Leisure players will still play using the tournament rotating sheets and schedules to learn how to play in tournament fashion and keep scores. We will award a Most Honest Player prize each tournament night (prize is a free euchre night for the following tournament) should all eight players play. In the event that we do not get 4 players minimum players can attend and go through Euchre Boot Camp with some of our volunteers.

If the Leisure Pool does not attract players over the course of February and March, we will consider discontinuing the Leisure Pool entirely.

MULTIPLE EVENT REGISTRATION

We have upgraded the event registration system we use online, and installed additional functionality so that you can REGISTER YOURSELF AND FRIENDS FOR MORE THAN ONE EUCHRE NIGHT AT A TIME.

Here’s how in 10 EASY STEPS:

1. Go to the page: http://www.mcctorontochoir.com/events/registration
2. Review the list of Euchre Nights for 2012 – notice new buttons (Tweet and Like) under each Euchre Night to share with friends – we encourage you to use them!
3. Notice “Register for Event or Add to Cart” links at the bottom of any given Euchre Night Listing.
4. To register for more than one Euchre Night use the “ADD TO CART” link, the area will refresh to say View Cart. For single night registration click “register”
5. Continue to click “Add To Cart” for each Night you wish to register for.
6. Once completed adding all nights to cart, click on any View Cart link.
7. This next page will list all the Nights you wish to register for.
8. Use the drop down under each night listed to say how many people you wish to register for each night, then click “Continue to Registration” Button.
9. This will bring you to a page to fill out registrant details. Complete the registration details for each night (you can use the drop down to select same info after completing the first details if you are registering yourself multiple times and no one else, so you don’t have to type your info in repeatedly).
10. Click “Confirm and Go To Payment Page” when you are done entering registrant information, then choose payment to complete payment and your registration.

This means that if you want to play in Feb, April and September, in Main and a friend wants to play for example in leisure in Feb, you can register and pay in ONE TRANSACTION! Regstration made easy.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

In 2011 we had several nights of chaos as registrants DID NOT SHOW UP TO PLAY – particularly players who registered online, but did NOT COMPLETE ONLINE PAYMENT.

We have decided that UNTIL PAYMENT IS RECEIVED (either through PayPal (which allows credit card payment) or in person at the church PRIOR TO EUCHRE NIGHT) players will NOT BE CONSIDERED REGISTERED TO PLAY and you will NOT have a seat in the tournament. We have had to do this as a safeguard against what occurred in 2o11, where large numbers of player did not show up and tournament play is in jeopardy when players do not show up. We find payment keeps people committed to attending.

Players with a solid history of playing with us and attending faithfully will be granted special consideration if payment is requested to be made at the door.

New Players who have never played with us before MUST prepay in advance to secure a spot in the tournament.

Euchre Grand Champion Grand Prize

This amazing Grand Prize is furnished by:

Grand Prize Details:

• complete details to follow.

First Runner Up Prize

• details to follow.

Second Runner Up Prize

Leisure Pool

There will be NO LEISURE POOL Grand Champ in 2012.

Presented By THE BOGANI FAMILY COALITION

A Concert and Silent Auction to raise funds and awareness for FREE THE CHILDREN. Proceeds will go to help students and their communities in Africa.

FEATURING

Alana Bridgewater, Sterling Jarvis, Heather Bambrick, Diane Leah, The MCC Choir and GLAD Voices

SPECIAL ADDRESS BY

Craig Kielburger of Free The Children

DATE: Saturday, February 25, 2012
TIME: 8:00 p.m.
DOORS OPEN FOR SILENT AUCTION: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: MCC Toronto, 115 Simpson Avenue, Toronto
TICKETS: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
INTERMISSION: Cash Bar

For More Information on The Bogani Family Coalition visit: www.boganifamilycoalition.com

For More Information on Free The Children visit: www.freethechildren.com

BUY TICKETS ONLINE

Click the banner below to be redirected to TicketWeb, who is handling online ticket sales for Jambo Jam.

The Euchre Committee is proud to announce that the 2011 Euchre tournaments raised a total of $17,560.00

Thank you to everyone who played at any of our tournaments this year, and for supporting the MCC Toronto Choir and its outreach and activities. Without the support of players we would not have been as successful!

We look forward to another great year of Euchre in 2012.

The scores have been tallied and we have a winner! Players had to play in 5 tournaments to qualify for the Grand Champion Prize of a trip for 2 to Las Vegas! If players played more than 5 tournaments, their TOP 5 SCORES were used to get their average score.

The race was extremely, and we mean EXTREMELY CLOSE! In fact, there was a tie with the top two players averaging 59 points each! In order to determine the official winner, we went back to the scores, and averaged the top 6 scores….still a tie, so we went to the top 7 score average….still a tie!

What are the chances? So, we went to the average of their top 8 scores, and FINALLY the tie was broken – BY ONLY ONE POINT!

The Euchre Grand Champion for 2011 is
Dan McIntyre

Congratulations go out to Dan McIntyre who is the official Euchre Grand Champion for 2011. Dan was officially crowned the Euchre Grand Champion at our announcement at the 11 AM Service at MCC Toronto on November 27, 2011! Dan now has bragging rights AND a Weekend Getaway for 2 to Las Vegas (including airfare and casino/hotel stay) courtesy of Carol Steward, CTC Travel Professional International, with $200 spending money courtesy of the MCC Toronto Choir. Congratulations Dan! – or should we say CHAMP!

First Runner-Up Winner is Marg Ketcheson

As First Runner-Up Marg has won a dinner for 2 at Prohibition Gastrohouse and a free year of euchre tournaments in 2012! Congratulations Marg. See you in 2012![/toggle_content]

Second Runner-Up Winner is Wendy Robbins

As Second Runner-Up Wendy has won a Cooking Class for 4 from Lisa Shamai Cusineire and a $40 LCBO gift certificate for some wine to bring to her cooking class (which ends in dinner)! Congratulations Wendy!

Ties were the norm this year, and we did have a tie between the third and fourth highest average scores and again, we went back to the scores to determine the second runner-up. Terry Walpole and Wendy Robbins were tied at 56 points each, and after calculating their average scores using 6 tournaments, Wendy edged out Terry by one point!

Leisure Pool Champion for 2011 is Bev Fournier

Each tournament, we have a Lesiure Pool for players who prefer more relaxed play and may not be proficient in the game, or perhaps just want to learn. Bev was the only player who played enough Tournaments to qualify for the Leisure Pool Champ Prize of a Weekend Getaway to Niagara Falls (which includes one night accommodations at Fallsview Casino Resort (courtesy of The MCC Choir), dinner for 2 at Napoli Ristorante and a helicopter ride for two over the falls (courtesy of Niagara Helicopter). Congratulations Bev!

Tally Sheet

If anyone is interested in their overall standing, you can Download the Grand Champ Tally Sheet pdf. Right click on the link and “save or download file”.

Many Thanks

Thank you to everyone who played in our tournaments this year, or volunteered at them.  Thanks to the committee members for all their hard work and dedication! It was a great Euchre season! Special thanks goes out to Carol Steward of Travel Professionals International, for her support of the MCC Toronto Choir and her donation of the Weekend Getaway to Las Vegas. We encourage you all to avail yourself of her services, and the services of all the euchre sponsors!

The Euchre Committee

The Euchre Tournaments take a lot of organization and manpower/womanpower to make happen, and without our committee the Euchre Tournaments would not continue and be as successful as they are.

Committee Lead & Registration Coordinator: Romelda Morson
Staff Liaison: Diane Leah
Registration Assistant: Suzanne Van Rees
Volunteer Coordinator: Jennifer Alexander
Bar/Beverage Coordinator: Cathy Brown
Prize Coordinator: Mark Stephenson
Kitchen/Food Coordinator: Suzanne Christie
Finance Coordinator/Treasurer: Heather Magee

The Choir has also played a major role in every Euchre night, volunteering to do registrations at church three sundays prior to each tournament, and on tournament nights to run the ticket tables, bartend, work in the kitchen, help with the registration table, serve drinks and clean up at the end of each night. Additionally, The Choir has also always provided the salads and desserts on a volunteer basis every night. MANY MANY thanks to each of those who time and time again stepped up to assist wherever help was needed and for providing great food every tournament!  Special thanks to Roy Dean who set up all the tables and chairs each night before all other volunteers arrived! Roy has been an invaluable help with this set up! Thank you Roy.

A personal thank you to the Euchre Committee

From Romelda: A small idea was born in Diane Leah’s backyard, when Heather and I suggested we do a few Euchre Tournaments to raise some money to send the Choir to Mexico for the UFMCC World Conference in 2010 – for a total of five tournaments with the goal of raising $6000. The original plan was to keep it simple, really simple. $25 registration fee, 64 players, a cash bar and serve hotdogs and chips for a simple meal and a few prizes for top scores…well we did that for one tournament, and slowly the idea grew, and people loved playing in the tournaments, so we added 3 additional nights for the Mexico fundraising endeavour. We’ve come a long way – to 9 tournaments this year with a Main Pool and a Leisure Pool, top 3 scoring prizes in each pool and a tonne of door prizes every night – all that AND a full smorgasbord of food (keeping the original hot dogs and chips idea, but we’ve upgraded the dogs and added to the menu). All this comes at a cost, so to speak. It costs time and effort. Ideas can be born and often die without a team of people who are dedicated and enthusiastic – these are both qualities this committee has. Thank you all for the time and energy you put into each tournament. They wouldn’t happen without all the effort! And that effort has not gone unnoticed – by myself nor the players. Many of them come to me and comment on how great the euchre nights are and how organized they are, and how much fun they are. Thanks to a great committee people keep coming back! Thank you all for everything you do!

The scores have been tallied and we have a winner! Players had to play in 5 tournaments to qualify for the Grand Champion Prize of a trip for 2 to Las Vegas! If players played more than 5 tournaments, their TOP 5 SCORES were used to get their average score.

The race was extremely, and we mean EXTREMELY CLOSE! In fact, there was a tie with the top two players averaging 59 points each! In order to determine the official winner, we went back to the scores, and averaged the top 6 scores….still a tie, so we went to the top 7 score average….still a tie!

What are the chances? So, we went to the average of their top 8 scores, and FINALLY the tie was broken – BY ONLY ONE POINT!

And the Championship Goes to...

The First Runner-Up Is...

The Second Runner-Up Is...

And the Leisure Pool Winner Is...

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Tally Sheet

If anyone is interested in their overall standing, you can Download the Grand Champ Tally Sheet pdf. Right click on the link and “save or download file”.

Many Thanks

Thank you to everyone who played in our tournaments this year, or volunteered at them.  Thanks to the committee members for all their hard work and dedication! It was a great Euchre season! Special thanks goes out to Carol Steward of Travel Professionals International, for her support of the MCC Toronto Choir and her donation of the Weekend Getaway to Las Vegas. We encourage you all to avail yourself of her services, and the services of all the euchre sponsors!

The Euchre Committee

The Euchre Tournaments take a lot of organization and manpower/womanpower to make happen, and without our committee the Euchre Tournaments would not continue and be as successful as they are.

Committee Lead & Registration Coordinator: Romelda Morson
Staff Liaison: Diane Leah
Registration Assistant: Suzanne Van Rees
Volunteer Coordinator: Jennifer Alexander
Bar/Beverage Coordinator: Cathy Brown
Prize Coordinator: Mark Stephenson
Kitchen/Food Coordinator: Suzanne Christie
Finance Coordinator/Treasurer: Heather Magee

The Choir has also played a major role in every Euchre night, volunteering to do registrations at church three sundays prior to each tournament, and on tournament nights to run the ticket tables, bartend, work in the kitchen, help with the registration table, serve drinks and clean up at the end of each night. Additionally, The Choir has also always provided the salads and desserts on a volunteer basis every night. MANY MANY thanks to each of those who time and time again stepped up to assist wherever help was needed and for providing great food every tournament!  Special thanks to Roy Dean who set up all the tables and chairs each night before all other volunteers arrived! Roy has been an invaluable help with this set up! Thank you Roy.

A personal thank you to the Euchre Committee

From Romelda: A small idea was born in Diane Leah’s backyard, when Heather and I suggested we do a few Euchre Tournaments to raise some money to send the Choir to Mexico for the UFMCC World Conference in 2010 – for a total of five tournaments with the goal of raising $6000. The original plan was to keep it simple, really simple. $25 registration fee, 64 players, a cash bar and serve hotdogs and chips for a simple meal and a few prizes for top scores…well we did that for one tournament, and slowly the idea grew, and people loved playing in the tournaments, so we added 3 additional nights for the Mexico fundraising endeavour. We’ve come a long way – to 9 tournaments this year with a Main Pool and a Leisure Pool, top 3 scoring prizes in each pool and a tonne of door prizes every night – all that AND a full smorgasbord of food (keeping the original hot dogs and chips idea, but we’ve upgraded the dogs and added to the menu). All this comes at a cost, so to speak. It costs time and effort. Ideas can be born and often die without a team of people who are dedicated and enthusiastic – these are both qualities this committee has. Thank you all for the time and energy you put into each tournament. They wouldn’t happen without all the effort! And that effort has not gone unnoticed – by myself nor the players. Many of them come to me and comment on how great the euchre nights are and how organized they are, and how much fun they are. Thanks to a great committee people keep coming back! Thank you all for everything you do!

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Additionally, the Choir performed “Rise Up” with Lorraine Segato, “Hallelujah” with Steven Page, and “Get Together/Connected” with Julie Michels, which can bee seen in the video below.

Get Together/Connected with Julie Michels

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Send Us Your Thoughts

Feel free to send us your thoughts on the Choir’s participation at Jack Layton’s Funeral, and once reviewed they will be posted here.

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The Choir is very proud of Joan’s performance, and hopes you enjoy her rendition of this John Denver classic.

Please note that this video is NOT shot by a professional, so please excuse any blips, and a few motion flaws!