Category Archives: Tournaments

The St. Boniface tournament is on Saturday, November 15th, at Gordon Bell Highschool, 3 Borrowman Place in Winnipeg. Watch out, there’s limited parking at the school and vehicles have been towed from the street in the past.

All entries are $25.00. Matches begin at 10:30 and participation awards will be given to all competitors in the U10 and U12 categories.

Meet up times will be announced in class.

A whopping 18 competitors headed out to the Brandon Open last weekend. That many Portage fighters at such a small tournament meant there were a few divisions where we were fighting each other, but the tournament experience is always invaluable and very different than randori in class.

Gold Medal winners included Ashley “No Mercy” Jackson and Natasha “Disasta” Burton

Silver Medalists were Pinto “Old Man” Town (who, for reasons of shame, might be demoted to a yellow belt), Andrew “A Christmas Story” Spangle, Carley “Hair Bun” Doherty, Carter “Magic Man” Friesen, and Krista “Starbuck” Walker.
Bronze medals went to “Lanky” Troy Doherty, Owen “Not the Face!” Friesen, and “Straight Up Robbed” Wade Campbell.
Participation medals were given to Autumn Jackson, Maggie Oleyniuk, and Hannah “Tinkerbell” Friesen (who all had to fight each other). They also went to Erik Olson, Kiernan Olson, and Dylan “the Bear” Tully. Nicknames on some competitors are pending.

Matt Strand also attended but had no one to fight in his weight division, but as I understand it, did quite well at boxing afterwards.

James “Big Man” McBurney/Cormier didn’t medal, but soundly beat Ryan Walker and Pinto Town in the follow up pizza eating contest.

Brian was proud of everyone who attended (except Pinto).

The next tournament is St. Boniface on Saturday, November 15th.

Yikes!
Due to a scheduling conflict, the Brandon Tournament will now be held at
Vincent Massey High School
715 McDiarmid Ave
(Turn left at the Timmie’s on Victoria Ave west of 26th St)
Be warned, Massey is a bit of a rich kid school, so the air will be filled with upper middle class yuppie larvae snobbishness, and probably residual mid 80’s young Pinto angst and bitterness.

Okay, here’s the low down on the Brandon Tournament.

Brandon Open
Date: October 18, 2014
New Era School
527 Louise Ave. (corner of 6th St. and Louise Ave.)
Brandon, MB
All entries $25.00
2nd category $15.00

Weigh in starts at 8:00 AM and things get underway at 10:30.

Departure meet times will be announced at class this week.
EDIT: Everyone’s to meet at the West Mall Timmies at 8:00AM for a 8:15 departure.

Feel free to stop by Pinto, Sandra, and Aidan’s on the way home, but remember… What happens at Pinto, Sandra, and Aidan’s stays at Pinto, Sandra, and Aidan’s.

If this is your first judo tournament, here’s a great write up of what to expect, which will also be reviewed in class.