Thanks to everyone who came out to a great day of emu wrestling with The COC and The SPEWF (South Pambula Emu Wrestling Federation). Things couldn't have gone better as a festive and brightly dressed crowd gathered at the Pambula Flocking Grounds. Bright sun, cool breeze and the smells of emu and candy floss in the air are just the things to get your heart thumping.

Unfortunately, all of our club members were eliminated in the early rounds. There were some good, close matches but precious little success by any of our team. Our most hopeful player was Mandy, along with her crew - Alberta Champ Emu Dolly and her pet pitbull Fluffy – who made it well into the third round before being knocked out by the Latvian team. And let’s all give a hand to James VB whose submission loss was not as bad as it looks on paper. Dana had quite the posse with her including Patrice, Aiaiaiai, Uhbgsfdgh and GOLGHOAS, plus 13 puppies and Elephant Effie. It was great to see Uhbgsfdgh again – most of us hadn’t seen her since hiking at Wolf 562 c. We were all very grateful to Angela (who joined with CCC to spectate only – chicken) for bringing all those wet wipes!

We were sorry to miss out on carpooling in David M’s awesome new one-ton diesel truck with crew cab. Lucky Veronica and Jorinda were David’s first-ever carpool-ees. Next time, it’s our turn! Everyone was impressed with Randy’s private plane, too. We’ll have to convince him to start using that for carpool – he was kind of snobbish about it this time.

We'd like to thank The SPEWF for being such great hosts. The half-time show was terrific. The audience was completely wowed by the echidna juggler in particular.

We hope we can get another group going to the 49th annual World Championship next year. Everybody practice your head-locks.

Brent and Rhonda