Channing (Practical Paracord) announced his sling tournament this year.  May 3 - 5.  Here's his video announcement: https://youtu.be/CP_a8bQi7Ag.

I had a video call with Channing and asked him a bunch of questions.  Here's some more information on the tournament.

Location: Baldwin, LA (Baldwin Park)
Hotel: Best Western Forest Inn, Franklin
Food: There are some special meals lined up, but the Forest Restaurant is right next to the hotel and will provide most of the breakfast and dinner buffets.

Scheduled Games:

• Sling Golf
• Distance competition with tennis balls (no limit on sling length)
• Speed slinging round
• 13 meters Balearic with tennis balls
• 20 meters Balearic with baseballs

Tentative Schedule:
Friday (May 3) - Practice day starting around 10:00 AM
Subway or pizza for lunch
Back to hotel at 7:00

Saturday (May 4) - Buffet breakfast at Forest
Around 9:00 or 10:00 - Go to the park for competition
1st game - Sling Golf
2nd game - Distance slinging
3rd game - Speed slinging
4th game - 20 meters
For lunch (around noon or 1:00) will be a crayfish boil
Get back to the hotel around 7:00

Sunday (May 5) - Go to Franklin Recreation Center in the morning for breakfast
13 meter competition at the recreation center
Winners announced and prizes handed out after
Mexican food (Cinco de Mayo!) for lunch
All done and people can leave when they want

Other Information:
Entry fee - There will be a $5 buy in for each game.  To compete in everything will be $25.  *Note: Channing is still considering this. It's not certain.
Prizes - The top three overall winners will get a cash prize.  There will also be trophies for each of the games.
Sling Exchange - There will be a sling exchange between competitors.  Bring a sling if you want to participate.
Event T-shirt - There will be T-shirts for the event.  It wasn't decided but they will likely be around $25.
Transportation - You will need to get to the hotel or park on Friday.  Channing hopes to have enough vehicles to drive everyone around to the locations.  We'll have a better idea about this as the date gets closer and it's known how many people will be there.

Awesome!

I'm waiting to hear back from by boss at work.  I will potentially be at a conference for work right around the same time, which will cause all kinds of scheduling considerations.  I'm waiting for confirmation from him and then I'll see if I can make it happen.  I asked if he could let me know in the next week or so.

It's right next door.  It would be amazing to see some of the slinging.org Texas crew make an appearance.  I know we have quite a few of them. 

I had a video chat with Channing and got a lot more info about the competition, including the new name.  The first post has been updated with everything.

Thanks IG!  The PDF has been attached to the first post.

In case anyone wants a copy, a PDF has been attached to the first post in this topic.  It has the location and itinerary.  There are some small differences between this and what Channing told me, but for the most part it's the same.  This is the first year for this event, so a little bit of 'figure it out as we go' is to be expected.  We'll post any updates from Channing here.

Flight booked.  I'll be there!

Texas is pretty close to Louisiana... just sayin'.

Morphy wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2024 at 7:11am:

How epic would it be to see a Jaegoor vs. Channing showdown! 

Well, we've reached that time.  I'm leaving for the airport in just over half an hour.  We'll see what Channing has been able to put together.  Hopefully IronGoober and me will have some stories to post after this weekend.  And certainly some pics.  I think he's already down there in Louisiana.

Cheers everyone!