Nationals Wrap-Up

[Eric Roussin]

After having a day or two to recover from the weekend, I would now like to thank the many people involved in making this event the success that it was.

Thank you to all of the people/teams who sponsored the event:

Guy Windover
Joe Gould
Les Robinson
Team Meta-Hook
Ray Roussin
George and Tish Gottschalk
Joyce and Allan King
The Ottawa High Hookers (Devon Larratt, John Milne, Jeff Slater, Ian Carnegie, Allen Ford, Phil Lauzon, Marcus Blaszczyk, Ivan Clément, Cam Clarke, Phil Sadler)
Jeff Miller
Mike Haigh
Craig Mitchell

I was touched by all of your generosity.

Thank you to Jerry Milne and Scott MacInnis for expertly streaming and recording the event for posterity.

Thank you to my mom for helping man the t-shirt booth on Sunday and to my dad for helping with transportation, building the podium, and helping me with the event clean-up.

Thank you to Jeff Slater and Chantal for manning the t-shirt booth on Saturday and for organizing the poker tournament.

Thank you to Rick Pinkney for bringing together an excellent team of referees and to Lise Blanchard for bringing together an excellent scorekeeping team.

Thank you to Mark Zalepa and Dave Campbell for taking care of ordering and distributing the Team Ontario shirts.

Thank you to Guy Windover for supplying the armwrestling tables, and for purchasing the Arm Melter lifetime membership.

Thank you to Joe Gould for supplying many prizes, an armwrestling table, and the music.

Thank you to Ian Carnegie, Darrell Steffensen, and Popeyes Supplements for supplying several draw prizes.

Thank you to Rick Blanchard, Yves Drouin, and Keanna Langlois for selling 50/50 tickets. Rick also supplied various equipment.

Thank you to Joanne Langlois for singing the national anthem and for taking pictures of the teams and winners.

Thank you to Joel Goodsell for bringing a table and for stepping up and taking on the role of Team Captain.

Thank you to Jamieson Lalande for supplying the speaker.

Thank you to Jedd Johnson for coming up to officiate the hand strength challenge.

Finally, thank you to everyone who travelled to compete in this event. It is your participation that makes large events such as these possible.

Organizing the Nationals was a fantastic, yet draining, experience. I hope everyone enjoyed the event as much as I did.

[Dave Campbell]

Thank you Eric ! I had a great time. You did an awsome job.

Regards
Dave C

[Marc Vachon]

I think I speak for many people here when I say this was the best run tournament I've been to in my recent memory. A very difficult thing to pull off, and to the puller at least, went off without a hitch. Good job Eric!