Hi Sparky. My advice would be to bring your own for several reasons.

1. You get to practise before the event thus significantly increasing you chances of winning.

2. Although I think the Guild will have a couple of "communal" axes (never heard of one of them before) there is a chance of snapped handles when in the hands of newbies. Too (two?) many of those and the fun will come to a halt. And no; you can't use mine!

3. You get to own another axe, and a very nice one at that; cool!

Any one of these is reason enough to go axe shopping, but added together the weight of logic is irresistable, I think you'll agree.

I believe Lee Valley are quite reasonable for throwing axes and easy to deal with. Long term you will be able to buy Gransfors axes from the guild but not quite yet.

See you in Parksville