Scores - St. Marys AAA Ringette Challenge Cup Games

Scores for the St. Marys AAA Ringette Challenge Cup games are below. Player stats and game sheets are available on Score2Stats.

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Scores below last updated: 18:11 27 November 2011

Friday, November 25, 2011
12:00 PM - W 3 vs S 5
1:30 PM  - NE 5 vs United 12
3:00 PM  - C 8 vs E 5

6:00 PM - NE 3 vs W 10
7:30 PM - United 7 vs C 9
9:00 PM - E 7 vs S 3

Saturday, November 26, 2011
10:00 AM - W 6 vs C 3
11:30 AM - S 7 vs NE 1
1:00 PM  - United 6 vs E 5

5:00 PM - C 5 vs S 5
6:30 PM - W 8 vs United 2
8:00 PM - NE 2 vs E 9

Sunday, November 27, 2011
9:00 AM  - S 3 vs United 6
10:30 AM - E 7 vs W 2
12:00 PM - C 9 vs NE 5

FINAL
4:00 PM - 2nd - Eastern 4 vs 1st - Central 5

Congratulations to Central Region for winning Gold and Eastern for taking the Silver.

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Follow Tweets from St. Marys AAA Ringette Challenge Cup

Tweets during the 2011 St. Marys AAA Ringette Challenge Cup (#AAAringette) by the Southern, Central, United and Eastern AAA teams & anyone who uses #AAAringette hashtag are captured below.

Game stats are available on Score2Stats.






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St. Marys Ringette Challenge Cup Schedule

The St. Marys AAA Ringette Challenge Cup schedule, November 25-27, 2011, is below and is also on Score2Stats. This Challenge Cup will be hosted by the St. Marys Ringette Association.

All games will be played at St. Marys Pyramid Recreation Centre (previously known as the St. Marys Area Arena) > View Map

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Friday, November 25, 2011
12:00 PM - W vs S
1:30 PM  - NE vs United
3:00 PM  - C vs E

6:00 PM - NE vs W
7:30 PM - United vs C
9:00 PM - E vs S

Saturday, November 26, 2011
10:00 AM - W vs C
11:30 AM - S vs NE
1:00 PM  - United vs E

5:00 PM - C vs S
6:30 PM - W vs United
8:00 PM - NE vs E

Sunday, November 27, 2011
9:00 AM  - S vs United
10:30 AM - E vs W
12:00 PM - C vs NE

FINAL
4:00 PM - 2nd vs 1st


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Well Done, Choice Hotels

I'm always on the lookout for good examples of well integrated, relevant marketing campaigns that don't leave you confused.

Choice Hotels has a behaviour targeted campaign that was able to detect that I might be interested in hotels for sports teams. So it showed me this ad (only the top part is shown here, full ad below) ...

All too often, such an ad will just send the visitor to a general reservation page.  Choice Hotels sent me to a landing page that was a bit more customized, promoting their group rate programs. 

What would have been really cool would have been a behaviourally targeted landing page that inserted a ringette player image where the hockey player is shown, with copy 'Score big on your next out-of-town ringette game', based on my interests and the site I was on.

Here's the complete skyscraper ad...

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Total Flex Gives a Total Gym Workout at Home

A few weeks ago, I succumbed to an infomercial and ordered a Total Flex home gym, sold by Thane Direct Canada.

The Total Flex is a resistance band home gym. A few years ago, I borrowed my brother-in-law's Weider Total Gym, sort of a lower cost version of the Total Gym promoted by Chuck Norris. It was a convenient alternative to going to the gym for weight/resistance training. While it was 'foldable' and had wheels, it was very heavy to move around and stayed in the middle of the basement floor. Eventually, I returned it because it took up too much room.

The Total Flex is much more compact, is indeed easy to move around and re-position. However, the Total Flex is still quite heavy and I wouldn't want to have to regularly lug it up and down stairs.

The resistance bands take a bit of getting used to, but having done 3 workouts, we'll be keeping our Total Flex.

I ordered the Total Flex 'Performance Package' - the leg extender and head rest (image, right). This is definitely a worthwhile addition. The leg extender is needed if you want to do leg extension exercises to exercise your quads.

The Total Flex kit comes with a package of exercise charts and a DVD with video workout segments led by fitness trainer Kim Lyons. The DVD segments correspond to the exercise charts, which are grouped by Core, Upper Body, Lower Body, etc. The workouts on the DVD are a bit slow, but should be watched for technique.

The infomercial showed the Total Flex comes fully assembled, but that's not the case.

• One of the resistance band pods is attached but you'll have to attach the second one.
• Parts and tools are provided. The Total Flex User Guide isn't quite complete as it should be, and page 4 of my copy of the English user guide was in French.
• Putting everything together, including the attachments for the leg extender, took about an hour.

Under the current Total Flex special offer, the base unit has a 30-day free trial with free shipping.

• I paid the total price of $249.75, got the free shipping.  
• The Total Flex Performance Package cost $59.95, with additional shipping cost of $24.95.  Plus HST on everything. 

So far, the Total Flex is working well, does provide a total gym workout and I give it a definite thumbs-up review.

Update (2015):  Does the Total Flex home gym work?  Yes.

We also purchased an elliptical and the combination has been great.  Unfortunately, the elliptical has broken down, we've gotten rid of it and are not planning to buy another.  I have gone back to a gym membership, and therefore have just sold the Total Flex on Kijiji.  

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