Video: Oban Day 2 – full results

Oban, Scotland – August 27, 2009 – It rained throughout the day – or at least until the prizes were announced and then the sun started to shine. Through the challenging weather conditions, the bouncy castle and starter’s pistols going off, A-Grade and B-Grade pipers vied for prizes, and ultimately Glenn Brown, Glasgow; Niall Stewart, Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland; Simon McKerrell, Lenzie, Scotland; Alistair Lee, Vancouver; and Willie McIntyre, Edinburgh took home the big awards. Brown and McIntyre were the only ones to take home two prizes on the day.

 

About 30 pipers got up for the march to the Argyllshire Gathering games at Mossfield Park, with Alastair Dunn, the winner of the Gold Medal the day before, taking the traditional Pipe-Major’s spot. Among other tunes, the played “Highland Wedding” and “Raigmore,” and of course “The Argyllshire Gathering” entering the field, crook-weilding Argyllshire-“society” types trailing behind.

 

1st Glenn Brown

2nd James MacKenzie

3rd Andrew Carlisle, Northern Ireland

4th Jack Lee, Surrey, British Columbia

Judges: James Banks, Barry Donaldson, Tom Speirs

 

1st Niall Stewart

2nd Cameron Drummond, Edinburgh

3rd Iain Speirs, Edinburgh

4th Glenn Brown

Judges: Alan Forbes, John Wilson, Bob Worrall