Ultimate Frisbee: The Top Frisbee Sport!

According to a recent assumption Ultimate Frisbee is the top frisbee sport!

Image: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/archives/2008/Sep/
That's frickin right! Stupid penultimate frisbee.

This is fantastic news for any Ultimate player who's had to put up with people laughing at them, girls disrespecting them, work colleagues feeling sorry for them or passerbys in cars yelling "frisbee is for gays!" loudly out their windows. Ha! Ha! Take that all you doubters! Who's having the last laugh/act of abuse/show of sympathy/yell now! Ultimate Frisbee is, that's who.

Frisbee Facts you should know!

For those of you who didn't know an ultimate frisbee frisbee holds: approximately 1630 ml of liquid. That equals approximately 4.34 beers. Or approximately 1.42 jugs of beer. Or 2.86 pints. Or 3.83 schooners. Or 5.71 pots of beer. That equals enough to get you messy if you have 3 or 4 of them.

Use this knowledge wisely. Tell your mates.

Just what are you gonna do now?

Option A: Throw Frisbee
Option B: Drink Beer
Option C: Paperbag girl and have your way
Option D: Pour beer into frisbee, drink beer from frisbee, throw beer, paperbag girl.

Vote now!

True Round 1 Results and Round 6 Scoreboard

*this is the fixed version

The very first game everyone played with their teams will now be added to the tally. The results of these first matches are below.

The Savages defeated The Last Surviving Dragons
The Fraternal Order of Red defeated Racist Dropbears
Pink Panthers defeated Hammerheads

Results of Round 6

Another week has gone by. I hope everyone is enjoying themselves. Here are the results minus the scores which I missed out on getting.

The Last Surviving Dragons 13 defeated The Savages 7
The Fraternal Order of Red defeated Racist Dropbears
Hammerheads 13 defeated Pink Panthers 8

Round 6 Predictions and After Game Comments!

Until I get to add the actual results I thought I'd have a crack at predicting the winners for the next games and mention the idea of getting some after game comments happening.

PREDICTIONS
The Savages over The Last Surviving Dragons (please let this come true)
Hammerheads over Pink Panzies
Racist Dropbears over Redcoats (I'm making Mike's team the underdog so that people feel more inclined to cheer for them)

AFTER GAME COMMENTS
What the other point of this preemptive post was, was to give people an opportunity to post their comments on the teams, their opponents, teammates, and any great performances from people worth a mention, with the opportunity to begin immediately after the game. So let's try and make this particular comments section a bit more of a good wrap section. Begin from this post and we'll see how it works out. It'd be great to hear from individuals in the games. Thanks.

Results Table, Round 4, Semester 2, 2009.

So I'm not too good with computers so it isn't too pretty, but my maths skills are hopefully good enough for this to be the correct tally of Wins and Losses for each team.

Round 4 Results

The Last Surviving Dragons 13 defeated Racist Dropbears (white) 10
The Fraternal Order of Red 13 defeated Pink Panthers 9
Hammerheads 13 defeated The Savages 6

This week we have a special writeup from top dog Kevin Staples on his team's game against what we'll now call the Redcoats. Where did you find that shirt Mike? Here's Kevin:

Score 13-9 in favour of the enemy Redcoats (or whatever their name is).

This match was one of the grudge variety. Red was looking to avenge their tight loss from the week before, while we were trying to keep our winning momentum intact. Defense was the theme of the game, as there were a couple points that were more like marathons held within a square pitch. Even though Red sustained multiple injuries, they were able to fight through this and, buckling down at their own endzone multiple times, take advantage of our turnovers enough to pull out the W. The score is not a good indicator of the closeness of the match, so admitted both sides.

--Media's favourite disk handler,

Kevin

As Kevin points out defense is definitely becoming the deciding factor in these games. Our game against the Hammerheads read very similarly. It was a close and intense game and tough fought for the points we did get even though the score shows differently.

Most teams are now using a zone defense as a main defensive strategy and it is rewarding them with a lot of turnovers close to the endzone at this stage from rushed throws and over-eagerness. It is early days yet so hopefully soon the hard work on offense in these long zone points translates to more goals. Good to see!

Controversial Drunken Dancing Styles - The Handler - A moral obligation or too intense ninja?

We all know the common drunk dance moves on the dance floor such as The Egyptian, or The Sprinkler but who among us has dared use The Handler?

Of all the drunken dance moves I've rehearsed or pulled out in the past I'm sure most people will agree with me when I say that ripping out frisbee moves on the dance floor is a sure way to impress people with your dancing know-how. One of the great things about this dance is that actual throw execution doesn't play a part. You are The Handler, the greatest handler of them all. So you can sit there faking smooth short backhands and then switching and going for the no-look high-release inside-out forehand huck or how bout spreading those legs and throwing lower than you ever thought possible until regrettably you sack yourself, people are gonna be wowed no matter what!
Suddenly a world opens up...

But the moral obligation must come first: Is it fair to use ultimate frisbee moves on the dance floor? Or are they just too intense ninja for normal people?

Some people will argue against it saying you couldn't possibly still have the disc after more than 10 seconds of faking throws, how can you still be dancing?? But my counter to this is that you 'll only have 10 seconds if someone is counting. And who would want it to end, really?

Please be careful.
Please be very careful.

And here's a tip: use only one disc at a time unless you want it to look like only a training session instead of the real thing.

Rules of Ultimate

Below = Pretty Picture:

A Full Sized Playing Field

We have a short time to teach you the game of Ultimate each week so for those who need to/want to know more about the rules here's two links from the AFDA website. The first is just the rules. The second is a more compact version which might suit you better for printing to read in the toilet, while still saving you enough money to buy toilet paper later in the week had you printed the other one.

Normal Version
http://wfdf.org/rules/WFDF%20Rules%20of%20Ultimate%202009.pdf

Compact Toilet Version
http://www.afda.com/resources/WFDF%202009%20Rules%20-%20Pocket%20Format.pdf

Just copy and paste to your address bar. Then read and learn.

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.

Successful Barbie! Plus Sausages versus BBQ flavoured Satay Sticks and what to call them!

Thursday, last week, saw what I think was the second club fundraising barbecue of the semester at the Uni Club. The Club's opening hours have now returned to the old closing time of 1am meaning a better, drunker, hungrier night for all.

Thanks again to Duncan for organising the barbie and manning the tongs all night. The addition of kebab sticks/satay sticks with BBQ flavour or whatever you want to call them was definitely an improvement on the thoughtlessness of only offering woolies sausages and tapped into the market of the "person who refuses to support the cause because we're only selling sausages". This is a niche which far too often remains untapped leading to an increase in the number of these people about. However, the strange part about it was that people actually complained when the sausages finally disappeared, so we won't be seeing the end of them anytime soon.

The best part of the night was enjoying the company of those who helped out and all our friends stopping by where they could rest their drink/s allowing the double fisters among us to free up a hand and have a chat. So thanks to everyone who came and helped we had a lot of people there making the night fun. I think Jared managed to keep us in business early on by eating 9 sausages and a kebab stick at last report. All our food ran out with pretty girls lining up for Matt Esser's skills at cooking the satay sticks, which is a great way to finish a barbie! The best thing about it for me was that it allowed me to come out and socialise but kept me tied down and away from the booze a little more. So well done to the barbie!

An intervention will be held next time for Dave Dehollander who drank 6 or so red bulls and became quite strange and spoke really really quickly by the end. This may just involve stealing his car keys and getting him drunk.

Monday Night, Funday Night! Get some extra Practise!

Remember Kids, if you want to get some more practise and learning in during the week besides your uni, we have been running a second night of Frisbee on Mondays! Starting at 8pm down on the Rugby oval (the first one you see on entering) at the University.

The aim is to put a little bit more intensity into the games by focusing on learning to play better, and self improvement through self awareness. There are 2 fields going with different levels of play so it's perfect for beginners looking to get better faster as well.
Over and out.

Results of Round 2 of League

The results of Round 2

The Savages must've jinxed themselves because they ended up having to play savage most of the night. Looks like a couple of stronger teams might be emerging with The Fraternal Order of Red and Racist Dropbears getting their second wins, we'll just have to wait and see.

The Fraternal Order of Red 13 defeated 7 The Last Surviving Dragons
Racist Dropbears 13 defeated 8 Hammerheads
Pink Panthers 13 defeated 7 The Savages

Disc Golf with Zane

Message from Zane:

Hi, if anyone is interested in playing disc golf we are playing at Anderson Park (Cnr Gulliver and Fulham Rd Mundingburra : see Google Maps). Meeting this Sunday 10am August the 30th, at the first car park, which is about 300 metres inside the park from the Gulliver St Entrance. Bring Disc, drinks etc. If you can make it or need further instructions either email, text, or phone 0416949938
Cheers Zane

Internet weirdness and The Last Surviving Dragons' team mascot

Dear Capitan Matthew De Witt,

You are very disturbing in your obsessions and choice of team name. As promised for having the most debatable team name, here is all anyone ever needs to know about the legend behind the team.

Last Surviving Dragon

The photo and the caption below the photo is all you need to enjoy this, but what you should note however is what makes this man a fine specimen ultimate player.
Speed, he is ol' crafty legs.
Height, no pants, makes him seem taller.
Efficiency, wings a mile long.
Intimidation, he has a moustache that reeks of self inflicted pain.
Confidence, just look at that strong knowing body language and tell me it doesn't get you.

Good Luck.

Townsville Ultimate Disc - Results of Round 1 of League, Semester 2, '09

The first competitive round of Townsville Ultimate for Semester 2 '09 was played on Wednesday night with close games throughout. Many teams managed to have strong showings with a good number of players. The Savages showed they'll have never have to play savage with enough people again for 2 whole lines switching up each point. Surprisingly the Pink Panthers were defeated in a game where surely the distraction of grown men looking pretty in pink (Kevin had dreams of his own) would have been enough to throw Simon and The Racist Dropbears off their game, but alas it wasn't to be.

I hope everyone enjoyed their games.

The Fraternal Order of Red 13 Defeated The Savages 9

Hammerheads 13 Defeated The Last Surviving Dragons 11

Racist Dropbears 13 Defeated Pink Panthers 11

Team Names Announced! For Semester 2, 2009.

The Teams in order, including captain and colour, from most debatable to least debatable. Special commendation goes to Matt D, he wins a post dedicated to his team mascot.

The Last Surviving Dragons - Matt De Witt
Racist Dropbears (white) - Simon Urquhart
Pink Panthers - Dave DeHollander
The Savages - Hugh Osborn
The Fraternal Order of Red - Mike "Gary" Larson
Hammerheads - Matt Esser

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