Friday, February 25, 2011

WEEK IN REVIEW: Get on my buzz, asshole

Big Brother meeting tomorrow. The club season's starting up next week...

PICTURE OF THE WEEK:


GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Alicia with the newsletter:

***Pick-Up***
There is pick-up on Wednesday Feb 23 at BCIS, 7-9pm and on Saturday Feb 26 at BCIS, 2-4pm.
2月23日7-9点和26日2-4点在乐城国际学校有飞盘.

For details, visit www.beijingultimate.com.

***Events and Happenings***

*This week:*

- Jim and Tao's Thursday trivia night is on! 8pm onwards at Kro's Nest on 35 Xiao Yun Lu (near San Yuan Qiao). Special drink deal: five bottles of imports for 100 kuai! Teams of up to six, free to play, prizes every round.

- If you missed the Beijing Ultimate 2010 Year-in-Review Slideshow this past Saturday (thanks Tao!), it'll be posted on various online sites this week. Stay tuned for more info.

*Next week:*

- Big Brother will be kicking off practice the first week of March! If you are interested to learn more about Beijing's International club team, contact Jim at jameskirchh...@gmail.com or Gareth at gmarshall...@gmail.comor Mike Shyu at michaelms...@gmail.com

***Farewell and Welcome***

Welcome to Sam Dreiman and Ernest French!

***Tournaments***

*In China:*
1) Shenzhen: March 19 - 20. For more details on how to register, check out www.szultimate.com

2) Ningbo Hat: April 9 - 10

3) Tianjin Open: April 16 - 17

3) Nanjing Open: April 23 - 24

4) China Nationals 2011: likely sometime in May

5) Shanghai Open: June 11 - 12

*International:*

1) Phnom Penh: March 5 - 6

2) The Boracay Open is set for this April 1st to April 3rd! There will be an Open tourney on the 1st, and a Mixed tournament the 2nd and 3rd. More details to follow; for now just save the date!

3) 12th Annual Bali Nusantara Cup is planned for next April 22/23, 2011. They say they have sweet grass fields and you know the beaches are awesome… Check the website (www.ultimateindonesia.com) for details and email elodiesel...@hotmail.com with any comments or requests.

4) Jeju Dirty Dozens 2011 will be held on the island April 23/24.

5) Malaysia Open 2011 will be held on May 21, 22 in Kuala Lumpur.

***For more about happenings around China, check
http://chinaultimate.wordpress.com.***

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

RETROSPECTIVE: Slideshow deleted scenes, Part 1

Never-before-seen pictures from 2010 that didn't quite make the Slideshow:








Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Beijing Ultimate 2010 Year-in-Review Slideshow






And Youku:
Prologue, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Also on Facebook (missing the Subic pictures in Part 3):
Prologue, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

And for the last time, a (nearly comprehensive) list of everyone that appears, in order of appearance:
*PART 1*
Anthony Tao
Gareth Marshall
Helen Lu
Sandy Wang
Joe Pellicano
Matt Mueller
Jim Kirchhoff
Therese Mendez
Kevin Reitz
(Hilco Beukema)
Pat Li
Hsing-hui Hsu
Jeff Orcutt
Alicia Lui
Chris Boehner
(Dray Abrahamian)
Andrew "Baby Girl" Moffat
Candice Lee
Ellen Wong
Shan Wu
Michael Chaitkin
(Amy Gardner)
Steph Kwan
Char Lam
Tina Xue
Michelle Tang
Yin Kong
Brian Marterer
Ben Redden
Nina Helmke
Doc Tobin
(Amos Irwin)
Chad Hensler
Andy Young
Bill McGrath
Casey Guo
Nick Liu
Jesse Day
Richie Liu
Guy Sivan
Mike Shyu
Caleb Heine
(Nihir Shah)
(Christine Laskowski)
(Tom Pile)
Jehan Azad
(Warren Pottrill)
Zahlen Titcomb
(Alyssa Li)
Wang Bin
(Valerie Min)
Happy Rat
Kelly Yang
Lin Lin
Brice Dudout
Yan Hao
Ryan Perez
Zhang Yang
Cai Cai
Zhang Pu
(Omar Pandoli)
(David Brown)
Angela Chen (Xiaonan)
Jeff "Drunkbus" Kessler
(Jason Cox)
Xie Yuhui
Xiao Zhi
(J.I. Nuega)
Joel Brand
(Liang Zhuang)
Emma Shyu
(Vince Chen)
(Edward Wang)
(Michael Hsu)
(An Zi)
(Kenny Zhu)
(Chen Jie)
(Matt Wang)
(Carter Li)
Steven Zhang
Lauren Reed
(Nick Hatt)
(Alex Hutson)
Jenn Brown
(Juliet Lu)
(Panoy Delos Santos)

*PART 2*
Kara DiFrancesco
Chris Carlsen
Sam Trachtman
Eileen "Peach" Regan
Peter Tzeng
Ricky Jassel
Kelsey Watterworth
Ethan Lo
Mandy Yeung
Jon Lin
Marc Hiller
Yan Lei
Ryan Leung
Carissa Wong
Tina "Pnut" Yen
Cal Lee
Brendon Mrosak
Wally Mann
Chirona Silverstein
(Chelsea Rudman)
Jane Li
Alan Faiola
Mark Wunderlin
Jen Howells
Larry Zhou
Brian Guo
Patrick Marco
Jordan Yust
Ziggy
Ovid
Helen Shyu
(Cause Abu)
(Fan Yang)
(Ivan Xu)
Xiao Di
Li Hao
Ken Dry
Addy
Zhang Wen
(Leo Feng)
Charis Chiu
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
(Box Zhang)
Wes Haynes
Zach Fanders
Rob Hogg
Liz Lin
(Zoey Lee)
(Zheng Zheng)
Tommy Li
Leigh Bloomberg
Alex Ornik
Ingrid Akerlind
(Katie Bradstock)
(Leslie Sim)
(Fabian Ho)
(Geoff Ng)
(Chris Calvert)
(John Kelly)
Matt Sheehan
Nitai Deitel
(Kirby Carder)

*PART 3*
(Pia Ybanez)
(Kristin Franke)
(Jon Greenberg)
(Lien Ngo)
(Jia Xie)
(Jason Lopez)
(Uli Burke)
Mark Scott
(Lincoln Cheung)
Ken Su
(Mel Lozano)
Nicki Fung
(Kevin Cho)
Angela Yang
Maggie Rauch
(Jack Yeh)
Yujuan (YJ) Tan
Aaron Leung
Adam Nowak
Alex Stephens
Apple Zhao
Eric Wu
Feng Qi
Haiyin Kang
Jia Zhe
Joel Rosen
Belem
Maria Filimonenko
Neal Jones
Nick Cheng
Aurora Wang (Yao)
Altay
All the pictures in the slideshow were taken by the people listed below:
Ingrid Bonde Akerlind
Jenn Brown
Michael Chaitkin
Chen Yangming (Nico)
Cai Cai
Nick Cheng
Nitai Deitel
Kristin Franke
Nicki Fung
Caleb Heine
City Weekend
Nina Helmke
Marc Hiller
Robert William Hogg
Hsing-hui Hsu
Shira Klane
Steph Kwan
Forrest Li
Elizabeth Lin
Nick Liu
Mel Lozano
Alicia Lui
Hong Ly
Bill McGrath
Falon Milligan
Matt Mueller
Lien Ngo
PhotoBot Manila Photobooth Services
Jeff Orcutt
Joshua Phua
Ben Redden
Kevin Reitz
Matt Sheehan
Helen Shyu
Mike Shyu
Chirona Silverstein
Anthony Tao
Zahlen Titcomb
Aurora Yao Wang
Balance Wang
Carissa Wong
Shan Wu
Tina Yen
Mandy Yeung
Ruth Yoder
Zhang Yang
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
Box Zhang

Previous slideshows: 2008, 2009.

Monday, February 21, 2011

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Saturday evening and night

The Slideshow will go live online shortly. We'll keep you posted. [UPDATE: Here.]





Friday, February 18, 2011

WEEK IN REVIEW: Big Brother meeting and slideshow showing tomorrow

Big Brother meeting tomorrow and Slideshow viewing Saturday. Let's get on with it.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK:

From UCCA

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Tao, 2/18:

Guys and Gals,

Saturday, Feb. 19, 9 pm: The party is ON at Piggly Wiggly Bar on Nanluoguxiang (closer to the north end of NLGX, intersection of NLGX and Black Sesame Hutong (No. 1 Hezhima 黑芝麻胡同)).

Beers will be 10 kuai and all mixed drinks are half off. The 2010 Beijing Ultimate Year-in-Review Slideshow will be shown. Let this be a celebration of Beijing Ultimate -- slightly belated, of course, so we'll have to make up for it by drinking more.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

RETROSPECTIVE: Alternate universe, Pt. 2

Two winters ago, the Beijing Ultimate Committee decided to take pickup to a gym in Dongdan, or someplace. No one can remember the location. No one, in fact, can remember it happened. This night in our collective lives would be as if it had never happened, or lived by our selves in an alternate universe, had it not been for the following grainy pictures, taken by a person unknown. Alicia Lui adds: "They had the equipment on the sides so we had to be careful not to run into them. AND the floor was super slippery. I think all of us fell down at one point or another."

This is Part 2. Part 1 here.




Monday, February 14, 2011

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: No one man should have all that power (hour)

Alex and friends had a power hour to Disney-related movie clips on Saturday night. We can only assume it went well.

Doc Tobin reminds us, by way of Google Groups, that Ryan Perez is a ghost among men in Beijing. Sad.

And now, Kanye:

Friday, February 11, 2011

WEEK IN REVIEW: Loading up for the season

Big Brother's team meeting will be next Saturday, and in advance of that, we say hello to one Ginny Perry from the Boston area (went to Tufts along with Alex O.). Bring on the Tianjin tournament.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:


Joy

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Alicia's Beijing Ultimate Weekly Newsletter (Week of February 7):

*Happy Chinese New Year! Hope everyone's well rested from the holidays and ready for more frisbee in this year of the Rabbit!
*

**

***Pick-Up***
We resume pick-up tomorrow, Wednesday Feb 9 at BCIS, 7-9pm.
明天, 2月9日在乐城国际学校再开始玩飞盘.

We will have pick-up on Saturday Feb 12 also, 2-4pm at BCIS.
周六,2月12日2-4点也在乐城国际学校玩.

For February, we will continue our 4 sessions for RMB120 kuai deal! Come out and join us and play!

For details, visit www.beijingultimate.com.

***Events and Happenings***

This week:
- Jim and Tao's Thursday trivia night is on! 8pm onwards at Kro's Nest on 35 Xiao Yun Lu (near San Yuan Qiao). Special drink deal: five bottles of imports for 100 kuai! Teams of up to six, free to play, prizes every round.

Next week:
- Tentative Date for Beijing Slideshow viewing: Saturday Feb 19. Save-the-Date! The slideshow is going to be awesome this year! Check-out the preview here:
http://beijingultimate.blogspot.com/2011/02/beijing-ultimate-2010-sli...
**
***Farewell and Welcome***
**

**
***Tournaments***

1) Phnom Penh: March 5 - 6
2) Shenzhen: March 19 - 20

3) The Boracay Open is set for this April 1st to April 3rd! There will be an Open tourney on the 1st, and a Mixed tournament the 2nd and 3rd. More details to follow; for now just save the date!

4) 12th Annual Bali Nusantara Cup is planned for next April 22/23, 2011. They say they have sweet grass fields and you know the beaches are awesome… Check the website (www.ultimateindonesia.com) for details and email elodiesel...@hotmail.com with any comments or requests.

5) Jeju Dirty Dozens 2011 will be held on the island April 23/24.

6) Malaysia Open 2011 will be held on May 21, 22 in Kuala Lumpur.

For more about happenings around China, check http://chinaultimate.wordpress.com.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

RETROSPECTIVE: Alternate universe, Pt. 1

Two winters ago, the Beijing Ultimate Committee decided to take pickup to a gym in Dongdan, or someplace. No one can remember the location. No one, in fact, can remember it happened. This night in our collective lives would be as if it had never happened, or lived by our selves in an alternate universe, had it not been for the following grainy pictures, taken by a person unknown. This is Part 1.




Monday, February 7, 2011

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Still fireworking

Pictures from Hong Kong, but you get the gist.






More pictures here.

Friday, February 4, 2011

WEEK IN REVIEW: Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit

Bringing down the Boom since 2004, rollin' into the decade of doom.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:





From Steph and Ken's party on February 2, eve of Chinese New Year.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Tao, 1/31:

(Excuse the jumpiness in each video... trying to get that cleaned up.)

Youku: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQwODc1ODEy.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=735559645435
(If the above doesn't work, go here:
http://beijingultimate.blogspot.com/2011/02/beijing-ultimate-2010-sli...)

Three parts plus a prologue, total run time about 34 minutes.

Thinking about February 19 as a tentative screening date. Like last year, we'll be at a bar with discounted drinks, hopefully.

The people, in order of appearance (parentheses implies either not Ultimate or not Beijing):

*PART 1*
Anthony Tao
Gareth Marshall
Helen Lu
Sandy Wang
Joe Pellicano
Matt Mueller
Jim Kirchhoff
Therese Mendez
Kevin Reitz
(Hilco Beukema)
Pat Li
Hsing-hui Hsu
Jeff Orcutt
Alicia Lui
Chris Boehner
(Dray Abrahamian)
Andrew "Baby Girl" Moffat
Candice Lee
Ellen Wong
Shan Wu
Michael Chaitkin
(Amy Gardner)
Steph Kwan
Char Lam
Tina Xue
Michelle Tang
Yin Kong
Brian Marterer
Ben Redden
Nina Helmke
Doc Tobin
(Amos Irwin)
Chad Hensler
Andy Young
Bill McGrath
Casey Guo
Nick Liu
Jesse Day
Richie Liu
Guy Sivan
Caleb Heine
(Nihir Shah)
(Christine Laskowski)
(Tom Pile)
Jehan Azad
(Warren Pottrill)
Zahlen Titcomb
(Alyssa Li)
Wang Bin
(Valerie Min)
Happy Rat
Kelly Yang
Lin Lin
Brice Dudout
Yan Hao
Ryan Perez
Zhang Yang
Cai Cai
Zhang Pu
(Omar Pandoli)
(David Brown)
Angela Chen
Jeff "Drunkbus" Kessler
Xie Yuhui
Xiao Zhi
(J.I. Nuega)
Joel Brand
(Liang Zhuang)
Emma Shyu
(Vince Chen)
(Edward Wang)
(Michael Hsu)
(An Zi)
(Kenny Zhu)
(Chen Jie)
(Matt Wang)
(Carter Li)
Steven Zhang
Lauren Reed
(Nick Hatt)
(Alex Hutson)
Jenn Brown
(Juliet Lu)
(Panoy Delos Santos)

*PART 2*
Kara DiFrancesco
Chris Carlsen
Sam Trachtman
Eileen "Peach" Regan
Peter Tzeng
Ricky Jassel
Kelsey Watterworth
Ethan Lo
Mandy Yeung
Jon Lin
Marc Hiller
Yan Lei
Ryan Leung
Carissa Wong
Tina "Pnut" Yen
Cal Lee
Brendon Mrosak
Wally Mann
Chirona Silverstein
(Chelsea Rudman)
Jane Li
Alan Faiola
Mark Wunderlin
Jen Howells
Larry Zhou
Brian Guo
Patrick Marco
Jordan Yust
Ziggy
Ovid
Helen Shyu
(Cause Abu)
(Fan Yang)
(Ivan Xu)
Xiao Di
Li Hao
Ken Dry
Addy
Zhang Wen
(Leo Feng)
Charis Chiu
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
(Box Zhang)
Wes Haynes
Zach Fanders
Rob Hogg
Liz Lin
(Zoey Lee)
(Zheng Zheng)
Tommy Li
Leigh Bloomberg
Alex Ornik
Ingrid Akerlind
(Katie Bradstock)
(Leslie Sim)
(Fabian Ho)
(Geoff Ng)
(Chris Calvert)
(John Kelly)
Matt Sheehan
Nitai Deitel
(Kirby Carder)

*PART 3*
(Pia Ybanez)
(Kristin Franke)
(Jon Greenberg)
(Lien Ngo)
(Jia Xie)
(Jason Lopez)
(Uli Burke)
Mark Scott
(Lincoln Cheung)
Ken Su
(Mel Lozano)
Nicki Fung
(Kevin Cho)
Angela Yang
Maggie Rauch
(Jack Yeh)
Yujuan (YJ) Tan
Aaron Leung
Adam Nowak
Alex Stephens
Apple Zhao
Eric Wu
Feng Qi
Haiyin Kang
Jia Zhe
Joel Rosen
Belem
Maria Filimonenko
Neal Jones
Nick Cheng
Aurora Wang (Yao)
Altay

SPORCLE GAME: Guess who appears this many times:
68
52
52
35
32
31
31
28
28
22 (tied 10th most appearances)
22 (tied 10th)

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

RETROSPECTIVE: The other New Year's Eve

Today, on the eve of Chinese New Year, we look back at December 31, 2010:


At Kro's Nest and Stumble Inn.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Beijing Ultimate 2010 Slideshow PREVIEW

Here it is:


And Youku.

Weekly Newsletter (Week of Jan 31) / 北京飞盘每周新闻

**Pick-Up**

We resume pick-up on Wednesday Feb 9 at BCIS, 7-9pm.
春节其间没有pick-up, 2月9日在乐城国际学校再开始.
For February, we will continue our 4 sessions for RMB120 kuai deal! Come out and join us and play!

For details, visit www.beijingultimate.com.


**Events and Happenings**

This week:
- HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!
- Jim and Tao's trivia night is on! First Trivia night for the year of the Rabbit! 8pm onwards at Kro's Nest on 35 Xiao Yun Lu (near San Yuan Qiao). Special drink deal: five bottles of imports for 100 kuai! Teams of up to six, free to play, prizes every round.

Next week: Potentially a Superbowl viewing party! Details TBC.
**Farewell and Welcome**

**Tournaments**

1) Phnom Penh: March 5 - 6

2) Shenzhen: March 19 - 20

3) First annual India Hat Tournament will be hosted by AV Ultimate Feb. 4th-6th. The event will take place in the cozy community of Auroville and the closest airport to fly in to is Chennai, so look to Tiger Airways, Malaysia Airlines, or Indian Air for the lowest international fares. Air Asia also flies to Tiruchirappalli. As well, MakeMyTrip.com or Yatra.com can be used to find the best flight within India. Consult the website (http://www.auroville.org/society/ultimate.htm) for more information and please submit the registration form (on the left side of the website) on or before January 16th so all those interested can be accommodated. And any questions can be directed to AVultimate@scott.ms

4) The Boracay Open is set for this April 1st to April 3rd! There will be an Open tourney on the 1st, and a Mixed tournament the 2nd and 3rd. More details to follow; for now just save the date!

5) 12th Annual Bali Nusantara Cup is planned for next April 22/23, 2011. They say they have sweet grass fields and you know the beaches are awesome… Check the website (www.ultimateindonesia.com) for details and email elodieselves@hotmail.com with any comments or requests.

6) Jeju Dirty Dozens 2011 will be held on the island April 23/24.
7) Malaysia Open 2011 will be held on May 21, 22 in Kuala Lumpur.