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| Champions Pouplot and Hammouchane of Canada |
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| Bo Johns and Trey Brown |
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| Richard Trani and Redouane Hammouchane |
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| Rick Armstrong and Arsene Dupin |
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| Armenian team! |
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| Arizona!!! |
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| Marco Foyot and Pascal Corchia |
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| Our first round opponents! |
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| The gang |
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| We managed 3 points (and were happy to do so!) |
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| Spectators |
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| Trey, Ken (Gus Vespa), and Bo |
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| Mile High (Denver, CO) pointer |
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| Brenda and Manuela |
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| Pouplot/Hammouchane vs. Trani/Zanella |
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| Joe, Christophe, Stephen |
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| Teri Sirico |
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| Pascal, Stephen, Fernando, Juan |
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| Juan and Pascal managed 4 points! |
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| Marco and Bernard got 8 points |
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| Rick won the raffle for Marco's boules! |
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| In the finals |
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| Rick, myself, Juan, Linda |
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| Rudy, Charlie, Malik, Artem |
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| Last game of the day |
Sunday found Shirley and I facing the Canadian team of Thomas Pouplot and Redouane Hammouchane. While Shirley and I were lucky to win our four games on Saturday against teams from Corrales (NM), Albuquerque (NM), Portland (OR), and Los Angeles (CA), the Canadians had breezed through their games 13-0, 13-0, 13-0, and 13-1! We considered ourselves lucky to get the 3 points we ended up with.
Kirk and Bo, having gone 2 and 2 on Saturday, were also out after their first Sunday game, so it was a short-play day for Carolina Petanque. Nevertheless, we had a lot of fun and then had the rest of the day to watch such world-class players as Pouplot, Hammouchane, Foyot, Trani, Zanella, Kessouagni, Corchia, Garcia, and many others.
The finals came down to Foyot/Martin versus the Canadians. The Canadians were just too strong on this particular day and handed Marco/Bernard their second loss of the weekend-- the first having been to the USA team of Pascal Corchia and Juan Garcia on Saturday.
Congratulations to Artem Zuev and Malek Hfaiedh for winning the Consolante over Daniel Smith and Ken Thompson. It was a good game that finished under the lights.
Many thanks to Christophe Descarpentries for organizing and producing the event. It was great fun for all and I'm sure everyone hopes they are able to come again to New Mexico, The Land of Enchantment.
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