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The first Battle of the year was against Market Harborough PS.
There were 12 prints and 12 digital images from each club, each being marked out of 20.
Market Harborough continued their success of the previous battle with a reduced margin and we did win the Print section.
The overall results were
| Prints | Projected | Total | |
| MHPS | 197 | 203 | 400 |
| DPS | 202 | 192 | 394 |
The top marked print was from Dunchurch with "Tulip Radiation" by Gerry Coyle who also managed to get the lowest score with his DPI titled "Long Mynd Path".