happy_mcslappy

Well, another summer blast has now come and gone. My wife can now stand to be around me again and my stylist can stop my hair colouring treatments to cover my grey.

This year was our 11th annual competition. It went along better than our previous years and we had (I am pretty sure) a record turnout. We had 40 individual competitors and several who competed in both SPL and Sound-q

Results are:

Sound Quality

Amateur

1 - Michael Boulton
2 - Steve McIntyre
3 - Shawn Bradford
4 - Tyler Sargent

Novice

1 - Kevin Wren
2 - Adam Paulin

SPL

1-160 square inches

1 - Keyur Patel 150.8
2 - Steve McIntyre 146.3
3 - Todd Goodine 141.9
4 - Taylor Marley 141.3
5 - Jamie Caslake 140.9
6 - Chris Sellers 140.1
7 - Michael Scott 139.6
8 - Michael Thompson 137.6
9 - Nick Sherry 136.4
10 - Nathan Lewis 136.4
11 - Andrew Miron 134.8
12 - Ray Harmer 125.8

161-315 square inches

1 - Chris Barkley 151.3
2 - Ian Lafirst 150.2
3 - Chris Wrobel 150.1
4 - Tyler Sargent 149.1
5 - Martine Chiasson 149.0
6 - Cory Burns 148.1
7 - Mark McGaughey 147.4
8 - Chris Peterson 147.1
9 - Dave Chatten 146.8
10 - Al Dosso 145.5
11 - Stephen Bull 145.5
12 - Shawn Bradford 144.1
13 - Jake McMurter 143.4
14 - Calvin Patrick 143.2
15 - Kevin Wren 141.9
16 - Mark Maziarski 141.8
17 - Adam Paulin 141.6
18 - Robert Davis 140.9
19 - Jeff Howard 139.6
20 - Chris Goodchild 134.2

316-500 square inches

1 - James Sparks 155.0 (?)
2 - Stephen Bull 134.0

501+ square inches

1 - Luke Falls 155.0

Pro open

1 - Lee Brunton (Crow River Sound) 157.4
2 - Matt Miron (Team Ego Audio) 144.0
3 - Steve Colfield (Team Ego Audio) 143.8

Special thanks go out to Richard from Planet Audio, Sony of Canada for sponsoring the event yet again and supplying us with one of their lovely demo cars (I had a blast driving it down from Toronto. My wife's fingernail marks are still in the dash). Thanks to Eric, Dave, Jay, Shawn and Justin of Red Ball for all their help inside, and of course my lovely wife Shari who dictated the scores and handled almost all the registration.

The only problem we did have came at the end of the day. I had sold my Sony ES 5 ch amp and the buyer had one of our competitors pick it up for him. As he was returning to his car with my amp in hand, he noticed that his own amp was missing. In all the years we have had this competition, I don't know of any thefts happening. We try to keep security strong and have our employees keep an eye on things. I am very sorry this happened, however once the police arrived and were told a description of a suspect, the officer knew exactly who to question and was off to the punk's house.

Thankfully that didn't bring the day down too much. Thanks to all who came. The sound-off industry wouldn't be anything unless people actually come out and compete. Who cares if you don't think you will hit any good numbers. Come out to the events and get some ideas on how to improve your system.

Thanks again for making Summer Blast 11 a success.

cavy man14

iTrader: (1)

HAHA,my friend only came in 9th,

Nick Sherry 136.4

Moe Sab

Congrats to Adam and the gang at Red Ball Radio for another successful event!

And hats off to all who competed! I hope you all had a great time !