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THE BATTLE AT BULL RUN -- INDEPENDENCE DAY SHOWDOWN
5635 Bull Run -- Birmingham, AL
July 4, 2008

It all started about 4 p.m. on a hot 4th of July with 11 Monkeyballers including 7 rookies!  This was a Battle that had lots of special duels...Mother/Daughter, Husband/Wife and Daughter/Step Dad, with lots of laughs and lots of trash-talking.  The weather tried to test us with dark clouds, heavy winds, lightning, and rain, but we managed to Battle it out until we had a champion. 

Some of the highlights included rookie Chris Cochran's first-ever tosses where he put up 9 points in his first round - what a way to start!  Chris went on to win that first match, but eventually went out losing to his wife in the loser's bracket!  John Mardis and Randy Nelms went at it in the first round with Randy sending John to the loser's bracket.  John got his revenge a couple of games later (as they met again in the loser's bracket) and knocked Randy out of the tournament.  Tracey Cochran was a natural going all the way to the finals in her first ever MB tournament!  She lost her first game to Sean Dameron, the Battle at Bull Run champ.  Tracey stormed through the loser's bracket by beating her step dad (MB rookie Tom Brown), her husband, and eventually her own mother (another MB rookie, Paula Brown) to make it to the finals.  Sean and Tracey met up again in the finals, where Tracey took the first game 15-11 and gave Sean his first loss.  He came back from that defeat to win the championship match 15-0! 

We had neighbors and spectators coming out into the streets to see what it was we were doing.  All in all it was a fun way to spend this Independence Day and introduce more people to the excitement and genius that is Monkeyball.