The Islander's Beach Championship: Events and Scores

[Ater Nox]

Hello, and welcome to

The Islander's Beach Championship Opening Ceremony

The Islanders Beach Championship has brought athletes from the regions of Canada, Mordor, The Renegade Islands Alliance, Spiritus, Texas, Wintreath, Wysteria and Yggdrasil to the 10000 Islands in order to compete for fame and glory.

We are very grateful for all of our friends who are here to compete in the following events.

Events

Beach Fashion Show
The opening event in the Islander’s Beach Championship involves Models from each Nation showing off some Beach Themed Fashion, either in the style of their home Region or Nation, or in a 10000 Islands tropical theme. This competition allows every participating Nation to either proudly display the splendor, creativity, and/or edginess of its homeland’s beach attire, or shamelessly pander for the favor of the local XKI Judges by displaying attractive beachwear befitting of only 10000 Islanders.


Taco Island Sand Sculpting
This contest takes us down to the shores of Taco Island, itself. Artists from each Nation must construct a sand sculpture from the beautiful white-sands that adore and define one of the most picturesque and pristine beaches of all 10000 Islands. The sculptures must measure at least 3x3x3 feet, and survive the island’s battering winds and surf for no less than 1 hour after the judging starts. Sculptures depicting Cats, Pandas, or Penguins are strictly forbidden.


”Wipe-Me-Out-Not!” Surfing
The churning and turbulent waters off Wavebreak Beach will be the venue for our Surfing competition. Each Nation’s surfer will make 3 runs, attempting to be more and more creative from a risk-taking viewpoint with each attempt. We will all hope for a relatively calm day, as the “normal” wind-blown waters off Wavebreak are beyond the capabilities of even the most skilled and experienced Surfer dude or dudette.
Surfers compete off Wavebreak Beach.


Silly Hat Limbo Competition
This contest will bring especially limber Dancers from all Nations together, to see just ”how low can you can go?” All Dancers must also adorn themselves with a silly hat, which they must both wear and retain on their heads after successfully passing underneath the “Dripping Taco” Limbo bar.


Individual Sailing-Boat Orienteering
This may be the most challenging of our events. Sailboat Captains must circumnavigate an orienteering course around Taco Island in the quickest time possible. For no good reason, but interestingly, it will have a “running” start, beginning inside the Taco Tiki Bar. At the starter’s gun, each Captain must dash from their barstools, down the beach to their anchored sailboats, and then navigate their way around or through various obstacles at sea, back to the starting dock, and finally up the beach to their starting barstools in the Taco Tiki Bar.


"Under The Sea” Spear Gunning
Here, scuba divers from all participating Nations will maneuver their way through Shipwreck Reef and spear gun various targets for points. Prized targets will range from the highly sought after & scrumptious “Blue Water Bacon Fish”, to the poisonous and highly ‘ouch!’-producing “Schnitzel-Like Smelling Algae Plant”. However…Beware! Thar be monsters, traps, and many sharp pointy things in them thar corals, as well!


Rock Pool Forage and Cook Off
This is primarily a culinary competition. Chefs from each Nation must search through rock pools, and forage under the rocks, to find mouth-watering ingredients to cook a delicious meal for the Judges.


"Spice My World” Cocktail Making and Judges’ Toast
The culminating event of the Islander’s Beach Championship is one requiring Mixologists to create a unique cocktail - with an extra kick – again, for the judges’ palates. Each concoction should capture the spirit of these Islander games. They should also strive to provide a memorable beverage with which to remember each participating Nation, until we all meet in friendship once again, in the next inter-regional games. However, the Chefs will also be graded on the quality of a befitting toast they make to the Judges on the subject of how fairly and magnificently the Judges have carried out their difficult tasks during the games.

Scoring

In each event, athletes will receive a total score of up to 30 points, based on the Judge's scores of various categories or times. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will be awarded for the athletes that score the three highest scores.

At the end of the games, two trophies will be awarded.

The Beachcomber's Trophy will be presented to the region with the most Gold medals per competing nations. (The total Silver medals per competing nations will be used to determine a winner in a case of a tie).

The Islander's Cup will be presented to the nation with the highest total score at the end of the Championship,

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Now, please be standing for the arrival of the Judges.

Judges

From Canada, we have Sandy McDougal.

From Texas, we have Judge LuLuBelle Lugnut.

From Wintreath, we have Judge Frosty LaCoure. Frosty Lacoure is a three time Cold as Ice Staring Contest champion. She prefers trips to the beach in the winter time, and freezing the hearts of men and women with her cool attitude.

From Wysteria, we have Judge Holly Hoop. Holly claims she's 31 years old for the last 12 years. As a former "queen of the beach", she knows all about games under the sun. She's all about first impressions. Once her mind is set, it'd be easier to push an elephant down a cliff than change it.

From Yggdrasil, we have Judge Ormr Olavson. Judge Ormr Olavson, an easygoing roofer and all round construction worker, has come from Yggdrasil to chill among the fray, unless irregularities make him channel his inner Midgard Serpent.

From the 10000 Islands, we have Judge Mortimer G. Hornsnapple III. Judge Mortimer G. Hornsnapple III , A middle-aged beachcomber or surfing dude, who's heir to a Multi - Billion dollar Sea Shell & Snail Collection.

And finally, also from the 10000 Islands, we have Judge Captain Lethbridge. Captain Lethbridge has spent the last 30 years living underwater and has never been seen outside his diving suit. He runs the 10000 Islands' most famous underwater restaurant "The Captain's Table".

Athlete's Parade

Nations are encouraged to post a picture of their Athletes marching in the Parade in the Beachcombers Bleachers thread.

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Games Timetable:

Opening Ceremony	7th of November
Beach Fashion Show	8th of November
Taco Island Sand Sculpting	11th of November
”Wipe-Me-Out-Not!” Surfing	14th of November
Silly Hat Limbo Competition	17th of November
Individual Sailing-Boat Orienteering	20th of November
"Under The Sea” Spear Gunning	23th of November
Rock Pool Forage and Cook Off	26th of November
"Spice My World” Cocktail Making and Judges’ Toast	29th of November
Closing Ceremony/Final Awards	2nd of December

To close the Opening Ceremony, we have a poem prepared by the 10000 Islands' Poet Laureate Aersoldorf.

Ode to the IBC

Our dearest friends from far and wide
Have gathered on our shores
It’s with goodwill we welcome you
And open up our doors
Wysteria and Texas – Hail!
We’re glad to have you here
From Yggdrasil and Wintreath, too
We count your presence dear
There’s Spiritus and Canada
The RIA as well
With Mordor is our field complete
Let’s hear the starting bell
In peaceful competition soon
We’ll struggle ‘neath the sun
Though eight shall walk away with gold
We hope you’ll all have fun
We’ll start things on the runway where
You’ll have to show some skin
For if you make the judges drool
It helps your chance to win
The artsy types then get their turn
To show what they can do
A work of art from sand they’ll sculpt
(Say, why are cats taboo?)
Try hanging ten at Wavebreak Beach
With sharks, it’s out of sight
But since the gnarliest ride wins
Perhaps you’ll let them bite?
A silly hat you’ll have to wear
To medal in limbo
Avoid the dripping taco bar
And bend your body low
The sailboat challenge promises
To make you use your tool
But since I can’t a compass read
I might not leave my stool
With luck you’ll spear a bacon fish
The tastiest around
But keep a watchful eye my friends
For Krakken do abound
In tidal pools our chefs will seek
Ingredients to use
Fine dining meets Survivorman
You kill a judge, you lose
We’ll end the competition with
That liquid we love most
It’s so much fun to get real drunk
Then try to make a toast
Alright, enough, the time has come
My poem has reached its end
We’ve all come here to have some fun
So let the games begin!!

Thank you for your poem Aerso.

Best of luck to all competitors, we hope you all enjoy your time here!

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Event 1: Beach Fashion Show

For this event, competitors will be modelling various Beach Fashions for the Judges. They will be judged on three categories. The first category is Originality. The judges are looking for designs that are original, stylish and unique. The second category is Detail. In this category, the Judges will be taking into account the detail included in the costume. The final category is Modelling Technique, where the Judges will determine how well the models can strut their stuff.

And the scores are in!

The Bronze medal here will be awarded to all athletes who scored the third highest score.

In third place, with 25 points, we have Apple Fritter from The Candy Lane. Apple Fritter wore a stunning coconut themed dress with a palm tree inspired hat which the Judges greatly approved of.

Also in third place, with an equal 25 points, is Wijlliem Skeh from Germanahii. Wijlliem Skeh showed off the latest in Germanahiian swimwear with perfect modelling technique which brought a tear to the eyes of the Judges.

Scoring 25 points, and also coming in third we have New Norse's athlete Astrid the Big Busted. The Judges were particularly impressed by her large horns on her helmet and battleaxe.

And the last athlete scoring 25 points is... Susan Akiyama from TheBruce. Susan's costume was voted extremely original as she chose not to wear beachwear, something that very few competitors were brave enough to even consider.

The Silver medal here will be awarded to all athletes who scored the second highest score.

Next, in second place, with 26 points, Victoria Noieuq from Elite. Victoria showed off perfect modelling technique and included 3 cartwheels and a back flip during her strut down the runway.

Also in second, with 26 points, we have Linda Showgood from Drummond & Elmsley. Linda's costume include such great detail that the Judges are still arguing over whether the lobsters were actually alive.

Finally, with an equal 26 points and tieing for second, we have the Goddess Relief Office's Shizuka Hoshijito (Anime Daisuki). Shizuka Hoshijito's swimwear was just what the Judges were looking for, and they were especially impressed by the fish-bowl carried around during the show.

The Gold medal here will be awarded to all athletes who scored the highest score.

In first place, with a magnificent 27 points....

Ivan Mannheim from Galicia-Volhynia!

Ivan's Wet-Business Suit means that he will always be ready for anything the beach or boardroom can throw at him.

Scores

[Barry]

MAD ISLANDER IBC WRAP-UP SHOW

Barry: “Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the ‘Mad Islander IBC Wrap-Up Show’, where each evening I and my colleagues will be bringing you some of the highlights and extraordinary happenings from The Islander’s Beach Championship. We also want to shout out a hearty, “Hello! Have a drink! And Don’t Eat the Yellow Sand!” to all of the Nations and Regions that are participating in this unprecedented event in 10000 Islands….We will be coming to you following each event from the magnificent ‘Mayor Aersoldorf Mayor’s Mansion’ on Taco Island, from which Hizzoner has graciously provided us with *cough* extravagant *cough* facilities to broadcast our nightly reports. Our thanks to Mr. Mayor for his hospitality, indeed.”

“I will be joined in these reports by my loyal and trusted Aide de Affairs - I just call him my "Aide" - as well by the athletic heroin of our Nation, Betty “Bullseye” Bowfinger, whose Bronze Medaling performance in Target Archery – while blindfolded - in the Wysteria Medieval Games, earned her a spot in the “Elisse Heroes Gardens” (Herzil National Gardens).

“So with that introduction, let’s now turn it over to my Aide to fill us in on the first event of the IBC competition; the Beach Fashion Show”…Aide?”

Aide: (distracted; on cell phone) ”…no it will never happen, dear. I am not about to permit milk to be brought into our house that has not come from perfectly contented cows with an organic background….What? I don’t care if it is your mother’s..….” (cut away to Barry)

Barry: “Heh-heh. Sorry for the technical difficulties there. We’ll get back to my Aide in a few moments. Instead, let’s go “On The Beach”, where Bullseye Betty is standing by with her perspective on the result of today’s IBC fashion event….Take it away, Bullseye.”

Bullseye Betty: (standing on beach with microphone) “Hey, thank you, Barry….Well, all I can say is ‘Wow!’ and ‘Wower'! It’s hard to believe it is going to get any better than what we saw today. Of course we all know how the medalists fared; but some of the outfits worn by contestants that finished lower down in the ranking where, well, just the ‘Wowest!’….For example, there was a rather…uh…interesting outfit worn by Fairlea Godmother from Canada’s famed ‘province’ of Devil Heart. Much had been expected of this contestant, especially after they arrived with the cutest mascots we have ever seen on The Isands. However, unfortunately Ms. Godmother looked more like a throw back to my Grandmother in that outfit. Her modesty earned her a rock-bottom score of ‘1’ on the Originality portion of the event.

“Although she was able to rebound a bit in the ‘Detail’ and ‘Technique’ aspects of the event - achieving a mid-level ‘6’ score there - Ms. Godmother’s…uh…rather prudish attire and unwillingness to show more ‘leg’, undoubtedly led to her low score. In fact, XKI Judge Mortimer G. Hornsnapple III was overheard to sneer: ‘I’ve seen more skin than that at a Puritan Revival Meeting.’ Not good.

“Another rather remarkable showing of non-stylish beach attire was exhibited by The Islands’ own Mode Ontwerpster of Blaat.

“The Judges seemed to be a little confused as to whether this contestant was being serious in believing the outfit had any business being near a beach populated with many impressionable children, or had been run over by a pizza truck on the way to the event. No matter, though, as the Judges awarded a competition low 10 total points for having to sit and watch the offerings of what looked like an escapee from a paintball fight….Finally, the Judges were perhaps the most bewildered by the swimwear exhibited by Maximus Penguinius (and his ‘valet’), who hails from the nation of Penguin Dictators in Wintreath.

“Despite some rather startled raised eyebrows, the apparent meticulous detail of the suit worn so magnificently by Maximus, earned him a ‘9’ score in that category, and an overall respectable tally of 21 points total.. On a side note, an element of prejudicial judging may have reared its ugly head for the first time in the IBC. Wintreath judge, Frosty LaCoure, gave her Region-mate a perfect score on her card, claiming: “That is the MOST MARVELOUS hunk of ABSOLUTELY GEORGEOUSLY packaged swimming junk, that I EVER did see!”, fanning herself while sweating profusely.. Time will tell if anything comes of what some are choosing to politely call at this time, a 'scoring anomaly'.

“…Well, Barry...that about wraps up the first exciting day of competition from down here ‘On The Beach’. I can hardly wait to see what awaits us in the upcoming Taco Island Sand Sculpting contest. G'day from here and back to you guys in the studio.”

Barry: “Thank you Bullseye for that stellar and informative report. We’ll certainly look forward to hearing from you as the IBC continues… And now, let’s go to my Aide, who apparently has overcome the technical difficulties he was having with his wife, er,…I mean his audio, at the top of the show.”

Aide: “Thank you, Sir, and I apologize for our earlier problems. We do want you to know that we have just been given some very important insight into a couple interesting battles that are shaping up in the Sand Sculpting. Word is circulating that there may be an extremely serious situation brewing that could – we say, could just destroy……”

…NEWS BULLETIN…BULLETIN…BULLETIN…

Announcer: “We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you this breaking international news:
Rosemary’s Baby has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has given its top prize to an unborn fetus currently residing within the body of Mrs. Rosemary Woodhouse of New York City, USA. Committee Chairman Thorbjørn Jagland announced the decision, stating that ‘from all medical and scientific prenatal testing indicators, this fetus will have an almost limitless power to bring about the true unification of the differing warring factions now dividing this troubled World of ours.’

"We now return you to our regularly scheduled program, joined in progress."

END OF NEWS BULLETIN…BULLETIN…BULLETIN…

Barry: “…that could deal a severe blow to their chances in this competition, let alone raise the issue of whether they’ll ever be permitted to join in Cross Regional Games again. Not to mention criminal penalties. Thanks for that extremely important info, Aide... Well, viewers – you heard that earthshaking news about the IBC on the Mad Islander ‘IBC WRAP-UP SHOW’ first. Tune in again for our next broadcast, when we again bring you commentary on the results of the next IBC event, and update you on all the scrumptiously nasty details of the emerging IBC scandal! Good night everyone, and be sure to save a Taco and some Bourbon for me.”

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Event 2: Taco Island Sand Sculpting

For this event, competitors will sculpting sand sculptures for the Judges. They will be judged on three categories. The first category is Complexity. The Judges will be expecting sculptures that display a high level of skill and attention to detail. The second category is Artistic Merit. These sand sculptures will need to be deep and meaningful if the competitors hope to impress the judges. The final category to be judged is Creativity. For this, the judges will be looking at how creative and unique the sculptures are.

And the scores are in!

The Bronze medal has been awarded to all athletes who scored the third highest score.

In third place, scoring 26 points, is Marcela Guerrero from studlypenguins. Marcela Guerrero's sculpture entitled 'The Sands of Time until Dinner' proved to be very popular with the judges, but was let down slightly by the lack of complexity of the third course.

The Silver medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the second highest score.

In second place, with 27 points, is Caligula from NewTexas. Caligula's piece 'Beach Gladiator Rodeo' was a masterpiece of technical design, although some of the judges were confused as to the artistic significance of Roman-Texans being at the beach.

The Gold medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the highest score.

In first place, with an impressive 28 points....

Doug Diggins from Randomain!

Doug's Sculpture entitled 'Self Portrait during Level 3' received extremely high marks from the judges for its "Jocose and puissant resonance of the figurative-narrative line space that contretemps the distinctive formal juxtapositions of the human psychological condition." I couldn't have said it better myself.

Scores

[Barry]

MAD ISLANDER IBC WRAP-UP SHOW

Barry: Hey! Welcome again, Ladies and Gentlemen, to our second edition of the Mad Islander “IBC Wrap-Up Show”. We’re coming to you again from the beautiful confines of Mayor Aersoldorf’s Mansion.. Tonight with me in the booth is the extremely talented and incredibly well-endow…., uh..talented, Bullseye Betty Bowfinger.. We’ll also be hearing later from my Aide, who has been demoted, er, I mean, designated to report directly from “On The Beach” tonight…How are you this evening, Bullseye?

Bullseye Betty: Very well, thank you, Barry. And might I say you’re looking rather spiffy in that sombrero you’re wearing tonight.

Barry: Why thank you. It was given to me by NewTexas when he and a delegation from Texas visited 10000 Islands earlier this year. I’m wearing it to honor his and his fellow Texan’s, Studly Penguins, bringing home the Silver and Bronze medals to their region in the Taco Island Sand Sculpting competition today. *doffs sombrero* My hat’s off to you Cowboys! You gave our own XKI’er, Randomain, a real run for the Gold - so a Big Islander Congrats to you!...But I dapperly digress. Haha. Get it? “Dapperly”, dapper, cool sombrero?…well, nevermind.. Tell us some of today’s other highlights, Bullseye.

Bullseye Betty: (rolls eyes at Barry ) Good idea. Let’s get right to looking at a few of the more artistic entries that, for whatever reasons, did not gather high marks from our IBC Judges…First, we have this piece of sandy-erotica that was presented by Montgomery Scott of yet another nation from Texas, Star Trek.

Barry: I understand this piece of … art received the Judges’ lowest scores.

Bullseye Betty: That it did - a lowly total of only 12 points. In fact, Judge Ormr Olavsonl from Yggdrasil described it on his scorecard as looking like: “two pancakes sandwiched between some badly arranged rocks and a butt.”

Barry: Ouch!

Bullseye Betty: Yep, Ouch! Indeed. Still, another entry drew even harsher comments.

Barry: No!

Bullseye Betty: Yep. The offering of Stella Brink from Deep South Borland (Wysteria) somehow inexplicably garnered 8 points from the Judges for its ‘Complexity’.

This apparently absurdly high score caused the Canadian Judge Sandy McDougal to wryly comment, ”In all my years of wholesome goodness and purity of girlhood, nothing has ever tempted me to take to the drink as much as this injustice to the eyes.“

Barry: That seems a bit harsh. That stick-guy-thing, or whatever, didn’t seem that bad.

Bullseye Betty: Good point. There are some folks saying that all the Judges, for whatever reason, are already becoming a bit testy and on edge.. In fact, our next entry, from Sandy Saandberg of Scepez, RIA, seemed extremely well crafted and actually received very high marks for “Complexity” and “Artistic Merit”.

Nevertheless, XKI Judge Captain Lethbridge, was nearly fanatical in demanding the sand creation be disqualified. He flew about in such a rage that there was talk of shutting off the oxygen valve to his diving 'leisure' suit to calm him down.

Barry: That’s strange. What was his problem?

Bullseye Betty: Well, according to audio accidentally captured by the NSA, The Captain shouted: “THAT’S A CAT! LOOK AT IT!! NO CATS ALLOWED! I KNOW A CAT WHEN I SEE ONE. LOOK AT THAT FACE.” He then began furiously ripping down the posters put up by Wordy of cats, penguins, and bunnies banned from the competition. The Captain eventually toppled over from uncontrollable rage, and was unable to get up, what with the weight of the diving gear he wears around and all. Medics carted him away, still ranting something like, “THAT’S A CAT’S CHEST AND TAIL IF I EVER SAW ONE!”… Quite sad really. We understand that The Captain remains sedated, but a full recovery from…whatever…is expected.

Barry: These Judges do seem a little..uh..different than we’re used to in these Cross Regional games. We’ll have to keep an eye on this aspect of the competition as it continues to unfold.. At any rate, thanks for that highly informative report, Bullseye.

Bullseye Betty: YW, back at ya’, Barry. *wink*

Barry: Nice job. Okay. Now let’s go to my Aide, reporting from down “On The Beach”. What do you have for us, Aide?

Aide: Thank you, My Liege. Well, we have some more breaking information on that growing Judges’ scandal that we were beginning to report on after the Beach Fashion Show, before we were so rudely interrupted by that Rosemary’s Baby-Nobel Peace Prize nonsense…Here’s the deal. You’ll recall there were eyebrows raised when it was reported that Judge Frosty LaCoure had supposedly inappropriately inflated the marks for her male bikini-clad Wintreath region-mates….Well, that conduct, if proven, could certainly lead to strong sanctions against Ms. LaCoure. In fact, it appears the sanctions to be levied by the IBC Games Committee will be catastrophically harsher than previously anticipated.. Simply stated, our sources tell us that both Judge LaCoure, pictured here,

And Wintreath will be...........

…NEWS BULLETIN…BULLETIN…BULLETIN…

Announcer: We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you this breaking inter-regional news. I’m reading this directly from the wires now:

QUICHE TORTE RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN TEXAS

We’ll have film at 11:00. We now return you to our regularly scheduled program, joined in progress.

END OF NEWS BULLETIN…BULLETIN…BULLETIN…

Barry: ….that such draconic sanctions would come from this is indeed amazing. Thank you for your report and please keep us posted, Aide.. So on that stunning note, we conclude our show. But please tune in again next time following the ”Wipe-Me-Out-Not!” Surfing contest. Good night everyone, and be sure to save a Taco and some Bourbon for me.

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Event 3: ”Wipe-Me-Out-Not!” Surfing

For this event, competitors will be surfing the waves off Wavebreak Beach. The Judges will be judging two categories in this event. First, they will be judging the complexity of the tricks the surfers pull off. Secondly, they will be judging the skill with which the surfers manage to pull of the tricks. Competitors will also receive 3 points for every successful run they make, with a bonus point for all competitors that catch at least one wave.

And the scores are in!

The Bronze medal has been awarded to all athletes who scored the third highest score.

In third place, with 26 points, Jack Benimble from The Candy Lane. Jack pulled off the very impressive One-Handed-Handstand trick with near perfect technique, and was only let down by his unsuccessful third attempt when a large seagull flew into his head.

Also in third place, with an equal 26 points, Andrei Pavelovich from Tim Stark. Andrei wowed the judges with a 360 degree spin. However, the judges did deduct a few points as Andrei's spin actually went an extra 12 degrees to far in the second run.

With 26 points, and coming in third, we have Carrie Istarn from Novovaria. Carrie impressed the judges with a magnificent jump, but only had two successful runs after becoming shipwrecked on a reef in her second attempt.

Also tying for third with 26 points, Duudor from The Grendels. Duudor was looking good with his blindfolded "No Hands" trick, but one of the judges spotted some peeking from under the blindfold and had to take some points off.

And the final competitor coming in third with 26 points was Storm Penumbra from Solskin. Storm pulled off a gnarly roll late in the day, but had unfortunately failed the first run after colliding with an early morning swimmer.

The Silver medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the second highest score.

In second place, with 27, it's Shizensky's Belly Slater. Belly successfully pulled off a double backflip on each of his three attempts, while getting 'Mad Air' off some 'Sick Waves' as one judge described it. Unfortunately, the judges standards were very high and they refused to score a 10 for any flips less complicated than a triple backflip.

The Gold medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the highest score.

In first place, with an impressive 28 points....

Knut Braveheart from Devil Heart! (Matilda Love)

After a mix up earlier in the day leading to Knut's surfboard being 'lost', he was forced to improvise using the local wildlife. In the end, Knut lived up to his surname by surfing a Great White to victory.

Scores

[Barry]

MAD ISLANDER IBC WRAP-UP SHOW

Barry: Hey! Barry the Butler here. Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the third edition of the Mad Islander “IBC Wrap-Up Show”, where we’ll be covering some of today’s more interesting happenings in the IBC’s “Wipe-Me-Out-Not!” competition . Once again we’re coming to you from the magnificent castle grounds of Mayor Aersoldorf’s Mansion on Taco Island.. Joining me tonight, as always, is that vivacious vixen, Bullseye Betty Bowfinger.. We’ll also be hearing later from my Aide, reporting from down “On The Beach”.…How you doing this evening, Bullseye?

Bullseye Betty: Excellent, Barry, thank you. But, ‘vivacious vixen’? (*looking thoughtful*) I kind of like that…I think.

Barry: Well you should. Our ratings are through the roof! In fact, since you've joined me in the booth the male prison demographic – or as we call it, “The Bubba Factor” - is at nearly 96%. We’re certain that your evening reports are doing wonders at promoting their rehabilitation.

Bullseye Betty: O-o-o-o-kay. Uh, should we get started now?

Barry: By all means. Take it away, Bullseye.

Bullseye Betty: Alrighty then. Well, first of all, we certainly want to congratulate Devil Heart from Canada for winning the Surfing Gold after that rather “modest” showing in the Beach Fashion Show. They apparently decided to change tactics and ‘let it all hang out’ on windy Wavebreak Beach today. Well played.

However, unfortunately, many of the competitors did not fare well at all under the gusty conditions that made surfing treacherous for even the best of athletes. For example, Koolen Califrei from Scepez, RIA wiped out on all three runs. Known for his uncanny ability to paint oil portraits while surfing in his home region, Koolen couldn’t tame the turbulent waters here in XKI. His attempts to paint a masterpiece of Kim Kardashian’s backside went for naught, drawing a meager 15 total score.

He was able to complete one run with the somewhat water-logged Kardashian rendering in hand. However, both his painting and its subject were determined to be of “no redeeming value” by the Judges. Hence, the poor overall score.

Barry: I guess Wavebreak Beach isn’t friendly to surfing painters.

Bullseye Betty: Nope. Nor to surfing goats either.

Barry: Surfing...uh, goats? How’s that?

Bullseve Betty: Well, everyone was eagerly anticipating the performance of Orlando DeMer, the Goat, from Herzil, Wysteria, because his practice runs had been nearly flawless.

However, Orlando showed up at the beach not looking himself at all.

In fact, many in the Herzilian delegation claimed their domesticated “capra aegagrus hircus” extraordinaire might well have been the object of an evil spell. They suspect their event-rival, The White Wizard Saruman of The Evil Lord Sauron, of Mordor, was up to his old power grabbing trickery ways again. Of course, this was vehemently denied by The Evil Lord, himself, claiming, “Nonsense. Whitey's a good guy. Good guys always dress in white, and, besides, he kind of looks like a long-haired Santa Claus. Everyone knows how good Santa is. Heh-heh.”

Barry: Sounds like a little controversy brewing between Herzil and The Evil Lord Sauron there.

Bullseye Betty: Perhaps. But not as much as that involving Tommy “The Rock” Newton of Klopstock, XKI and Anton Timoshenko of Tzarsgrad, Yggdrasil.

Barry: Oh? How so?

Bullseye Betty: Well, neither of these surfing contestants were able to survive any of their 6 combined runs. They each received identical scores of 13 points, the lowest of any of the competitors…But the similarity between the two dudes doesn’t end there. Photographs of all their wipe-outs suggests some sort of collusion, as they all look exactly the same!

        

Barry: Something’s not right there. That’s for sure.

Bullseye Betty: Yep, and you can be sure we’ll keep an eye on it for our viewers.

Barry: Well, thank you, Bullseye, for yet another informative and intriguing report….Now we take you down “On the Beach” to my Aide, who apparently – yet again – has more scandalous news concerning the Judges in the IBC. Take it away, Aide.

Aide: Thanks, your High Butlership, Sir…Well, all I can say is: “Unbelievable”, as yet another IBC Judge has been caught up in controversial behavior. This time it’s Judge Holly Hoop, Wysteria’s “Queen of the Beach” as she’s known to the locals.

Authorities are telling us that last night in the alleyway at the back of the Taco Tiki Bar, Judge Hoop was seen using her spiked crown to engage in an act of utter salaciousness by……

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Announcer: We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you several, simultaneously breaking inter-regional news items. I’m reading directly from the wires now:

THE BLACK RIDERS BAN WOMEN FROM BREATHING IN PUBLIC

RIA RESEARCH FINDS EATING 16 KILOS OF VEGGIES A DAY CAN CAUSE PREMATURE DEATH

MORDORIAN WOMAN DRAWS-AND-QUARTERS THE PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY

ZARDOZ GIVES @tredania LAP DANCE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

ELVIS PRESLEY FOUND HIDING IN SPIRITUS DUMPSTER

CANADIAN DNA TESTING PROVES MARGARET THATCHER A DESCENDANT OF ZEUS

-- Whew! That’s a lot of news. Anyway, we now return you to our regularly scheduled program, joined in progress.

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Barry: ….again next time following the ”Silly Hat Limbo Competition”. Good night everyone, and be sure to save a Taco and some Bourbon for me.

[Ater Nox]

Event 4: Silly Hat Limbo Competition

For this event, competitors will be limbo-ing while wearing crazy hats. The final scores will be based off the lowest height the competitors managed to limbo under. For competitors of unusual height (*cough* Big Tex), the heights have been scaled relative to the ratio of the competitor's height to that of the average person. The score out of ten awarded for the limbo height is determined by it's relation to the rest of the field. The judges will then by awarding points for two categories. The Dance category will be judged on how well competitors can 'shake it' while limboing. The hat category will be judged on how big and crazy the competitors hat is.

And the scores are in!

The Bronze medal has been awarded to all athletes who scored the third highest score.

In third place, with 26 points, is Pharrell from Grub (Lenlyvit). Pharrell's hat featured a 3d map of the entire 10000 Islands, and received full marks from the judges.

Also in third place, with an equal 26 points, is Lord Limbo from Esselldee. Lord Limbo managed to limbo under a 45cm bar while wearing his 'Limbo Lord' crown, which was over half a metre tall.

With 26 points, and tying for third, we also have Jeff Bendman from Drummond & Elmlsey. Jeff wowed the judges with by dancing and limboing backwards under the bar.

The Silver medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the second highest score.

In second place, with 27, it's Deanna Troi from Trecdom2. Deanna wore a very impressive model of the starship Enterprise, complete with flashing lights and realistic sound effects, as her hat.

And tying for second, with an equal 27 points, was Space Nekos' Sema Komelar. Sema danced an impressive cha-cha while limbo-ing under an amazingly low 43cm bar.

The Gold medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the highest score.

In first place, with a shocking 30 points....

Maas Tricht from Blaat!

Maas bucked all tradition by disregarding the usual limbo dances and instead opting to dance the entire second act of 'The Nutcracker' ballet. To add to the spectacle, Maas somehow managed to balance a live sheep on their head for the entire event, as well as limboing their way under a 43cm bar in the process.

Scores

[Barry]

MAD ISLANDER IBC WRAP-UP SHOW

Barry: Hey! Welcome back to the 4th edition of our show covering the IBC tournament here in 10000 Islands, and specifically today’s “Silly Hat Limbo Competition”. We are again coming to you from Mayor Aersoldorf‘s Mansion on gorgeous, sun-bathed Taco Island.. We’d be remiss if we didn’t give a hearty shout-out and “Thanks!” for Hizzoner’s hospitality. In fact, last night while the mayor was beachside hosting his ‘Goat-on-a-Spit’ luau, we thoroughly enjoyed a banquet on his finest mansion Spam – and then held our own little “Silly Hat” contest in anticipation of today’s event.

Bullseye Betty: Well, Barry, we’re glad you enjoyed yourself. We also understand that you helped yourself to substantial quantities of the contents of The Mayor’s liquor cabinet. Not sure he’ll be too happy about that.

Barry: Well, Mayor Aerso’s got his own problems after apparently making the Herzil champion Goat Surfer from Wysteria, Orlando DeMer, the main culinary course at his little beach shindig.

   

The rumor is that The Mayor got a little over enthusiastic playing the “Great White Hunter” bit, and finally took out the grazing goat from 10 feet away on his 6th shot.. Herzil, to his credit, has been trying to prevent an international incident with XKI while on its soil, by casting suspicion on “Whitey” the Wizard of Mordor – as he’s affectionately known now by us Islanders – who has not been seen, by the way, since the surfing competition….However, despite Herzil’s attempt to help Mayor Aerso save face, diner’s at the BBQ swore the goat meat had the distinctive flavor and aroma of “Funnea Weedictitus”, native only to Herzil.

Bullseye Betty: Okay, okay. Maybe we should move on to something about the Silly Hat Limbo contest. I mean, that’s what we’re here to do, right?

Barry: Yeah, I guess. What do ‘ya got for us, Bullseye?

Bullseye Betty: We’ll start with a clear fan favorite for an IBC medal, Fez Canterbury from Parrrrtay, Canada. Her donut hat was clearly the hit of the Limbo contest. And her dancing while going under the initial tall bar was fabulous. In fact, the Judges gave her a “9” for dancing, and a high “7” for the hat.

Unfortunately, while Fez was circling back to for another go at a lower height, a horde of starving beach bums zeroed in, snatched her scrumptious donuts and platter, and disappeared into the thick Palm Tree Forest of Taco Island…Unfazed, Canterbury resumed her limboing with tea cups and platters supplied by adoring fans.

          

However, following a heated discussion among the Judges, it was decided that a tea cup balanced on one’s head did not constitute a “silly hat” under IBC rules. The final ruling left the very good scores for her extraordinary dancing talent and the ‘sweetness’ of her original head gear. But the Judges gave her a “0” for height, throwing out all the successful passes under the bar while adorned with a tea cup on her brow.

Barry: What a sour ending to such a sweet story. Hahaha. “Sour”, “sweet”, “donuts”? Get it? …Uh, never mind then.

Bullseye Betty: *glares at Barry* Well, we DO mind, but let’s move on…. There was a very uplifting story of overcoming adversity that came out of Solskin, Yggdrasil and their limbo-ist, Ivar Sunbeam. It seems that he, his wife, and his silly top hat, were invaded by some local starfish, sea shells, and squidy-things in their hut last evening. Apparently, Ivar’s hat suffered the most severe injuries, but he stayed up all night to nurse it back to health in time for today’s event.

          

Ivar’s ordeal and act of incredible valor was not lost on the events’ onlookers. They waved and clapped their hands in unconditional support as Sunbeam turned in what can best be described as a mediocre performance in all the limbo event categories.

Barry: Remarkable that Ivan did as well as he did after such a harrowing evening.

Bullseye Betty: True that….Unfortunately, the same crowd enthusiasm did not show up for the next competitor, March Hare from Tierra de Madre of The Renegade Islands Alliance. Hare achieved the top “10” score for going as low as anyone could go, as well as an “8” for a terrific dance routine.. His hat was a major problem, though.

For some reason, many of the Beachcomber Bleachers fans of Irish descent were offended that a contestant could possibly believe a traditional Irish chapeau, in any way, “silly”. In fact, one outraged, and perhaps slightly inebriated fan of Emerald Isle descent, was heard to complain: “He looks like the only sober man at a St. Patrick’s Day Party!”…The Judges graded the “hat” a low “5” score, arguably bowing to the crowd’s reaction.

Barry: It’s sad to see those kind of things rearing their ugly heads in these games…Still, you did another stellar job there, Bullseye. I think you’ve a real future in this business..  So now, let’s head down “On The Beach” with my Aide. Aide, any more juicy stuff about the Judges today?

Aide: Thank you, Your Butler Magnificentship.. Unfortunately, yep, yet another event appears to have been overshadowed somewhat by a controversy over the possible bias of the Judges. As if awarding Blaat the Gold and Grub (Lenlyvit) a Bronze wasn’t enough to raise even the most trusting of eyebrows, Celestial Maple from Wysteria has brought forth claims of gender and age discrimination against mature older women. Although many are writing off the charges as merely another unsubstantiated fabrication by a notoriously grumpy contestant, the rather off-colored rant was disturbing.

To paraphrase -and sanitize as best we can - her outburst in the Beachcombers Bleachers, Celestial Maple claimed that her surfer received low marks because of the Judges feeling threatened by a middle-aged female surfer who knew how to ride big boards. Needless to say, this was met with a scathing retort from one of the Judges.

          

The Texas Judge, and member of the NewTexas Bikini Team, LuLuBelle Lugnut, claimed the allegation was total nonsense. Jug-, er, Judge Lugnut said, and I quote: “Nonsense! The fact that I was selected by a batch of clueless, redneck chauvinist Texas wannabe stud-muffins to represent them as a Judge in the IBC, shows her claims to be false. And as far as big, uh, ‘boards’ go, well she would do well to remember that everything is bigger in Texas, including….

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Barry: ….some Bourbon for me.

[Ater Nox]

Event 5: Individual Sailing-Boat Orienteering

For this event, competitors will be racing against each other in an orienteering course around Taco Island. The first leg of the race will involve the competitors running from their barstool at the Taco Tiki Bar and down to their sail boats at the beach. The second leg involves navigating around a series of buoys scattered around the eastern side of Taco Island. They competitors must sail around the buoys in this order: Grey, Green with White Stripes, Sea-Blue, Yellow with Red Polka-dots, Red with Yellow Stripes, White with Green Stripes, Orange with Yellow Dots, Grey with Grey Dots, Gold. To make things slightly easier for the competitors, they were provided with a map 1 hour before the race began outline the location of each Buoy. The final stage of the race is for the competitors to sail around the western half of Taco Island and back to the dock. The person with the quickest overall time will be the winner, and scores will be distributed based on how close each competitors was to the fasted time.

And the scores are in!

The Bronze medal has been awarded to all athletes who scored the third highest score.

In third place, having scored 26 points for a time of 27 minutes and 14 seconds is Sue Lu-Pris from Picos Elissa de Los Tres Valles. Sue performed well in all stages of the event, although she lost a bit of time in the second stage when the wind completely stopped for a two minutes.

The Silver medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the second highest score.

In second place, having scored 28 points for a time of 25 minutes and 28 seconds is Ro Gainer from Tierra de Madre. Despite being slightly quicker than the winner in the second and third legs of the race, Ro was let down by a slow first leg after stopping off at a nearby Taco stand to get a bite to eat during the race.

The Gold medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the highest score.

In first place, scoring 30 points for the days quickest time....

Roger Smith from Richard!

Roger Smith managed to complete the course is just 24 minutes and 1 second. Roger started off strong with a quick 52 second sprint to his boat, and then kept up the speedy pace to achieve victory.

Scores

[Barry]

MAD ISLANDER IBC WRAP-UP SHOW

Barry: Hey everybody! This is Barry the Butler coming to you again from the palatial grounds of Mayor Aersoldorf’s Mansion. Tonight we’re bringing you some of the highlights of today’s Individual Sailing-Boat Orienteering competition. My colleague, Bullseye Betty Bowfinger, is reporting tonight from the Taco Tiki Bar, where all the action in today’s contest started. Good evening, Bullseye.

Bullseye Betty: Good evening, Barry. Today’s sailboat competition was to start by having all the nations’ Captain’s race from their bar stools here, down to the docks, and onto their boats. Unfortunately, things didn’t go quite as planned….As soon as the doors opened this morning, there was a mad rush by the 89 Captains to try to get advantageous bar stools as close to the door as they could. This combined with many of their fans pushing and shoving their way into the bar to follow their athletes, led to mass chaos and several fights.

      

Amid all the confusion and ruckus, Canadian Judge, Sandy McDougal, who was to officially start the race, attempted to intervene and break-up several scuffles. Thanks to a surprisingly strong and effective right hook taught to Judge McDougal by her championship boxing mother, she initially appeared to be having some success.

However, one of the Captain’s, “Foxy” June Green of Stormaen, felt constrained to come to her fellow Canadian’s aid in the scuffle and accidently ended up blowing Judge McDougal’s ‘Starter’s Whistle’.

Barry: Oh no!

Bullseye Betty: Oh yes. An incredible stampede ensued with all the Captains trying to elbow their way out the door at the same time to get down to their boats. To her credit, Captain Green remained behind to assure that Judge McDougal was unharmed. However, to her detriment that compassion cost her precious time and she finished with the slowest time in that portion of the event.

All the confusion also dearly cost XKI’s own Map Guy of Shy Guy. Recognized as one of the best map reading navigators in the Universe, Captain Map Guy was expected to traverse the water buoys’ leg with ease. However, he took too long getting down to the dock as he got lost in the bar and ended up running out its back door and into the maze-like Palm Tree Forest of Taco Island.

Barry: Aw man, what a shame.

Bullseye Betty: It sure was. By the time Map Guy found the dock, almost everyone else was already weaving their way through the buoys. Well most were, at any rate.

One surprising exception was Kuudan of The Grendels, Wysteria. Now everyone knows that Grendels are voracious beasts and are often described as: "Very terrible to look upon." Certainly, Captain Kuudan is no exception.

What wasn’t known was that after arriving for the IBC, Captain Kuudan developed an insatiable appetite for the local tacos. His inability to think of anything besides ingesting vast quantities of the “Perfect Food” – as we Islanders refer to tacos - gave Kuudan not only the slowest time in the second buoy stage of the competition, but an overall score in the event of only 4.

Barry: *shaking head* “Taco Addiction” is indeed a sad and debilitating condition.

Bullseye Betty: True. We fear that Captain Kuudan’s recovery may be long and difficult.

Barry: Too bad. Anyway, outside of our medalists, were other Captains successful in the 2nd leg of the race in avoiding the buoys?

Bullseye Betty: Yes, but not always without some questioning of their tactics. A case in point is Cindy Abercromby of TheBruce, Wysteria. It is well-known ‘secret’ that Captain Abercromby is a pirate, and a bit of a scoundrel.

She is also better known as a rogue than a navigator. That, plus the presence of “Professional Guide Pelicans” from Pelicania on the bow of her ship, suggests this Captain could have had some unauthorized assistance with evading buoys and recording such a good time.

Barry: Coincidence?

Bullseye Betty: Most think not… In fact, the same’s true with Captain Odysseus of The Changeling Horde, XKI. There is strong suspicion that the Horde’s Queen was up to her old tricks and provided Odysseus with a magical green ‘leaping’ crystal to rig to the bow of his sailboat. For whatever the reason, the boat was able to leap over all the buoys – which wasn’t prohibited in the rules, but something never accomplished nor contemplated before.

Barry: That is amazing.

Bullseye Betty: Yes, although his boat’s constant leaping up-and-down slowed The Horde’s Captain considerably when he got to the third leg of the race over open water.

Even so, Odysseus’ time over the last leg back to the docks was much better than that of Patrick Callahan of Have fun with it, Yggdrasil, who recorded that leg’s slowest time and overall lowest score in the event, “1”.

Unfortunately, Captain Callahan had forgotten to “batten down the hatches” – literally. ….I’d always thought that was just an expression. Guess not….Back to you, Barry.

Barry: That was Bullseye Betty Bowfinger reporting live from the Taco Tiki Bar..Thanks, Bullseye, for yet another outstanding report….So now, let’s go to my Aide down “On The Beach”. Aide?

Aide: Thank you, Barry…Oh no! Not again….Aaaarrrrghhhh!

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Announcer: We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you this important news flash. Hundreds of fans from all Regions are pouring out of the Beachcomber Bleachers and taking to the streets in protest of the judging in the Islanders Beach Championship.

The grumbling over the scoring in the IBC has grown in intensity since the games began, but seemed to reach critical mass after the “Silly Hat Limbo” event when the representative from Almonaster Nuevo, Canada, filed a formal protest that the event had been “Fixed”, blaming the Texas delegation. His allegations were given added credence when publicly supported by the Canadian Ambassador to XKI, Matilda Love.

Also increasing the tensions are the claims by highly respected XKI Awards Czarina, Ananke II, that the Canadian region, Drummond & Elmsley and XKI Senator The Candy Lane are doping and bribing XKI Judge Mortimer G. Hornsnapple III to ‘look the other way’.

When reached for comment on the charges against him, the crusty old billionaire Judge did little to calm the situation, and simply snorted: “Shouldn’t they be home cooking up some nice tacos?”

Ouch! Somehow, after that response, I don’t believe we’ve heard the end of these protests.

In fact, some are already calling for an independent investigation by the XKI Minister of Education, Randomain. “Since I obviously have not read either the IBC event requirements or scoring rules,” the Minister replied, “I’ll admit I would be uniquely qualified to render an unbiased report on Almonaster’s petition.”

Whew. Stay tuned to this one.. We now return you to your regular programming, joined in progress.

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Barry: Oh my.….Good night. *throws back double bourbon*

[Ater Nox]

Event 6: "Under The Sea” Spear Gunning

For this event, competitors will be competing to spear gun various underwater targets. The competitors will be judges on how many targets out of ten they managed to hit, and how difficult and rare the targets they hit were. To make things a little more interesting, the judges have also scattered the waters with various traps and hazards. Competitors who avoid all traps will receive 10 points for the category, while those who get caught will earns 2 points less for every trap triggered.

And the scores are in!

The Bronze medal has been awarded to all athletes who scored the third highest score.

In third place, having scored 25 points was Richard Fire from Aersoldorf. Richard managed to spear many difficult targets including the rare 'Camel Fish', but unfortunately got tangled in a net trap towards the end of the event.

Also in third place with 25 points is Stormaen's Fredrick St. John. Deciding not to target the difficult targets and instead hunt down assorted corals and seaweeds, Fredrick managed to hit everything he aimed at and avoided every trap the judges could throw at him with ease.

Tying for third with 25 points is Shark Shooter from Innato. Shark Shooter managed to do just what their name suggested and shoot a rare 'Schnitzel-Face Shark', which greatly impressed the judges.

Finally, with an equal 25 points and tying for third was Heather Cheswick from Poote. Despite running afoul of the judge's cunning 'Sea-Mine' trap, Heather managed to shoot the elusive 'Golden Starfish', earning her big points with the judges.

The Silver medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the second highest score.

In second place, having scored 26 points was Tsim Sha Tsui's Anthony Leung Chiu Wai. Anthony avoided all the traps and shot an variety of targets, impressing the judges by doing the entire event with one hand tied behind his back.

Also in second with 26 points was Jamil Bush from Texas Surfer Dudes. Jamil was undeterred by the traps littering the ocean and managed to hit every target he saw, many of which were the 'Taco Island Blobfish'.

The final competitor tying for second was Wintermoot's Atwara Warold. Atwara got caught up in a whirlpool early in the day, but still manage to shoot all the targets whilst being spun around.

The Gold medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the highest score.

In first place, scoring 27 points was....

Laurie Lasso from Esselldee and Stephan Longbreath from Celestial Maple!

Laurie Lasso was unfortunately caught by the octopus trap in the very first minute of the event, but somehow managed to see past the various tentacles attached to his face and shoot every target available including the elusive 'Glowing Taco Fish'.

Stephan Longbreath managed to avoid the infamous 'Feeding Whale' trap with ease, before shooting the most difficult target of the day: 'The Blue Water Bacon Fish'.

Scores

[Barry]

MAD ISLANDER IBC WRAP-UP SHOW

Barry: Hey! Welcome again everybody to the sixth edition of our coverage of the Islanders Beach Championship. Tonight we’ll be bringing you the highlights from today’s "’Under The Sea’ Spear Gunning” competition, where all our participating nations’ scuba divers attempted to maneuver their way through Shipwreck Reef and spear various targets for points.. Fittingly, I and Bullseye Betty are broadcasting tonight from Mayor Aersoldorf’s Mansion’s “Aquarium Room”.

Bullseye Betty: Yeah, and you better clean that tank out before The Mayor gets back.

Barry: I’ll get right on it, Bullseye. Heh-heh.. So tell us, how’d today’s event go down?

Bullseye Betty: Well, unfortunately the IBC games are getting uglier and uglier with each event. Although the riots following our last contest were quelled by giving the rampaging crowds free Tacos, Muffins, and 1% discount coupons on suntan lotion, it seems that the Judges just continue to fan the flames of discontent.

This was surprising, since it appeared that the IBC had two of the most imminently qualified Judges in all of NationStates to observe and help score the spearing gunning tourney.. First we had Judge Captain Lethbridge from 10000 Islands, who runs XKI's most famous underwater restaurant "The Captain's Table", and who apparently had fully recovered from his stint in an undisclosed mental facility following the “Sand Sculpturing” event. Also on hand to help set the underwater traps was Judge Ormr Olavsonl, a roofer and construction worker from Yggdrasil, who has an uncanny ability to channel his inner ‘Midgard Serpent’ personality in events such as this.

                     

Barry: They seemed exceptionally well qualified. Nothing could go wrong here, right?

Bullseye Betty: Sorry, Barry. We had madness and mayhem right out of the box.. Immediately upon entering the water, the very first contestant, Phereless Fishlove from XKI’s Improving Wordiness, menacingly made straight for Judge Lethbridge with her sphere thrusting at him.

It is believed that Wordy's entrant was seeking revenge for The Captain’s having torn down all the pictures her nation had posted of cats, pandas, and penguins that he had banned from being depicted in the Sand Sculpturing event… At any rate, Judge Lethbridge quickly darted off and hasn’t been seen since.

Barry: Not surprising. But that attack on The Captain must have cost Wordy’s athlete dearly in the scoring.

Bullseye Betty: Nope, which again leads to the puzzling question of how the IBC Judges are really grading these performances.. Almost incredibly, Phereless Fishlove received a whopping “9” for ‘Targets”, despite her only presenting one “Raider Fish” to the Judges.

Barry: One ‘Raider Fish’ and she got a 9? Wow, those things are really common around 10000 Islands, especially during and just after the annual Zombie Apocalypse.

Bullseye Betty: Yeah, everyone knows that. So it appears the other Judges were rewarding Improving Wordiness for her athlete ridding everyone of The Captain…at least for awhile anyway.

Barry: Guess we’ll have to see.. Oh, I also heard that another prominent Islander didn’t fare so well in the scoring and, in fact, had the maximum of 4 Ttraps deducted from his already low score.

Bullseye Betty: Right. It seems that Largo Bolt of Isles of Nixon, XKI fared poorly indeed for triggering the 'Shark Trap'. Actually, his anemically low score of ‘11’ was due primarily to his being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

             

Barry: That’s a shame. Hopefully other contestants did better?

Bullseye Betty: That they did. For example, scoring a perfect ‘10’ for Targets was Duke Hangfire of Parrrrtay, Canada, who bagged himself the rarest of the rarest - the “Blue-Maze Buck-Toothed Fish”.

Barry: Cool. We don’t see many of them around these parts anymore.

Bullseye Betty: Yeah, that was a real feather in the cap for old Duke. Still, the effort put forth by Worf – son of Mogh of Trecdom2, Texas may have wowed the Judges the most. Worf was somehow able to capture the largest “Man Hugging Bromance Codfish” ever recorded, and then, after a titanic struggle, drag it before the Judges for scoring.

They ultimately gave him a high ‘7’ for Target, and a fantastic ‘9’ for Difficulty.

Barry: Impressive!

Bullseye Betty: Indeed.. And another real fan favorite was Artyom Toporov of Tim Stark, Spiritus. His spearing ability while leaping from his boat and snatching a “Coral Sloppy-Kisser Fish” in mid-lunge, totally mesmerized the Beachcomber Bleacher fans.

Unfortunately for Artyom and his fans, however, it was at this point that Yggdrasil Judge Ormr Olavsonl decided to channel his inner ‘Midgard Serpent’ personality and actually transmogrify into one.

The Serpent Judge then snatched the “Coral Sloppy-Kisser Fish” from Tim Stark‘ athlete and dragged it under the waves…Uh, Judge Olavson hasn’t been seen since either, although there are some unconfirmed reports that some sort of new underwater structure is being built by the Judge near Shipwreck Reef.

Barry: Man. These IBC Judges are weird!

Bullseye Betty: …And seemingly getting weirder by the event. Stay tuned.

Barry: Hey, thanks again, Bullseye.. Now, let’s get you down “On The Beach” with my Aide. Aid……

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Announcer: We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you another important news flash. We understand that the Delegate for 10000 Islands, Markanite is about to make an important statement about the IBC games….Ah. There he is now approaching the podium. We take you directly to Delegate Markanite.

“My Fellow Islanders and Esteemed Regions, Nations, and Athletes participating in the Islanders Beach Championship….Like you and the fans in the Beachcomber Bleachers, I am appalled at the antics and the judging of these IBC games. We have seen clear cases of favoritism and prejudicial scoring. As a result, we have also seen rioting in our Taco Island streets, and today a powerful Islander’s athlete even saw it necessary to attempt to spear one of the Judges.. I believe that attack was justified.. My Nation, itself, has been the victim of scoring discrimination – I mean, how could my expert spear shooting guy, Neppett Barr, receive the same score as some military latrine cleaner like Ishmael of Control, XKI?

“Anyway, tonight I pledge we will exert every effort to assure that the remaining two events in the IBC are scored fairly and impartially. I thank you for your time this evening.” *steps away from podium*

Announcer: Wowsers! Great stuff for our ratings, er…viewers to know.. We now return you to your regular programming, joined in progress.

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*Camera catches Barry and Bullseye Betty leaving the ‘Aquarium Room’ sports desk; fades to black*

[Ater Nox]

Event 7: Rock Pool Forage and Cook Off

For this event, competitors will be competing to collect various ingredients from local rock pools and use them to create a magnificent meal for the judges. The first category they will be judged on is Ingredients, which accounts for the number and qualitly of the ingredients used in the dish. Secondly, they will be judged on their Presentation of their meal. The final category judged is the taste of the meal.

And the scores are in!

The Bronze medal has been awarded to all athletes who scored the third highest score.

In third place, having scored 24 was Aleshanee Qalataqa from Indorphinea. Aleshanee cooked up a Baby Octopus Mousse for the judges.

Also in third place with 24 points is Vivian Woodfern from New Ecopia. Vivian served up a Sea Weed salad and Sea Water Broth.

Tying for third with 24 points is Chef Durkheim from HumanSanity. Chef Durkheim's 'Coral Cereal' went down well with the judges, but they were a bit disappointed that all the coral was the same colour.

Also with 24 points and coming in third is Chef Monty Haisnick from Picos Elissa de Los Tres Valles. Chef Monty Haisnick wowed the judges by frying 13 different species of Sea Horse, but was let down in presentation after just piling them in a tower.

Also with 24 points and coming in third is Kathrik Velaboose from Deep South Borland. Kathrik managed to include the freshest starfish the judges had ever tasted, but unfortunately fresh starfish was not tasty enough for the judges.

And the final competitor coming in third, with 24 points, was Patti Page from South Titania. Patti served the judges Roast Crab with 'Mystery Fish' dipping sauce.

The Silver medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the second highest score.

In second place, having scored 25 points was Almonaster's Shiryou Cocinero. Shiryou served up one of the tastiest dishes of the day, a Spiced Clam and Pufferfish Pie.

Also in second with 25 was Ludmila Meyer from Galicia Volhynia. Ludmila managed to catch a thought to be extinct "Wriggly Taco Worm" and served it in a fresh Sea Grass Salad.

The Gold medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the highest score.

In first place, scoring 26 points was....

Timofey Sakharov from Tim Stark and Andrea Jackson from Chevaux de Frise!

Timofey served the Judges Raw Fish and Uncooked Mud Crabs, served with fresh sea water in a bucket. The judges felt this meal reminded them of the rockpools and awarded it the highest number of points.

Andrea caught a large number of crustaceans which were then blended together and baked into a crab shaped cake. The cake was served a a pile of sand and adorned with seashells to provide additional texture. This meal was also awarded the highest number of points.

Scores

[Barry]

MAD ISLANDER IBC WRAP-UP SHOW

Bullseye Betty: Hello everyone, and welcome to tonight’s Mad Islander IBC Wrap-Up Show. This evening we’ll be bringing you the highlights of today’s event, the “Rock Pool Forage and Cook Off”, where contestants were required to forage among the rock pools of 10000 Islands and come up with mouth-watering ingredients to cook a delicious meal for the Judges...Again, we are broadcasting from the magnificent mansion of Mayor Aersoldorf. Unfortunately, I’ll be holding down the anchor’s desk alone tonight.

It seems that The Mayor changed all of the locks on the Mansion and apparently, uh…forgot to give Barry a set of keys.. Oh well. We’ll muddle through somehow….

In today’s event the athletes foraged through the fertile rock pools of Taco Island for exotic ingredients to cook up something scrumptious for the IBC Judges.

Also, the Official IBC group photo of the Judges was scheduled for today. However, none of the three male Judges were anywhere to be found.

         

We understand there were unsubstantiated sightings of Judges Ormr Olavson (Yggdrasil) and Captain Lethbridge (XKI) just off Shipwreck Reef. The waters there are still muddied from having been stirred-up by the “Spear Gunning” event. Nevertheless, a reliable source – who happens to be a Quonset Hut Flood Insurance Salesman – swears he saw them both amid much water-muffled racket and pounding of hammers. We’ll have to see, I guess….As for Judge Mortimer G. Hornsnapple III (XKI), a spokesperson for the billionaire sea shell and snail collector said he had spent the day at Louisistan ‘s Unofficial Taco Island City Clerk’s Office, filling out several years’ worth of “silly tax returns” that Mayor Aersoldorf seemed to insist be filed.

In any event, today’s competition seemed to go exceeding well in the absence of the three male Judges.

One of the highlights of the competition was that each of the four Judges was permitted to single out one of the nations in her region that she felt performed extraordinarily well, despite not receiving a medal.

For example, Wintreath Judge Frosty LaCoure, who is known for her extremely cold attitude, chose to praise Adam Scott, a self-proclaimed FTM from Novovaria. Judge LaCoure admitted that, “…although I could go either way – and often do, heh-heh - Adam’s concoction of Ice Fish Eggs garnished with Sea Pecans on a bed of Green Sand Weed really got my juices flowing. They looked like little race cars and reminded me of the time I beat RuPaul in real drag race.. Delish!!”

         

Similarly, the “Walking Tortoise Shell and Rock Pool Algae" sandwich put together by Estelle en Croute from Herzil, Wysteria received rave reviews from Wysteria Judge Holly Hoop. ”I generally go with my first impression of stuff,” Judge Hoop admitted. “And from the minute I saw Estelle’s dish waddling around the Judge’s table, I knew she’d done a great job of putting something together worth chasing after.”

        

When it came time for Texas Judge LuLuBelle Lugnut to name her region’s favorite entrée, her response came with a perceptible sigh of relief. ”You know, I was kinda worried about my good ‘ol boys having been ‘sperimenting with sushi vittles all week. But when the bell rang, my Iron Chefs of NewTexas boys outdid themselves. Their barbequed “Steak de la XKI Sole Fillet”, with sides of some green slimy stuff and white sticky goo, really made this ‘ol cowgirl’s bikini top bust with pride!”

          

Finally, with Canada having made such a strong showing in the IBC, everyone was eagerly anticipating the choice of Canadian Judge Sandy McDougal. The choice was actually a pretty easy one, as Chef Bobby Filet from Esselldee, had managed to capture an extremely rare baby “Bacon Fish” that had apparently become disoriented and mistakenly swam into a rock pool eddy. “Golly gee, you know Ess really did a great job,” Sandy beamed. ”Jeepers. She’d have medaled, for sure, if she’d caught a Canadian Bacon Fish.”

      

Well folks, that about wraps up our coverage of today’s competition. It was really nice to see all of the Athletes and Judges getting along together in perfect harmony and treat each other with mutual respect….And now, we take you to our regularly scheduled…

NEWS BULLETIN…BULLETIN…BULLETIN…

Announcer: Thank you, Bullseye. It indeed was a day filled with warm feelings among all in attendance. In fact, we have just received word that a budding romance may be brewing that could have major InterRegional implications.

As many of our viewers may know, former Wysterian Judge, Nurse Florence NightInJail has been here conducting an investigation into the reasons for the Herzil athletes faring so poorly. It seems she attended today’s event and was reported totally smitten with the culinary skills of Gollum of Evil Lord Sauron, Mordor.

      

It is rumored she watched breathlessly as Gollum rock-foraged and sang: ”The rock and pool, is nice and cool, so juicy sweet. Our only wish, to catch a fish, so juicy sweet…”

Nurse NightInJail reportedly swooned and confessed her desire to replay the “spaghetti kissing” scene from “Lady and The Tramp”, with Gollum at the other end of her fish.

It seems romance blooms at the IBC. Back to you, Bullseye.

END OF NEWS BULLETIN…BULLETIN…BULLETIN…

Bullseye Betty: Precious….Well, that's all for tonight. Please join us for our next broadcast of the last IBC event, the "’Spice My World’ Cocktail Making and Judges’ Toast”. Until then, take care everybody.

[Barry]

Event 8: "Spice My World” Cocktail Making and Judges’ Toast

For this event, competitors will be tasked with mixing up cocktails for the judges, and giving a toast to the judges. The first category that will be judges is the taste of the drink. The judges will be expecting tasty drinks that are inventive and exciting. The second category judged is the punch. This category takes into account how spicy the drink is, and how much the judges notice it's alcoholic content. The more, the better for both of these. The final category judges is the toast. Nothing is off limits as the competitors try and compliment the judges on anything they can while still be appearing to be giving a toast.

And the scores are in!

The Bronze medal has been awarded to all athletes who scored the third highest score.

In third place, having scored 26 was Mybody Isablade from La Vida De Sangre. Mybody's toast to the Judges scored a perfect 10, possibly due being slightly inebriated and complimenting Judge Frosty LaCoure's "Rockin' Bod" before slumping over and falling asleep.

Tying for third with 26 points is Sawa Brindish from Almonaster. Despite Sawa's cocktail being as 'weak as a 10 day old kitten', it was extremely tasty. Her compliment of Judge Mortimer G. Hornsnapple the Third's nose hair earned her full points for the toast.

Also with 26 points and coming in third is The Mouth of Sauron from Sauron. The Mouth of Sauron mixed in a few secret ingredients he had flown in by Nazgûl earlier in the day which provided such kick the judges were unable to taste anything for the next hour. His speech comparing the judges cruelty to his master, the Evil Lord Sauron, was mostly well received.

And the final competitor coming in third, with 26 points, was Kobayashi from Anime Daisuki. Kobayashi mixed up a drink that glowed in the dark, and then proceeded to compliment the judges on their good looks and charms for the next half an hour.

The Silver medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the second highest score.

In second place, having scored 27 points was Shy Guy's Garry the Butler. Garry's cocktail was served on fire, and caused third degree burns on the way down. Judge Captain Lethbridge was so impressed by his inflamed mouth he offered Garry a position at his restaurant "The Captain's Table". This offer may have been influenced by Garry comparing Judge Captain Lethbridge's diving helmet to a 'Well shined Goomba" in his toast.

Also in second with 27 was Smaug the Magnificent from Malkir. While some competitors felt that serving cocktails in golden goblets from Smaug's horde of treasure was a bit unfair, once the judges heard they could keep the goblets they immediately dismissed the complaints. The cocktail featured equal parts 'Liquid Dragon Flame' and 'Ethanol', which unfortunately didn't provide quite enough punch for the judges to award it the full 10 points.

The final competitor with 27 points and coming in second was M'ekuele Annan from Elke and Elba. M'ekuele adorned her drink with the leaves of Yggdrasil itself, which slightly disappointed the judges as they were not alcoholic. She made up for this with a stunning toast comparing the judges to mighty gods and heroes, which confused Judge Ormr Olavson as he felt is was just stating facts.

The Gold medal has been awarded awarded to all athletes who scored the highest score.

In first place, scoring 28 points was....

Melanie Chisholm from Tierra de Madre and Penguiel Nelson from @tredania!

Melanie mixed up one of the tastiest drinks of the night, a cocktail that tasted like a full three course meal. What ensured Melanie's victory was a toast that managed to compliment Judge Holly Hoop's fashion sense, Judge Frosty LaCoure's warm and friendly personality and Judge LuLuBelle Lugnut's intelligence all with a straight face.

Penguiel served up a tasty drink in cups made of clear ice that somehow managed to by extra spicy and refreshingly cool at the same time. He concluded with a magnificent speech about how great the judges were at being respectable, honourable and incorruptible before slipping a fifty dollar note and his phone number into Judge Sandy McDougal's pocket and asking her to pass it along to her Mum.

[Barry]

MAD ISLANDER IBC WRAP-UP SHOW

Barry: Hey! Hello again everyone! Tonight we’re bringing you our last installment of the Islanders Beach Championship wrap-up show from beachside at the rockin’ Taco Tiki Bar on Taco Island. The final event of the IBC - the ’Spice My World’ Cocktail Making and Judges’ Toast – has just concluded another festive day of competition.

Bullseye Betty: Right you are, Barry. And to memorialize the high note upon which these games concluded, the Athletes from all 89 Nations and 9 Regions have just had their group picture taken.

Barry: That is a mighty fine looking group there, Bullseye. And tonight we’re going to let the folks know some of our favorite drinks and toasts that kind of struck our fancy, even though they did not receive a medal.

Bullseye Betty: Right again. I’m going to start out with perhaps the fieriest spicy drink concocted. It was prepared by Coleen Nox of Novovaria, Wintreath, a rumored 6th cousin of IBC Official, Ater Nox. She took one sip, and before she could even tell us its name, became a virtual fire breathing dragoness. Coleen darted down the beach and into the sea to douse herself.. Thankfully, she wasn’t harmed and yelled a triumphant, well-wishing toast for all on shore.

   

Barry: A nice toast, indeed.. OK. One of my very personal favorites was the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster put together by Bart Ender of Shizensky, RIA. A PGGB has been described as "like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon, wrapped 'round a large gold brick". Bart’s rendition of this Universal classic got a top score of “10” for taste and the Judges were also impressed with his fitting tribute to 10000 Islands’ hospitality during these games.

     

Bullseye Betty: That was great stuff, but The Great Region of Texas was not to be outdone by anyone in delivering big spicy flavor in cups big enough to ride in. As any true drinking aficionado knows, real “Texas Tea” is one of the most potent alcoholic beverages known to humanity. And Bartender, Faye Valentine of Richard, certainly did her best to give the Judges a friendly heads-up in her toast to that effect.

      

Barry: Yep, that’s a Texas cocktail and toast alright. But I kind of liked the approach of Hal O’Peno of Grub (Lenlyvit), XKI, too. In an attempt to achieve the ultimate liquid refreshment for spiciness and boldness, Mixologist O’Peno crafted masterpieces from jalapeno peppers and kiwi. I’ll tell ya’, although his “O’Peno’s Torpedoes” may quadruple the sales of antacids overnight, his toast to the Judges and Nations’ will hopefully still encourage everyone to keep coming back for more, for many years to come.

        

Bullseye Betty: Yeah, that was a good touch alright. In a similar vein of friendship, the alcoholic offerings of Gretchen Sqanson of Picos Elissa de Los Tres Valles, Wysteria, were sweet, spicy, creamy, and smooth. Her toast received a “9” from the Judges for expressing best wishes for all participating Nations, until we meet again in the next Wysteria Cross-Regional Games.

      

Barry: Wow, those last couple toasts are starting to jerk the tears right out of me, Bullseye. So, I’m going to kind of end this with the liquid stylings and toast of Manuel “Manny” Calavera of Randomain, XKI. I sort of admire his “let’s party while we can” approach. Although Manny refused to reveal its ingredients, he claimed it was appropriately named the “Optimistic Fatalist.

        

Bulseye Betty: Uh, okay.

Barry: At any rate, why don’t we now give a listen to my Aide, who I understand has himself a new gig.. Aide?

NEWS BULLETIN…BULLETIN…BULLETIN…

Aide: Hey Mi’Lord, Bullseye! Yeah, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, eh?.. Anyway, we do have some really exciting breaking news. The purpose of all that recent underwater racket and pounding off Shipwreck Reef has just been revealed.

Judges Captain Lethbridge (XKI) and Ormr Olavson (Yggdrasil) have announced the opening of a new undersea restaurant, called, “The Captain & Midgard Serpent”.. Additionally, all participants in the Islanders Beach Championship will forever be permitted to dine for free, as a symbol of InterRegional friendship.

       

And according to billionaire Judge Mortimer G. Hornsnapple III - who reportedly foot the bill for the entire project - ”The aquatic vistas are awesome and almost worth every Taco I was forced to spend”. Rumors are that the Judge popped for the cost at the insistence of Taco Island Mayor Aersoldorf, in order to avoid “Bubba time” for tax evasion. When reached for comment, Mayor Aerso would only say: “We’ve finally got ourselves a top quality crab legs and absinthe house!”

      

On that positive note, back to you My Liege and Bullseye.

END OF NEWS BULLETIN…BULLETIN…BULLETIN…

Barry: Thanks for the good news…Okay. Well folks, that about wraps it up for our last show. We want to thank The Mayor for his hospitality (and bourbon) at his Mansion, as well as wish all our visiting Nations and Athletes all the best until the next Cross Regional Games.

Bullseye Betty: And we also want to thank all our viewers for tuning in over the last month. It was fun bringing all the action to you. Chow for now.

Barry: Ditto that, Bullseye. Until next time then, good night everyone, and be sure to save a taco and some bourbon for me.

[Barry]

We are proud to announce the recipients of the Islanders Beach Championship, Shelter Awards.

These plaques are named after one of the most beloved Islanders to ever grace the fair shores and pristine beaches of 10000 Islands, Shelter from the Storm. A long time Mayor of Taco Island, Shelter’s unsurpassed wit and good-natured approach toward all with which he interacted, set a standard for fun, friendship, and congeniality that will forever be remembered and always constitute an integral part of the true spirit of 10000 Islands.

The Shelter Award is presented to the following Visiting Nations for having made outstanding contributions toward fostering friendly Inter-Regional relationships during the course of the Islanders Beach Championship:

Matilda Love (Canada)

The Devil Heart leader’s reporting on Knut Braveheart’s overcoming the adversity of being raised by sharks to win the Gold Medal in the “Wipe Me Out Not! Surfing" event was as heartwarming as it was inspiring. Was there anyone not crying in their shark fin soup after reading this fishy powerful tribute of loyalty to his ‘parents’ for sharing their food with him as a beach bum child? We think not.

NewTexas (Texas)

He provided us with arguably one of the sexiest hottest fairest Judges in the IBC, LuLuBelle Lugnut. Additionally, he graced everyone at the games with the most scrumptious sushi and barbequed fish to be found anywhere in…uh…Texas. ‘Nuff said pardner.

Celestial Maple (Wysteria)

She courageously championed the often under-respected abilities of cougars mature female athletes throughout the competition, and was also willing to provide Judge Holly Hoop a ride home to Wysteria when no one else would give Ms. Hoop the time of day. Her empathy for the truly unfortunate in society was a real life lesson for all.

Evil Lord Sauron (Mordor)

The Evil Lord seemed to thrust beast after beast and wizard after wizard into the competitive fray, in a valiant effort to win Gold for his nation and region in the IBC. Although his quest remained regrettably elusive to the end, such wondrous creatures have rarely menaced visited our shores in such numbers, or with such vigor.

Solskin (Yggdrasil)

The athletes from this strange land of shape shifters provided numerous intriguing interviews and descriptions of their hopes, aspirations, tribulations, and poetic tendencies throughout the course of the various contests. A colorful and entertaining fabric of his nation’s culture and creativity was woven indeed.

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Congratulations to all the recipients.

[Ater Nox]

Closing Ceremony

To conclude the Islander's Beach Championship, we will be awarding The Beachcomber's Trophy and The Islander's Cup.

The Beachcomber's Trophy will be presented to the region with the most Gold medals per competing nations.

The final medal tally was:

Congratulations to Spiritus on winning the The Beachcomber's Trophy! In the end they were awarded one gold medal between their two nations. Canada, Mordor and the RIA fell short of winning the trophy be a single gold medal. 

The Islander's Cup will be presented to the nation with the highest total score at the end of the Championship.

In the end, the highest total score was 186, which is an average of 23.25 points per event. There were two nations to scored this total, and so the trophy will be awarded to both.

Congratulations to...

The Candy Lane and Tierra de Madre!

Both of the winning nations have been awarded their own trophy, so they can display it where they choose.


The full list of scores were as follows:








On behalf of everyone involved with running the Islander's Beach Championship, I would like to thank everyone who participated in the events. Everyone who competed in the Championship will receive the following medal for participating in the games.

I'd also like to thank our Judges for their work in scoring the events, Barry for his highly entertaining Wrap Up shows, Ananke II for her help in promoting the games and getting the participants organised and Herzil for his valuable advice.