Ontario provincial competition

**bravo22** · 23rd November 2008, 10:43 AM

I gave Sempai Teser approximately 300 photos, so if you want the photos from the event I suggest you ask her.

I would post them here, but no file compression in the world would help with their bandwidth devouring nature.

**Neil Gendzwill** · 23rd November 2008, 12:51 PM

Results as far as I remember -

Team #1 was "Anti-Team Canada", basically the development team. #2 was "Team Canada Old Boys", iirc that was Raymond, Davidson, Ariga, Kamata (sr) and Tsumura. #3 was current Team Canada members and Detroit.

3+ dan winner was Taro Ariga, #2 was Shigemitsu Kamata, #3 was Matthew Raymond and ... sorry forget the other one.

1-2 dan winner and second were both from Jungko, can't recall the names.

Women - winner was Kate Sylvester, second was Junko Ariyama.

**kendokamax** · 23rd November 2008, 01:25 PM

Who was part of the anti-team canada?

**futabachan** · 23rd November 2008, 05:01 PM

Thanks, everyone! That was my first tournament, and it was a great experience. I can't wait until Detroit or Cleveland.

**ace** · 23rd November 2008, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Neil Gendzwill

Results as far as I remember -

Team #1 was "Anti-Team Canada", basically the development team. #2 was "Team Canada Old Boys", iirc that was Raymond, Davidson, Ariga, Kamata (sr) and Tsumura. #3 was current Team Canada members and Detroit.

3+ dan winner was Taro Ariga, #2 was Shigemitsu Kamata, #3 was Matthew Raymond and ... sorry forget the other one.

1-2 dan winner and second were both from Jungko, can't recall the names.

Women - winner was Kate Sylvester, second was Junko Ariyama.

as in kate sylvester from australia?

**Neil Gendzwill** · 23rd November 2008, 08:42 PM

Yep, same Kate. She's going to school here, I think she's at Western? Didn't get a chance to talk to her. Nice kendo. People were saying she's the Australian national women's champ? She took a clear degote off of Ariyama about halfway through and held on to that for the win.

The only anti-TC guy I knew was Kyle Lee.

**bravo22** · 24th November 2008, 02:02 AM

I had alot of fun at the tournament, bought myself a new shinai.

I was suprised the JCCC team lost to detroit, oh well. As for the Team Canada vs Anti Team Canada, I thought that was a rather funny turn of events.

**braxtonhicks** · 24th November 2008, 03:50 AM

I think Ariga-Sensei got one of his own ebogu shinais for winning the individual sandan and up! Lol

**TheWanderingEye** · 24th November 2008, 08:35 AM

My mates and I were joking about Anti-Team Canada's potential team crest :V
If I had a choice for a team name, it would have to be "The New Ghostbusters".

My first experience with this particular tournament (sans the intercollegiate one in October) and I can say, the smell aside I was pretty impressed. Nobody from our club advanced very far, and we didn't do so well in the team division D: Oh well, gives us something to work towards.

Btw, what app were they using for the standings tree? I could see some flowchart icons but I couldn't make out the stuff at the top.

**braxtonhicks** · 24th November 2008, 08:55 AM

I think one of my favourite matches of the day was Tsumura vs. Sheridan from Forest City Kendo. Anyone catch that!?

**TheWanderingEye** · 24th November 2008, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by braxtonhicks

I think one of my favourite matches of the day was Tsumura vs. Sheridan from Forest City Kendo. Anyone catch that!?

What court did it occur on?

**braxtonhicks** · 24th November 2008, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by TheWanderingEye

What court did it occur on?

Court B. It was during the team matches I think. Sheridan is the really big dude from Forest City Kendo, and Tsumura Sensei is pretty small!

**futabachan** · 24th November 2008, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by TheWanderingEye

Btw, what app were they using for the standings tree? I could see some flowchart icons but I couldn't make out the stuff at the top.

I'll ask Teser, but I think it was just a plain old drawing program like Visio, with the ladders saved as drawings, and the results just filled in as text in the text boxes as they happened.