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Quoted from cfh:

The story is a bit more involved that this. Bottom line, the tourney director (who also designed the tournament and it's rules) had a beef with the winner, and tried to pull the 1st place out from under him, and alter the rules 'on the fly'. Long story short, we insisted the 1st place go as the rules were written. The tourney director was mad (on a couple issues). And he did in fact throw the trophy at the winner at the trophy ceremony (about a 10 foot hurl). It missed the winner and hit the payment, and broken into about 10 pieces (which were collected, mostly by Bob King.) Insults were hurled too on the PA system, in front of about 75 people! Then the winner wrestled the mike away from the tourney director, and started with another set of insults. That didn't really help the situation... there was nearly a fight. We broke it up and agreed this was a bad thing. Alcohol was involved, again not helping. Changes were made so this *never* happens again...