2005 Southeastern Classic Boomerang Tournament:

2005 Southeastern Classic Boomerang Tournament:

This year’s 6^th annual SEC boomerang tournament was won by none other than veteran thrower Chicago Bob from St Louis. He held off some stiff competition from Delaney Mohr of Atlanta. It all came down to the final event of Endurance which Bob entered with a 4 point lead over Delaney. When the dust settled, Delaney took 2^nd in endurance and Bob finished 5^th, preserving a one point margin to claim title to the 6^th annual SEC boomerang tournament. The rest of the finishing order was rounded out by Dennis “Juice” Joyce, Mark Legg, Jason Smucker, Kendall Davis, Laura Smucker, and Tim Maultsby.

In the Beginner Division, Vince Rizzo and Matt Meyers (both from Chattanooga, TN) traded blows all day long. When it was all over, Vince was left standing as the winner in the Beginner Division. But in the grand tradition of the Southeastern Classic, that meant Matt earned the coveted spot of first-to-pick-from-the-prize-pile. With his lead off pick, he ironically selected the very boomerang that Mark Legg had loaned to Vince earlier in the day which had enabled Vince’s victory over Matt. Once again, we have a lesson in “What goes around, comes around!”

The day started off with MTA in some howling winds from the East. The event was complicated by the terrain underfoot. The previous week’s rains had left standing puddles over a large portion of the 100 meter circle. Several people made some pretty spectacular splashes as they pursued their boomerangs. Most people were trying to survive the conditions by either throwing 3-bladers or by “pooching” their 2- bladed MTAs. Jason proved to be Mr. Consistency, making all 5 catches inbounds by using his Palm 3-bladed MTA made by the Bower brothers for a combined time of 72.45 seconds. However, Delaney found the one decently calm moment of the MTA event during his last throw. He pulled out his carbon fiber Dimanchev Trigger and launched a 36 second flight that propelled him to win MTA with a combined time of 83.18 seconds.

The second event was Aussie Round. The winds were still gusty and shifty. Mark Legg shredded through it all with his custom G-10 V-boomerang and finished head and shoulders above the rest with 66 points.

The wind shiftiness continued in Accuracy. Other than the beginners, all the throwers clustered their scores within an 8 point range. Juice ended up on top with 31 points.

The winds started to settle a little bit for Trick Catch, but nobody was able to break out and excel. Mark Legg took first with 65 points. There were only two foot catches made during the event. Of course one of them was made by Chicago Bob who tied Delaney for second with 60 points. The other notable foot catch was made by Timmy in grand fashion.

The fast catch event had pockets of descent light wind interspersed with some pretty good directional shifts. After the first round, Mark had the low time of 23.46 seconds followed by Jason with 24.26 and Bob with 24.68. The winds were a little nicer for the second round. Jason blazed a 21.50 and Bob kicked in the afterburners with 21.19 time to win the event.

Other notable performances of the day: Kendall Davis took all the advanced throwers to school in the Endurance event. He won endurance outright with a rock solid personal best of 48 catches in some shifty winds. Hanging right there with the guys, Laura Smucker also threw a possible personal best 41 catches to take 4^th place in endurance.

Scores

http://www.geocities.com/jesmucker/scores/Scores_Atlanta_2005.zip

T-shirt Design. Extra t-shirts are available for $12 plus shipping. Contact Jason Smucker (770-565-7256) for details.

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Coverage by the Marietta Daily Journal (MDJ)

Online picture of Juice in the Aussie Round event

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Scanned in version of the MDJ article (hi res)

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Scanned in version of the MDJ article (lo res)

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Jason Price’s SLR digital photos of the Trick Catch event:

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check out this stunning photo of Jason Making a hackey catch.

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…and this photo of Kendall Davis with his “Moose for Juice.”

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Other photos:

Buddy Roos is explaining boomerangs to Emma and Jason. Buddy is a local Atlanta throwing with a great collection of 80’s era Dave Philpott boomerangs. Emma loved all the bright colors!

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Mark Legg and Jason Smucker kid around with Buddy’s Tomahawk boomerang made by boomerang legend Rusty Harding.

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The Boom Babes model this year’s special edition baby t-shirts. Note the special edition colors!

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