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TORONTO -- A Japanese comic book and a ubiquitous rodent combined to form the inspiration for the 2015 Pan American Games mascot. Pachi the Porcupine was unveiled on Wednesday after a nationwide contest was held among school children to design the international sporting events cartoon character. Four Grade 8 students from Buttonville Public School in Markham, Ont., had their design selected among 4,000 entries. "(The name) came to me once when I was reading my manga book, which is a Japanese comic book. There was a Japanese phrase called pachi pachi, and in English it translates to clapping with joy," said 14-year-old Paige Kunihiro shortly after the mascot was revealed in a ceremony in downtown Toronto. "We know that in the Pan Am Games theres going to be a lot of cheering on our favourite athletes and superstars." Kunihiro put together the winning entry with classmates Fiona Hong, Jenny Lee and Michelle Ing -- all of whom are 13 years old -- after physical education teacher Mari Ellery had them enter the contest as part of a school project. Pachi has 41 quills, one for each country participating in the Pan Am Games. The contest required that all entries use the official colours of the Games, so the quills are multicoloured, with each representing the qualities Pachi has: green for youth, fuchsia for passion, blue for collaboration, orange for determination and purple for creativity. "We saw that there were so many colours left, so we wanted to incorporate all of them so we put them on the quills," said Ing. Added Lee: "What better way to take advantage of the quills." The girls chose a porcupine for the anthropomorphic mascot because its indigenous across North and South America. 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We feel like that Tiger Woods is such a transcendent, legendary athlete that regardless of how his play goes, hes still an important property for us. Were certainly hoping that his comeback is successful.Woods shot an opening-round 73 at the Hero World Challenge, his first round with the Monster logo on the bag. In his career spanning more than two decades, Woods had six previous sponsors on his golf bag.Covington told the forum attendees not to expect Monster to start signing golfers -- just the one with 79 career PGA Tour victories.We continue to add athletes and properties that make sense for us as we grow, Covington said. A lot of times, people aree saying, Are you getting into golf now? Not really.dddddddddddd We found an athlete that wins.We found a transcendent, legendary athlete in Tiger Woods that is arguably one of the greatest athletes of our day. Monster likes to associate with winners. 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