A Night with the Stars - QUDA Bash 2007

So here's a one-eyed report from Saturday night's QUDA Bash. I was sort of busy being the MC for the evening, and then went home relatively early (I'd been renovating all day and was buggered). If I get anything wrong, blame the bacardis. But updates, corrections and additions welcome – just use that comments button at the bottom.

About 50 people descended on the Ashgrove Golf Club on Saturday 24 November for a bit of an end of year get together. Many people had dressed themselves up real pretty like, although the most fashionable accessory to be sporting was some sunburn picked up at the McTournament: New Tastes event earlier in the day. Most useful accessory was Cath's radio, from which she was able to pass on results from the Federal Election as the evening progressed.

Some fine food was laid on and the barstaff kept busy as chief organisers Maylin and Peta welcomed everyone at the door. Some enjoyed the deck area, and several social butterflies flutters around for the first hour or two.

Eventually, MC Jase (ie me), got the group assembled and relatively quiet for the presentation of a series of Awards. A few 'Who Am I' quiz questions livened things up and got the crowd a-thinkin'.

Queensland Club of the Year 2007
First up was Queensland Club of the Year 2007. As discussed elsewhere on this blog, the idea was to reflect the continuing growth of ongoing clubs in Queensland (and northern NSW) and their tournament results usings a fairly 'objective' set of rules to award points and such.

While there was only one winner, it was good to go through the efforts of the various clubs through the year. Check out tomorrow's Brisbane Ultimate Blog for the full results and analysis, but particular note should be made of the Gold Coast's GU-nit (props to Stef!), and Byron Bay's The Pass for their exceptional grooviness this year.

Congratulations were thus extended to the UQ Lovers who were named Queensland Club of the Year 2007. The Lovers had a great year, winning AUGs of course, plus hosting and winning Lovefest, getting a lot of rookies to Halibut, having the fab-est shirts at AUGs, and winning one BPL season and coming runners-up in another. The delightful Bree received the award on behalf of the Lovers. Yeah Lovers!

Little Miss Tickle
Next up was the first of the Sultry Awards, this one presented by the delightful Emma Bendall. It had a proper name but sorry I forget. Something to do with Mr Tickle and orang tang arms and recognising the awesomeness that is Maylin Chua! Yeah Maylin!

Brisbane League Director of the Year
The third award for the night was Brisbane League Director of the Year. Four League Directors (plus their helpers) were nominated:

Already-a-legend Brett Matzuka for his enthusiasm in that most venerable of Queensland Leagues, the UQ League (UQL);

Eireann Gilligan, who's been running the Women's Ultimate Frisbee League (WUFL), currently on Tuesday's at Toowong. Perhaps the highlight of the League has been that it generated two teams of women who went down to Melbourne for Nationals in April;

Jon Good, who took on the Brisbane Premier League (BPL) at the start of the Year. The BPL has grown from four to six teams during 2007, while maintaining what's arguably the highest standard of Open League in the country; and

Mark Malloy (and his sidekicks Adilia Murabito and Dan Blacklock) for the Monday night Mixed Yeronga Ultimate Frisbee League continues to be the most popular league in Brisbane, having to (unfortunately!) turn teams and players away as it exceeds capacity!

This all indicated a great year for Leagues in Brisbane - thanks to these fabulous League Directors!

The tension built as delightful Maylin Chua opened the Oscars-style envelope – to report that the judges (after several days of struggle) had agreed to a four-way tie! Congrats Brett, Eirrean, Jon and Malloy&Adilia&Dan!

Roger, Over
The Sultry brains-trust again took the stage to pass out a big THANK YOU to Roger Church for his efforts in coaching the two squads to Nationals this year. Well done Roger!

Outfit of the Year
Somewhere in the flow of things, there was also the Outfit of the Year Award. There were three nominations:
- Liam Gilliam's Mankini from Nationals, AUGs and Surfers Paradise Police Watch-house;
- Dusty Czok's Blue Lizard from Mixed Nationals; and,
- Peta McNaughton's Queen's Frock from Halibut.

The decision was made by the crowd screaming for each nominee … and the winner was Peta McNaughton! Yeah Pete!

Queensland Arse of the Year
The QUDA Bash then saw Brisbane adopt a prize originating from Newcastle Ultimate (first they take our Halibut trophy, now this!). So blame Notty.

First, through a convoluted process involving sex, drinking and coin-flipping, Ange Connellan was selected as the Judge.

Next, all the menfolk in the room were made to face a wall, with much joviality ensuing, particularly from Sean Flanagan, for whom this all seemed very familiar.

Judge Ange was then blindfolded and led down the line, pausing for a professional feel of each male arse. With advice from Steph, Maylin, Emma and Eireann, Ange appeared to be using a complicated scale considering such qualities as size, firmness, curvature and whether and what sort of noise the owner made while his arse was being grappled with.

After a second feel, the Best Arse in Queensland was announced as Heather's boyfriend Dave, who doesn't even play Ultimate (but may start now).

Mike Neild, Matt Eastburn and Al Don voiced some protest and appeared to be ready to call for a re-grope, but giggling generally prevailed. Next year the Arse of the Year may well be an all-female category, so start asking for those 2008 QUDA Bash tickets now!

Volunteer of the Year 2007
QUDA Treasurer Bruce McNaughton then stepped up to speak on a great year for Ultimate in Queensland, and present the Volunteer of the Year award. A lot of great stuff had already come up through the evening, but a few others were mentioned here:
- Biggest Halibut ever

- Bootius Maximus winning Mixed Nationals
- Yeronga Disc Golf Course
- Capalaba League kicking off

- more teachers becoming accredited coaches

- Indoor tournament in Brisbane
- Townsville leading a team to Nationals
- and a bunch of other stuff.

Bruce also introduced the new QUDA Volunteer of the Year Award, noting that, compared to other sports, volunteers in Ultimate have an extra load, as they are usually players too.

Brett Matzuka and I were recognised for our volunteer efforts in 2007, and Bruce said lots of nice stuff about us. Thanks Bruce!

That wound up the awards, and dessert arrived, but I've rambled enough for now.

Readers, if you have some photos from the night, send them to me to post, or send me the link.

Overall, a great night out, and to summarise those awards again:

Club of the Year - UQ Lovers
Special Sultry Award for Maylin
League Director of the Year - Four Way Tie!
Special Sultry Thanks Award for Roger
Outfit of the Year - Peta McNaughton
Arse of the Year - Heather's bf Dave
Volunteers of the Year - Brett Matzuka and Jason de Rooy

Worlds2008 Website Up

http://www.wugc2008.com/

The Canadians have updated the website. Still a little bare, but info about which countries plan to attend.

Not Getting Your QUDA Bash Tickets Makes Baby Maylin Cry

Seriously - get your tickets!

And because we like to offer content here on the Brisbane Ultimate Blog - did you know Maylin has a blog?

Simpson's Disc Golf

If you weren't out at WUFL or the Self Improvement Session (sounds vaguely Maoist) on Tuesday night, you might've caught Milhouse getting in a bit of disc golf on tonight's second episode of The Simpsons. Cromulent!

Queenslanders in Aussie Masters Squad

No time to comment, but here's the Queensland folk named in the Australian Masters Squad for World 2008. The squad heads to a selection camp in February (after a few of these names have been put in or out of the Open team) in Sydney, to battle it out for places.

Matt Anscomb
Dom Ventura
Chris 'Buzz' Burwell
Piers Truter
Jonathan Potts
Matt Ryan

Go old farts!

Anyone Got html Time and Skills?

I'd like to bling up the blog beyond Blogger's standard templates, but don't have the time and skills. Anyone interested?

To start, I'm keen to personalise the banner, and get all the labels into a group (rather than a lengthy list).

Thunking Up the Queensland Club of the Year Award

Hey people,

In getting everything just right for the upcoming QUDA BASH, Maylin (bless her) asked a few people if a bit of award presenting would be appropriate.

Yes I said! And so I got to thinking, and decided that one thing that would be quite cool would be a "Queensland Club of the Year" Award.

But rather than the higher-effort approach for the AFDA Club fo the Year (which involves nominations addressing several on and off-field critera, then voting by the AFDA Board), I'd pinch some of Potty's work on Walkabout, which was about giving points for attending and succeeding in tournaments, and modify it to suit our Queensland environment.

A key thing I also want to do is that, aside from recognising the overall top club, is to recognise all the other clubs and what they've been up to. Perhaps they can aim to improve from year to year to generate some bragging rights.

So I've done my thinking and this is what I've got. I figured comments from the readers here might be useful, so your thoughts welcome. But I ask that you not spoil the surprise for the QUDA Bash by trying to work out the results for 2007 (which of course I will post here eventually)!

Guidelines - Qualifying Elements
- Clubs must play two tournaments, or have travelled over 700km for one tournament (we don't want "one-off" groups involved, but do want to ensure non-Brisbane efforts are recognised).
- Club must be majority Qld or NNSW players (to include Byron).
- Players may play for multiple clubs through the year, but only one club per event.
- Clubs may accrue additional points via multiple teams in the same event.
- A tournament must have at least four teams to be included, and be by open invitation/qualification (hence, NUFL not included, as only certain clubs can compete).

Guidelines - Determining Points
- Points are given for placing in relation to the size of the tournament. Bottom place gets x points, each placing above that gets x points, but to 10 teams.
- If there are more than 10 teams, the top points are 10x, and the points per placing distributed down to x points for bottom.
- Spirit points are given as y points per team at the tournament - so for example, winning spirit at a 8 team tournament is 8y points.
- There is a travel bonus to recognise that getting a team a distance takes more effort. 50km-700km is z points, 700-1400km is 2z points, more than 1400km is 3z points. (So you can see, Gold Coast/Byron/Townsville get recognised for getting to Brisbane, while all teams get recognised for travelling to Sydney/Adelaide/Perth/etc).

Test: Last Year's Club of the Year
Applying this to the *2006* results (with some small pieces of subjective judgement in the input stage), here's what I get:

1. Bootius Maximus 2991 points (success at Halibut and Mixed Nats + WUCC make it big)
2. UQ Lovers 2076 points (Halibut, Lovefest and AUGs success in Adelaide)
3. Dojo Mojo 1400 points (Regionals and Nationals success)
4. 74 Flood 1390 points (Regionals, Nationals, WUCC + spirit at Nats)
5. Sultry 1200 points (special for Regionals, Nationals + spirit at Nats)
6. Buggers 1150 points (Regionals and Nationals)
7. Shoot to Kill 1112 points (travelling and a good result at Halibut helps!)
8. Crikey 1065 points (travelling and a good result in Ballarat helps!)
9. Lounge Lizards 890 points (Halibut and Lovefest, but stayed in Brisbane)
10. QUTies 500 points (Lovefest and AUGs, but low results)
11. No Panda 400 points (travelling to Regionals gets them on the board)

Sound good?

I'm looking forward to announcing the 2007 result (pending Dusty getting me the Halibut results! C'mon Dusty!!). Clubs in the running seem to be the Pass (Byron), GU-nit, Bootius, Lovers, Firestorm, Sultry, QUTies, Lizards, Thor, Armidale Freeze and Concrete Donkey.

More Sandford

I'm not picking on Sarah, its just that people like Leon seem to take photos of her that I can use.

Byron Bay - Redux

So while we were visiting the NSW Sport and Rec Centre at Lennox Heads last weekend for Badman's Birthday Bash, Sean Flanagan and Tony Ross and others revealed that the venue had hosted many a frisbee event back in the day (the day being the '90s).

The flashback got Sean to go digging through his big box of photos, and we'll be featuring a few of the results here at Brisbane Ultimate Blog: Your Choice for Brisbane Ultimate History!

Sean thinks these date from around 1991 or 92. For those who were there last week, the dunes look the same, the fields a bit rougher, and there's a lot less in the way of buildings!

Click to make a lot bigger!

Of the next row of three, Sean says: "This one has me, Simon Wood, Joel Duckham, Sam Howard, Brendan Love and Stew Marcoom looking into a frisbee for some reason. The second photo shows the fields before the basket ball hall. And the third shows a young Jenny Keys - the guy in red in the same photo lives in lismore and organised most of these events for about 9 years (Greg Lynn)."

Click to make bigger!

And here's one of the man (Flan) himself, getting into some freestyling.

You really want to click to make this one bigger.

We've got a few more to post next week.

If you've got some old photos - why not email them and we'll post them for posterity and share the wisdom with the young-folk.

Shake It All About

Another of Leon's NUFL2 pics.

Oh, the humanity!

From Leon's NUFL2 photos.

Badman's Birthday Bash

The lack of blogging has been due to the sheer fantastic awesomeness of the Badman's Birthday Bash two-day hat at Lennox Heads (south of Byron Bay) on the weekend.

It was so good its difficult to write about in a coherent fashion. The venue was outstanding. The food was outstanding. The people were outstanding.

I can only suggest you catch up with one of the lucky people who were there.

Thanks to everyone who had a hand in making it a great event.

Molly has posted some of her great photos, featuring the fine people, lovely campfire and quality play.

And here's a couple from me:

Blue sky, lush fields. Beach off to the left, lake off to the right.

The Cabins we stayed in were right next to the fields.

Fine food.

Badman's Birthday Cake!

I predict the next one of these to be heavily oversubscribed - so if you see the chance, register early!

Coaching and Adults

The Australian Sports Commission has launched an on-line basic coaching course. Good on the UFNSW for spotting it.

I'm curious if anyone has some time to have a poke around - let us know. If its useful and not too time consuming we might spread it around the qld-ultimate lists.

The site indicates that it has a particular focus on coaching kids, but I'd be interested in what it says about coaching adults.

I've said to a few people that one of the things I like about Ultimate is watching people come to an entirely new sport as an adult. That's a pretty rare experience for most people, and something which I suspect puts a lot of people unconsciously off giving Ultimate a go ("I'm worried I'll embarrass myself because I don't know what I'm doing so I'll stick to the sport I've been playing since I was a little tacker").

Once they're playing though, the thing that separates adults from kids (and I don't really have the terminology for this) is that they can self-direct their learning. Many adults new to Ultimate will pick up the strategy and tactics of Ultimate well before they develop the skills to use them (not just throws, but perhaps more importantly, reading the play). Or at least they'll recognise that there's stuff they don't know, and start to ask.

Brisbane Ultimate Blog Awards

So now that I've got polls and stuff bedded in, and now that I've finalised posting the AFDA Awards on afda.com, I started to think about rolling out the 2007 Brisbane Ultimate Blog Awards.

Of course, the Awards would be all about you, the readership, so give me a comment and we'll see where we get. Suggest an award, or suggest a nomination for some other award, or tell me to forget about it.

Here's a couple of ideas to get you going:

Best Thing to Happen to Brisbane Ultimate in 2007
Nominations: Bootius Win Mixed Nats; BPL Grows from 4 to 6 Teams; Lovers Win AUGs; Biggest Halibut Evah.

Best Off-Field Moment in Brisbane Ultimate in 2007
Nominations: Liam's Mankini; Notty Moves to Brisbane; Boy on Boy / Girl on Girl Chants; Jangles Getting Caught.

McNaughton of the Year 2007
Nominations: Bruce; Peta.

Brisbane-Based Website of the Year 2007
Nominations: Brisbane Ultimate Blog; QUDA.

Worst Team Name in Brisbane 2007
Nominations: Passion; Hooray for Everything

Biggest Loss in Brisbane Ultimate 2007
Nominations: Rena; Scott Massey; Rubes and Tegan; Women from a Season of BPL.


Hit me!

The Masses Have Spoken

So my use of the new poll feature (on the right) has generated its first result.


Four people prefer Griffith Uni Nathan for Northern Regionals 2008, and three prefer Kalinga Park.

And just so you know that polls here at Brisbane Ultimate Blog are the REAL DEAL, I rang Griffith Uni this morning to make a tentative booking. Conveniently, the call for bids for hosting regionals also came out this week, so we're on track.

Like I've said below, I'm keen to make Northern Regionals 2008 a great part of our calendar, and getting fields sorted early is always a great way to start.

Cutting Machine

The Joy of Non-Issues

I was talking to Mel Gangemi last night (Mel is the President of the AFDA, of which I am the Secretary). Mel was putting together stuff for the bi-annual national administrator conference and she pointed out an interesting statistic to me.

Of the eight key Ultimate associations in Australia (deep breath now - AFDA, QUDA, NSWFDA, VFDA, TUA, SAFDA, WAFDA and ACTUA), four presently have women Presidents (so 50%), and two have Presidents with indigenous heritage (so 25%).

Name another sport that would have that kind of mix amongst its key administrative posts.

I can't think of one.

But I figure what's more interesting, is that if some other sport had this mix, you'd hear all about it. It would be a big deal.

For Ultimate, its not an issue. Not even a "not an issue".

Near as I can tell, nobody on the Ultimate scene has noticed, or cares anyways.

Groovy.

Because We Love Danielle

So my posting of something with very very little to do with Brisbane Ultimate has garnered some more stuff with very very little to do with Brisbane Ultimate, this time from Danielle:

Saw this as I was casually flicking through the inaugural edition of 'Women's Health' magazine....It was in an article on what makes you sexy!! Who is this Jay who likes to watch girls lay...out?

Cheers, D

So there it is ladies - LAY OUT - and you'll have him begging for more. A magazine said so!

Northern Regionals 2008

So I've been meaning to put my hand up again to run Northern Regionals. I'm assuming nobody will complain ;)

What this means at this stage is booking some fields - so check out the new poll function on the right there.

But I also wouldn't mind fostering a bit of thinking beforehand about what the Northern Region wants out of this event (Northern Region being North Queensland, South Queensland and the Northern Territory, plus folk from Northern NSW (Byron, Armidale) who have the option of qualifying for Nationals via either Northern Regionals or Eastern Regionals.

Officially, Northern Regionals, like the other Regionals events, is required by the national body to enable the qualification of teams (and players) to attend Nationals. In practice, the Northern Region produces two teams that get to go to Nationals, and for players, if you played on one of those teams at Regionals, you must play with them at Nationals. If you played with some other team at Regionals, you can play with any team that will have you at Nationals.

For our region though, we've generally been able to organise ourselves to ensure we have the two teams to fill the two slots (in both Open and Women's). Hence, Northern Regionals has been about having an event to satisfy AFDA - and of course, its good for us to have an Open/Women's event on the calendar in Brisbane [note assumption that Northern Regionals will be in Brisbane for the foreseeable future].

Assuming that we're going to continue this way in 2008, I figure we should ask ourselves if there's a better way to do it than in 2007.

In 2007, the Open Division featured five regoed teams, which became four at the start of day 1. Two of the teams intended to go to Nationals and featured most of the stronger players in the region. The third was a small number of stronger players who weren't going to Nats, and the fourth was a fairly weak pickup team.

The event did its job in generating two teams for Nationals, but it was pretty lop-sided. I can't help thinking that perhaps we couldn't do it differently, although I guess at least the Nats-bound teams benefited from two days running around together, even if against some weaker opposition.

Perhaps we could make the event more of a hard-training and/or even selection event? Players register as individuals, indicating whether they also want to go to Nationals (but certainly lots of not-Nats players welcome, as its our ONLY Open tournament of the year). The Brains-Trust pick teams with an eye to generating two teams for Nationals (whether thats A/B or X/Y or something else is up to them) but also to making sure we have a good hard tournament (ie with reasonably even teams where possible). If there are more players wanting to go to Nats than there is space on two teams, then the event also becomes a selection event.

This may be an event that's inviting particularly to newer players, for example from the Universities (including now Gold Coast Griffith). And it should ideally also link to BPL, with BPL teams 'scouting' for players at this event.

I think this is what Sultry did with their one day of Regionals, and in addition they were very open to new players (I suspect for an Open tournament people wouldn't be keen for rank-beginners).

Anyway, enough rave. What do YOU think?

Now On Sale

I'm looking forward to the QUDA Bash in four weeks.

Maylin has announced that tickets are now available from Molly, Shawn and the divine Ms Maylin herself.

As per usual in Ultimate circles, it really helps organisers if you buy early. As an organiser-type myself, I can say that the biggest source of pain in doing these things is doubt. You spend weeks thinking "Will people come? What if it all goes to shit? Why hasn't Buzz or Chaddy or Huddy or Eirrean bought their tickets yet? Oh why did I agree to do this?"

Yes, only you can prevent Maylin-angst, by buying a ticket asap.

Checkout the QUDA website (link on the right) for more info.

UQ Renew!

UQ Renew! It could be a superhero phrase, like "Flame on" or something.

Anyway, the UQ club recently held its AGM, and congratulations to the new "Masters of Love" aka UQ Lovers General Committee:

President: Peter Allen
Vice-President: Will Churchill
Treasurer: Julian Sacre
Secretary: Geoff Grundy
Social Convenor: Tom/Steve Daley

I hope these people take the time well before O-Week 2008 to plan their recruitment of fresh souls to university Ultimate - and more importantly, that everyone chip in and help out!

Smooth Airborne Handler

The wonderful Roger (and buddy Dave) has again posted thousands of photos from Mixed Nats. Check them out, and let me know if there's any potential loldiscs!

Because We Love Maylin

Its nice to know that someone out there is reading, especially when they send you awesome email like this:

"hey jdr,

i found this photo while doing 'research' for a fashion assignment. I
couldn't help but scan it and thought you might like to share it on
your blog...

it was an italian magazine, a vogue bambini I think, of course, the
clothes and the eyebrows are a dead give away. i was impressed with
the discraft quality though!

=)

cheerio!
may"

And here's the pic:


ps Congrats to Matt and Emma on their engagement! I've been smilin' all day.

Mad Scramble

Its just on halfway through this season of BPL, so lets check out the table.

1 Fresh Buggers Won-3 Draw-1 Lost-1 Forfeit-0 Points-12 GoalDiff +1
The New Kids on the Block of BPL (Jimmy even looks a bit like Jordan Knight) seem to have surprised a few with their hard running athletic game. Came through the UniGames/Mixed Nats disruption well, particularly in beating Rawhide with only six players available. The Crusty Bugs still demonstrated mastery over them, leaving a few question marks about any capacity to take the title, or even hang onto their top of the table position through the second half of the season.

2 Dojo Mojo Won-3 Draw-1 Lost-0 Foreit-1 Points-11 GoalDiff +16
Undefeated, but held back by a disappointing forfeit a few weeks back, due to missing a few Mixed Nats players I guess. Kind of like the Broncos during Origin time? Rawhide pushed them last week, and the rematch against the Fresh tonight (after their draw in the first round) should give an indication of the future. How well they can integrate their new legs from the Gold Coast (can anyone remember the last time Dojo got new players? Should help with their history of forfeiting issues anyway.) will be the key to the finals. And where the heck is Awesome Dom Ventura?

3 Rawhide Won-2 Draw-0 Lost-3 Forfeit-0 Points-9 GoalDiff -2
Hard for me to be objective here because I play for them, but the Band's numbers have settled and got them a few points on the League board through the middle games. Certainly an improvement on the winless previous season. The return of Sean Flan seems to have lessened the talk and increased the walk. A good showing in tonight's game against the Crusty Bugs, who have a history of imposing their will upon the Rawhide, will be vital.

4 Passion Won-2 Draw-0 Loss-2 Forfeit-1 Point-8 GoalDiff -1
A step behind Rawhide because of their unfortunate forfeit, but might more trouble leading into the Exam season, which would be disappointing after some early wins over the fancied Lovers and the Crustys. If they can replicate those results over the next two games, they'll be close to the Finals.

5 Crusty Buggers Won-2 Draw-0 Lost-2 Forfeit-1 Points-8 GoalDiff -5
That these toughened animals are fifth is perhaps testament to the evenness of this season, and the unevenness of the Crusty squad each week. For their two wins, they smashed Rawhide (15-4) and the Fresh Bugs (15-4), but then (on the scores at least) went down tamely to Passion (9-13) and Dojo (7-15) during the UniGames/Mixed Nats weeks.

6 Lovers Won-1 Draw-0 Loss-4 Forfeit-0 Points-7 GoalDiff -9
Last season's finalists are finding it tough this time around, but then last week's win over their nemesis the Buggers might be the turning of the corner. Threatening.

Bash Me!

Worlds on the Horizon

The AFDA Chair of Selectors, Mr Owen 'O-Shep' Shepherd, this morning announced the 'selection squad' for the Open, Women's and Mixed teams for the World Championships in Vancouver in 2008.

These are the 'train on' group, who'll now converge for a few training camps, before the final teams are selected in February (if I've got it right).

From Brisbane then we have:

Chris Cunliffe
Al Don
Brett Matzuka
John 'Cheeseburger' McNaughton
Mike Neild
Kristen 'Notty' Nott
Jonathan 'Pottsy' Potts
Piers Truter

And we'll call Rueben Berg ours - even though he "lives" in Melbourne these days - he does read this blog. (Go RUBES!)

So I call upon all folk in the state of Queensland (and beyond)!

If any of these people ask you for a throw, a run, or even to spare a dollar for a raffle ticket - HELP THEM OUT!

New Northern HQ

Its not quite the proper business of this blog, but then Brisbane folk love to head north to the Ultimate-garrison city of Townsville.

Well, now we have a proper HQ to visit.

Yes, MattA has bought a house, and has been emailing everyone about it.

Well done Matt (and lady-friend)!

Plenty of floor to sleep on, eh!?

PTD or PTP?

After a big event like Mixed Nationals, many people talk about PTD or Post-Tournament Depression. That is, after the highs of a whole weekend or more of fun Ultimate, catching up with friends, being away from home and dancing or drinking or both a hell of a lot, its tough to go back to everyday life, and lethargy sets in.

So what am I doing wrong? Instead of PTD, I suffer Post Tournament Panic! Coming back from Mixed Nats, I've got this huge list of stuff to get done. I mean its Thursday now and I still haven't unpacked my suitcase!

So the blog's been a little quiet. But here's a photo of the Supreme Bad-Ass Overlord of Queensland Ultimate, Mr Dusty Czok:


And the Super Happy Lounge Lizards - 21st at Mixed Nats 2007!

Bootius Maximum - Australian Mixed Ultimate Champions!

You Know I Love You, Baby

I've been a bit late, but I should mention that Rawhide got its first BPL win last week.