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Speaker 1: How long is Big week out? Thirteen thousand kids hit

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Speaker 1: the Bay for the Ames Games, of course, three hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety Ish schools, twenty four thousand visitors in total.

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Speaker 1: The Games Games tournament director was Kelly Shishka, who is

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Speaker 1: with us. Kelly morning, Good morning, how am I I'm

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Speaker 1: very well, indeed, bigger and better than ever.

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Speaker 2: Bigger and better than ever, as we are every year.

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Speaker 1: Good So the socio I don't even know how to

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Speaker 1: with the economy, I mean, people having trouble raising money

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Speaker 1: to get their schools and all that sort of stuff,

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Speaker 1: or as it seemed to work out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, oh look, I think it's it's really tough for

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Speaker 2: everyone at the moment, isn't it that? I think we're

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Speaker 2: incredibly lucky with this event. You know, it's such a

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Speaker 2: good thing for the kids who participate, and you know,

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Speaker 2: the ones that are here have been really lucky to

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Speaker 2: have their communities and their schools behind them in terms

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Speaker 2: of you know, fundraising that kind of kicked off with

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Speaker 2: them in Febry this year. So so a here of

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Speaker 2: training and a year of fundraising and now it's time

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Speaker 2: to have a week long sleepover with their friends.

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Speaker 1: What's the weather? And track for the week.

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Speaker 2: Weather is looking fantastic. Yeah, we've had a couple of

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Speaker 2: really amazing days and it is magical down here today.

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Speaker 1: And the impact, I mean, the city must love you guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean the number of people in restaurants and sausage

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Speaker 1: rolls and sandwiches and trips and stuff that are sold incredible.

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Speaker 2: Bananas, big markets are bananas this week on.

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Speaker 1: I mean it must be gin put into the city

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Speaker 1: though it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean last year estimated estimated figures, we're just

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Speaker 2: under seventy five thousand mid nights for the city over

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Speaker 2: the course of the week and six point five million

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Speaker 2: dollars bumped into the economy. So yeah, incredible for the city.

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Speaker 2: But we're also really lucky because the city does embrace

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Speaker 2: the event and really does welcome out as it is

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Speaker 2: and make them feel welcome while they're here.

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Speaker 1: Funnily enough, we were having a discussion now wider family's

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Speaker 1: partially involved. We've got somebody down there and we were

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Speaker 1: trying to work out and trying to remember from our

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Speaker 1: own involvement of these is it about is how elite

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Speaker 1: are these people? Do you have to basically just the

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Speaker 1: top team from the school.

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Speaker 2: Well, depends depends on the sport and the course schools

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Speaker 2: approach it differently, you know, just because we are at

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Speaker 2: capacity in some of the team sports, schools can only

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Speaker 2: enter one team in a lot of the team sports,

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Speaker 2: or or at least in one division. But you know,

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Speaker 2: absolutely across the twenty seven sporting codes, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of those sports that are uncapped, so schools can enter

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Speaker 2: as many kids as they like, you know, and it's

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Speaker 2: really dependent on the size and scale of the schools

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Speaker 2: as well. Some schools don't have many year sevens in

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Speaker 2: year eights and they're sending their whole contingent. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: well you have that.

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Speaker 1: You have the best of time, Kelly. Nice to catch

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Speaker 1: up with you as always, Kelly Shishka, who's the AIMS

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Speaker 1: Games tournament director.

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