Manor, Texas, on Sunday

Terrain on the outer courts

Walt and Estefi

Pregame

Umpire on call

Andre and Thierry (Father-son team)

San Juanita and Chris

Our final game drew a few spectators

We lost 11-13 in Consolante Semi-finals

Hostess (with the mostest!) Linda with Coco

Arsene

Consolante Winners and Runners up

Thierry with Mom and Rachel

Jacques with Estefi and Walt

The Finals

Getting the shot

Yannick in action

Champions and Runners up

Shirley counting her money!

Consolante third place tie (Michelle Healy, Earl Lovell, Gary, and Shirley)

Consolante runners up (Rudy Vallee and Christophe Chambers)

Consolante winners (Arsene Dupin and Amine Najah)

Third place tie (Michel Costa and Nicolas Bienvenu)

Third place tie (Juan Garcia and Pascal Corchia)

Runners up! (John Rolland and Claude Laulhe)

Champions! (Bernard Martin and Yannick Laulhe)

Goodbyes

We had a great time at the Bloor Ranch in Manor, Texas, on Sunday.  Jeffrey and Linda Schryver hosted the first (annual?) inter-national ThinkTanque petanque tournament with a prize pool of ten thousand dollars and many of  the top teams from across the country showed up to try for first prize.  Winners were Yannick Laulhe from Canada and Bernard Martin of Florida.