June 30, 2025
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#1184 Canada’s Greatest Game (No, Not That One)
I love dancing and I loathe Crokinole. - Lucy Maude Montgomery
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
James Nicholson
Producer
Caleb Thompson
Audio Editor
Bruce Thorson
Senior Producer
max collins
Director of Audio
Julian Abraham
Reporter

Do you know your hammer from your hanger?

From the Netherlands to Japan competitors from around the world share one dream. To make it to the world championship of Canada’s greatest game. So for one day each year they travel thousands of miles to Tavistock, a small town in southern Ontario, to play the game the author of Anne of Green Gables loathed, the game so many of the rest of us love. They come to battle over the board, to play Crokinole.

Our reporter, James Nicholson, calls it the Coachella of board game gatherings. So join James at the World Crokinole Championship.

Reporter (James Nicholson) Caleb Thompson (Field Recording & Post Production), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Fact checking by Julian Abraham

Play-by-play by Nathan Walsh of Crokinole Centre.

Additional play-by-play from Garret Tracey of Tracey Boards.

Special thanks to the World Crokinole Championship.

Photo Credit – Andrew Whitfield

Additional music by Audio Network

 

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