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Casters came from all over the globe: Norway, England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, Pacific Northwest and California to participate in this fun, educational and competitive event. This year's entertainment featured an Hawaiian Luau complete with Luau dancers!
During Saturday's qualifying round there were swirling winds around 20mph, with gusts up to 40 MPH. Despite the challenging conditions, the casters performed very well.
There were 11 Men's Finalists and 5 Women's Finalists. Simon Hsieh had the Men's long cast of 153' and the winning total score of 560 and Takako Inoue had a total score of 408 and made the longest Women's cast of 106'. The Division winners also earned the ACA Jimmy Green Memorial Award. The second and third Place Mens's casters were Doug Duncan with 540 and Simon Gawesworth with 538 (505). He tied with Brian Stystal, but won second place by one foot with his second best casts total! In the Women's Division, Donna Sullivan took second place with 374 and Olga Koran had 350.
None of the three Women finalists are taller than 5'2", but they made seven casts greater than 100-feet! At the 2007 SOR, Amy Hazel made the first ever 100-foot Spey-O-Rama Women's cast.
According to Bob Pauli, "Simon Hsieh faced a mini-crisis during his championship round, when the fly departed his leader during the two minute warm up period allocated to all contestents prior to the six minutes allowed for scoring casts. Without a fly, a legal cast cannot be made, and time continues to run. Obtaining another fly [all are supplied by the GGACC competition committee] and attaching it to his leader occupied the remaining 1.5 minutes of the warm up period and precious seconds of his 6-minute scoring period which immediately follows warm up." With equipment repaired, no warmup and a shortened scoring time, Simon pushed ahead. His first two or three casts for score were below his normal performance level, showing the unexpected delay has rattled him. But he pushed his anxiety into the background, regained concentration and became SOR 2008 champion."
FINAL RESULTS:
| Mens Results |
Spey from left (over left shoulder |
Spey from left (over right shoulder) |
Spey from right (over left shoulder) |
Spey from right (over right shoulder) |
Total |
| 1. Simon Hsieh |
153 |
112 |
150 |
145 |
560 |
| 2. Doug Duncan |
128 |
135 |
131 |
146 |
540 |
| 3.* Simon Gawesworth |
133 |
130 |
122 |
153 |
538 |
| 4.* Brian Styskal |
150 |
135 |
127 |
126 |
538 |
| 5. Mariusz Wroblewski |
137 |
126 |
123 |
138 |
524 |
| 6. Shinobu Inouye |
121 |
149 |
128 |
125 |
523 |
| 7. Stener Skogmo |
99 |
139 |
129 |
148 |
515 |
| 8. Tyler Kushnir |
141 |
121 |
117 |
120 |
499 |
| 9. Ian Gordon |
117 |
130 |
115 |
125 |
487 |
| 10. Masanobu Hirabayashi |
115 |
127 |
118 |
121 |
481 |
| 11. Junya Kitahara |
0 |
132 |
101 |
125 |
358 |
| *Tie for third place decided by totals of second-best casts. |
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| Women's |
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| 1. Takako Inouye |
95 |
106 |
106 |
101 |
408 |
| 2. Donna O'Sullivan |
87 |
105 |
79 |
103 |
374 |
| 3. Olga Koran |
78 |
90 |
85 |
97 |
350 |
| 4. Whitney Gould |
89 |
105 |
35 |
101 |
330 |
| 5. Kristin Torda |
79 |
69 |
82 |
92 |
322 |
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