Originally Posted by
Siman08/OH
Team Hoyt Dominates First World Indoor Tournament of 09 Season
12/10/2008
AMSTERDAM - The much-anticipated biennialFace2Face tournament recently kicked off the indoor season, and Team Hoyt hit the ground running - claiming 9 of top 12 spots in the men's and women's compound and recurve divisions.
Face2Face features dozens of the world's top recurve and compound competitors in a high pressure match based format. Precision and consistency are absolutely neccessary for success.
In men's compound action, Hoyt's Sergio Pagni (ITA) won the gold, with Patrizio Hofer (SUI) and Peter Elzinga (NED) winning silver and bronze, respectively. Gladys Willems (BEL) won the women's compound gold medal, and her Hoyt teammate Sofia Goncharova (RUS) won the silver medal. Team Hoyt also dominated the recurve ranks, climbing the podium with a gold medal and several other podium finishes. Piotr Piatek (POL) and Michael Peart (GBR) won silver and bronze, respectively, in the men's recurve division, and Elena Richter (GER) and Carrie Wegh (NED) won the gold and bronze, respectively, in the women's recurve division. Hoyt would like to congratulate all of its shooters for their outstanding performance at Face2Face.
Where was PSE? Oh wait, they werent
I will go out on a limb and say that it is not the bows that win the tournaments.....it is the shooter. Many of those shooters could place no matter what bow they are shooting. What it comes down to is which companies are paying better to have more shooters at a tournament or event. Some companies dump a lot of money into having their bows in tournament shooters hands. Some companies do not focus on that. The companies that don't focus as much on that will not have that many in the placing list. Take any of those folks mentioned above and I bet they will place just as good with any bow company paying them top dollar.