Historical Sports Archive

Flavius Laidley – A Life in Competitive Domino Since 1968

Player • Judge • Consultant • Tournament Organizer • International Domino Tour Manager • Rule Book Author

For more than five decades, Flavius Laidley has contributed to competitive domino as a player, judge, consultant, tournament architect, and international organizer. From early playing days in Jamaica to national tournament revival and international tours linking Jamaica, Britain, Barbados, and St. Lucia, his work has helped shape organized domino competition across multiple countries.

A documented contributor to organized domino competition

This website preserves a lifetime of domino work: playing, judging, tournament design, rule development, international tours, newspaper coverage, community engagement, and documentary media.

Since 1968

A playing career and lifelong involvement in competitive domino beginning in Jamaica.

National Tournament Work

Consultant and Chief Judge in national competition, with later leadership in reviving all-island domino competition.

1993 Rule Book

Authorship of tournament rules created to standardize play and support fair competition.

International Tours

Domino tours and sporting exchanges involving Jamaica, Britain, Barbados, and St. Lucia.

Media Record

Documentary and press coverage, including involvement with Channel 4 domino documentary work in London.

Community Impact

Domino as sport, discipline, culture, education, and community connection.

“Domino is not only a game. In the Caribbean, it is memory, discipline, competition, community, and cultural intelligence at the table.”

What this archive will hold

Newspaper clippings, official letters, tournament documents, photographs, rule book material, video references, and historical notes.

Immediate upload folders included

Use assets/images/archive for photos, assets/documents for PDFs and letters, and assets/videos for video files or thumbnails.