We have the winners of the King and Queen contests. The Official Queen of the Kootenays is Brigitte O’Mally, and the official King is Scott Jeffery.

What a tough comp! Both the men and the women battled hard at all events for these prestigious titles. The women’s event was so hard to predict. There were 2 competitors, Jaimee Beaupre and Brigitte O’Mally, and they were very evenly matched. Jaimee Beaupre started with the lead by winning the Rec Division ROAM Rally by 14 seconds over O’Mally. Then in the Valhalla Pure Powderkeg Booter, O’mally took the win with 155.9 points over Beaupre’s 89 points. Beaupre came back to win the overall Poker Run hand showing her prowess at the chance event delivering a 2 pair hand, with 10’s and Aces. O’Mally placed 4th overall in the Scarpa Poker Run. In the end O’Mally, with her solid skiing expertise, easily took the Gericks Banked Slalom with a time of 48.02 seconds over Beaupre’s 55.08 second run. Because of the flip flop nature of this comp we awarded points for each event. Whoever won the event was given 100 points and then the runners up would get points based on where they ended up in the results in comparison to all the other competitors in the event. Brigitte won by a narrow margin in the hotly contested comp. The men’s was a tad easier to decide with two front runners appearing early in the event. Andrew Mcnabb seized the win of the King participants with a 4th overall place in the ROAM Rally. Then Scott Jeffery of Nelson took 1st of the Kings in the next three events consecutively, in the Valhalla Pure Outfitter Powderkeg Booter, the Scarpa Poker Run and the Gericks Banked Slalom. Andrew was always a close 2 or 3rd in each of the other events.

Great job to all the competitors in the King and Queen comps. Was really fun to watch it all go down. Thanks to Charles Arnold for the great idea that gave way to such and event and thanks to all the event organizers for putting on such great comps.