From Jie Gu:
Hi ultimate players,
Last weekend, Box came to Kunming and had a great time with you guys.
As he said, UFO Club of the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China will hold the Second Ningbo Hat Tournament in April 3rd and 4th, 2010.
With the weather becomes warm in spring, it's a good time for some discs and fun. So, with attaching the official invitation letter, I am sincerely inviting all of you to join us.
BTW, could you please pass the information to all the frisbee players you know, many thanks.
To register, may I suggest if some of you come from the same team or place, it would be better if one representative can first collect the all the players' information and then send it to Forrest (super cute), liyanguan.forrest@gmail.com
For more information, plz check out our invitation letter and our blog for the great pics of first tourney and our beautiful campus:http://ningboufo.blogbus.com/logs/57596899.html
If you have any problem, you can reply this email directly or send an email to our captain Forrest：liyanguan.forrest@gmail.com
Hope things all going well.
全国的极限飞盘爱好者你们好， 首先非常感谢很多朋友就香港队的中外属性问题给我们提出了很多宝 我们自己也很清楚前几届的中国极限飞盘公开赛中我们的一些规则并 同时， 多数参与讨论的朋友们都同意提高整个中国极限飞盘公开赛的竞争水 因此，我们在此宣布：在香港出生和长大， 希望大家都同意这样的决议并在比赛时按照此决议执行。 今年的中国公开赛即将来临， 加油中国飞盘！ 加油, China Utlimate players, As we stated before we were very pleased by the number of responses to our debate concerning HK. Most of you let us know, through well-reasoned emails, what direction you believe our community should go in. We all know that the way that we have structured the past few years is not ideal but it tries to grow the local Chinese talent by as much as possible each year. As the level of play increases hopefully these types of problems will be less important and everyone who has shared our great sport in China for more than a few years would be able to compete for the finals. In the meantime, we are confident that our structure helps the community as a whole grow in the short term and by reading your emails we think you agree. Most of your emails overwhelmingly agreed that strengthening our level of play at the nationals is most important and that citizens who have been deemed Chinese should not excluded due to the political division between HK and the mainland. Many of the shanghai organizers were quick to point out that Tianjin beat HK in the quarter finals at Shanghai last year. We are confident that including HK is not detrimental to the 2010 China Open or the structure as we have organized it. Therefore, we are happy to announce that HK players that were born and raised in HK and have the relevant HK ID issued by the HK government will be counted as Chinese players. Please remember that less than 30% of any team playing for the Chinese championship can by foreign. In other words, over 70% must be Chinese nationals, or the above mentioned HK designation. At most, two foreigners are allowed on the field at one time. We hope everyone is satisfied by this decision and the way that we came to it. We cannot express how excited we are to have all of you up here to compete for this year’s Chinese champion. We are also excited that the inclusion of HK will only make us stronger as a community of old and new friends and a tournament of friendly competitors. Go China ultimate. Cheers====
From CUPA:
The 2nd Shenzhen Ultimate Frisbee Hat Tournament
Previously called the Pearl River Delta Ultimate Program, the Canton Ultimate Program mainly consists of disc lovers from Shenzhen and
The below are some details of the tournaments:
Time: March 27th,28th
Location: Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Gender Ratio: 5:2 or 4:3
Registration Fee: 300 RMB, Students 150 RMB.
Party Theme: TBA
Registration fee includes: a lot of playing time, free drink at the party, a tournament t-shirt, a tournament disc, two lunches and a dinner, a players’ kit, food and drink on the field.
Tournament Organizer: Shenzhen Ultimate Club
Tournament Supporter:
Media support: www.cupa.cn
TDs: Balance:balancewang@gmail.com Ivan:ivanxujiangjun@gmail.com
From Jeff Orcutt:
大家好，(English below)
我们很荣幸地宣布今年全国赛的日期。极限飞盘的2010年中国公
很快，赛事的主题和外国玩家参与的规则会被决定，
我们的网站将在春节长假之后开通，
对于来北京参赛的队伍，我们希望能提供好的赞助，
记住日期之后，
中国飞盘加油！对于五月份北京的相聚，我们已经迫不及待了！！！
干杯，
中国公开赛极限飞盘协会
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the date of this year’s National tournament the 2010 China Open. We will be holding it on the same great fields as last year on the weekend of May 15th and 16th.
The theme and rules concerning foreigners will be coming soon and any input from those of you around China would be greatly appreciated.
Our website will be up after Chunjie break with all the relevant information and an online registration form.
We hope to be able to offer some great sponsorships to teams travelling to Beijing, but unfortunately are not able to help everyone. Please communicate directly with Kelly yang (yangyan218@gmail.com) or Jeff Orcutt (orcutt.jeff@gmail.com) if you want to seek sponsorships for your teams. We want to help as many people come to Beijing as possible so they can bring a National spirit of Ultimate community along with badass ultimate skills back to their towns and cities.
Please set the date aside and start saving to come up to Beijing and have the time of your life!
Go China ultimate and we cannot wait to see all of you in Beijing in May!!!
Cheers,
China nationals committee
From Singapore tourney director:
Hey Guys,
Sorry to keep you all waiting, but on behalf of Singapore Ultimate, here are the details of the inaugural Singapore Single Gender Tourney!
Date: 24th -25th April 2010.
Format: Men's + Women's Divisions
Team size: Maximum 13 players
Fields: Punggol East (near last year’s Singapore Open fields)
Registration Fees: SGD30 per person
Attached is the official press release regarding the event.
Any further questions, comments or for registration, please contact us via Gender.SgUlty.2010@gmail.com. Looking forward to see you guys at the gender tourney!
alex,
for Singapore Ultimate.
Not to bog you fair readers down in the boring minutia of minutes -- god forbid we're turning into a bureaucracy that holds meetings -- but for those interested in keeping up with developments in the planning of China's national tournament, this is for you.
This Saturday’s meeting was very good. I cannot wait to work with all of you on this tournament over the spring. Let’s increase our use of email and continue to communicate over CNY.
Ken, sorry that we were unable to connect. Let’s Burger lied about their internet connection… and that was the second location we had gone to…
As for the meeting here are some notes that I took. Mike has others. This is not an exhaustive list of what we talked about (Tao’s brackets is one area, and what the foreigners should do on Saturday –nines?) and I encourage you to add or correct what I have written.
In attendance (clockwise from door):
Mike
Jeff
Shen
Tao
Kelly
Steven
Location/time: Let’s Burger (tasty food) from 8:00 until 10:00pm (Kelly could only count this as one hour if she is counting : ) ) on Saturday, Feb, 6, 2010.
These notes are not in the order as discussed at the meeting:
Sponsorship:
This is an area that is difficult but we were happy that if we continue to plug away we may find some good news. We all agreed that at this point we should organise the tournament as if we were not going to receive any sponsorship. However, that does not mean that we should not try to get merchandise and money as sponsorships. Some areas where we may be able to get sponsorship:
n Nokia – we have helped them put on clinics (Kelly will invite them to participate in our spring league and use that discussion to slowly bring up sponsorship opportunities)
n ISB – in addition to the free fields in the spring we may be able to get some sponsorships since they are sending teams
n KPMG – I want to get tents from them like they did in SH
n Mike’s company – a little bit o’ cash?
n Other companies that we are involved with
n Eric Wu’s father – we discussed trying to see if funds were available from him or PWC. Eric indicated that this might be a possibility
Mike, Gareth and I have been working on a sponsorship pack and we will send it around when ready so each of you can approach companies that you feel may be helpful in this regard.
Also Zahlen will continue to help support us. We will talk about jerseys for early-bird registration like two years ago.
Team sponsorship:
We also want to provide sponsorships to teams so we can increase turnout especially from teams in the south that have to travel all the way across China to get here. I would love if we could provide some sponsorship for the tournament fees but really try to get it so everyone pays roughly the same price in travel costs (if everyone took trains). For example if train tickets from SZ are 600-800 we could off set the cost over 300 or so. (These numbers are made up off the top of my head.) I know this is not really possible but it can be a goal.
Price for the tournament:
In addition to other early-bird registration deals we discussed having a discount on price per player. Most at the meeting felt that a fifty kuai increase in price might be justified especially if we have some team sponsorships like last year. So the prices would work out to:
Foreigners 350RMB
Chinese 250RMB
Chinese students 150RMB
These increases could be explained by our increased cost of fields (for more teams, and increased sending on sponsorships).
Early-bird registration:
We thought an early-bird period for registration would be beneficial. For those teams registering before this date would have a fifty kuai discount on the above prices and may be able to get cheaper or free jerseys. The dates for early-bird registration were not set in stone but April 10th and the first of May were mentioned. We talked about not allowing registration after the first of May.
Direction and priorities of the tournament:
I wanted to emphasize that while we want to encourage teams to register as early as possible and may have these favourable prices and merchandise for them we have to remember that the most important aspect of the tournament is that we get the most amount of Chinese nationals to attend.
The website:
Was discussed. We talked about the need for it to be simple and easy to use. Mike will lead on this front and Jeff will send him what he will need from last year to get the website running in the next few weeks.
Mike has more on this.
Rules for participation:
We talked about allowing teams to have unlimited numbers and we reached a tentative agreement on using the old rules for foreigner participation on the Chinese teams (under 30% with only two allowed on the field at once). Mike brought up allowing a lower number of foreigners might help the level of play and overall comfort of the Chinese nationals. In the end it seemed that the old rules were agreed upon. Right, Mike?
The ratio was set at 5/2, 4/3 offense decides.
Everyone agreed that it was too early for WFDF rules as the Chinese nationals needed more time to grow on their own. As it isn’t clear there will be a viable WFDF organisational committee around Chinese in the near future nationals can concentrate on promoting the sport among the locals.
Theme:
We were a little baffled at what Balance wanted when he was talking about more people mingling at the Saturday night party. Jeff was worried what he would have in store for the SZ tournament.
Some theme ideas that we talked about:
A pajamas theme
三国
Transformaters
Blizzard games (i.e. world of warcraft, starcraft, etc.)
Movie theme
As last year some ideas for games were talked about and some icebreaking games would definitely help people mingle as many of the Chinese players are shy and do not drink like the foreigners.
Fields:
At this point the fields are settled on the weekend of May 15th and 16th. We will use their lunch and water services again as they were fine and convenient. After CNY Jeff will confirm the details with Zhouyan, our contact at the fields.
Media:
We agreed that media was important for this year especially highlighting the competitive play and good spirit of the tournament while downplaying the drinking.
We will:
- Put together a pack for media consumption talking about the game and media pieces that have already covered the sport in BJ (Tao and Shen?)
- Approach Casey about CCTV involvement
- Tao also has media contacts that we can pitch to.
Hotels:
We were hoping to find good hotels with a party stop like last year within walking distance. We all agreed that the format of the party last year was good (with a dinner and drinking all in the same location near the hotels) and hope to repeat it. Wudaokuo was a location suggested for the hotels this year as it is close to the fields and will probably have cheap hotels for students.
Future meetings:
We agreed that future meetings can take place on Sundays either around eleven (ie before pickup) or in the evening (after pickup). Steven’s cafe is available in the future.
We agreed that we don’t have to meet again until the first weekend in March and then meeting twice in march and up to four times in April and then weekly in May.
To do:
n The website needs to go up and Jeff and mike will prepare a version for comments.
n A general role call of teams around china and their contact people should be taken and this includes a formal announcement of the date and venue. (who?)
n More discussion on the rules that we have adopted so they can be finalised.
n Sponsorship opportunities need to be approached
n Hotels need to be found (Mike and his company offered company time to support this effort)
n Priorities of the tournament need to be thought about. What best favours increasing Chinese turnout that we can reasonably do
n And jeff will finish up sponsorship packet
n Media packet – Tao?
I would also like to talk to leaders around China so we can find a way to agree where next year’s nationals will be held and make a fair way of picking locations in the future. Hopefully, we will already know the next location before this year’s tournament so they can get the most out of our expertise and their time at the tournament.
This may have to be developed in tandem with a Chinese national Frisbee organisation. I will put out an email for this.
Ok. Rock on. We will meet again in March and I will set out an email about that but before that I hope to see a good email discussion.
上周六的会开得很不错。我已经等不及在春天和大家一起努力了。
队伍赞助：
早报名：
我们觉得设定早报名的期限是有益的。对于在此之前报名的队伍，
赛事的方向和优先权：
我想强调，当我们提倡尽早报名可以获得优惠/赠品的时候，
网站：
讨论了。它需要使用起来简易。Mike会主管这个，
关于这个Mike有更多。
参赛规则：
做了关于允许队中不限人数的讨论，
场上的男女比例 5/2, 4/3 进攻方决定。
每个人都同意现在就用WFDF的规则对于中国赛来说为时太早。
From Forrest:
Hi everyone,
大家好
This is Forrest from Ningbo UFO club, I am pleased to officially announce that the second Ningbo Hat tourney will be held in April 3rd and 4th, 2010.
我叫野兽，宁波UFO的队长，
With the weather becomes warm in spring, it's a good time for some discs and fun. So, with attaching the
随着天气逐渐变暖，届时将是一次很好与各地玩家切磋交流的机会。
official invitation letter, I am sincerely inviting all of you to join us. BTW, could you please pass the information to all the frisbee players you know, many thanks.
我真诚得邀请大家以及你们所认识的飞盘玩家加入我们。
To register, may I suggest if some of you come from the same team or place, it would be better if one representative can first
如果你们其中的一些人来自同一个地方或者同一个队伍，
collect the all the players' information and then either send it to Forrest (super cute), liyanguan.forrest@gmail.com or Cath (super hot), dmsm.catherine@gmail.com.
先收集好所有队员们的信息，然后发给我或者大白。
For more information, plz check out our invitation letter and our blog for the great pics of first tourney and our beautiful campus. http://ningboufo.blogbus.com/
更多详细信息，请看我们的邀请函以及我们的博客，
Hope things all going well.
祝大家一切顺利。
Cheers
Forrest (野兽)
Frisbee, where Layout happens !
For those who haven't seen it yet, the official WFDF World Ultimate Club Championships website is here.
First post:
Have you ever been to the Czech Republic or Prague? Do you want to come over and have a great time with other people who enjoy the sport? Do you want to be a part of a tournament held right in the middle of Europe? If so, we'd like to invite you to the World Ultimate Club Championship 2010 in Prague.
Where and when
The WUCC 2010 will be held in Prague, between 3 and 10 July.
Dear all,
大家好，
Hope you are all doing well.
大家最近还好吧。
Thanks for those who attended the call as it was very good progress.
非常感谢上周日参加了电话会议的朋友们，
Gamboa Higgins says:
"Hi everyone! :) Thought I'd send this out to invite you to the 11th Annual Bali Nusantara Cup on April 2-3, 2010! I know it's quite a trip for many of you to make, but we would appreciate that you help spread the word around! Thanks so much! ~G"
Event: The 11th Annual Bali Nusantara Cup (2010)
What: Tournament
Start Time: Thursday, April 1 at 7:00pm
End Time: Sunday, April 4 at 7:00am
Where: Bali, Indonesia
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?
From BlockStack.tv. There're great scenes of the Saturday night party; scenes from the finals at 41:23 mark.
The Southern Metropolis Daily has just published a big feature about China Ultimate titled, "Ultimate Frisbee Universe Needs No Referee." If you think something's lost in this translation, go see the story for yourself.
HT: Shen
For all your Kunming Ultimate needs.
