Well that's it folks....Christmas 2014 is in the bag.
I think this year was a huge success (IMO at least), I hope people liked the new format, if not, I'm always open to suggestions.
The amount of giving that has taken place in the past 24 days has blown me away. You know the one person that participated in this event that I actually know in real life is BeachedMulligan from the Deviations CC (and maybe Lou and Fuzzy from the same club if they participated, I met them recently). Other than them I've never met any of the other players that stepped forward to play Santa ....and yet here they are. I make a simple post announcing this event and here they are signing up to send gifts to members of this virtual community. I love it!
There were a few firsts for us this year.
The Secret Santas....not that players haven't quietly played Secret Santa in the past, but the quantity of Secret Santas this year was crazy. You guys were all over the place! Holy cow. I'm not even going to try and begin to list your names because to be honest with you there are so many of you I can't remember all your names. You know who who you are and thank you so much for helping us this year.
Publicity....can we get a huge "thank you" for WGT? They finally delivered the very thing that most of us have been requesting since day one.....to announce this event to the entire community....and they came through for us this year! There were pop-up ads and emails announcing the event. There was even a tournament named after us. I believe those things helped drive traffic to the event and I think that's evidenced by the fact that we had so many new posters reply to the threads. Thank you WGT.
In closing I'd like to thank the following Santas-
Mantis0014, Patriciawilliams, alcaucin, The Peoples Club, russellfahey, frappefort, Eagle Club Golf Association, adeypa, newcastleb, Cheers Golf Club, ithurtswnipee, Trout Slayers Country Club, Northern Lights Club, YancyCan, Lobsters Lair Country Club, gdog8, Augusta National CC, The Deviations Country Club, A Band of Brothers Country Club, Aussie Aussie Aussie!, johnabel1234, Marco129 & of course WGT.
Thank you all so much for helping bring joy to the community. Bravo!
A special "Thank You' goes out to my friend that played Santa with me on Day 1, to all the "Secret Santas" and to WGTShoe who worked so tirelessly to help me pull this all together on the WGT side of things.
For anyone that would like to see how many players we sent gifts to, see here.
Thank you everyone....and Merry Christmas.
MC