A mainstay of the Games – both as a judge and a competitor – Bruce Gandy has excelled during his visits to Antigonish. As a professional solo piper, his streak of victories is an incredible one, including winning the Ray Stanley Chisholm Buckle as open piper of the Games in 1999 and 2002. Starting in 2004, Gandy rattled off nine consecutive wins, a run broken by his son Alex, in 2011.