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| Topic: Revolver's Labor Day writeup |
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| Re: Revolver's Labor Day writeup [message #77026 is a reply to message #77019] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 00:15 |
Nirvana
Messages: 40
Registered: October 2008 |
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Alex,
Thank you very much for this write-up. As one of the people that was
frustrated with the lack of information coming from club ultimate, I
really appreciate it.
The winners of club nationals in 2008 and 2009 were teams that toiled
for a while near the top and finally broke through for the win. Jam
had certainly tasted bitter defeat in 2001 and 2004 (and had many
close semifinal finishes), and Chain Lightning had all the momentum
and a great feel good story last year. This year I think it will all
come together for Revolver. You've been near the top for several years
now and tasted bitter defeat last year as the favorite. I truly
believe you have one of the most balanced teams in ultimate and a
camaraderie and leadership matched by no one.
It's your time this year. Take it all the way.
-Jeremy
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| Topic: Frisbee tournament rating brainstorming |
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| Frisbee tournament rating brainstorming [message #77027] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 01:10 |
FFindr
Messages: 4
Registered: March 2010 |
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Hi,
every year there are hundreds if not thousands of Frisbee tournaments in the States and Canada (FFindr lists around 300 per year: http://ffindr.com/en/calendar/north-america), and very often on popular spring/summer/autumn weekends... a frequent question is: how to chose the right one? Several FFindr users approached me with the idea to establish a tournament rating on FFindr, and now is the time to get things rolling.
Before implementing the feature I would like to ask the community WHAT exactly the key factors are to determine a good Frisbee tournament. Here is what I have so far, feel free to complete the list or to add your ideas.
- 5 categories with scores from 1 to 5 (plus "no rating")
- a global score, averaging the 5 categories
- being able to comment the rating
The key factors so far, no grouping for categories yet:
- field and changing room quality
- competition aspects (schedule, seeding, system)
- transportation
- accommodation
- feel good factor
- friendliness of organisation
- party and entertainment
- food
- price/performance ratio
Thanks for your feedback (please send to contact@ffindr.com) and have a nice day,
Christian
P.S. Any other good (or bad, you never know) idea is also welcome...
# http://ffindr.com/en/blog
# FFindr! The Blog
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| Topic: Practice and Throwing Tips |
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| Topic: Big East Tournament...8 teams committed !!! |
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| Big East Tournament...8 teams committed !!! [message #77029] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 04:07 |
agerics20
Messages: 4497
Registered: October 2008 |
Senior Member |
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Providence Ultimate just wrote to confirm that they will be attending
the Big East Tournament in Pittsburgh the weekend of Oct
23-24...filling the event's 8 spots!
Each Conference Champion earns an automatic bid to the UOA National
Championship which we are planning for the weekend before
Thanksgiving.
The 8 teams attending are....
Syracuse
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
Louisville
Lehigh
UConn
Rutgers
Providence
It's gonna be awesome!
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| Topic: World Record Game |
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| Re: World Record Game [message #77030 is a reply to message #76959] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 04:21 |
agerics20
Messages: 4497
Registered: October 2008 |
Senior Member |
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> Some highlights that I can remember include:
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> A behind-the-back scoober for a score on the first day
> 4 callahans
> 40 degree evening temperatures on the first night and rain
> on the last night
> So many layouts, even in the last hours
> Dinosaur points
> 2 Meltdowns
> Marco-Polo points
> 5 Dropped Pulls
> Pac-Man points (there were indentations in the football
> field every 5 yards with lines going across the field)
> "Would You Rather" Points, most of which included a gruesome
> activity as one choice, and playing the next shift as the
> second choice. We usually chose choice one.
> One very aerodynamic Asian (who ended up going to the
> hospital after numerous layouts, skies, and ridiculous
> hucks)
> And my personal favorite, Diaper/White Thigh points. Figure
> it out.
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---GREAT post!
thanks for the highlights....even tho i'm not 100% certain what each
means!!!!
thanks
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| Re: World Record Game [message #77031 is a reply to message #76986] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 04:23 |
agerics20
Messages: 4497
Registered: October 2008 |
Senior Member |
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> I always thought that ultimate could make a concerted effort
> nationally to hold an all night game during the famous "Relay for
> Life" American Cancer Society fundraising events. These events happen
> in cities all over the country and often take place at a track with
> field space in the center of the track. They usually last 24 hours
> and are very well attended. I know in our town there are hundreds of
> youngsters hanging out all night. This might be an idea for the USAU
> to role out a template plan for local ultimate groups or college teams
> to raise funds for cancer research and expose ultimate to thousands of
> people in hundreds of cities.
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---Hi Steve,
How about the UOA organizing such an event here in town for the next
walk-a-thon?????
You could join in and be our mouthpiece!!!!
Let's do it!!!!
MG
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| Topic: Good News Out of the Ivy League.... |
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| Re: Good News Out of the Ivy League.... [message #77033 is a reply to message #77011] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 05:50 |
agerics20
Messages: 4497
Registered: October 2008 |
Senior Member |
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Alright.....here's the news....good story.
Harvard has been trying to reserve their fields like crazy...tons of
phone calls...tons of messages....some folks saying that it sounds
good, but the big boss wasn't giving the final word.
Devon W finds out where the main man is in a meeting and sits outside
the office for 2 hours and pounces when he's got the chance. The main
man says that the Ivy League tournament sounds like a good idea and
goes back into the meeting and grabs another fella who gives the final
'go ahead' for Harvard to host the Ivy League Conference
Tournament......and goes so far as to offer 2 different weekends!!!!!
One of the weekends is pretty early....the other is HALLOWEEN
WEEKEND!!!!!!
Sounds like a tradition in the making to me!!!
Halloween in BOSTON at the Ivy League Tournament....dude....i'm there!
I've gotten reports that as many as 6 UOA Core Observer Crew members
are willing to make the trip up there.....and there are at least 2
locals who have offered to observe as well.
BOOM.
nice work Harvard ultimate and Devon W!
Mike Gerics
UOA
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| Topic: Philly Fusion :: Without Limits |
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| Re: Philly Fusion :: Without Limits [message #77034 is a reply to message #77001] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 07:02 |
Michelle Ng
Messages: 411
Registered: September 2008
Location: Austin, TX |
Senior Member |
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The skills clinic is over 2/3 full! We'll be opening up sign-ups to college players on club teams today.
Again, here are the stations we are offering:
http://phillyfusion.wordpress.com/skills-clinic/
We'll also have a little trade show going Saturday afternoon. Teams are in the process of planning games and other fun activities, and many of us will be handing out freebies and selling merchandise. Details here:
http://phillyfusion.wordpress.com/trade-show/
Without Limits will have a table set up at the trade show and the two of us will be on hand all weekend to answer questions and talk more about the work we're doing.
Thanks for all of your support!
Sara and Michelle
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| Topic: How would you redraw the college regions? |
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| Re: How would you redraw the college regions? [message #77035 is a reply to message #76999] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 07:03 |
Jeff
Messages: 259
Registered: September 2008 |
Senior Member |
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This is one of the best ideas I have heard in a long time .... now
finding a way to make it feasible from the money side is a challenge
On Sep 8, 2:37 pm, Joshua Greenough <jgreeno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 8, 9:52 am, Torre <torre.harg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Fantusta wrote on Wed, 08 September 2010 12:47
>
> > > Well, part of the new plan is to also make all sections
> > > have 6-12
> > > teams
>
> > Really? you mean no more driving 8 hours for Sectionals when
> > another Section hosts their tourny less than 3 from our
> > school.
> > --
> > Play Ultimate
> > --
> > Posted fromhttp://www.rsdnospam.com
>
> I would do the youth/college/club/masters regions as the same regions
> (and sections) so that you could layer on part-time administrative
> staff over time to help out with local issues, development and working
> with the leagues and facilities in the region to better support all
> levels of ultimate. Most of the prep for the series events does not
> run concurrently and the stuff that does may actually be the same
> field site / weekend. A part-time staff who is better paid will be
> easier to recruit, hopefully have less turnover and be better
> trained / able to serve the stakeholders.
>
> Right now it is too scattered to support cohesive long-term growth
> strategy as players transition between various divisions through their
> career.
>
> Youth = 50 regions (1 per state)
> College = 8 (moving to 10)
> Club = 6 (future ?)
>
> The volunteer administrative burden increases as you grow more
> sections / regions. If you want to do the math on the total counts of
> volunteers think about the regional level first. 50 state
> coordinators for youth, 20 regional coordinators for college and 24
> for club.
>
> 94 people being asked to run roughly the same thing in events that
> sometimes overlap weekends and locations. Multiply another whole
> level out for sectional people in college & club and you get a picture
> for how many people it actually takes to run these things on a
> volunteer basis.
>
> Usual compensation for a volunteer is your dues are waived and some
> travel expenses. The dues are a little less than $4K as a budget.
> The travel expenses would probably not change bcause they are event
> based and the cost of doing business.
>
> The big question I have is if the organization did want this structure
> would they be willing to put up the $200K to pay 10 people part-time
> for a consistent volume of work like DiscNW does?
>
> Greenough
> #99
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