- 1st Annual BOOmerang Jamboree
- October 31, 2000
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Tournament Director: Richard Pollock-Nelson, Colorado Boomerangs
- E-mail: windsports@aol.com
- (800) 35-RANGS
- October 31, 2000
The 1st Annual BOOmerang Jamboree was AWESOME!!!!
Richard supplied everyone who showed up - which was about 25-30 people!!!!
- with night rangs to use. He probably had 30-40 rangs with cyalume sticks,
and some had LEDs as well. The only lighting on the field came from street
lights in the background, so from a distance one could only see green UFO's
flying around. A cop stopped once just to figure out what was going on and
then left.Most of the people there were Air Traffic-affiliated in some way, but we
also had: two local guys that were friends of Richard's, Stuart Jones and
Karen, local dude Jim Goff, and three UofM students including me. It was a
far bigger turn-out than I had ever expected - Richard and Matt Hedberg
from Air Traffic did a great job organizing.The first event was Accuracy. Richard brought a 15m rope with cyalume
sticks evenly spaced along its length for measuring distance from the
bull's eye. Although it took awhile to run because there were so many
people (we even considered splitting into two circles!!), everybody had
tons of fun. The winner was Richard's friend from Colorado who now lives in
MN (Chris?), and he was followed by several other newbies beating out
so-called pros Stuart and Billy.Next was Fast Throw, in which everyone tried to make as many throws as
possible in 1 minute. This took a long time, too, but throwing fast
boomerangs in the dark is always fun, especially for nearby spectators!!! I
don't know who won this event, but I do know that they used a cyalume stick
+ LED Colorado Boomerangs Fast Catch!Next was Sprinklerhead or
everybody-throw-at-the-same-time-closest-person-to-the-pumpkin-wins.
Touching or catching your boomerang earned 1 point, and the closest person
to the pumpkin got an additional point. Personally, this was my favorite
event by far because of all the brightly-lit rangs in the air at the same
time - what a beautiful sight! Stuart edged out Billy and several other
people by being the first one to 10 points.The final event was GLORP. There were several interesting and stylish
touches, but actual catches were hard to come by, except for Stuart. I
pretty sure he was in the lead when several people had to leave, and we had
to hurry up and have the Awards ceremony.Richard made theses awesome wooden trophies of a ghost holding an LED
Colorado boomerang - a Delicate Arch, I think - and everybody went home
with a prize of some sort. (Richard now has about 15 fewer boomerangs.) I
also got the names of a bunch of people who were interested in forming a
local boomerang club, including several UofM students, so that part alone
was tremendously successful. All in all, it was a TOTALLY RAD night, and I
can't wait for Richard and Matt to have another here next year! :-)Billy Brazelton