Corey,
Well it didn't go the best for me. I am still in shock and a bit hurt to be honest. I am not saying I should have won, but I didn't make the cut and go on to the top 5 and I am not sure why. Before the results were announced Big Al who was there and heard me said I did go fast (just 5 minutes before the mens division started Wayne annouced that the men would only have 30 seconds for cows and 30 seconds for bulls. That did throw me for a bit of a loop, and I admit I didn't give my best program because I practiced my butt offand was ready for a 2 minute program.)Al then told me, "You'll do better tomorow because I know you won't be caught off gurd and you can learn from today." But still I did do a good job overall. Well, at least I and two of the judges thought so. The winning score for round 1 was a 88, 5 place was 82, I scored a 80. Judge #1 gave me a 30, judge #3 gave me a 32 and judge #2 gave me a 18. I don't know what he was looking for but, I guess he didn't like what he heard from me. There was 24 men in the contest Idrew # 15 to call. Ithink that out of the 5 that qualified for the finals none were after the 10th caller. The man who won the contest is from Eagle, Id. and it was his first contest ever.I'll try and find the names and post them here.Al also told me to not loose any sleep over it and move on to the next contest, and that judges can sometimes suck. Again I am not saying I shoud have won but I feel like I should have placed in the top 5. Oh well thats life and I still did have a fun time and I also learned a lot as well. I will try again in 2 weeks, in Montaina. I'll do my best and lay my cards on the table and see how it stacks up from there. I did make sure that I supported the top 5 who went on and even offered my bugle tube to a few of them it is a wiffle ball bat type set up like Dan Whitmus's tubebut with your tube tamer on it. Anyway all of them had a bite an blow type tube/reed, like yours or the type like Primos and Berry's. A few can't remember who also had a regular tube like the carlton with a diaphram, in addition to their other bite and blow tubes. Moving on, I was wondering if I could maybe call you and pick your brain about contests? If of course that is ok with you, and I hope I am not oversteping my grounds by asking so. Take care and maybe we can meet up in the furture.