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

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all!!

It’s been awhile since the last post so here is a quick wrap up of 2013 and an update with what’s coming in 2014 for Townsville Ultimate.

Congratulations to Robust Fawn for winning the JCU Social League Final! Robust Fawn has played for a number of seasons and it’s great to see them on the winning side of a grand final. Will they make it two in a row? We’ll have to wait and see! Congratulations to Matt Hamilton’s, Firetrucking Red Team, for winning the most spirited team award!

The TSVL Final was a bitter sweet affair with Ash O’Sullivan playing his last competitive match in Townsville. Ash is off to the big smoke of Sydney but before he went, he took most of the silverware! His team, Rainbow Seagull Fantasy, ran out grand final winners leaving Townsville’s most consistent captain, Matt Finn, as runner up for the third time this year. Ash also took home the league MVP medallion and was presented with a farewell gift from Townsville Ultimate. Most Spirited Player went to Eric Lee with Scott Adams’ team, the Peppermint Pandas, taking the most spirited team prize. 

Over the Christmas break Michael Kramer was appointed to the role of Grants Administrator. CONGRATUALTIONS!! Kramer’s role will primarily focus on helping the President with grant applications and making sure the grants are acquitted appropriately. Kramer will focus mainly on community grant applications such as the JCU Clubs and Societies Funding and the Queensland Country Credit Union Community Grants.

Regionals and Division 2 Nationals are just around the corner. If you have an interest in playing and haven’t said anything to Chris Ende, Dave Dehollander, or Scott Adams, you should probably do that sooner rather than later! Regionals will be in Brisbane and is being hosted on the 15^th and 16^th of March. Division 2 Nationals will be the 12^th and 13^th of April in Adelaide. We’re likely going to need a selection process for the team going to Division 2 as we’re defending our 3^rd place from last year.

In possibly a first for Townsville Ultimate, training commenced in January and is run by Dave Dehollander and Scott Adams each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 5.30pm here https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=-19.320484,146.736665&hl=en&sll=-19.319952,146.738028&sspn=0.004662,0.008256&t=h&gl=au&z=17

At the end of last semester, JCU Sports and Recreation approached all of the JCU affiliated sports clubs and asked that we apply for funding to assist with the repairs of the Rugby Field and the AFL Field. Townsville Ultimate was approved for $1,700 and with the other clubs enough was raised for our fields to be fixed up. They are looking very nice and I’m pretty keen to layout on them!

A new semester approaches and that means Market Day is on the way! As always, it’s the day after the Toga Party, February 19. This will also be our first come and try night so we’ll need as many of you at the fields teaching all the new people. We’ll also have a new FB group being set up shortly so make sure you’re on there.

And to wrap up, I would like to thank Matt Finn for his time and energy in helping Townsville Ultimate over the years, specifically with running the leagues and captaining our representative teams. All the best in Sydney mate and we’ll see you when you’re back after your travels in August.

State of the Villainous Empire! Part 1

The year kicked off with the locals partaking in some pick up indoor ultimate at the Aitkenvale PCYC. It was great to try a different form of Ultimate but unfortunately the venue really wasn’t up to scratch. We’ll look into this again after the semester 2 league and hopefully we can find a more suitable venue.

Shortly before the semester 1 league kicked off, Duncan informed us that he was leaving for WA (I’m really concerned about this trend of President’s moving to WA….). Duncan has been with the club for many years and has been a great contributor to the sport, not only at JCU but also through his work and community engagements. You will be missed sir!

Our Regionals campaign had a somewhat slow start this year with QUDA giving people minimal notice of when (and where) it would be held. Fortunately this was offset with a generous subsidy from QUDA which was around $150 per person to attend (Thank you QUDA!). A full write up by David Phang is available on the blog http://townsvilleultimate.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/northern-regionals-2013.html

The QUDA AGM was held on the same weekend as Regionals and the QUDA committee had some fresh blood elected in.

President - John McNaughton - president@quda.org
Secretary - Jo Ashdown - secretary@quda.org
Treasurer - Myall Hingee - treasurer@quda.org
General Members - Chris Ende, Emma Briggs

A part of my role is looking after Regional Development. At this stage that has primarily been securing funding for regional teams to attend Halibut, assisting with the establishment of Mackay as a new club, and supporting the group in Charters Towers to establish some regular pickup. In the not too distant future I hope to see a School program being rolled out and hopefully some support for players wanting to try and make the U19 team next year. If you have any ideas or concerns, feel free to contact me townsvilleultimate@gmail.com. 

Semester 1 League was the largest Townsville has seen, 173 active members across 10 teams (we wanted to push for 12 teams but with Duncan leaving we didn’t have the captaincy capacity)!  As far as results go, it was certainly a motley arrangement with the undefeated Fluro Fantasy going down to the bottom placed Purple Haze in the final round robin round. This result cost Fluro Fantasy the minor premiership and seemed to have a cascade effect as they narrowly lost to Tie Dyenosaurs in the semi-finals. It only goes to show, you gotta win them all! Congratulations go to The Seagulls for winning the final over the Tie Dyenosaurs.

Townsville had two representatives attend the U23 training camps, Dee and Matt Finn. By all accounts both played extremely well and it is encouraging to see Townsville players being considered for National Team selection. I have no doubt that Dee can make the team in 2015 if she keeps at it. Hopefully QUDA will attempt to bridge the gap between regional centres and high level ultimate player development in the coming year.

2013 was the first year that Townsville (and Queensland) sent a team to Division 2 Nationals. The team was formed with the strong core of Townsville players from Regionals and members of Firestorms Ignition, UQ Lovers and Griffith A-Team. Undoubtedly considered the underdogs by many, the team jelled together extremely quickly and we showed how strong we can be once we unleashed our inner mongrel!  A full write up by our injured correspondent David Phang (for those interested, rolling your ankle two weeks before Nationals is not a recommended training regime) is available on the blog http://townsvilleultimate.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/nationals-division-two-mens-open.html

Part 2 will be next week so until then, scheme well!

Evil Genius

Regionals Write-Up!

Queensland Regionals or to the non-frisbee initiated, Queensland State Championships, was held on the weekend of the 19th and 20th of March 2011 in Townsville, North Queensland. As we're aware this was the first time it was held in Townsville (or for that matter anywhere but Brisbane?) and we're pretty damn proud of that fact.

Here's a quick look at the teams in colour:

The Hosting Teams from Townsville

The Towns-Villains


The Quinns Strike Back


The Travelling teams

Firestorm (A + B) (Brisbane)


Axis of Awesome (Cairns Ultimate Disc)


Slamtown Flatball Club (Gold Coast)


We take our hats off to those who quickly moved on from it being held elsewhere than in Brisbane this year and made the trip up to return the favour to those of us up here and help grow the sport of Ultimate! The benefits of having having held Regionals in Townsville I think are enormous for the sport and the players up here. According to the Brisbane Blog this was the largest attended Regionals so far (84 players officially including 1 girl Alecha from Cairns. Unofficially 85 and 2 girls. Due to a sneak game played by Deanna from Townsville in the game against Cairns to give Alecha a break from D'ing up guys all day!), which probably would have happened had it been in Brisbane (and some more players moved their butts to take part), but what that really tells you is that there's a whole swag of people up here who want it just as bad! It doesn't tell you that almost entirely 2.5 - 3 teams of worth players of Townsville and Cairns stock took part in their very first Ultimate competition. Without Regionals here this wouldn't have happened, and these guys may never have had the chance to get a taste of the sport at a tournament nor have sought it out.

From a Townsville club perspective what this does for us is gives almost everyone in our club a taste for tournament level Ultimate which I think will only commit them further to the sport! So thank you again and hopefully this leads to you seeing some stronger teams from Townsville down your way and one from Cairns in not so long as well!

The Tournament began with the arrival of most players mid-Saturday morning. Most of them took the couple of hours free to walk down to Palmer St. and the Strand to grab a coffee and a bite to eat and then wandered back to the fields to relax and, if early enough, watch the end of the Tsv. vs. Tsv. game.

Games began with match-ups being against the nearest seeded team with the tightest game being the Axis of Awesome (Cairns) vs. The Quinns Strike Back (Townsville B) game with the Townsville gang going down by 1 point 12 - 11 to the mighty Axis of Awesome.

Not long after the first games most people realised that it was quite a warm day! Matt Anscomb stopped by to spectate which was quite a treat as one of the original founders and ex El Presidente's of Townsville Ultimate. He brought with him his favourite frisbee line "You gotta lay for those!" done in the pseudo accent of an American or something. Loved hearing it again as embarrassed as it makes me to know him!

Luckily, teams only had 3 games to play in the sun before a break for dinner, the AGM, and a meander across the road to the nighttime venue of the Sports Reserve. The damage to the Queens Park lights during the Cyclone turned out to be a blessing in disguise because 4 teams got to play on some extremely professional looking fields with a bit of grandstand action happening alongside the Firestorm vs. Slamtown match-up which added a second showcase game (including the final) to the tournament for players to watch.

From what I hear these Sports Reserve fields were great to play on, and from asking the layout master Stu, they also had enough give in them for the odd layout. A group of boarding school kids from the nearby Grammar School somehow had turned up, and Rob Trachter quickly got them involved and cheering loudly for Firestorm. By day 2 they'd come back for the finals and left with a signed Townsville disc from all their favourite Firestorm players (and this guy! after begging to sign it as well) which was great to see. Cairns and Firestorm Ignition battled it out silently on the neighbouring field but unfortunately for them most of the crowd were comfortable on the seats on their far side. End day 1 of tournament.

For most day one was a long day requiring recovery from the stress of the heat and humidity. Though playable, add to that a day of tournament games and most were ready to hit the hay. The obligatory "party" or drinking session in town was won most likely by TomSteve though, arguably and quite lamely if true, by Mansauce. Mansauce's only argument is that technically TomSteve had arrived too late and had missed the official party. Other than that pissweak claim I'm pretty sure he got trounced because he left town before TomSteve had even finished his warm-up predrinks. I personally brought out "the handler" to an adoring crowd and did a "body shot" (what a flaming woman-lie) off the forearm!?!? of a promo girl before the free lift home claimed me and stripped hopes of the title clean out of my grasp.

Day 2 began with brekkie in the shade and the final rounds needing to be played out. The final round for Slamtown and Firestorm Ignition was converted, to avoid two identical match ups in the dessicating heat, to their semi-final playoff. Slamtown were not the disciplined machine of their game against Firestorm A and were looking rather seedy from whatever happened at the Hotel Allen the night before.

The Villains realised their place in the pecking order when sizing up Firestorm and decided to save their strength too for their semi-final against the loser of that game, Slamtown, to try to garner the final spot on offer for Nationals. Axis of Awesome and The Quinns Strike Back squared off for their big bout, a meaningful one to both teams as they were fairly evenly matched with Cairns taking it.

In the 3rd/4th playoff The Villains this year just lacked a few key bits of strength as well as some experience with many freshly new to the ranks. Slamtown seediness aside they were now just buggered from the heat but they took the game in their stride following against the fresh Townsville team and just worked hard out there to push themselves through for the win. With Donnie mentioning in the huddle that this was the hottest game he'd played in his many years of playing including that hot regionals in Brisbane in 2007. The high humidity pretty unique to up here but still something all the Queensland teams dealt with well!

It was the two Firestorm teams who were warmed up and ready to go as the Butcher on Bundock's sausages cooked away (they were good) and fruit salad was slurped down. With the division of ability between the two teams having been decided already back in Brisbane it was a concern that we wouldn't get our money's worth. That was quickly proven wrong with a very competitive display from both teams and there was no telling them apart on their desire to win. Firestorm A got the win in the end to take out the tournament but both teams were happily through to a home Australian Nationals which is a great result! Thanks to all the teams and helpers who made the tournament possible - you know who you are!!!



Here are the results:

Regionals Results
Saturday - Day 1

Morning Game: Towns Villains (TSV) d. The Quinns Strike Back 13 - 3

Round 1: 12:40 - 1:10pm

1. Firestorm A d. Firestorm B 13 - 4
2. Slamtown d. Towns Villains 13 - 4
3. Cairns Axis of Awesome d. The Quinns Strike Back 12 - 11


Round 2: 2:30 - 3:40pm

1. Firestorm A d. Towns Villains 13 - 2
2. Slamtown d. Cairns Axis of Awesome 13 - 1
3. Firestorn B d. The Quinns Strike Back 13 - 1

Round 3: 4:20 - 5:30pm

1. Slamtown d. The Quinns Strike Back 13 - 3
2. Firestorm A d. Cairns Axis of Awesome 13 - 1
3. Firestorm B d. Towns Villains 13 - 7

Round 4 (Night Games at Sports Reserve): 6:50 - 8:00

1. Firestorm A d. Slamtown 13 - 5
2. Firestorm B d. Cairns Axis of Awesome 13 - 3

Sunday - Day 2

Round 5:

1. Towns Villains d. Cairns Axis of Awesome 13 - 6
2. Firestorm B d. Slamtown 11 - 7
3. Firestorm A d. The Quinns Strike Back 13 - 0

5th vs 6th

5th: Cairns Axis of Awesome d.
6th: The Quinns Strike Back
Score: 11 - 6

Semi-Finals

3rd: Slamtown d.
4th: The Villains
Score: 13 - 5

Grand Final

1st: Firestorm
2nd: Firestorm Ignition
Score: 13 - 6

MVPs (3-way tie): Donny Moss (Slamtown), Mike Larson (Towns Villains), Zane Quinn (The Quinns Strike Back)

Congratulations to Firestorm, it's great to see the hard training pay off and you've come out with a convincing win. Also good luck to all three teams who qualified for Nationals - Firestorm, Ignition and Slamtown. Congrats to Cairns on their first tournament, what a great effort and it looks like there's plenty of potential up there. Of course well done to both Townsville teams on representing the 'Ville, we'll only see improvements now!

Introducing the new QUDA President - Channel 7 report on 2011 State Championships in Townsville

We now have a copy of the Channel 7 news report covering the event up on youtube. This will hopefully stimulate things till I am able to put results up - SOON!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMn01c_zGHE

Queensland Regionals 2011 (Open) in Townsville

This weekend is the State Championships for Ultimate Frisbee. It will be held at Queens Park in Townsville, near the Strand. If you'd like to come and watch or are playing and don't know the times, the following schedule will help. Feel free to bring along family and friends to watch!

Link to Full Printable Schedule

Seeding
1 Firestorm A (Brisbane)
2 Slamtown Flatball Club (Gold Coast)
3 Towns Villains (Townsville)
4 Firestorm B (Brisbane)
5 Cairns Axis of Awesome (Cairns)
6 The Quinns Strike Back (Townsville)

Schedule Saturday

11.30am Players begin to arrive at fields – Queens Park, Warburton St and Burke St, Townsville.

12.15pm Official Welcome / Senior Players Meeting
Fruit available / canteen open

Players are to provide own lunch before arrival

12:40pm Round 1 (time cap at 1.50pm)

Field 1: Firestorm A vs Firestorm B
Field 2: Slamtown Flatball Club vs Towns Villains
Field 3: Cairns Axis of Awesome vs The Quinn’s Strike Back

2:30pm Round 2 (time cap at 3.40pm)

Field 1: Firestorm A vs Towns Villains
Field 2: Slamtown Flatball Club vs Cairns Axis of Awesome
Field 3: Firestorm B vs The Quinn’s Strike Back

4:20pm Round 3 (time cap at 5.30pm)

Field 1: Slamtown Flatball Club vs The Quinn’s Strike Back
Field 2: Firestorm A vs Cairns Axis of Awesome
Field 3: Towns Villains vs Firestorm B

Dinner Break / QUDA AGM. Lights come on @6.30pm - sunset is 6.47pm.
Move across the road to Townsville Sports Reserve

6.50pm Round 4 (time cap at 8.00pm – lights out at 8.30pm)
Field 4: Firestorm A vs Slamtown Flatball Club
Field 5: Firestorm B vs Cairns Axis of Awesome

Pre-play* Towns Villains vs The Quinn’s Strike Back
*This game will be played before the tournament. 9.00 am Start time.

Showers available at the fields. Refined Social Event nearby (Flynn's Irish Pub).


Schedule Sunday

Cereal, milk, bread, spreads and fruit available from 8.30am

9:00am Round 5 (time cap at 10.10am)

Field 1: Towns Villains vs Cairns Axis of Awesome
Field 2: Slamtown Flatball Club vs Firestorm B
Field 3: Firestorm A vs The Quinn’s Strike Back

10.50am Semi Finals (time cap at 12.00pm)

Field 1: Playoff for 5th 5 vs 6
Field 2: Semi 1 1 vs 4
Field 3: Semi 2 2 vs 3

Lunch available for those not in 3rd Place Playoff and continue through afternoon.

12:40pm 3rd Place Playoff (time cap at 1.50pm)
Field 1: Semi Loser 1 vs Semi Loser 2

@1.50pm Final (Time Cap at @3.00pm)
(Final immediately follows completion of 3rd Place Playoff)

Field 1: Semi Winner 1 vs Semi Winner 2

@3.00pm Presentations

Players departed by 3.30pm

Queensland Regionals 2011

Hey there southern ultimate players of Queensland (oh and Cairns too if you're about) - welcome to 2011 and an invitation to a very first Northern Queensland regionals! This will just be an introductory note about regionals. I hope that everyone is coping ok with the massive floods. I'm pleased to report that tropical Townsville has received no such flooding, though the region has had its share of rain this wet season.

If you need to dry your feet and weren't already coming to Townsville for Regionals on the 19th and 20th of Feb I'd like you to sign up for the event! There will be plenty of teams who would welcome extra players, we'll have a Cairns team taking part for the first time lead by Corey and I believe JdR who may welcome an extra pair of legs, as well as 2 Townsville teams with Tsv 2 welcoming more players and I'm going call it and say Dusty and the gang will be around too! So there it is, plenty of pick-up options. Contact me at one of the below emails if you'd like to find out more, or sign-up on AFDA to the team "Players looking a team" and we'll sort you out from there. A combo team of Townsville/Cairns/Brisbane would be like the lovechild of some attractive celebrity extra-marital coupling such as a Brad Pitt and Miranda Kerr slip-up with genes somehow getting in from Mansauce (via IVF for this guy probs), it would be almost too perfect except for the Mansauce aspects(I have heard of a condition on "weird or what" where 2 eggs are fertilised and merged into one leaving a person with 2 sets of DNA - theirs and their twin's, so it would be plausible to have this 3 way gene set occur). Talk to your fellow players and look into getting a couple of keen people together, the rest will be easy.

Due to the well known fact that it can be quite rainy at this time of year we have gone to the liberty of pencilling in a few different field bookings to ensure we have somewhere to play if one lot of fields becomes too wet or whatever it may be. At the moment our primary field choice (yet to be decided)is Queens Park which is close to the strand and always lush. If you have the energy after the tournament from here you can walk the hill with all the other die hard fitness freaks or wander down to the strand to cool off.

For those who aren't aware the competition has been registered on AFDA now since at least October. We understand that team selections are still taking place but if you're sure that your team will be coming up Captains, please go ahead and register your team. This will help speed up some aspects of organising for us. And don't forget to register yourself if you need a team.

If you'd like accommodation make it known by filling out your details on this spreadsheet. Let me know if it doesn't work. And don't forget to say the same thing on the AFDA rego. The earlier the better.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkV7D-JKvs3LdExGQ1NHb21oa296UGxhZmtjanlrTXc&hl=en

We can be contacted via our club email address:-townsvilleultimate at gmail. com or personally if you wish to contact hugh:-hughosborn at hotmail. com and mike:-mikelarson2 at gmail. com.

Further details regarding costs, making payments etc are still to come. Most details will be posted here until more players are registered to the tournament, so keep a look out.

Thanks and we look forward to your visit!

Feel free to post any questions or comments in the comments below.

Villians Regionals

There is a new facebook group called Villian's Regionals Training Squad. This is a temporary group to try and get Regionals info including training out to all interested members. If you are having a throw, going for a run, PCYC session use this forum to let other players know either by posting on the site or using the new email function. Hope to see everyone this Sunday at 4pm at Queens Park. Cheers Zane

Townsville hosting Regionals

Just a quick note to say, yes we'll be having Regionals up here so get ready! The Queensland Ultimate scene from down south will be happily travelling up to visit us and play!

The competition will be on the 19th and 20th of Feb so put a team together and come up!

I just got notice that Virgin Blue have a special offer till the 18th of Nov (a week away) with fares that are quitecheap and will be hard to beat of around $79 each way. That's quite the bargain.

That is all for now.

Villains' first Regionals 2010!

A dear hello to everyone, it has been a while.

The TownsVillains headed down to Brisbane on the weekend for this year's Northern Regionals. After a slow start finding the numbers to play on the team, things just came together for us and we ended up with a strong 13 player side. The team was:

Simon Urquhart, Keith Cameron-Smith, Hugh Osborn, Mike Larson, Matt DeWitt, Vinko Grgic, Mat Ryan, Dave Dehollander, Chris Ende, James David, Dane West, Ryan, and Dave.

The results are approximately as follows:
Saturday - conditions - windy, usually sort of crosswind
Round 1 - Villains 15 def. Brisbane Beer Barbarians 1
Mike Larson wasn't able to throw a bad throw this game, with some casual slow sailing flicks just hitting their open target in the endzone every single time. Brisbane Beer Barbarians get to lay claim to being the first team to ever score against the Villains, something they should remain proud of and perhaps have displayed somewhere in their pool room...

Round 2 - Firestorm 10 def. Villains 7
Firestorm were off to a good start this game taking it out to 4 - 0. Some smart play by Townsville allowed us to match them fairly well and claw back at their lead. Their set structures once countered with some thought of our own gave us more than a few easier points against this well-trained team. It became quite a matchup towards the end but they always held onto their momentum and kept their lead for the win with a points cap. It was an exciting match for Townsville and the one most of us had been looking forward to having. Thanks Firestorm!

Round 3 - Villains 14 def. UQ Lovers 4
One of the points of this game stretched into miles and miles of Huck City. Reece Stewart on UQ showed he was a good leader for their team and actually made this one of the harder fought games for us despite the odds against them and the scoreline.

Sunday - wet morning, some rainy points, some points with a wind.
Round 4 - Villains 11 def. Slamtown Flatball Club (Gold Coast) 10
Both teams had to get up early this morning to face off, with the only party bye strangely enough going to the team least likely to party, Firestorm. With both of our teams knowing we'd be playing again in the semis against each other, and the effects of a late night plaguing our brains, it was hard to find the momentum to push ourselves past a meagre 75% effort level. The Villains made a strong break away to try to end the game but Slamtown fought back to bring it to universe point at the end.

Semi-finals - Slamtown Flatball Club 12 def. Villains 8 or 9
Slamtown found their 100% and the Villains seemed to lose this one for themselves by just not clicking and not thinking as well as we had been on other days. A good game but a sad one for us.

Finals Firestorm 15 def. Slamtown 4

Good luck at Nationals to Firestorm.

We had a really great weekend with a really great Townsville side this weekend. We played some exceptional Ultimate. Congrats to Dane and James for their first tournament weekend they both had some outstanding games and were amazing to have on the team. Special shoutout to Micky L, Mike Larson who did well in the MVP votes and played superbly throughout the tournament as well as doing a great job leading the team. Also to the rest of the Villains who looked pretty fine in their brand new team get-up.