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Jugglers Festival 2000

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Saturday Competition 

The Seed & Feed Marching Abominable Band opened the show on Saturday with their upbeat music and zany costumes and our own Bruce Plott as band leader.  The tooth fairy appeared with them this year and several children in the audience vowed never to lose any more teeth with this guy around!

Our own Rodger French emceed the competition on Saturday afternoon.   There were seven juggling acts competing for the coveted Phil award.

1. Matt Henry from Orlando, FL -- with diabolos
2. Nathan Dorrell from Ft. Worth, TX -- juggled clubs, rings and balls
3. T. J. Robertson from Winston Salem, NC -- juggled torches on a unicycle
4. Brian Petit from New Orleans, LA -- with a flaming devil stick
5. Sean McKinney from Brooklyn, NY -- juggled four balls
6. Warren, Pam and Kristen Hamilton from Niceville, FL -- passed clubs
7. Cindy Marvell from NY City -- juggled clubs

The winners were Nathan Darrell (Most Amazing) , Sean McKinney (Most Magnificent), and the Hamilton family (Most Spectacular).  The Phil trophy for Most Magnanimous was presented to our own Rick Purtee for his 16 years of dedicated service to the AJA.  He and his family will be greatly missed when they move to Seattle soon.

The yo-yoists held the Georgia State Championship Yo-yo competition on Saturday afternoon.  The finalists wowed the audience with amazing yo-yo feats.  Greg Cohen presented the three top awards to:  

1st - Masahiro Tanijawa

2nd - David Guttenplan

3rd - Olier

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