Motley became a crowd favorite in its tense championship match against BALCO Bowlers (not least because if Balco won, everyone would have to sit through another game in the broiling sun) and maintained the suspense cruelly, coming from behind and winning on the last throw of the match.

For their effort, the Motley quartet received the grand prize of two weekend stays in the Dogfish Head Brewmaster's Suite at the Inn @ Canal Square in nearby Lewes, which included a $50.00 gift certificate to Dogfish's Rehoboth Beach brewpub. As runners-up, Balco was awarded cases of World Wide Stout, 120 Minute IPA, Olde School Barleywine and Immort Ale, each one two years old. This inspired a spirited discussion among Beer Geeks (the four players on 14 of the 16 teams were all members at Beer Advocate; the other two teams were Dogfish teams) over which prize was preferable and an unconfirmed rumor that at least one player for Motley Brue wanted to throw the championship game. Third place Pallino Pimps were given four "Dogfish Head premium ring spun hoodies," with no discussion ensuing.

Other prizes went to POOP...the Musical for "Best Overall Team Theme" (their breaking out into an impromptu concert to disrupt four other teams' games apparently not influencing the judges), earning them four 750ml bottles of DFH spirits. Second place Bocce Beer Monks were given a Randall and third place Midas Touch My Balls, oddly proud of being the first team eliminated from the competition, got four Dogfish Head hats.

Two rounds of matches were conducted Friday evening and the remainder of the tourney ran from roughly 11 AM to 7 PM on Saturday, with the competition being paused periodically while World Punkin' Chunkin' Champion Frank Payton fired up a giant catapult and fired 30-packs of "cheap American lager" at a six-foot high ersatz toilet some 100 yards away. The first two missed left but the third hit dead center, sending Dogfish's Sam Calagione into a state of almost embarrassing ecstasy. A six-year old little girl named Julie Reid, obviously in early training to enjoy the strange Lower Delaware penchant for shooting all sorts of objects in the air, had a much smaller catapult next to Payton's and shot off single cans of beer, all of which cleared the target by considerable distance.

Much beer was consumed during the matches and each evening ended at Dogfish Head Brewing & Eats in Rehoboth Beach where much more beer was consumed. Saturday night's gathering was a pizza beer dinner which also featured a striking chocolate vodka from distiller Mike Gerhart and "hop brownies" made by assistant distiller/brewer Kati Muleh.

Undisputed workhorse of the weekend was Dogfish special events guy Matt Webster, whose responsibilities included trudging back and forth while dragging a broom in the hot sun to maintain the smoothness of the two courts, serving as judge of each match or dispute and fending off the sometimes manic demands of his excitable employer from the sidelines.