2008 Palm Beach Open Photos - the fantastic prize wall (literally) and ceremony!

[SpearMax]

Here is the last round of 2008 Palm Beach Open Photos. The fantastic prize wall and ceremony was great fun!

First, our master of ceremonies was Bill Black, the former manager of the Force E Dive Center in Riviera Beach. Bill is a very knowledgable diver spearfisher and hook & line fisher. Here are some photos of Bill tossing out goodies to the crowed room.

Great job Bill! :thumps:

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I am going to repeat some images of the prize wall that I posted in another thread just to "set the stage."

Once again, thanks to all our great sponsors! :notworthy

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The first announcements were winners of the trophies. Here are shots of a few of the trophies.

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Borrowing from Weigh Master Biggsy's thread, here are the results of the 2008 Palm Beach Blue Storm Open.


Biggest Fish Trophy Winners

AJ/Cobia - Anthony Segrich 39-1#
Grouper - Jobert Williams 40-2#
Hogfish/Flounder - Kent Rogerson 18-9#
Sheepshead/Trigger - Danny Jordan 7-9#
Snapper - Chad Palan 74-7#

Individual and Team Trophy Winners

Best Boat

1- Floored/Charlestondiving.com - 75.5
2- Shark Tales - 70.4
3- Team Aquasub - 67.9

Top Freediver

1- Chad Palan - 105.4375
2- Jose Santeiro - 73.6875
3- Travis Stokes - 49.75

Top Junior

1- Matthew Williams 67.0265
2- Travis Stokes - 49.75
3- Adam Laney 28.1875

Top Female

1- Lisa Rollins - 23.5
2- Anna Scutti - 3.375
3- Emily Woodberry - 0.875

Overall Winner - Chad Palan 105.4375

Final Overall Standings

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First up was these Biggest Fish category winners.

Biggest Fish Trophy Winners
AJ/Cobia - Anthony Segrich 39-1#
Grouper - Jobert Williams 40-2#
Hogfish/Flounder - Kent Rogerson 18-9#
Sheepshead/Trigger - Danny Jordan 7-9#

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Then, we had the following trophies presented.

Top Junior

Matthew Williams 67.0265

Top Female

Lisa Rollins - 23.5

Best Boat

Floored/Charlestondiving.com - 75.5

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Then, the ceremony focused on the winner of three trophies!

Biggest Snapper

Chad Palan 74-7#

Top Freediver

Chad Palan - 105.4375

Overall Winner

Chad Palan 105.4375

Chad chose the Belize trip as his prize. See this link for details:

http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=67047

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The next winner was Kent Rogerson who finished in second place. Kent chose the $2,000 Shopping Spree at Divers Direct from the prize wall. Next up was SBO Tournament champion Rob Harding who chose the $1,000 Divers Direct Shopping spree. See this link for more on Divers Direct.

http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=67040

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Next up are #4 Mike Newman (missing picture), #5 Danny Jordan, and #6 Jobert Williams.

Way to go guys! :thumps:

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Next up #7 Jose Santiero, #8 Chip Garber, *9 Matt Williams, #10 Robert Murphy, #11 Ramas Prochorskis

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Next round of five!

#12 John Dickinson, #13 Brandon Langel, #14 Joel Fuller, #15 Jason Wilson, #16 Mike Parr

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Here they come for prizes: #17 Travis Stokes, #18 Stephen Goldfinch, #19 Will Carpenella, #20 Severino (Julian) Cruz

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Next was a Mystery Ticket won by none other than Tournament champion Chad Palan who chose the $3,000 value original painting "Dolphin Breaching" by Helter Skeletons. Way to go Chad!

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Another set of winners.

#21 Harald Dett

#23 Ulises Suarez

#24 Alex Perera

Mystery Ticket winner Jim Muscara

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#25 Kevin Atalski

#26 Tony Crumrine

#27 Albert Waugh

#28 Henry Fernandez

#29 Anthony Segrich

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Another Mystery ticket. Craig Meumann of Team Dykoke takes away a great E-Sea Rider boat bean bag.

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Way to go guys!

#30 Randy Barros
#31 Adam Laney
#32 Lucas Rehwoldt

Mystery ticket winner!

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Group Photo (left to right):

#33 John Ippolito
#37 Lisa Rollins "petra" + son
#36 Jim Fyfe
#34 Keith Hennessy
#35 Jim Muscara

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Group photo (left to right)

#39 Ricky Meder
#38 Frank Barrios
#41 Patrick Smith

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Number 40 Craig Meumann

Number 42 Luis Perera

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Group photo (left to right)

#45 Dane Ralph
#44 Richard Wilson
Mystery Ticket - Jenna Moeller
#46 Ryan Shapiro
#47 Robby Molnar
#43 James Schuler

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Group photo (left to right)

#49 Matthew Bruckner
#50 Ryan Gutzeit
#51 Chandler Beck
#48 Sean Smith

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Group photo (left to right)

#52 Pablo Sagion
#54 Les Moscariello
#58 David McCauley

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Group photo (left to right)

#55 Jay Crockenberg
#56 Anna Scutti
#57 Randy Docks
#52 Rick Freeland
Mystery Robert Roudes

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Group photo (left to right)

#60 Scott Briegel
#59 Jim McGrath
#63 Emily Woodberry
#61 Steve Prater
#62 Daniel McCauley

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Then, there was a massive free-for-all as everyone came up to get the many remaining prizes. As I said at the beginning of this thread, there were plenty of nice prizes. Contestants were getting spearguns and other high value items pretty far down the list throughout the ceremony. :cool:

But, the interesting thing is the story of Emily Woodberry. She came down from her normal hunting grounds near Cape Canaveral to dive off Palm Beach. Her take was small to say the least as the photo below indicates. She went up to the prize table at the very end and picked up a $100 value item - a certificate for the purchase of 5 raffle tickets for the $250,000 boat out in the parking lot. :)

The raffle drawing is not until next May. Would'nt it be ironic if the last place finisher at the 2008 Palm Beach Blue Storm Open were to win that boat? Stranger things have happened! :scratch:

Congratulations Emily on making the list of PBO winners! :yippee:

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For the other main threads check out these links:

- 2008 Palm Beach Open Photos - the cool (literally) setting!

http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=67392

- Official Tournament Results...2008 Palm Beach Blue Storm Open

http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=67336

- 2008 Palm Beach Open Photos - the monster (literally) fish weigh-in!

http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=67440

[biggsy]

That was thorough to say the least. Nice job on the pictures and the bookkeeping Tony!

[DiveGal]

With a 1 in 2500 shot, I have a pretty good chance. :D

Then there's luxery tax and gas to mention a couple of concerns...

If I win it, I'll figure it out.

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With a 1 in 2500 shot, I have a pretty good chance. :D

Then there's luxery tax and gas to mention a couple of concerns...

If I win it, I'll figure it out.

Emily, check out this thread. The odds per ticket would be 1 in 12,500 which is still a whole lot better than Lotto odds.

http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=66816

While it may not happen, I believe the sponsor is trying to get a year's supply of fuel added into the prize package. Would'nt that be great?

FYI, Tony

[DiveGal]

The odds per ticket would be 1 in 12,500 which is still a whole lot better than Lotto odds.

While it may not happen, I believe the sponsor is trying to get a year's supply of fuel added into the prize package. Would'nt that be great?


Since I have 5 tickets, my odds are 5 in 12,500 or 1 in 2500 (12,5000 / 5)

A years supply of gas would be killer!

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Since I have 5 tickets, my odds are 5 in 12,500 or 1 in 2500 (12,5000 / 5)

A years supply of gas would be killer!

Oh...I see what you mean. Good point!

Somebody could buy 250 tickets and dramatically increase their odds. ;)