Montreal International Footbag Championships

Contact:

Martin Cote

Alias: @footbag.org

Location:

July 19-20, 1997 (concluded)

Location:

La Ronde and Plaine des Jeux
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Events Offered:

Event:
          Open and Intermediate Singles Freestyle
          Open Doubles Freestyle
          Open, Intermediate and Novice Singles Net 
          Open, Intermediate and Novice Doubles Net
         Women Singles Net (tentative)
Fees:
          Open           $50 CDN   ($37 US)
          Intermediate   $30 CDN   ($22 US) 
          Novice         $20 CDN   ($15 US)

Prizes: 
           $1000-2000 CDN

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The 1997 Montreal International Footbag Championship brought together
47 kickers from as far as Vancouver, BC, Arizona, Texas and the 
San Francisco Bay area. Sunday's finals were held at La Ronde, Montreal's
biggest amusement park, just inside the front gates. What a site!  Sunday was
warm and sunny, and thousands and thousands of Montrealers got a taste of
some great kicking. The Montreal tournament is a great example of bringing the
sport to the people. Here' what happened:.....

OPEN SINGLES NET:
1. Emmanuel Bouchard
2. Martin Cote
3. Yves Archambault 
3. Alexis Deschenes (tie for 3rd place)

WOMEN'S SINGLES NET:
1. Tina Lewis
2. Amy Westberg
3. Ann Lasken
4. Julie Bienvenue

OPEN DOUBLES NET
1. Andrew Morgan / Patrick Asswad
2. Martin Cote / Martin Graton
3. Brent Welch / Chris Ott
3. Yves Archambault / Alexis Deschenes  (tie for 3rd place)

INTERMEDIATE SINGLES NET:
1. Jamie Lepley
2. Eric Cote
3. Dominique Soulard
4. Cory D. Current

INTERMEDIATE DOUBLES NET:
1. Jamie Lepley / Garth Smith
2. Ann Lasken / Cory D. Current
3. Dominique Soulard / Genevieve Bousquet
3. Pierre-Jacques Daigle / Eric Cote  (tie for 3rd place)

NOVICE SINGLES NET:
1. Luc Legault
2. Pierre-Pascal Gauthier
3. Nathacha Mercure
4. Michael Wiwchard

OPEN SINGLES FREESTYLE
1. Eric Wulff
2. Noah Dubreuil
3. Marc Conti

OPEN DOUBLES FREESTYLE
1. Vince Bradley / Noah Dubreuil (the only team)

This year the Montreal Championships will be held on the same site as last year's World Championships. Saturday net preliminaries will be at "La Plaine des Jeux", a big park on Ste-Helene island near downtown, and finals sunday afternoon at La Ronde (amusement park). The first round of freestyle will be held inside a circus tent at La Ronde on saturday evening. On finals day, net and freestyle will take place on the same turf (synthetic surface over pavement), which means freestyle will be in open air. It will be much easier to draw the crowd that way. If the weather cooperates, the place will be packed.

Event Details:

We don't have information about hotels, but if you need a place to stay just come
to Emmanuel Bouchard's apartment on friday evening  July 18, from there we'll
spread visitors around with the local players.

Directions:
From US through NY state - highway 87
After the border the highway name changes to 15. After 40 minutes follow
signs to 20 est or 132 est (same road). Take" Pont Jacques Cartier (bridge)" 
direction Montreal. After the bridge you will be on Delorimier street, 
after 5 or 6 blocks turn left on Sherbrooke street 
then turn right on St-Andre. 3677 St-Andre

From Ontario through 401
take the highway 40 est
(once in Montreal Hwy 40 is also called the "Metropolitan"). 
Take the exit St-Laurent. Once on the service road (Cremazie street)
turn right on St-laurent street. After about 10 blocks 
you will switch to Clark street (parallel to St-Laurent). 
Go all the way down and turn left on Sherbrooke street 
and after about 15 blocks turn left at St-Andre.

Emmanuel's apartment is at 3677 St-Andre  514-523-8454

p.s. If you know you're going to arrive after 12h.pm friday night, 
please call in advance so we can make arrangements 
and send you directly to your host.

Created Wednesday, March 26th, 1997, 10:28am (PST); last update Tuesday, June 17th, 1997, 10:02pm (PDT).

Tournament Results

Montreal International Footbag Championships

Martin Cote

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