best of Croquet Network
As 2016 winds down, it's always a great time to look at the most popular articles and pages on the Croquet Network site. The trends always present an interesting look back at the year in our wonderful sport and the popularity of specific pages or articles makes me appreciate the loyal audience that has been cultivated over a near-decade of work. The past year was particularly enjoyable because, we kicked off a small but targeted effort to invest in and produce more original content. It's nice to see some of those pieces in the top 10 for 2016.
Read More2016 Most Popular Croquet YouTube Channels
Since posting this ranking for 2015, there have been some changes in the landscape. First off, YouTube is allowing channels to hide their total view count and several channels from last year's list have obscured that count. I'm not sure why, but the remedy for 2016 is to rank the channels by subscribers.
Read More2015 Most Popular Croquet YouTube Channels
One of the quietly growing segments for the sport of croquet on the internet is YouTube. The traffic is still minor compared to the crazy videos that will notch views in the millions, but the overall segment of YouTube channels that Croquet Network tracks has grown from 12 to 18 since the start of 2014. And the total views for that group has gone from 434,000 to 603,000 during the same timeframe.
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