I couldn't make it, but I heard the Friday night continuous events were all-out battles, with hard punches to the head that would have resulted in warnings at the Ontario tryouts. Imran got a bloody nose as well as a broken toe, forcing him to drop out and skip the point fighting events. Maybe it was for the better, since he would have had to face Luke Dufour (who is now 190 lbs at the age of 14!) in his point fighting division.
Matt did very well in his first Team Canada tryouts, finishing 6th in point fighting. He was 5th after the 1st two rounds and qualified for the 3rd round. He fought well in both rounds, winning his first fight in each before losing the Murray Schumacher by 1 point in overtime in the first round and losing to Domenic Aversa (by a lot of points) in the second round. However, after calculating that he would have to beat Dom on Sunday in order to finish in the top 3 and make the team, he decided he would rather join Tammy at the start of their cruise leaving from Miami on Sunday. Good decision!Taylor fought very well and went into the final round in 4th. James went into the final round in 6th and needed to win the final round on Sunday to make the team. He started well with a dominating win over Yannick (big muscle guy with long legs who went into the 3rd round in 3rd place) and then led Wayne (from Douvris) 7-4 after a devastating ax kick to the head with ~40 seconds left. Wayne needed some time to recover and when he did, went all out to score 4 points (1 right at the end of the 2 minutes) to win 8-7.
Sorry, I don't have any video from the tournament.
Results:- Selina - 4th continuous, 2nd kata, 3rd fighting
- Alison - 1st weapons, 2nd kata, 4th fighting
- Jordan - 4th continuous, 5th weapons, competed in kata
- Darien - 4th continuous, 7th weapons, competed in kata, 5th fighting
- Taylor - competed in weapons, top 6 fighting
- Matt - 6th fighting
- James - 6th weapons, 4th musical weapons, top 6 fighting
- Imran - broken toe in continuous, 4th weapons, 4th musical weapons
