Lotusphere Barmy Bloggers Boat Race!

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OK, slightly late, but here are the final results...

First Place: Thomas & Marcus 4:12
Second Place: Jan-Erik & Jens' standin 4:19
Third Place: Victor & Carls' standing (Troy) 4:37

I've also been sent a link to some photos on Flickr. If you have any photos of the event, please send them onto me and I'll publish them here as well.

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Here they are, courtesy of the hotel crew:

WEDNESDAY
Bill & Turtle 5:15
Marcus & Thomas 4:27
Pete & Wendy 4:58
Alan & Ed 5:19
Jan-Erik & Jens 4:54
Warren & Kitty 5:49
 
So, that means in the final are.......

FINALS
Thomas & Marcus 4:27
Victor & Carl 4:36
Lissette & Chris 4:44
Michelle & Jody 4:51
Jan-Erik & Jens 4:54

Guys, you need to come back at 12:45 tomorrow for the head-to-head final. Good luck!

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Gayle & Vince 5:15
Andrew & Kurt 5:03
Paul & Mary Beth 5:01
John & Devin 5:05
Lissette & Chris 4:44
Greg & Phil 6:30
Alex & Gerome 4:46
Terri & Chrissy 5:03
Deb & Jim 5:23
Nathan & Sheri 6:37
Margot & Matt 6:10
Lyn & Cara 5:32

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Here we go - results from Mondays' heat. Remember, it's the 5 fastest times that make it to the final.

Viktor & Carl 4:26
Terri & Declan 5:25
John & Mitch 5:08
Christina & Kelly 5:22
Michelle & Jodi 4:51
Gary & Juilan No time (ie, took far too long for us to bother timing!)

Remember, 12:45 tomorrow - Dolphin beach. See you there!

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Yes, we're back! Bigger, barmier and cheaper than ever before!

Want to register? Follow the 'Register!' link to the right. A big thankyou to Martin Humpolec who wrote this for me. You can register on-line, confirm by email and then you're in. Easy peasy - and this year, no money involved :-)

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Well, it's all over. Done, dusted, finished for the second year in a row. But here's some things you may not know....

• The Swan and Dolphin hold ALOT of conferences. NONE have ever tried racing the boats :-)
• The hotel recreation crew were fantastic. They did think we were mad, but they were fantastic.
• Though definatly an unofficial event, Ragan and Kristen were fantastic.
• Then we convinced Ragan and Kristen to race a boat ;-)
• The official Lotusphere film crew came out to film us on Wednesday,
• Who actually went out in a boat, and took tons of footage, meaning that:
• We made it into the closing general session video!

ENORMOUS thanks to all the vendors, the impromtu sponsors, the hotel and lotusphere crews, and most importantly, all of the racers. You guys and gals made it the sucess that it was. Thankyou so very much for proving that Bill, Paul, Devin and I aren't the only mad fools at Lotusphere ;-)

One final request - I don't have any photos of heat 4, as I was racing. could someone who has these please email to me - warren@elsmore.net and I'll post them here.

And one more final point - WE WILL BE BACK! I already have the names of the hotel crew, and they and I are looking forward to 2008. I suggest you start training now!

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So, the last round. We had 5 boats in the final, after we managed to convince the IBM'ers lazing by the beach to run a fifth heat (guess which heat was the hardest to organise?). Anyway, thanks to all those that showed up to spectate. We ran the final slightly differently, as we had new freebies from IBM. So, the course was from the dock to the far corner. Collect an IBM goodie, then paddle back. So, the winners - in reverse order were:

Fifth place - Stuart McIntyre and Bleddyn Williams

Fourth place - IBM'er #1 and IBM'er #2 (I'll update as soon as we've unpacked the notepad!)

Third place - Scott 'Turtle' Wenzel  and Bill Malchinsky

Second place - Devin 'Spanky' Olsen and Ray 'Lionking' Bylck

And the winners, by a mile, were - Alan Bell and Aoifa

Want to know what they won? Well, click on for the full list!

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The photos from yesterday an todays final are now up. Full details soon, but congrats to Alan and Aoife!

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Oh my god, I'm going to die..... Somehow I volunteered for heat 4. Baaad move!

Anyway, here's the results:

Heat 3...

In first place, Alan Bell & Aafe

Second place goes to Coen and Sean Burgess

Running a close third Lance Spellman and Jason Freis.

Paul Mooney and Bill Buchan failed horribly to even complete the course, and bailed half way through :-) Something about a film crew...

Heat 4....

In first place: Devin Olson and Ray Bylik

Second: Betsy Teeny and my good self (Warren Elsmore)

And finally, third place goes to: Phil Randalf and Sean

A special mention goes to Kristen and Ragen for a stirling effort.

PLUS we have even more prizes tro add to the fund, for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, thanks to Lotusphere themselves.

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OK, we have now hit EVERY stand on the show floor. Was it worth it? We think so....

For the first place pair...

$50 cash money, coutesy of Teamstudio.
A special goodie bag, containing cool stuff - EACH

For the second place pair...

From the Lotusphere Stuff Store (yes, really), a Think jotter, mp3 player speakers and a Sudoku game
A special goddie bag, containing cool stuff to share

For the third place pair...
Just a special goddie bag, containing cool stuff to share


For all the cool stuff in detail, check out the photo album, up there top left. Go, now!

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