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Odds and Ends from the Tournament

Mon, 10/20/2008 - 22:45 — Bruce

Here are some of the coolest things I saw (or heard about) during the tournament. Feel free to add your own by clicking "Add new comment".

  • Carly Parkins from the Intermediate division beating everyone in Accuracy.
  • David Hirsch throwing an old-school 70-meter hook to take first place in Intermediate Aussie Round. He was also 9th over all with that performance.
  • Daniel Bower having an MTA fly all the way over I-30 wasn't very cool, but him driving over there later and actually finding it lying in a soft grassy area sure was.
  • Me getting a personal-best 42 second flight with an MTA that the Bower brothers made in my garage just a couple of nights earlier. In interest of full disclosure: I didn't make the catch, but MAN it was cool to see something I threw fly for that long!
  • Ace Armstrong doing a flying/sliding foot-catch that is already the stuff of legend. More people than could possibly have seen it made sure to tell me about it. Sure wish I'd seen it in person!
  • David Fantone nearly sweeping the aesthetics awards. He made the awesome trophies and almost got all three of them shipped back to himself. David Hirsch and I won one of those trophies each by the narrowest of margins -- Hirsch: Design, Armstrong: Craftsmanship. David Fantone did win the Decoration category, and got 2nd and/or 3rd in the other categories.
  • Pat Steigman's live workshop. When it was realized we didn't have many lefties for demo purposes, he quickly whipped up a couple. Another note: I was actually working on some Texas Longhorn boomerangs for the prize table and the USBA auction only hours before they needed to be done.
  • Tom Wythes guessing that the silhouette in the t-shirt design was actually Stu Jones. Tom said he recognized Stu's calves.
  • Tuscon Don playing his theramin at the awards banquet.
  • Finally, all the help we got during pre-tourney setup (caution tape, painting circles) and setup and cleanup each day. Thanks, Pat, Bob, Stu, Joe, Don, Richard, Daniel, Juice, and anyone else I'm leaving out. We literally couldn't have done it without you.