Ultimate Frisbee: Wednesday night Social League

Our Social League is hucking-off on Wednesday the 23rd of Feb, which is Week 1 of Uni. It begins at 7pm and will be at the University AFL ovals, which are located next to the uni swimming pool.

All you need to bring are your friends. We'll teach you the game and a small round disc will provide the fun!

See you for the first night of many...

Hugh Osborn
Co-Presidente

The sideline: It is your right and your responsibility!

If you're finished your game/not playing/it's the final and your team isn't in it and you're on the sideline and there's a big game being played what should you do:

A) Gather your belongings and start heading home, after all your assignment on the nesting behaviour of the fleas of Egypt is due in just over a week.
B) Bring pom-poms and yell encouragement to the team you're going for while being careful not to be too loud in case it disturbs the other team.
C) Yell friendly abuse at anyone on the field who you think deserves it whether they do or not.
D) Turn on your Gameboy only to be ambushed by a wild Pikachu in long grass. You foolishly play your Squirtle only to find out that electricity and water don't really mix.
E) All of the above

If you answered anything but "C) Yell friendly abuse at anyone on the field who you think deserves it whether they do or not" you were wrong.

That's right. Start practising your warcry. Start watching some Will Ferrell Movies. Get good at hurling things, namely abuse. Watch Randy Marsh at the little league games in South Park.

And while all this is going on, you can help those "special few" who are still playing, who are in a grand final by playing another game with them called "fantasy ultimate". This game seems to have fallen out of favour a little bit in some snooty Australian ultimate circles, probably due to my article on UltiPorn all those months ago which broke front page on many well-known Ultimate blogs across the globe. But it is still acceptable. Here is a good link to the rules. http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/ultimate/flu/flu.html.

Now obviously they're a little out of date because they don't include many Townsville Crowd favourites like behind-the-back bingo (completely successfully recently at the K&Q Hat - need a new name for it), flicks thrown through the legs from a backhand stance, Stationary Village, or high-release forehand field length hucks otherwise known as FHUCKS to name but a few. These are all considered multipliers of a thousand. No, but seriously they're probably worth more cause they're cooler.

But that's beside the point. Bring your best slanderous insults to the games each week! I'll see you tonight!

Round 3 League Results and Apologies to Kevin

Apologies to the diehard fans such as Kevin Staples and...oh wait that's it at the moment, but I managed to forget to put up scores from Wednesday night. This is quite a booboo because that's about all I have to write about and it's much more fitting when it's closer to a time when you can remember it and it still matters. I would normally try and come up with an excuse but I probably just forgot and maybe went drinking the following day and forgot even more. Sorry Kev, the rest of Townsville Ultimate and Ultimate players of the world, no hard feelings.

Without further ado for Mr Staples and the rest, here are the results from last week.

Pink Panthers 13 defeated The Last Surviving Dragons 12
I'm told that the Dragons had a good lead early but failed to finish it off with a comeback from Pink Panthers stealing the win.

Racist Dropbears 13 defeated The Savages 7?
The Savages are still struggling to find some form early in this league, hopefully once things settle and they get used to playing savage they will get some wins. Some quick disc movement from the Droppies helped them to victory.

Hammerheads 13 defeated The Fraternal Order of Red 12
This showdown between these two stubborn teams went on well after the other two games. The crowd gathered on the sideline cheering on the underdog which was always gonna be the Hammerheads because Mike Larson happens to be captain of Fraternal. The result was some intense playing from everyone on the field and a strong fight back from the Hammerheads to get the win.
As Mike duly noted to his team at the start of the season, the crowd was never gonna be cheering for them in a tight game. I have personally experienced this phenomenon on many separate occasions playing against Mike last semester, however I always thought they cheered for me because I'm such a great guy. I will cheer for you next time Mike, unless we showdown again in this year's finals, then we'll be going for the jugular while looking underdoggy and forlorn so the crowd likes us more.