Philippe and Christophe congratulate the winning team of Jean-Michel Laulhe and Stephane St. Croix
Juan and Mo beat Claudy and Jean-Pierre!
Marc and Stacy
............................................................Uijin Park and Lauren Gioscio
Sunday was a beautiful day for the final play of this year's Petanque America Open. The first round consisted of four categories based upon rankings/seedings resulting from Saturday's play. The losers of first-round play dropped down one notch into a sub-category for the balance of play. For example, Shirley and I began the day in Concours A. This category consisted of the highest ranked 32 teams of the original 112 teams.
............................................................Uijin Park and Lauren Gioscio
Sunday was a beautiful day for the final play of this year's Petanque America Open. The first round consisted of four categories based upon rankings/seedings resulting from Saturday's play. The losers of first-round play dropped down one notch into a sub-category for the balance of play. For example, Shirley and I began the day in Concours A. This category consisted of the highest ranked 32 teams of the original 112 teams.
However, we lost our first game on Sunday to the very fine team of Juan Garcia and Mamary Coulibally. Therefore, we dropped down into sub-category Aa. The same thing happened to losing teams in Concours B (losers dropped to Concours Bb), Consolante A (losers dropped to Consolante Aa) and Consolante B (losers dropped to Consolante Bb).
Thus, there were eight categories of play for the single-elimination brackets that were drawn up at that point. So, we played in the second highest category-- Concours Aa. We managed to win our first elimination game against a fine team from Seaside, FL, but were not so lucky in our next game against a strong New York team. So we were out after three rounds on Sunday. The NY team that beat us, Yngve and Leila Biltsted, went on to finish second in Concours Aa, so that made us feel a little better. Plus, they were really nice folks!
None of the rest of the CarolinaPetanque teams fared much better-- all were eliminated by no later than the quarter finals in their respective brackets except for Marc and Stacy who, after losing their first match on Sunday to our own Terry & Sue, made the semi-finals in Consolante Bb. Congratulations, guys!
There was one other bright spot for Carolina teams. Though not (yet!?) members of CarolinaPetanque, Uijin Park and Lauren Gioscio from Boone, NC, won the Consolante Bb. We'll definitely be trying to recruit them in the near future.
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