Petro-Canada's Dream Big Contest

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 11 Oct 2007 09:51

I got this email [seemingly] randomly just now:

Dear sports enthusiast,

Whatâ€™s your sport? Are you into â€œkorfball,â€

Iron Clad Ben · Post by **Iron Clad Ben** » 11 Oct 2007 11:16

Word up homes! Erik you should organize that so all the major Canadian cities with good active shredders can send someone... Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal... any others I forgot. Let me know if you need support from IFPA.

Ben

Grade Zero · Post by **Grade Zero** » 11 Oct 2007 14:18

Here's our chance....FOR WORLD DOMINATION!!!!

just kidding.

zach4th · Post by **zach4th** » 11 Oct 2007 17:23

sounds like cool stuff...londons a major city.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 12 Oct 2007 08:28

zach4th wrote:sounds like cool stuff...londons a major city.

You're right.

Oh wait, you meant the one in Ontario?

RawSko · Post by **RawSko** » 15 Oct 2007 18:27

WHAT!!!!

First Lon is in a Modest Mouse video, and now Erik gets the e-mail that the entire community has been waiting for... ...is this for real

I'm excited to see how this turns out!

Eskimo Joe · Post by **Eskimo Joe** » 17 Oct 2007 11:03

I received the same email.

I think they got the address from the .org site and used club listings to spread their word.

I don't have a Petro Canada anywhere near me.

SlashC · Post by **SlashC** » 17 Oct 2007 12:31

I don't see anything about the contest on the website.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 17 Oct 2007 13:04

Maybe you had to do something before the date they listed (15th). I wasn't clear, either. I didn't do anything about it, mostly because I can't play consistently (injuries) enough to represent, but also because it just seemed like spam mail, and I wasn't sure of the validity. Petro Canada is a pretty big company in Canada, though. Manitoba, anyway.

I dunno.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 18 Oct 2007 05:43

Yo, just got another email.
The deadline was extended to today (18th)... so any Canadians interested, go check out the website now and see if you can do anything about this!!

SlashC · Post by **SlashC** » 18 Oct 2007 18:07

What's with them doing it at 10:30am on weekdays in most cities? Also the contestants are drawn randomly (only 20 get randomly selected per city). Silly.

Sébastien · Post by **Sébastien** » 29 Oct 2007 11:48

talk about randomness...

Me and PP are going to present footbag tomorrow for the 1st wave of this contest. 2 min. presentation on a 10*10 stage.

Wish us luck!
I let you know what happened.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 29 Oct 2007 13:17

Awesome, I can't wait to hear about it, Sebastien.

Sébastien · Post by **Sébastien** » 30 Oct 2007 10:55

Hi everybody,

so the presentation went great but we didn't finish in the top three.

The top three is
1st: ultimate frisbee : well known sport, very well explained and animated by two people.
2nd place: duathlon: the girl presenting it was very convincing and cute.
3rd place: pumpkin throw!: the guy who presented it was acting and had a very good presentation and an authentic love of the Olympics.

We did a presentation mixed with live freestyle both single and doubles. I kicked a little bit, did around twenty easy moves and finished with few four adders. I did drop on the last trick which was in the double freestyle part at the end of the presentation.

Everybody could have win this, everybody presented a sport that could be in the Olympics, except the pumpkin thrower. Also, the criteria for the judges were creativity, enthousiasm and Olympics will.

We had a good time, they took care of us with good food; breakfast and dinner, a cap and a bottle; thank you Petro-Canada.

There's chance that we will have a video of this presentation, someone was filming all the contestants. Another good note about this contest: I met the pumpkin thrower who is also a new contact for sports news in my region.

The contest is not finished yet, they will present four videos at http://revezgrand.ca, all winners from four differents cities, from monday November 5th, and YOU can vote for the winner.

better luck next time,

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 30 Oct 2007 10:57

Cool, I'm glad footbag was presented at this. Silly or not, these kind of things are like the lottery: you gotta be in it to win it. At the very least it's more exposure for the sport, as well as more practice for us doing presentations.

Good work Seb and PP.

Bringerofpie · Post by **Bringerofpie** » 30 Oct 2007 12:24

I hope Ultimate wins it.

Petro-Canada's Dream Big Contest

Petro-Canada's Dream Big Contest

contest 1st wave

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