Marseillaise in Montreal

Building on the success of 2008 in the City of Quebec, the Quebec Petanque Federation and Ricard are organizing a second edition in Longueuil (Montreal).

July 16-17-18-19
Register by July 10
Information: micheltargiroff@hotmail.com
Website (only in French, so far)

The atmosphere last year was fantastic. Here's the 2008 slideshow.

Marseillaise in Montreal

Building on the success of 2008 in the City of Quebec, the Quebec Petanque Federation and Ricard are organizing a second edition in Longueuil (Montreal).

July 16-17-18-19
Register by July 10
Information: micheltargiroff@hotmail.com
Website (only in French, so far)

The atmosphere last year was fantastic. Here's the 2008 slideshow.

Getting ready for Québec

August 15-16-17

First ever "Marseillaise" petanque tournmanent this side of the Atlantic, and sponsored by Ricard.
Total potential purse: Can$ 21,500
Triplet teams
Registration fee: Can$ 135 per team, incl. 2 lunches


So far there are about 5 USA teams going that we know of.

Tournament website (in French)

It is not too late to sign up.
You can call us at 1-800-682-2557 if you need more info.

Pre-Mondial Ricard, Quebec August 15-17

A big splash! This will no doubt be the largest tournament ever held on the American continent.

Roger Roy, organizer and passionate player had told us at the NY Open that he was working on it, and everything is now in place. Inspired by "Le Mondial La Marseillaise": open to anyone, from beginners to world class players, in a festival atmosphere, in the heart of the city. He motivated local authorities, sponsors, restaurants, and - knowing him - the organization will be tops.
Although the official FIPJP statistics indicate Canada had 2268 members (2006) it is fair to say that the Province of Quebec alone, with around 50 clubs must have many more players. We ship boules to Canada all the time.

A purse of Can$ 15,000 + 100 % of registration fees definitely sounds like a good reason to go spend a weekend in Quebec City, which is also celebrating its 400 birthday this year. Pétanque ànd party time!
All you have to do at this stage is register your team. Payment to be made on arrival.

Contact:
Roger Roy, Organizer
Phone: (01)(418) 651-1500
E-mail: ricardroy@videotron.ca

Tournament website (in French)

Parc Ferland (tournament location) on Google maps
Quebec Tourist Information (English)

Update 4/15/08: this offer no longer applies:
Very important - a few slots are still available:
The organizers will contribute up to a maximum of $900 per team for the transportation expenses of foreign teams (comprised of 3 foreign players). Offered on a first come, first served basis, to max. 10 teams. Sign up now!

Pre-Mondial Ricard, Quebec August 15-17

A big splash! This will no doubt be the largest tournament ever held on the American continent.

Roger Roy, organizer and passionate player had told us at the NY Open that he was working on it, and everything is now in place. Inspired by "Le Mondial La Marseillaise": open to anyone, from beginners to world class players, in a festival atmosphere, in the heart of the city. He motivated local authorities, sponsors, restaurants, and - knowing him - the organization will be tops.
Although the official FIPJP statistics indicate Canada had 2268 members (2006) it is fair to say that the Province of Quebec alone, with around 50 clubs must have many more players. We ship boules to Canada all the time.

A purse of Can$ 15,000 + 100 % of registration fees definitely sounds like a good reason to go spend a weekend in Quebec City, which is also celebrating its 400 birthday this year. Pétanque ànd party time!
All you have to do at this stage is register your team. Payment to be made on arrival.

Contact:
Roger Roy, Organizer
Phone: (01)(418) 651-1500
E-mail: ricardroy@videotron.ca

Tournament website (in French)

Parc Ferland (tournament location) on Google maps
Quebec Tourist Information (English)

Update 4/15/08: this offer no longer applies:
Very important - a few slots are still available:
The organizers will contribute up to a maximum of $900 per team for the transportation expenses of foreign teams (comprised of 3 foreign players). Offered on a first come, first served basis, to max. 10 teams. Sign up now!

Petanque in Toronto

Some people definitely have their priorities straight!
David recently moved from Guernsey to Canada and the first thing he did was to build a terrain in his backyard.

Here are 4 pictures I took during construction of my petanque terrain. It is about 12 x 2.7 metres (I would liked to have gone wider but lackthe space). I used a mechanical tamper to compress the lower layer of limestone tailings, (about 5 inches depth on top of a plastic weed control membrane). Then I tamped another two inches of fine limestone dust, and added a light loose dusting on top.

I will have to dig the end gutters out a bit so that they contain long out-of-bounds boule - an idea I incorporated after seeing an Italian Hotel bocci terrain with similar end gutters.

I used 6 x 6 pressure treated lumber to contain the whole thing. There are 3 layers on the low side of the grade (towards the ravine and the apple trees) and the low side also has pieces of 6 x 6 extending under the terrain to form a crib so hopefully the whole thing will stay in place for many years to come.

The uprights are for floodlighting (all properly cased in conduit and all external "wet environment" wire, junction boxes etc), and the tops of the floodlight posts (about 4'9") are just perfect for your beer!

This is the third terrain I have built over the years but I find that the longer I play, the more I need to learn and practice!

I look forward to Christening the new terrain just as soon as your boules arrive. My other boules will remain in Europe so there is room in my suitcase for normal peoples stuff!

David also volunteers to advise anyone in Canada who wants to build a terrain or start a group.
Let us know, and we'll give you his phone #.

Petanque in Toronto

Some people definitely have their priorities straight!
David recently moved from Guernsey to Canada and the first thing he did was to build a terrain in his backyard.

Here are 4 pictures I took during construction of my petanque terrain. It is about 12 x 2.7 metres (I would liked to have gone wider but lackthe space). I used a mechanical tamper to compress the lower layer of limestone tailings, (about 5 inches depth on top of a plastic weed control membrane). Then I tamped another two inches of fine limestone dust, and added a light loose dusting on top.

I will have to dig the end gutters out a bit so that they contain long out-of-bounds boule - an idea I incorporated after seeing an Italian Hotel bocci terrain with similar end gutters.

I used 6 x 6 pressure treated lumber to contain the whole thing. There are 3 layers on the low side of the grade (towards the ravine and the apple trees) and the low side also has pieces of 6 x 6 extending under the terrain to form a crib so hopefully the whole thing will stay in place for many years to come.

The uprights are for floodlighting (all properly cased in conduit and all external "wet environment" wire, junction boxes etc), and the tops of the floodlight posts (about 4'9") are just perfect for your beer!

This is the third terrain I have built over the years but I find that the longer I play, the more I need to learn and practice!

I look forward to Christening the new terrain just as soon as your boules arrive. My other boules will remain in Europe so there is room in my suitcase for normal peoples stuff!

David also volunteers to advise anyone in Canada who wants to build a terrain or start a group.
Let us know, and we'll give you his phone #.