Salesforce.com and Business partners raised significant funds (€8000) for the Irish Homeless World Cup organization. The ‘lunch event’ was the Sandyford Village Market penalty shootout and we raised almost 725 Euros here. Marco Nuti (organizer) said: “Like me, most people overestimated their goal instinct, but we could not have seen a more generous response.” 
The penalty event was the 'warming-up' for the main event: Cloud Clash 3. 10 teams competed for Glory, many customer- and business partner teams (2020 Management, Westbrook, Informatica Cloud, Nimbus, Bluewolf, Saaspoint and Newvoicemedia) joined in the fun as well, flying over teams from the UK. Business Partners Kerensen and Fujitsu generously contributed, but did not send a team. Gary Smith, 2020 Director, said: "We racked up the goals in Dublin, whilst the 2020 team enjoyed every second of the tournament. The team can hold their heads high after playing some great football in the right spirit, whilst helping to raise money for The Homeless World Cup. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the salesforce.com organisers and other partners for such a fantastic time, and for playing the games in such a fun and fair spirit. We hope any readers of this will support salesforce.com as they continue to raise money for the Homeless World Cup. 2020 will be returning to the tournament in 2011 and this time we hope we will go one step further and reach the final. Who knows, we might even be bringing the trophy home with us next year!"
With the beautiful weather on their side, the Brazil theme continued with the Canary Yellow team (UKI AE’s) grabbing the coveted Cloud Clash 3 Trophy from the talented Westbrook team in a hotly contested final. Their amazing keeper, Keith Bourne, shared what tactic helped to bring home the title: "keep it tight, keep shots low and (Aisling) work off the rebounds, football was the winner".
Other opinions of the event:
“The Best social event of the year! Couldn’t find the ball for Ages though!” Paul McDonnell.
‘Could have been a better event, if we could make up for the incompetence of the third ref (Korstiaan Hardam)J’ Edward Faulds
The cooling down was at the Beacon Hotel afterwards, where Michael Harmon shared some anecdotes of the accomplishments of the Homeless World Cup organisation. The main achievers of the event were celebrated then, some serious recognition mixed with 'tongue in cheek' prizes like the 'Confused Wizard', Sweet Move and the Crafter.
Cloud Clash 3 was a rip roaring success. Salesforce.com, its customers and business partners wish the Irish soccer team the best of luck in their pursuit of gold in Rio.
- Main Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RucvwmetQA
