The first heat of the Simpson Shield was organised by Ron Thompson. Eleven members competed in this heat. A variety of tricks were performed and the result was a win for Paul Kitchen with a Russian Roulette effect using Party Poppers.

Roni began his Theatrical Magic evening by performing a trick in which ice was placed into two boxes, mysteriously the ice in the colder box was seen to melt rapidly whilst the ice in the warmer box remained frozen. He then went on to perform a trick assisted by Sylvia in which a card was selected from a tarot deck using a crystal pendulum. Roni then entertained members with a story of Eva and Raphael Frankintoff during which photographs vanished and were replaced with the words Save our Souls and Shame the Satan, after the pair had made a pact with the devil.He finished with a story about a seamstress called Eva who magically made a continuous red thread from numerous small pieces of thread. The thread was then lit from a match which had already been struck and extinguished.Eddie thanked Roni for an extremely entertaining and theatrical evening.