On 9-10 February 1996, seven of the finest pipers in the world gathered at the US Grant Hotel in San Diego, California, to participate in the first G.S. McLennan Memorial Invitational Piping Competition. <p> The competition is designed to allow competitors to perform at their very best by imposing only one rule on the MSR (March / Strathspey / Reel) event: at least one tune must have been composed by G.S. McLennan, and to remember G.S.'s beloved regiment, The Gordon Highlanders. Judges were John Wilson and Donald MacPherson.