News

March 30th, 2008
The bids have started to roll in. Time to get excited!

March 15th 2008
Happy St. Paddy's Day (yes, the Roman Catholic church moved it to today instead of the traditional 17th!). The bid forms are now online. Information about the Saturday night Disco Dance Off will go up this weekend as well.

March 11th 2008
Organizational meeting to confirm that the major items have been looked after. Fields, insurance, tent... we're well under way.

March 10th 2008
Volunteers are starting to be sorted out, as is security.

Feb 17th 2008
The new website nears completion! While I'm looking forward to getting all the photos online, the next step is to get the bid form up before I leave for a vacation in Russia. I hear rumours that one of Russia's biggest indoor tourneys is happening the same weekend I'm there... it's tempting to stop in and find some recruits for a new Russia vs. Canada showdown involving a round flat thing... only this time, in Fergus Ontario.

Feb 16th 2008
Fields are booked. Insurance is in the works. Scott Belair is amazing behind the scenes at plowing through the paperwork. Next up for him, the special events permit.

Feb 14th 2008
The transfer of the domain is done. Time to start building the new updated website. Gender Blender now lives as a part of The Ultimate Experience under the same overall domain as our main site. Of course this is just technobabble... but most of you haven't even started to think about Gender Blender yet, have you? Happy Valentine's Day all!

Feb 8th 2008
The logo and theme concepts for this year have been discussed and our top notch design expert is on the case. Can't wait to unveil the 2008 logo and theme. It's about time we did something like this!

Jan 29th 2008
Busy day today! VC Ultimate has negotiated a new plan for The Ultimate Experience this year, and we've talked about what possibilities there are for merchandise. Looks like we'll be able to do some really awesome stuff!! (but I have to keep a lid on it for now!)
Carmen Chan has agreed to handle the arrangement of medical again. She coordinated that great last year for both Gender Blender and Nationals and it's fantastic to have someone else worry about this. It's doubly fantastic knowing how much experience she has and how smoothly everything will go.

Jan 19th 2008
Scott and Julie Belair, in spite of just recently having an addition to the family, have hopped on board to help out with some of the vast planning for Gender Blender. Just in time too as I'm off to Mexico next week! I'm not going to have time to work on my tan during the tourney, so I gotta start early.

Jan 17th 2008
Calls made to people to head up the security team, volunteer team, medical team, administration team. This is a *big* tournament. It's half the size of the 2007 Canadian Nationals, and 2/3rds the size of the 2008 Canadian Nationals. Only this one runs 24 hours a day for the weekend and involves one of the best nights of partying anywhere!

Jan 16th 2008
It's the official handoff... the passing of the torch. Giles, Karen, Dilhan and I meet for the first planning session of Gender Blender XII. Good times all around. And now it begins.