Exclaim Cup Hockey Tournament Weekend

Heading down to Toronto this weekend for the 9th annual Exclaim Cup hockey tournament. This is the annual tourney for musicians and general arty-types. I am pleased to say that this will be my eighth year playing, and seventh year with the Humiliation. It has gone from a fun, overly sincere pond hockey festival (of four teams) to a 31-team mega-juggernaut(tm). But it is still a fun, competitive tournament and is always one of the highlights of my year.

I am under less pressure as I head out because the Humiliation won the coveted Dominion Cup last year, awarded to the team that "displays the most inspired artistic expression throughout the tournament". Usually around this time I'm learning how to play and sing 5 or 6 songs with switched up "comedic" lyrics. Fun, but stressful.

This year, all I have to worry about is judging other teams' performances via an ultra-secret scientific method the Humiliation is employing. It is not an exact science...it often mixes alcohol with some of the other chemicals in the lab, and research funding is generally distributed through bribes. But exact enough, I am sure.

By the way, I glaumed that image above from a schweeeeeet website that is worth checking out!

Go Humiliation Go.