2014 Townsville Ultimate Disc Inc. AGM

Location: Strand Park

Meeting Open 10/05/2014 15:17

Attendees: Christopher Ende, Michael Kramer, Luke Sturgess, Andrew Gosbee, David Dehollander, Scott Adams, Tim Saunders Laura Knecht, Ashlee Dodd, Michael Saunders, Sean Beveridge, Joshua Phipps

Apologies: Phil English, Matthew Hamilton

Item 1: President's Report

State of the Villainous Empire! (short version)

The year that was:

NQ Hat – We had 6 teams participate, aside from the draw it was a highly successful tournament, big thanks to Andy Gosbee for his help. The NQ Hat has grown to be QLD's third largest tournament missing out on the second spot by only half a dozen participants. 

Halibut – 2 teams were sent, new jerseys were designed, the teams were too big, it was great to see 32 NQ players participate

Women’s conference – what we’re doing is on track, it was a great networking opportunity

Fundraising tournament – for uni games, 4 teams, successful, covered the teams food for the week

Uni Games – 4thDiv 2 – fantastic result

Charters Towers and Mackay coaching/training we now have a number of level 1 coaches, QUDA supported by covering the costs for fuel

Mixed Nationals in Canberra equaled Townsville's highest result ever, 14th

Townsville's Mixed Nationals bid was successful and will be held on the 18, 19 & 20 of October

Townsville Ultimate was awarded Club of the year by QUDA, we were presented with a $150 rebel sport voucher which was used to purchase 8 agility poles, 50 cones and 2 whistles

Training commenced in January, under the guidance of Scott Adams and Dave Dehollander

Regionals, big learning experience for a number of players, for those that attended the Sunday training session they learnt a lot. Thank you to QUDA for the travel subsidy

We were nominated for the Team of the Year through the Townsville City Council Sports Awards where we made it to the final 3 nominations.  

Division 2 Campaign – 5th overall

Semester 1 – big changes for the league moving to a dual pool and timeslot format with 12 teams. Big thanks to the captains for making this a relatively easy transition

Website – Tyson has been working on this, pay-pal is coming! Check it out

AFDA registration – Big thanks to Laura for entering 200 people into the AFDA registration system

Schools program has been difficult to get going. QUDA is now taking over that initiative as they have more resources with the DO. It is hoped our level 1 coaches will be able to do the coaching

Kramer has applied for a number of grants however at this stage we haven’t been successful in securing any additional funding

Looking forward:

NQ Hat is coming up in Cairns June 21-22

Mix Nationals – There will be a team selection however at this stage we're unsure how that will take place

Halibut – we're probably sending two teams which Scott and Dave will be organising

Semester 2 – looking to modify the current format to a div 1/div 2 with the intention of higher level players in div 1 and the social league being div 2. Allows captains to be better supported in both formats

Mix Nationals will require bulk volunteers, website currently being developed, disc design being developed. At this stage jerseys will remain the same

A Women’s team is in the planning stages of being formed and will be led by Ash Dodd and Laura Knecht

Thank you to those that have helped out over the year, particularly Scott Adams, Dave Dehollander, Andy Gosbee, Time Saunders, Josh Phipps, Laura Knecht, Phil English, Michael Kramer and Matthew Finn

Thank you to Townsville City Council for your support through the Excellence in Sports Grant.

Thank you to James Cook University for your support through the JCUSA Clubs and Societies funding

Thank you to QUDA for the travel subsidies to attend Regionals and Halibut

Item 2: Other Business

TSVL - Attendance issues due to no commitment from players early on. Strategy moving forward should be upfront payments. TSVL is a league for regulars, so there doesn't need to be a grace period like with the Wednesday night league.

Mix Nationals Qualifier - Need to organise a Northern Regionals. (Andrew Gosbee)

Jersey Design for Mix Nationals - Scott Adams nominated to organise.

Grants Coordinator: Gatorade promotion successful, Michael Kramer attended Grants Clinic to better understand grant applications and what they're looking for.

Training:

-  Luke Sturgess suggested occasional organised training clinics separate to regular training. eg (Rise up). Luke Sturgess nominated for new position - Clinic Coordinator. (motioned J Phipps, seconded T Saunders)

- Training sessions/strategies to be reassessed

Tournaments: - Fundraiser Tournament for Uni Games earmarked for September (Andrew Gosbee)

Women’s Team - Committee formed with Ash Dodd and Laura Knecht

Item 3: Voting in New Committee

Position	Nominee	Motioned	Seconded	Successor
President	Chris Ende	Joshua Phipps	Andrew Gosbee	Chris Ende
	Tim Saunders	Scott Adams	Michael Kramer
Treasurer	Matthew Hamilton	Scott Adams	Laura Knecht	Matthew Hamilton
Secretary	Laura Knecht	Scott Adams	David Dehollander	Laura Knecht
	Joshua Phipps	Scott Adams	Sean Beveridge

Confirmed Positions- President (Christopher Ende), Treasurer (Matthew Hamilton), Secretary (Laura Knecht)

MEETING CLOSED: 16:15

State of the Villainous Empire! Part 3

Part 1 Can be found over here!
Part 2 is this way!

Now to conclude where we currently are at:

Halibut is looking to be one of the biggest spectacles for the year. North Queensland will be sending three teams (two from Townsville, one from Cairns) which is a massive achievement! QUDA will be subsidising any QLD player that needs to travel more than 500kms to get to Brisbane. THANK YOU QUDA! In other news, the jerseys look amazing (massive props to Alysha Broit for the original design)! Just don’t stare at the centre for too long!

Nicky Smith has been extremely busy drumming up support for the Women’s Development Conference that is to be held in September this year. The goal of the conference is to improve recruitment and retention of women in Ultimate. Topics for discussion will be the possible restructure for the Women’s Season, recruitment strategies, the impact of Uni Games changing formats from mixed to Open and Womens, and barriers facing Women from regional areas. If you’re keen to help out, please contact me townsvilleultimate@gmail.com.

Semester 2 League has commenced! Thank you to all that participated in Market Day and for coming down for the first come and try night. The league will formally kick off on Wednesday the 14^th of August. I believe the pub crawl has been scheduled in for Friday the 30^th of August and that the theme is, Zombies. Not sure how the, “If you come dressed the same as someone else you’ll have to have a drink off” will work… Perhaps it’ll be amended to the “survivors that are too lazy to make a costume”… I’m sure we’ll find out one way or another!

Canberra will be hosting Mix Nationals this year and I’ve confirmed with AFDA and QUDA that Townsville will be sending a team. Unfortunately the Townsville City Council Travel Grants that we’ve received in years past have had a significant cut to its funding. What was about $150 per person for interstate national tournaments, has been reduced to $200 between four people. There are provisions for larger grants for larger groups but it’s not guaranteed. We might need to look at fundraising. Thoughts and ideas are always welcome so let Finny or I know.

2013 has been an eventful year so far and there is still plenty to come! If you want to become involved with the club have a chat with Finny or I, there is always something to be done….. muhahahhahahahahaha

Chris

 

AGM Minutes: Wednesday 1st of May

Attendance: Chris Ende, Matthew Hamilton, Matthew Finn, Joshua Phipps, James David, Ashley O’Sullivan, Zane Quinn, Phil English, Mark Jessup, Josh McIntyre, Andrew Gosbee, Bobby Jackson, Michael Kramer, Chris Palazzi, Ricky Hazelton

Meeting opened 18:50

TSVL - Townsville Super Villain League

·         The committee is looking at introducing a higher level league.

·         League Directors will be Matt Finn and Scott Adams

·         The goals of the league are to create some structure amongst the players that want to participate at tournaments and to give local players something to move on to after one or two beginner level seasons.

·         The league will be a draft selection and will require a minimum of 44 players.

·         It is envisioned that players wanting to play at Halibut and Nationals will be drawn from this league first and players travelling to Regionals and Halibut will be the first in line for QUDA travel subsidies.

·         Expected Start date will be June 2013.

Indoor

Indoor pickup went well from December to April and it certainly gave those of us around for the summer holidays something to do. Unfortunately with the lack of interest we’re going to put Indoor off until there is more interest/better facilities to accommodate games in the middle of summer.

Indigenous League

·         The start up of the Indigenous League has hit a snag. Initially it was viewed that six teams would be very achievable however since the Football season has started only three teams could be made.

·         It was determined the league should wait until October (after the footy season) before trying to get the season started. We’ll be providing coaching support, skills training and league development advice.

·         We hope to have several players join the Halibut team.

Halibut

·         Halibut is coming up again in August and will most likely be in Brisbane.

·         We’re definitely sending a team down.

·         If you’re interested please talk to Matt Finn or Chris Ende.

NQ Hat

·         It’s Townsville’s turn to host the NQ Hat!

·         Chris Ende will be the TD.

·         QUDA have confirmed that the June long weekend is a good date.

·         We will need volunteers to help out. If you’re keen to help let Chris Ende know.

Bid for hosting Mix Nationals

·         Chris Ende has been working on a bid for Townsville to host Mixed Nationals in 2014.

·         John Hempel from AFDA has provided guidance by looking over our bid and is very supportive of the bid.

·         Fields have been booked (Queens Park and the Sports Reserve).

·         We will need a lot of volunteers to make this work

UNI Games

·         Matt Finn is organising a team to go to uni games this year. This will be the first time that we go to uni games since 2007(?).

·         If you’re keen contact him.

Thank you to captains

Thank you to the captains for your continuing support and assistance in growing Townsville Ultimate whilst keeping it fun, socially inclusive and for upholding the ‘Spirit of the Game’.

Nominations

Treasurer:

Matthew Hamilton accepted the nomination from Chris Ende, seconded by Ashley O’Sullivan, passed unanimously

Secretary:

Phil English and Josh Phipps accepted the nominations for join secretary from Chris Ende, seconded by Matthew Hamilton, passed unanimously

President

Ashley O’Sullivan rejected the nomination from James David and Zane Quinn

Chris Ende accepted the nomination from Matthew Finn, seconded by Josh Phipps, passed unanimously

Meeting closed 19:15

Halibut Summary 2011 by Finny

Finny's Halibut Summary from the Gold Coast 2011 taken from the Townsville Halibut Facebook Group

So Town Town - Taste my Rainbow performed admirably at all levels of the Halibut tourney. Won 4 of 8 games, came last at the talent show (very poor strip tease and rainbow interpretive dance) special mentions to Slick McWings aka Hugh & Brandon Godfrey for being our strippers & to Megan Barnes for ripping good ol' Slick's shirt straight off his back. Won the party though, the legend himself Matthew Hamilton was last man standing, spending the last 3 hours out in town alone doing shots by himself, such a MC! Although he was wrote off until the 3rd game of the day (epic hangover / epic softcock) also got gum stuck in his hair somehow! EPIC!!! We also seem to have a ready made Villain in the fold Christine Kline who was stealing things left right and center. Best steal was a bottle of wine in the middle of the foyer at the party, good effort!

Sunday night team bonding session was lovely beverages followed by a night out at Infinity, a laser light and optical illusion tourist attraction, highly recommend going! Very good end to a very good weekend! Oh and can't forget the The most amazing pie shop in world, Pie Face. Just wow.

All in all was a amazing weekend that I would recommend to all! Bundles of fun along with aching legs from epic games! Can't wait for next year!
Time for team breakfast after another great night!
Until next time, love from Finny aka Mr. Sparkle! (ask for story for new nickname)

The Halibut Villains team

Villains at Halibut 2010
minus Finny who was off being a referee for some other sport

Just a little bit of eye-candy stolen off JdR at the Brisbane Ultimate Disc Blog, behold our sexy TownsVillains of the Halibut Competition who came in 5th out of 10!!! Next stop for the Villains on their quest for Ultimate Domination is Mixed Nats in Bathurst!

Townsville Villains Aiming for a Second Appearance!

Townsville local growth and enthusiasm in Townsville is finally starting to take hold and we currently have a very keen group of people who play and party together and enjoy the game. As we discovered at the recent regionals competition we had plenty of people keen to make the trip to play.

Competitions that are coming up in the nearish future are Halibut at the end of July, Brisbane's mixed tournament, which usually has a large number of teams competing, and of course the potential for a Mixed Nationals team following in October. This is just a heads up on what we have coming up as a Townsville group.

It will be possible this year to send a team to Halibut and the time to start getting that together will be soon. An extra day of Ultimate a week to add to Wednesday night league, and Sunday King and Queen, a team based training is on the cards for very soon in process by Simon, to start getting some team orientated foundations. We're looking pretty good. For that added bit of fitness fun, only partly related to frisbee, Stine is kindly running a friendly soccer match currently on a Friday arvo at the uni AFL fields, but is likely to be booted out of this timeslot by the extra day of Ultimate soon. It's actually an OK sport except for the stupid handball rule, so no mid-air grabs.