Haarrooo Villains and honourary Villains,
Thank you to you all for making this such a wonderful semester of Ultimate and Ultimate parties! This league was one of our most exciting thanks to you and also thanks to the wonderful and awesome people we have in the Townsville Ultimate Community willing to help out and put in their time and effort. We had a good one! - from 8 brightly coloured teams, a mad messy pub crawl with over 60 people, a random night of glow-in-the-dark ultimate, a one-day hat tournament with 40-odd people including a King and a Queen, an Advanced League start up with cool jerseys, an 8-team final, we learnt the names of the new speedsters in Townsville Ultimate as well as the biggest throwers, as well as plenty of Ninja Warrior battles along the way. So thank you!
Some Quick Results (Full Write-ups to come):
Simon Urquhart and Rebecca Rosendale claimed the titles of King and Queen in the Villain’s Royal Rivalry!
The Tie Dye Hards claimed victory in the social league.
And the Villains placed 15th of 26 at the Australian Mixed Ultimate Championship 2010 in Bathurst a solid result! There are clips on youtube and more to come.
Here is what’s happening down the track...
FOR 2011:
SOCIAL LEAGUE
With the success of the first 8-team League in Townsville we'll really be looking to maintain this number of players. Local members are welcome to join us next semester in the recruiting phase during and leading up to O-Week which commences 14th of February 2011 (market day especially) and should feel free to come forward with their ideas for promoting the sport across Townsville to locals. Don't forget to start talking it up and inviting your friends/randoms you meet along the way for the League next semester!!!
ADVANCED LEAGUE
Advanced League is the new league we started off to give an outlet to players looking to push their competitiveness and skills in Ultimate. It ran in its infancy this semester and we already have great Team Jerseys for it. We will be further cementing this league into Townsville's Ultimate scene for next semester and it will be looking to make it as prestigious as our 8-team League has been this semester! A higher skill level/motivation is expected of players in this league and players are chosen for teams based on these qualities. Team captains will be involved in selecting additional players come next semester to add to their current line-ups! If you don't normally attend more than once a week you can really speed up your improvement by doing so and also get your face out there to captains, so come down to our holiday games and trainings. If you've played already, notify your team captains and let them know you're keen to join them again next semester!
REGIONALS
Townsville just won a bid for the Queensland Open Regional Qualifiers. This tournament is held to qualify Men's (and Women's held in Brisbane) teams in Queensland for Nationals and is set as the 19th and 20th of February in Townsville. We will be hosting the Open's division and expect to receive team/s from Brisbane, a Gold Coast team and would love to see two Townsville teams compete (20 - 30 odd players). Men's and Women's Nationals are being held in Brisbane this year so it's a great chance to go to the top level of Australian Ultimate with much lower costs or to just get to play some good teams during Regionals!
HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES
We'll be continuing our Sunday sessions which have been going strong this semester. These will continue at Queens Park most likely till Touch Footy season kicks us off. They will involve skills drills, pick-up games and eventually training sessions for regionals and will just be a bit of a mish mash of everything! Everyone is of course welcome to attend all of these and bring along friends to join in! Join our facebook group to hear about these starting up again after Exams!
Keep an eye out for the local sports magazine "Sports Lifestyle Magazine" this month for a few photos from our last tournament!
We're gonna need everyone's help to put their hand up to help out whether it be billeting a few players, organising a tournament or playing in one! Make sure you're signed up to The Townsville Villains - Ultimate Frisbee Group for updates on playing times and everything else over the holidays. We'll be having a club meeting (which may turn party!) to discuss a lot of things coming up once exams are out of the way and we'll see you soon for some Ultimate!
Thanks
Hugh
Co-Pres
