The Windy City Cup was a huge success!

I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to all of those who helped make the Windy City Cup happen over the weekend and to all of the players who made the trip. We had 21 competitors for our event: not bad for a first-year tournament. Cory will post complete results soon (if he can decipher my poorly drawn brackets), but the quick hit headline is this...

The Windy City Cup is on it's way to Montreal. JF Lemeiux and Gilles Demers bested Yves Archambault and PT Lovern in a great three-game match on the coast of Lake Michigan right in front of beautiful Navy Pier to earn the title of the first-ever Windy City Cup Champions. Congratulations to them.

John Leys beat JF Lemeiux in another great three-game nail-biter to take the singles title. Congratulations to John as well, and we thank him for spending his last "quiet" Father's Day with us.

I would like to take a quick second to personally thank the staff here at the Chicago Inner Rectangle for the many hands that made the workload so much more bearable: Zeke Ibardaloza, Vince Pontarelli, Tommy Whitworth, Matt Sweeny, Kelcey Dalton, Mikey Bellman, Carrie Cruz, Scarlet Stever, Maureen Twargowski, Mike Dolan, Eric Reile, Troy Rouse, and of course, Cory Current. You guys and gals were all superheroes all weekend long. Thank you so much for everything!

And a quick shout-out to our sponsors as well: Pro Kicker Footbags (the best in the business! Thanks Yves!), Communications Direct, The Store, Navy Pier, and Chicago Scenic Studios. Thanks to the bad-ass staff at Chicago Scenic for the rapid set-up and tear-down of the bleachers and the entire finals site.

And to the players that couldn't make it: make sure you're there when we do it all over again next year!