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Saturday, September 04, 2010

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The 22nd Annual Esso Golden Ring


Thanks to all our volunteers &
congratulations to all teams for a fantastic tournament!

PARADE OF CHAMPIONS
with Photos!

photos of Calgary RATH



Where were the teams from?

Level
Calgary
AB
BC
SK
QUE
teams
games
Players
Coaches
Participants
Bunnie
12
3
0
0
0
15
23
196
66
262
Novice
18
6
0
0
0
24
36
319
93
412
Pet A
5
9
1
1
0
16
31
215
69
284
Pet B
8
6
1
1
0
16
31
213
66
279
Pet C
5
3
0
0
0
8
15
104
37
141
Tw AA
2
4
3
1
0
10
23
147
44
191
Tw A
5
7
0
0
0
12
25
160
49
209
Tw B
7
6
1
2
0
16
31
213
68
281
Jr AA
2
3
1
1
1
8
19
122
32
154
Jr A
4
3
1
0
0
8
15
123
32
155
Jr B
5
5
0
0
0
10
21
147
39
186
Belle AA
1
2
2
0
1
6
16
95
23
118
Belle A
2
3
0
1
0
6
11
90
25
115
Belle B
4
2
0
0
0
6
11
89
23
112
Open AA
1
1
1
1
0
4
8
56
15
71
Open A
5
4
0
1
0
10
21
178
35
213
Open B
6
4
0
1
1
12
25
194
34
228
Open C
2
2
0
0
0
4
7
70
12
82
94
73
11
10
3
191
369
2731
762
3493

 

Some Tidbits

There were 191 teams in the 2008 Esso Golden Ring in 18 divisions of play. There were a total of 369 Games (500 hours of ice). The ice bill will be approximately $76,000.00.

There were approximately 80 on-ice officials used in the tournament.
Referee game fees for the tournament total $12,000.00. The cost of "importing" referees and transporting them is an additional $5000. Plus, hotel rooms are provided free of charge to all out of town officials. Transportation was provided to out of town officials to all of their games.

Committee members accumulated 764 draw prizes for players (4 for each team), including 191 custom orange stinger sticks with Esso Golden Ring imprinted on them. All players received Esso Golden Ring souvenir items - lapel pins, pens, posters and a custom necklace. All Bunny and Novice teams received participation medals for their friendship series.

Committee Members accumulated $4900 worth of donated prizes for the Esso Golden Ring Raffle (all $10,000 tickets were sold thanks to Calgary teams)

There were 285 Individuals from Calgary teams who volunteered at arenas, plus over 200 people who were minor officials and shot clocks operaters at the semi and final games. There are 23 tournament committee members, who opened arenas as early as 5:30 am, and closed as late as 12:15 am.

The "control centre" was at East Twin and was staffed with committee members and volunteers all weekend who circulated game scores, uploaded scores to the website, compiled results, and generated pre-printed gamesheets for all games.

Committee members were linked by cellular phones donated by Fido, and averaged more than 500 km of driving over the weekend.



Tournament Committee members
assemble 191coaches packages


Custom Esso Golden Ring Stinger Sticks















The Control Centre
What is the control centre?
It is the heart of the tournament. It is here that volunteers from all the different arenas phone in game scores which are entered into a software program that helps in calculating which teams are advancing. Then, control room workers generate gamesheets for the next round of games.
Gamesheets from across the city are shuttled to the control center where each one is checked and verified. These same drivers take the new gamesheets and deliver them back to all the arenas.
It is also here where decisions are made to "troubleshoot" ongoing occurances.


Moncia Ford & Marlene Cox

"Super" helpers Darcy & Tony


Erin Pinel working on the Ref schedule


Cindy Melnyk & Tony Merritt take a break

John Mader can't wait until Sunday is over!

Iveah Hutchison & Monica Ford

The Saturday Night Control Room crew: John Mader, Patsy McNish, Marlayne Brandsgard, Laura Webb, Iveah Hutchison, Marg Harris, Stuie and Erin Pinel (sitting)

Tony Merritt taking game scores

John Mader, Iveah Hutchison, Monica Ford

Lots of Laughs in the Control Room!

Steve Hutchison came to visit his wife

Jodi Jensen came to visit her mom Marlene

Larry McNish & Stuie verify game scores

Jesse Geddes came to visit mom Shelley

Darlene Kuhn

Marg Harris

Stuie Cappie


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