BTLN ORIGINAL SERIES - THE BATTALION OLYMPICS

 

The 14th annual Battalion Olympics is next week so I thought that this would be a good time to do the Btln Original Series. Actually this will be the 15th year for the Olympics, the first year we did not have an overall champion(there were champions for each individual event) or a trophy. Fred Klassen was the Captain the first year that we had the Olympics and he was the one that introduced 3739 to those triangles that make the Olympics work. The following year Fred had left Battalion but his ideas were here to stay. The first Major at Btln was the Ping Pong tourney and we were looking for a Major for the second half of the year so we changed a couple of the events, added a scoring system and the trophy. The first year the events were Arm Wrestling, Hockey(shooting a puck through a whole in a board) and Basketball(21). The first year that we had the Trophy, Hockey changed to a shootout, but probably the best change we made was changing Hockey to Box Hockey. Box Hockey is by far the best event at the Olympics and is usually the difference maker when it comes to crowning a Champion. In 89-90 the Championship came down to one game of Box Hockey between Aaron Friesen and Nathan Klassen and in 03-04 Dan Neufeld took the title because of Box Hockey. Since that first year we have also added the Football Toss, so the events are now Basketball(21), Arm Wrestling, Football Toss and Box Hockey. We now have the four Majors at Btln but The Battalion Olympics is still my favourite. Here are the Champions.

1995-96 COURTNEY FRIESEN
1996-97 COURTNEY FRIESEN
1997-98 AARON FRIESEN
1998-99 AARON FRIESEN
1999-00 DEREK TAYLOR
2000-01 JUSTIN BEKKER
2001-02 JUSTIN BEKKER
2002-03 JUSTIN THOMPSON
2003-04 DAN NEUFELD
2004-05 BEN JEPSEN
2005-06 BEN JEPSEN
2006-07 CAM THOMPSON
2007-08 DEVIN CHURSINOFF

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