While the lacrosse season raged on we announced our annual E-Lacrosse Dye-Off right here on the Re: Lax blog, and like we promised, we are featuring the winners here, as well.

This was easily our best field ever with more entries, a higher level of difficulty and six worthy champions! We usually pick a first, second and third prize and we had planned to this year, as well. But we knew there would be trouble when we received more than 160 entries, 50 of which merited consideration for prizes.

We got the finalists down to ten and literally voted fifteen times in between arguing. Not once did 50 percent of our panel vote for any one entry as No. 1. There were six entries that could have won and kept splitting all the votes, so we decided to double the prizes, eliminate the other four and vote again with just the final six in the mix.

We got lucky and while each entry still got a No. 1 vote, we had enough criteria and differentiation in the 2nd through 6th place voting to fairly award two first-place prizes, two second-place prizes and two thirds. We were pleased because none of these six kids could be allowed to go home without a prize. You will see below why it was impossible for us to pick one winner.

The prizes in our annual cult classic, as always, were provided by Baltimore’s own STX Lacrosse. The three (six now) head and shaft combinations are some of the most popular in the college game and got a lot of attention at the NCAA final in Foxboro as STX sponsors both Hopkins and Syracuse. We are proud, as always, to award these great STX sticks to our 2008 E-Lacrosse Dye-Off winners: