Our tournament was a success!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make our tournament a success.

Our competition team --- or at least most of them. Some had not yet arrived in time for the picture, and at least one was already working hard getting our snack bar up and running.
(By the way, the food was GREAT! And our snack bar crew was the best ever!)

Sensei Maria Evans, our USKA California State Representative, co-sponsored our tournament.

Mr. Crothers, aka "Mr. Mr.", helped keep the tournament running smoothly and got all of our scorekeepers and timekeepers up to speed.

My Sensei, Danny Gilliland, came all the way from Louisiana to help out. I don't quite recall what it was that made us all laugh here, but it must have been funny.

Sempai Miriam was our main bracketing person.

Chuck Cody was our announcer and brought his own special flair to the event.

And then there were all my wonderful tournament volunteers who shopped and cooked and built trophies and made signs and handled registration and served as medics and hauled stuff and set up and cleaned up and worked and worked and worked. Thank you all!

I am also grateful for all the wonderful people who judged the competition.

And then the competitors --- you all did GREAT!

Thank you, each and everyone, for all that you contributed to make our first tournament such a fun and successful event!