{"id":7469,"date":"2024-02-03T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2024-02-29T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:17:21","slug":"colt-johnson-wins-michigan-ringman-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/colt-johnson-wins-michigan-ringman-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt Johnson Wins Michigan Ringman Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><strong>Colt Johnson Wins Michigan Ringman Championship!<\/strong>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7470\" src=\"https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ColtJohnson_MRC2024web-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ColtJohnson_MRC2024web-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ColtJohnson_MRC2024web.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/>25-year-old Colt Johnson from Farwell, Michigan, won the title of Michigan Ringman Champion at the 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0annual Michigan Ringman competition held at the Michigan Auctioneers Association convention in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>The professional ringman is an integral component of a successful public auction.\u00a0 The ringman is an on-the-floor salesman who interjects a dynamic force of electricity, enthusiasm, and professionalism into the live auction event.\u00a0 A professional ringman knows how to properly communicate with the auctioneer.\u00a0 They work independently as a team to help generate more bidder participation.\u00a0\u00a0 The difference between a Professional Ringman and a Bid Spotter is that a bid spotter waits for the bid to happen.\u00a0 The professional Ringman makes the bid happen by effectively communicating with potential bidders.<\/p>\n<p>Also taking home top honors were Greg Holiday (Belleville, MI), 1st Runner Up, and Brad Stoecker (Dimondale, MI), 2nd Runner Up.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Clare High School graduate attended the Worldwide College of Auctioneering in Mason City, Iowa at the tender age of 15.\u00a0 Immediately upon graduating from auction school, he began working with Sykora Auction Service and is celebrating his 10-year work anniversary with the prominent auction firm.\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson also works at the Clare County Livestock.\u00a0 He enjoys all auctions, but his favorite types of auctions are farm equipment and cattle auctions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7476\" src=\"https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ringmentop3Web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ringmentop3Web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ringmentop3Web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ringmentop3Web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ringmentop3Web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ringmentop3Web-730x548.jpg 730w, https:\/\/msaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ringmentop3Web.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colt Johnson Wins Michigan Ringman Championship! 25-year-old Colt Johnson from Farwell, Michigan, won the title of Michigan Ringman Champion at the 17th\u00a0annual Michigan Ringman competition held at the Michigan Auctioneers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msaa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}