2016 Akisphere

The Akisphère 2016 was a bit strange as we had to switch the whole tournament indoors at the last minute. Thanks to the great folks at the College of Old Montreal we had a good deal and could play in decent conditions as the weather turned pretty bad for the 2 last days of the tournament. Friday was fine for the singles prelims.

We had some visitors from the Memphis Footworks club, Walt Houston and Ben Alston, the 4th place finishers at the 2015 World Footbag Championships were in the house. Walt was also the singles finalist last year as well as the 2014 World Champion in singles net.

Well they weren’t here for joking as they cleaned up the two titles. The dynamic duo won doubles pretty easily in two games against Luc Legault and Manu Bouchard. Luc had won the last 3 editions.

In singles Walt overcame a loss in the first set of his finals match against François Depatie-Pelletier to clinch his first singles title in Montreal.

Pro Kicker production produced a video album immortalizing the complete singles and doubles finals as well as the doubles semi-finals B (Luc Legault and Manu Bouchard vs François Depatie-Pelletier and Renaud Fanoni.)

You can view it here

The 2016 AKISPHERE from Pro Kicker

2016 AKISPHÈRE  – RESULTS
July 8-10, 2016

Singles – Simple

1. Walt Houston
2. François Dépatie-Pelletier
3. Ben Alston
4. Luc Legault
5. Dominic O’Brien
5. Martin Côté
7. Stéphane Tailleur
7. Luka Weyler-Lavallée
9. Renaud Fanoni
10. Geneviève Bousquet

Doubles – Double

1. Walt Houston – Ben Alston
2. Emmanuel Bouchard – Luc Legault
3. Renaud Fanoni – François Dépatie-Pelletier
3. Martin Côté – Luka Weyler-Lavallée
5. Geneviève Bousquet – Maude Landreville
6. Dominic O’Brien – Stéphane Tailleur
7. Yves Archambault – Olivier Berthiaume-Bergé
8. Marilyn Demuy – Philippe Lessard

Other web pages referencing this event:
The results on footbag.org
The original blogpost about Akisphere 2016 by Yves Archambault

AKISPHÈRE 2016 doubles finals game 1 10:07

2.  AKISPHÈRE 2016 doubles finals game 2 14:22

3. AKISPHÈRE 2016 doubles semis B game 1 10:49

4.  AKISPHÈRE 2016 doubles semis B game 2 10:38

5.  AKISPHÈRE 2016 doubles semis B game 3 17:30

6.  AKISPHÈRE 2016 Singles finals game 1 07:09

7.  AKISPHÈRE 2016 Singles finals game 2 07:02

8.  AKISPHÈRE 2016 Singles finals game 3 06:28

9.  AKISPHÈRE 2016 Singles Trailer

10.AKISPHÈRE 2016 doubles Teaser (5 first plays of the match)