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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

CORNHOLE: No Longer Just a Tailgating Game

In Georgia, football is HUGE, and therefore tailgating is HUGE. There are many tailgating games people play to pass the time before a big game, but none are as popular as cornhole. But to me, that's all cornhole was—a tailgating game.

Fast forward to me living in Ohio, and what do I begin to see everywhere? Cornhole. People everywhere playing it, talking about it. There was even a seasonal store in the Fairlawn mall dedicated to it. Blew my mind. So as I began planning fundraising events, I did not question the idea when a Cornhole Tournament was mentioned to me. I immediately loved the idea and jumped on board.

With the help of my co-worker Steven, I began to research how to throw a successful Cornhole Tournament. I happened upon several sites, which led me to emailing me and eventually coming into contact with Dave Weiser of Ohiocornholetour.com. Dave, who travels to venues that offer to hosts cornhole tournaments, said he believed in our mission and was willing to help for FREE!

Day of the event, we had two tournaments: a recreational and competitive tournament. Dave ran the two tournaments, while volunteers helped to run concessions. He also brought several cornhole sets and helped to advertising on any cornhole websites he knew about. And after asking around to see how people heard about the event, I found that most had heard through OhioCornholetour.com or another website Dave had posted the event on. Needless to say, Dave and the Ohiocornholetour.com were blessings from God.

And the blessings didn't stop there. One of Dave's friends who could not attend the event gave him money to donate to First Glance. The second place winners of competitive tournament donated back their prize money to First Glance and even donated an extremely nice set of National Cornhole Association regulation cornhole boards.



Overall, the event raise $450! It exceeded all of my expectations, and there is already talk of another tournament for next year!






Check out ohiocornholetour.com's recap and pictures of the event at http://ohiocornholetour.com/2012/recap-first-glance-fundraiser-2-25-2012/#more-538 !