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The final qualifying game was held on Sunday morning. The field of 136 teams was then slotted into nine brackets for single-elimination play.
16 teams Championship A
16 teams Championship Aa
8 teams Championship B
16 teams Consolation A
16 teams Consolation Aa
16 teams Consolation B
16 teams Consolation Bb
16 teams Consolation C
16 teams Consolation Cc
CarolinaPetanque ended up with only one team in Championship A: Khalid Mesbah and his partner, Joseph, from New York. They eventually made it to the quarterfinals. Congratulations, guys!
We also had two teams that made it into Championship Aa: Augustin & Marc Quilici and Gary & Shirley Jones. Team Quilici made it through the first round and into the quarter-finals.Congratulations, guys!
Shirley and I lost in the first round to a team of two women from Israel. Their shooter, Gali Shriki, is a multiple-time member of the Israeli National team. The Israeli team went on to win Championship Aa bracket, so we didn't feel too bad to have lost to them.
The overall winners, Championship A, were Marco Foyot of France and Bernard Marten of Florida. Congratulations to them-- they were superb. Foyot is currently ranked as the number 4 player in the world (source: petanque.com), and it's hard to imagine anyone playing better than he did on Sunday. I never saw him miss a shot in the entire finals. You should have been there!
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