On 22/05/2005, at 2:04 AM, Sir_Launcelot_du_Lake wrote:

> I was wondering if there's any concensus on when the first modern
> boomerang tournament was held anywhere in the world?

Define "modern". Georgi's "Boomerang Puzzle" lists a formal
competition with the Brist cross-sticks in 1904.

> Also, of the six standard evenets in USBA competitions, were any of
> those events not in the earliest boomerang comps?

Virtually all of them. The codification into lots of formal events
really only started in the 1960s (and most of the events then are no
longer part of competition -- eg. consecutive catch).

Speaking for Australia, we first decided our National Champion by a
mixture of event in 1988 (previously only Aussie Round, or its
predecessor, counted), and it was only in 1995 that multi-blade rangs
were allowed, and that the six current events (minus the Doubling
part of Trick Catch) were adopted.

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