Close-up Contest

by | May 2, 2018 | Ring and Assembly Reports

Our MC was Gene Gordon, who made coins jump across and end up in a glass, and he did a fun cards across where the extra cards ended up on the chair the spectator was sitting on! We had twenty-four members show up for our Annual close-up contest this year with nine of our members entering the contest. George Issa did a fun torn and restored BALLOON! The balloon was picked out of a pack, blown up and then popped. Well, it was restored and blown up again. Cool trick. Next we had Chad Wonder do a kids show performing the Professors Nightmare using a broken wand and then multiplying wands. Member Dennis Michael did a torn and restored napkin, then a card on forehead and finally did a wonderful three-shell routine using huge metal nuts from the end of a bolt. Gregg Tobo had a card selected, torn up, and a banana was plucked from a bowl. Inside the banana was the chosen card with a corner missing. The corner fit! Bob Brown did his famous Pickle Helmet where the pickles glow and match the selected card the spectator selected. Mentalist Mark Strivings had a card selected and four decks of cards were shown. The spectator selected one deck. The other three decks were turned face up and their card was missing from three of the decks. The selected deck was shown and one card had a different color back, their card! Wendy Russell performed a Psychology trick where different color spheres where hidden in a persons hand and she correctly guessed who was holding each color. Chris Manos led us all in a cooking class and made different color drinks. He also had a ring on a stick where the chosen ring changed places by moving up or down on the stick and matched the color of the chosen drink! Jeff and Karen Wake did a fun silk routine where the silks would tie and untie. Another trick they had used bottles inside of a tube. Once shaken the bottles would magically turn upside down or reversed. Results: 1st– Chad Wonder, 2nd– Mark Strivings, 3rd– Chris Manos, Peoples Choice- Gregg Tobo, Best Joke- Bob Brown. The rest received Participant Awards.