Bert Coates, one of the Vice Presidents of the RCW Pickleball Club was the organizer.
The format of play was that each team would play against each team from the other country in one game to 11 points.
The teams were composed as follows.
| Canada | |||
| Team 1 | Shelly Lang | Bert Coates | |
| Team 2 | Allan Schreiber | Garry Buchanan | |
| Team 3 | Michael Brandon | John Szabo | |
| USA | |||
| Team 1 | Mike Wood | Ken Zacharias | |
| Team 2 | Marilyn Heimke | Rob Silver | |
| Team 3 | Wayne Thompson | Jack McFarlane |
| The Canadians won 5 of the matches and the US won 4. Bert also tallied the total points for each team, and on that score Canada won 78-62. Michael Brandon and John Szabo for Canada won 3 matches. Mike Wood and Ken Zacharias for the USA won two matches. All other teams won one match. The challenges for the tournament were trying to get 3 teams for each country this late in the season. Additionally, one player complained that Michael Brandon and John Szabo were playing together. In that this was not a formal tournament there were no ground rules for who could play and who could not, nor how the teams could be placed. This is not a complaint that should be ignored, and future tournaments will probably have some ground rules so that competition is fair for all parties. |
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