| Some Tidbits
There are 185 teams in the 2009 Esso Golden Ring in 18 divisions of play.
| Level |
Calgary teams |
AB teams |
BC |
SK |
MB |
QUE |
ONT |
total out of town |
# in draw |
# of games |
|
Bunnie
|
11 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
16 |
24 |
|
Novice
|
16 |
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
8 |
24 |
36 |
|
Pet A
|
6 |
5 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
6 |
12 |
25 |
|
Pet B
|
6 |
5 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
6 |
12 |
25 |
|
Pet C
|
7 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
12 |
25 |
|
Tw AA
|
2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
|
|
6 |
8 |
19 |
|
Tw A
|
5 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
8 |
15 |
|
Tw B
|
6 |
5 |
1 |
4 |
|
|
|
10 |
16 |
31 |
|
Jr AA
|
2 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
|
|
|
6 |
8 |
19 |
|
Jr A
|
4 |
3 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
4 |
8 |
15 |
|
Jr B
|
7 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
12 |
25 |
|
Belle AA
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
16 |
|
Belle A
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
4 |
6 |
11 |
|
Belle B
|
4 |
3 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
4 |
8 |
15 |
|
Open AA
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
4 |
5 |
9 |
|
Open A
|
5 |
2 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
3 |
8 |
15 |
|
Open B
|
4 |
2 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
4 |
8 |
15 |
|
Open C
|
5 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
8 |
15 |
|
94 |
64 |
9 |
14 |
2 |
|
1 |
91 |
185 |
355 |
There will be 355 Games (483 hours of ice). The ice bill will be approximately $73,000.00.
There are 85 on-ice officials who will be refereeing tournament games.
Referee game fees for the tournament total $17,776.00. 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 is also provided to out of town officials to all of their games through volunteer drivers.
Committee members accumulated 470 draw prizes for players, including 185 custom Esso Golden Ring practise jerseys.
All players will receive Esso Golden Ring souvenir items - lapel pins, pens, posters and a custom cell phone charm / zipper pull.
There are more than 20,500 giveaways in coaches packages, including Wrigley's Gum, Mike & Ikes, Wendy's Coupons and Frito Lay chips.
All Bunny and Novice teams (40) will receive participation medals for their friendship series.
Committee Members accumulated $7213 worth of donated prizes for the Esso Golden Ring Raffle (all $10,000 tickets were sold thanks to Calgary teams)
There are 279 Individuals from Calgary teams who have volunteered to work at arenas, plus over 225 people who will be minor officials and shot clocks operators at the semi and final games.
There are 23 tournament committee members, who will open arenas as early as 5:30 am, and close as late as 12:15 am.
The "control centre" will be at East Twin and willbe staffed with committee members and volunteers all weekend who circulate game scores, uploaded scores to the website, compile results, and generate pre-printed gamesheets for all games.
Volunteer hours logged by the chairperson alone exceed 750 hours
Committee members are linked by cellular phones donated by Fido, and will average more than 500 km of driving over the weekend
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