Calling all people with photos: the slideshow needs you

A message from Tao:

Beijing Ultimate,

It's that time again, where I go into hiding for a month to work on the Year-in-Review Slideshow.

To review, this is what I mean:

2009:

Part 1: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQzMDY0ODMy.html
Part 2: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ3OTkwNTI0.html
Part 3: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ3OTkxODQ4.html

Or those with VPN: http://beijingultimate.blogspot.com/2010/01/weekend-roundup-slideshow-2009.html

2008:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTIyMDM0NzI0.html
VPN: http://beijingultimate.blogspot.com/2009/09/greatest-year-in-review-slideshow.html

The list of people that appear in the 2009 slideshow is in a postscript. If you were in Beijing in 2009 and participated in Ultimate-related activities but are NOT on the list, it's because you failed to answer my call last year. Don't make the same mistake...

I am now accepting photos (and videos) for submission into this year's slideshow.

No guarantees that what you send will make the final product, but it will definitely be considered. Examples of good pictures are at the bottom.

I'd like this to be as comprehensive as possible, so Yan, Andy, Ken Su, etc., please pass this request to the relevant Hangtime and Bang people.

Obviously some people will be over-represented (Jim ... last year he led everyone with TK appearances) and some under, but I'll try my best to distribute according to some algorithm or other.

Feel free to point me to Facebook/Renren albums, etc. Steph and Ken, I've seen yours already, and I will be pulling photos from it (with source credit, of course). Mike Shyu, you sitting on another treasure trove?

I am also taking song recommendations.

Send away.

2009, in order of appearance:

PART 1

Jeff Orcutt
Mark Scott
Doc Tobin
Kevin Reitz
Joe Pellicano
Michelle Tang
Sandy Wang
Anthony Tao
Lincoln Cheung
Big Brother
Perkin Chai
Ken Su
Amy Gardner
Casey Guo
Andrew Shen
Case of Tsingdao
Therese Mendez
Alicia Lui
Mike Shyu
Helen Shyu
Helen Lu
(Zoey Lee)
Jim Kirchhoff
Wang Bin
Happy Rat
Air Kazak
Beijing Bang
Larke Williams
Lassi Kokko
(Richie Liu)
(Edward Wang)
Qi Zhenjia
Steven Zhang
Yin Kong
Zhao Yu (Apple)
Feng Qi
(Candice Tse)
Candice Lee
Jehan Azad
Nick Liu
Kelly Yang
(Milan Alex)
Gareth Marshall
Yan Hao
Andy Young
Chris Boehner
Brian Marterer
Hsing-hui Hsu
Francis Chan
Aaron Leung
Tina "Pnut" Yen
Michael Chaitkin
Ellen Wong
Andrew "Baby Girl" Moffat
Lauren Reed
(Sara Udow)
Doozers
Beijing Ultimate

PART 2

Tina Xue
(Barbara Simeles)
Ryan Perez
(Mike "Nads" Narodovich)
Belem
Chee-Nar
Lin Lin
Kang Haiyan
Guy Sivan
Nicki Fung
Yao Guai (Nick Cheng)
(David "Blondie" Bergmark)
Jason Bergman
(Jon Greenberg)
(Nick Hatt)

Pat Li
Char Lam
Missy Rock
Duff Douglas
Laurene Desclaux
(Ebru Tekinturhan)
Mitch Moxley
Xie Yuhui
Chen Yunyun
Roger Liu
Zhi Jian (Xiaozhi)
Zhao Zhenming (Laozhao)
Heihei
Zhang Huizi (Tracy)
Xiao Pang
Russell Young
Zahlen Titcomb
(Kat Velayo)
(Andrea Shaw)
Joel Rosen
Steph Kwan
Hao Yifan (Zhengzheng)

Ken Dry
Tory Hislop
Charlotte Chang
Margaret Sietsema
Sara Miller
(Andrea Chang)
(Rie Kimura)
(Miles Schneider)
(Caitlin McKimmy)
Adie
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
Veronica Lee
Talia Tay
(Phil Chien)
Liz Lin

PART 3

Jesse Day
Wang Yao (Aurora)
John Wang
Cheris Chiu
Wang Yucheng
Helen Zhao
Luo Zhaoyuan
Fang Zhang
(NIC Alpert)
Greg Ericksen
(Ivan Xu)
(Carmen Tong)
(Kyndra Turner)
(Joei Calixto)
(Kristin Franke)
(Angela Bauer)
(Ness Fajardo)
(Panoy Delos Santos)
(Raquel Grape-Flores)
(Aya Larsen Su)
(Martin Butler)

(Dennell Reynolds)
Tom Rippe
(Warren Pottrill)
Nora Sluzas
(Emma Shyu)
Marshall Wang
(Angel Hsu)
(Reid Barrett)
(Julia Filip)
Donald De Bona

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Shanghai Open 2010 wrap-up

Big Brother finished tied for 3rd at Shanghai Open, going 2-2 on Day 1 and then losing in semis to eventual champs Korea, 13-4, on Day 2. See the China Ultimate blog for more details.

Big Brother results:

SATURDAY

vs Tianjin, W 11-7
vs Southwest China, W 10-9
vs Shiock, L 6-8
vs Shanghai HuWa, L 5-11

SUNDAY

vs Hong Kong, W 11-4
vs Korea, L 4-13

Congratulations to Jim, who was selected onto the Mythical Seven all-star team. He's in line with Alec, here:


Then he and Joe and Panoy of Sunken Pleasure (tourney runners-up) did this:





Danced in one pair of shorts. Five Ultimate, where would we be without you?

And Big Brother, as LARPers, didn't win the party because...? (Amos and his Southwest China team danced three straight hours in diapers...)

Video to come. It was entertaining.

And we would be remiss without mentioning Beijing Bang, which, without either Ken Su or Mike Shyu, finished 2nd in the C Pool on Day 1 and lost in pre-quarters on Sunday to Tianjin Speed.

POSTSCRIPT: Congratulations to me, who had a greatest on my first point (down 2-1 to Tianjin Speed), then followed with a toe-the-line catch for score; a Callahan in Gm 2 and a layout catch for score on Universe Point; and a stomach virus. Yes, a stomach virus. Let the correlation or causation debate begin.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Champions

The recap of Tianjin Open 2010 is now available on the China Ultimate blog. Here's the synopsis for you Beijing Ultimate followers:

Gareth Marshall injured his hamstring on the first point of the first game on Saturday -- a 11-9 loss to Tianjin Speed (technically our first game was an 11-0 win over Maple Leaf High School, but that doesn't really count) -- and sat the rest of the weekend as the following squad --

Tao
Kevin
Pat Li
Jeff Orcutt
Chad
Caleb (until he split his ear not quite halfway through finals)
Jesse (Saturday only)
Baby Girl (Sunday only)
Jehan (Sunday only)
Alicia
Sandy
Shan
Tina Xue

-- won the tournament.

In the semis we beat Shanghai 11-9 in a hard-fought game (we were down 3-1 to start). In the finals we beat a very game, very competitive Tianjin Speed squad by the same score. It was a bit testy at times, but it was finals, and it's been so long since Big Brother last won anything...

Joe Pellicano and Matt Mueller made for an invaluable cheering squad. (Betsy will have more to say about Joe a bit later.) Matt, with Gareth and Baby Girl, also won the party for Big Brother, which means we won both the party and the tournament. Awesome.



Our prizes:


Beijing Bang finished fourth after losing to Huwa in the 3rd-place game.

Big Brother game scores:
SATURDAY
vs. Maple Leaf: 11-0
vs. Speed: 9-11
vs. Bang B: 11-3
vs. TEDA: 11-2

SUNDAY
vs. Five Star: 11-1
vs. Shanghai: 11-9
vs. Speed: 11-9

WEEK IN REVIEW: Ready for Tianjin Open

As Big Brother and Beijing Bang (and Bang Bang, i.e. Bang B) prepare for Tianjin Open this weekend, you may be interested to know that no Beijing club team has won a high-level open tournament since, well, Singapore 2004. Bang came close to winning last year when it finished second at China Nationals. The autumn before that, at Hong Kong's Pan-Asian Tournament in 2008, Big Brother lost 15-11 in finals to Sunken Pleasure. Big Brother also lost in the finals of Dalian '09 and Tianjin '09, both times to Shanghai (Shanghai wins a lot).

That's your bit of Beijing Ultimate history for the day.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK:

Wednesday pickup (that wasn't); we played Tao's game of "Frisbee baseball" (if you don't know, you were among the majority who didn't show up Wednesday.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Betsy and Lauren share the honors.

April 13, Betsy:

big brother,

tie up them laces, put on your sunscreen, and get pumped: it’s tournament time! remember those suicides mean ol’ gareth made us run? this weekend is when it pays off. get an extra day of throwing in this week, get to the gym and loosen up, come to pickup on wednesday. come out fired up and ready to dominate.

WEEKLY ITEM #1: The Weekly Schedule

Wednesday, Pick Up, 8:30-10:30, Jianwai SOHO
Saturday and Sunday, Tianjin Open

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WEEKLY ITEM #2: Upcoming Tournaments

April 17-18: Tianjin Open
April 24-25: Singapore Women and Open
May 1-2: Jeju Gnarly Nines
May 15-16: China Nationals, Beijing
June 5-6: Shanghai
June 19-20: Chengdu Hat
July 4-10: Worlds in Prague

props to those who made some hat tournaments to get your pre-season touches in. this weekend is tianjin, the first opportunity for big brother’s 2010 roster to gel in a tournament. watch the google group site for details on transportation, lodging, and other logistics. get psyched everyone. big brother will be sending one team only and will be working on defining roles and trying different lines. talk to jim and gareth if you are unclear about their vision for you. hint: it likely involves horses, ice cream, n cake.
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now is the time in the weekly email when betsy gives her weekly shout outs and call outs. remember, you want to get shouted out, but you don't want to get called out.

a call out to jehan. it’s been a while since betsy has semi-permanently called someone out. congratulations jehan. you’ve been back in town for what, a month now? start doing awesome things immediately.

a shout out to jim. jim rigged won the recent ningbo hat using mike nads a cunning strategy of zone to embarrass outperform his adversaries. jim’s achievements remind himself us all that he is not only a super great humble man, but also a super great(?) just plain great leader.

a call out to gareth. because of your lollygagging, there was not a single suicide run at last week’s practice. your penance will be one suicide for every suicide not run. betsy will help you with the math if you are confused. it’s forty-two.

a shout out to puma. puma of ningbo fame was the only person to dress up for the star wars theme. he went in full S.W.A.T gear complete with facepaint. betsy hasn’t been this confused by a costume since baby girl dressed up in a pink tutu for barbie’s pink party.

a call out to hhh. if you keep showing up at parties and gatherings, betsy is going to have to start shouting you out more often. you’ve been warned.

a shout out to matt. matt wins the award for enduring the most crap while traveling to a tournament, and came out smelling like roses on the other side.

a call out to sandy. sandy missed two weeks of practice, the ningbo hat tournament, a ridiculous margarita party, and she didn’t even invite betsy to maui. suicides for you as well.

a shout out to ningbo. thanks for the awesome tournament and thanks for buying five more cases of beer once we finished the first two, in like, ten minutes.

a call out to tequila. why must you always make the night end with the chait singing terrible songs terribly at karaoke while joe runs around collecting numbers like he’s in the census as baby girl is passed out in the salsa just before ace and kevin make out in the bathroom again?

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WEEKLY ITEM #3: WEEKLY QUIZ
for you newbies, the weekly quiz is a game where betsy asks a few simple questions, and it's your job to provide the correct answers. as always, googling is prohibited. this week's winner will receive a date with beijing’s most eligible bachelor or bachelorette. if a dude wins and no bachelorette’s are available, jim will dress up like a chick for you. sorry.

this week, a musical multiple choice:

which of the following lyrics in the eloquent and thought-provoking hit “Ice Cream and Cake” by Buckwheat Boyz are not actual lyrics?

a) ice cream n cake

b) ice cream n cake n cake

c) do the ice cream n cake

d) all the kids like ice cream n cake

e) pause step up ice cream n cake

f) now who dat is with the ice cream and cake?

g) the party aint live without the ice cream and cake.

h) you cant have your cookies and ice cream and eat it too!

i) all that crap is in the song. wow.

as for the previous quiz, the correct answer was, still is, and forever will be, the lovely david hasselhoff. congratulations to cdice, the only person to know jeff’s secret man crush. you win some great prizes, courtesy of whatever tao has laying around in his room.
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WEEKLY RUMOR THAT MUST BE TRUE: coming this summer, betsy is proud to present, a beijing ultimate offering, in conjunction with white face studios and big nose productions, the long anticipated and never underestimated, answer to all the beijing lady needs:

tai shuai lao wai. get it while it’s hot, which is guaranteed to be always.

Weekly Rumor Disclaimer: The Weekly Rumor is absolutely and one hundred percent true. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

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and finally, your moment of zen…

http://www.the-huddle.org/issues/

catch you on the field,
betsy
xxxooo

April 14, Lauren:

So, does that mean Jehan gets a shout-out call-out?
But c'mon, give him a break--he had to spend all of January sleeping, eating, breathing next to me. And you all remember my little bout with TB--the treatment did have a 90% efficacy rate.

Also, I want to call-out Betsy's shout out to Jim. Bygone are the days when Betsy modeled perfect grammar for the entirety of Beijing ultimate. God knows they need all the help they can get.

And finally, why couldn't tai shuai lao wai happen when I'm in Beijing? Ya'll have been holding out on me and it isn't fair. I may have to wreak vengeance soon.

ciao,
barbie

Same day, Betsy:

bonus call out.

a call out to google. google doesn't allow advanced text options like strikeouts in group sites. betsy is generally working on a whole different level of grammer awesomeness. jim's shout out should be:

a shout out to jim. jim (rigged?) won the recent ningbo hat using (mike
nads?) a cunning strategy of zone to (embarrass?) outperform his adversaries. jim’s achievements remind (himself?) us all that he is not only a (super great?) humble man, but also a (super great?) just plain great leader.

betsy
xxxooo

Again on that day, Lauren:

whoa. no wonder it didn't make any sense. and now i know why all my cool jokes using strikeouts were previously ignored, and why jim thought i was coming on to him all these years.

you have my deepest, sincerest apologies, betsy. bonus shout out to you, for unceasingly raising the bar for group sites across the globe.

barbie

WEEK IN REVIEW: Hong Kong tournament

Beijing Bang had a rough first day but rebounded on Sunday to win the B pool championship. Ringers of Fire, featuring Beijing's very own Brian Marterer, lost in the finals to Shanghai.

On Thursday Jud from Shanghai was in town to screen a documentary he and Andrew Field (non-Frisbee) produced about China's indie rock scene.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

Marterer; picture by Bernice Lee

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Baby Girl, to a post titled, "Halloween Gathering of Costume Awesomeness":

So this is kind of a random question, but does anyone have a landline that I would be able to take advantage of on Monday night for a long distance call to the States? I am willing to supply compensation including, but not limited to, monetary units, food supplies, booze, foot massages and/or facials.
Baby Girl

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Dalian tournament

Beijing Big Brother finished 2nd and Beijing Bang finished 3rd. More coverage over at China Ultimate.

RETROSPECTIVE: The Shoes' magic

Retrospective has just moved to Wednesdays. New time, same place.

Mike Shyu and Ken Su teamed up this past Sunday and recreated their magical chemistry or whatever it is they've got going, making it to the finals of another tournament (and winning!). Catcher in the Sky was 1-4 during the regular season, but all that matters is they went 2-0 on Sunday.

It reminded us of the China Nationals tournament in May, when Ken and Mike led Beijing Bang to an unexpected 2nd-place finish, beating 2-seed Shenzhen in quarters and the 3-seed, defending champion Air Kazak, in semis before falling to 1-seed Hong Kong.

Here's your reminder that yes, it did happen, because in sports you never know what might happen.


And your reminder that Balance's video of this game is now live.

Balance Wang's China Nationals video of finals

Hong Kong vs. Beijing Bang highlights on CUPA's website.



Lots of swinging back and forth in the zone. Look at how tired the Bang players are, marked by their unwillingness to get up after falling down. It's probably because they had to beat the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds to get to this position.

A quick recap of the Tianjin tournament

All-female 2v2 disc race at the after-party; photo via Mike Shyu

This post is reposted on the China Ultimate blog.

We're still in the process of collecting information for the official recap of this past Saturday's Tianjin tournament, but here were the key happenings:

Shanghai Huwa -- an abridged version led by Jon Greenberg -- won the A pool, beating ISB, Tianjin Waiyuan, Beijing Bang and Tianjin Speed.

Beijing Big Brother won the B pool (though word was Beijing was the No. 1 overall seed), consisting of Changsha (长沙, a Tianjin/Qingdao mix), Teda (with some Dalian players and foreigners), Air Kazak and Tianjin Speed Up.

The pool winners met in the finals. Shanghai jumped out to a 2-1 lead before the teams engaged in a long fourth point that saw two goal line turnovers and an injury (Beijing's Tao -- okay, me -- as he tried changing directions on an in-cut). Shanghai took half at eight and extended its lead to 9-6 before Big Brother clawed back with three unanswered points. An energized (or intoxicated) murmur wormed its way through the crowd -- chilled by a brisk wind on a suddenly cloudy evening -- but the suspense quickly ended when Shanghai scored the next two to win 11-9.

Beijing Bang won the Spirit Award and, like Shanghai, got a trophy out of which they drank beer. Shanghai's players also each received a Frisbee and a municipal government official-signed/endorsed certificate in the form of a red card.

Pictures here.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Bang like a gangster

Right now I am an anti-Christ. And I am an anarchist. Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it. I want to destroy.

--Megadeth, "Anarchy in the U.K."

The cult that is Beijing Bang kept trying to get the Beijing Ultimate community to drink its kool-aid at Saturday's party, prompting the phrase "No, I'm good with my beer, thanks" to be said at least 18 times -- only slightly fewer than Ken Su saying, "Motherfucker."

Also, we're not welcome at Alishan Hotpot anymore.

Other than that, it was good. Only six people died, and one of them doesn't play Frisbee.

An open letter from the event organizers:

Thanks to everyone who came out Saturday night to the Bang! Bang! Bang! event.

It was really great to see so many people out having a good time.

For those who couldn't make it and/or those who drank so much they cannot remember details, here's a bit of a recap:

Dinner at Alishan Hotpot at Xizhimen was an impressive sight to see with over 30 Gangsters lined up along both sides of what we believe to be the largest indoor food locomotive in Beijing (if not the world) which pulled cars filled with everything from extra soup to a wide array of veggies, seafood, meat, as well as condiments/tissue paper.

Notable outfits included Donald De Bona Brasco and his mafia girlfriend Helen, Fashionista C. Dice Lee kicking it old school complete with new age ghetto blaster, and Paisan Pelicano sporting shades, stubble, and a true italian wife beater.

Everyone took full advantage of the eat and drink all-you-can within 90 minutes as the entire Gang set into a giant feeding frenzy punctuated with non-stop bottles of Beijing Beer. Not that anyone needed any excuses to drink faster, but widespread participation of Caps (Yan Hao now knows that if a cap lands in his drink he needs to drink it all) increased consumption and also led to the restaurant confiscating most of the bottle caps and serving beer a bit slower.

After we shut down the restaurant we headed en masse to the heart of the Russian District and descended on Chocolate - The perfect Gangsta's Paradise, complete with gaudy decor, Russian dancers, dance floor poles, and plush 'private' booths.

Despite service slower than continental drift (apparently us frisbee Gangsters get less attention from the servers than the Eatern European mob crews or Chinese hotshots) the crew still managed to get through 6 bottles of Vodka which may be the excuse for some of the fun which included among other things:
- Yin exhausting the sugar and lemon inventories of the club to make pitchers of lemon drop shooters for everyone
- Joe climbing up half way to the ceiling on the dancing pole
- Adam getting up close and personal centre in the middle of the dance floor with what appeared to be a rather heavy-set Russian 'woman' that was double his weight.
- Tina using Tao as a punching bag after Tao was toying with her panda bag.

Also, we all apologise to Shen for not staying out past 3:30am as he was trying to contact us and join at that time - Next time for sure.

Thanks again to everyone who was able to make it and hope a good time was had by all.

We look forward to the next chance to party.

BJ Bang

Here are some pictures (remember that the party theme was "Gangsters"):


The DiMeo Family vs. the Triad?

Train bandit.


The fuwuyuans gather to discuss how best to kill us.


Poor Kelly.

Off to Chocolate, the Russian nightclub near Ritan Park.

Panda loved it.



Boehner had a good costume. Kevin and Therese were stylin'. Steven probably most resembled a 21st century mobster. Joe... no comment. But the best get-up award has to go to Brian Marterer, whose attire went so far beyond garish that it actually transcends tackiness and falls in a category between "sweet" and "unbelievable." We don't know what to call it...

WEEK IN REVIEW: The Beijing Bang party preview

Beijing Ultimate had its Wednesday pickup at Guomao per usual and, of course, spring league on Sunday (which we've discussed and will not again). This has been a somewhat quiet week and may be a quieter weekend, with Alicia and Lauren in Xian, Doc in Japan, Sandy in Boracay and at least a couple of the guys tethered to girlfriends. Even still, the community's holding a party.

Booyah.

From Beijing Bang's message board:

Dear BJ Ultimate Community,
亲爱的北京飞盘队友们，

You are all cordially invited to an action packed Saturday (this coming weekend - March 21st) hosted by your friends from BJ Bang Ultimate Club.
北京帮即将组织三月份的活动。时间定在本周六晚上（3月21日）。我们现在诚恳的邀 请你（和你的朋友们 ）来参加我们的活动 。

It is a 3 part event with live action, theme dinner, and plenty of boozing to make for a great time.
整个活动由3个部分组成：下午的现场活动 ，主题晚餐，和酒吧之夜。保证大家玩儿的开心 。

We hope you can join all 3 parts, but we understand if you can only join certain parts - please see details below and RSVP for each part so we know which portions you can attend so that we can formalise arrangements with the venues.
我们希望大家3个部分都能参加，当然如果你们有其他事情，只能参加其中的一个或两个，我们也表示理解。所以现在希望大家积极回复这封邮件，告诉我们你能参加哪些部分？以便我们准备。

PART 1: Bang! Bang! Bang! 幇！ 幇！ 幇！

The day starts off with Paintball this Saturday: 真人 CS 彩弹这个周六

Meet at HuiLongGuan 回龙观 subway station A at 13:00 on Saturday! Line 13
下午13：00在地铁13号线 回龙观站 A 见面

Two Levels 两个消费等级

100Kuai for 50 paintballs 100块 50发子弹
180Kuai for 100 paintballs 180块 100发子弹

After that 1.60Kuai each one! 打完这些，每发1块6

Anyone who can make paintball please contact Helen 13911082545 or lshao...@gmail.com before Saturday. We will have two teams and there will be plenty of action!
如果有谁想参加，请于周六以前联系 HELEN 13911082545 或者 lshao...@gmail.com
我们将有两个队，玩对抗赛！

Hope see you there!
希望到时候在那边见！

PART 2: Gangster Theme Party/Dinner with party games - 黑市帮 - 帮帮忙

Saints in the Boondocks; Underground Hong Kong; Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and HBO’s Sopranos. Mafia, deck of cards; Triads in the Mainland; Yakuza in Japan. Set trippin’ gangstas; caps in yo a**; Drinking booze; Battle caps; Dressed in black; Dinner with the Bangstas. Dress to kill, it’ll be a thrill; No excuse; It’s an offer you can’t refuse; or Six feet under, it’s up to you.
中国有黑龙会，斧头帮等一些有名的黑帮。大家可以穿上跟黑帮有关的服装，来组成一个飞盘帮。

Starts at 6pm and for the great price of Rmb40 you get all you can eat Taiwanese Hot Pot AND unlimited beer. Fire up your best gangster get-up and get ready to drink it up.
晚饭6点开始，没人40块，台湾火锅，自助（海鲜，蔬菜任你选），无限量啤酒。

Location is at Xizhimen Jiamao Plaza,the 6th floor. take subway to Xizhimen, and you'll see it right after you come out from Exit A.
地点在西直门嘉茂中心6层，阿里山火锅。

RSVP to Helen as well for dinner at 13911082545 or lshao...@gmail.com.
如有问题请联系Helen.

PART 3: Gang Pub Crawl - 黑市帮逛酒吧街

After cleaning out the beer supply of the restaurant the entire Gang can then proceed to dazzle and drink their way through Beijing's pubs, bars, and clubs. If you are lucky you may see Tina take Shen out again, Joe breaking some glass, or any number of things that we have come to expect from BJ Ultimate Community events.
喝完啤酒，我们一大帮人就要去逛北京的酒吧了。相信你一定会看到很多北京飞盘社区别具特点的搞笑场面。

We hope you can all come out and join the fun and look forward to hearing from you.
希望大家都能来玩儿。

See you Saturday.星期六见。

This part is worth highlighting and rereading:

Saints in the Boondocks; Underground Hong Kong; Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and HBO’s Sopranos. Mafia, deck of cards; Triads in the Mainland; Yakuza in Japan. Set trippin’ gangstas; caps in yo a**; Drinking booze; Battle caps; Dressed in black; Dinner with the Bangstas. Dress to kill, it’ll be a thrill; No excuse; It’s an offer you can’t refuse; or Six feet under, it’s up to you.

Not the GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK though:

Tao, responding to a thread, on Evil:

"A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. You believe that?

"I dont know.

"Believe that."

--Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

You look inside the depressed chest of Doc and Jim and Betsy and all those piteously deceived ensnared in Team Evil's web of Iniquity and see a blackened gourd amid a depraved hollow, Argus-eyed Sinister perched in its sulphurous Aerie, ready to molt char and ash to lay bare the face of Evil itself upon our unsuspecting world, stippling the sky with drops of antic blood and fire. The face that descends upon you, like the succubus, is symmetrical and seductive, and wholly evil. If you must look, do not be charmed. Tie yourself to the mast. This is your warning. Evil shall not and will not prevail. Believe that.

Love,

All That is Good in the World

RETROSPECTIVE: A little bit of Bang in big Hong Kong

Beijing Bang in Hong Kong:

From Helen Lu

Beijing Big Brother and Shanghai Huwa also had good performances.

A different vantage point of Big Brother's rendition of Lemon Demon's "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny":

WEEK IN REVIEW: Beijing Ultimate knows what this ox year's all about

Parties and Frisbee, parties and Frisbee...

Wednesday pickup at Dulwich began this week, with a bunch of Beijing Bang players joining the fray. Here's what it looked like:

A reminder that this weekend pickup is on SATURDAY, due to the Chinese government putting everyone back to work on Sunday. No Sabbath recognition here. Time is 3 to 5 p.m., meet at Dongzhimen McDonald's at 2 for carpools.

And not too late to sign up for Kunming Hat. We'll be there.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK:

From Yin and Amy's Thursday night party. This was before Shen took an onion and sank a full set of teeth into it, skin be damned. The onion was then passed around...

Baijiu really should be left to the experts:


GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

From Yin (and Amy), on the BJ Bang group:

大家好！

新年快乐！我们希望大家的春节玩得很开心！

我们星期四邀请大家到我们的家过来玩PARTY. 请把一带最喜欢的饺子带过来. 我们要玩一个新年的游戏(海音的作品),
为了这个游戏请把两个橘子和一个红包(装的5块钱)也带过来.

请回答让我们知道会不会过来,几个朋友要带过来.

地址: 602室一单元潮阳门北小街
Chaoyangmen Beixiaojie, Door 1, Apt. 602

Happy moo year! come to our house and celebrate! please bring your own party supplies which include: 2 tangerine/oranges, 1 hong bao (red envelope) with 5 kuai for a new year game and your favourite frozen dumplings or beer.

Depending on who you are, the party was either a rousing success or a total disaster.

Beijing Ultimate Welcomes You

A belated welcome to all past, present, and future visitors to the Beijing Ultimate Frisbee community.

We'd like to take this opportunity to encourage you to visit Beijing Ultimate's official site, BeijingUltimate.com [update, 3/14/2023: the website is no more], and state that the views and commentary expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of anybody, except when prefaced with the word "seriously."

If you have any questions about this site, Frisbee, or China, please consult the following FAQ.

Q: What is Ultimate Frisbee?
A: Magic alligator tongues that make peaches grow really, really big.

Q: What kind of people play Ultimate?
A: More or less the best people in the world.

Q: Ultimate sort of has the reputation, Ultimate players, a little bit of hippie -- hippie side, you know what I'm saying? -- some of the players. Test that out -- have you heard of any of these three items: Dave Matthews, flip-flops, or wheat bread?
A: You're an idiot.

Q: How do I join the community?
A: We're all very nice, socially adjusted people, but you'll have a tough time joining us without a valid passport and visa, which can be obtained from a Chinese embassy before your departure for Beijing, China. And again, that's Beijing, not Shanghai, not Hong Kong, not Singapore -- which isn't even in China -- and not Kunming, Yangshuo, Guangzhou, or any other place that's not spelled B-E-I-J-I-N-G, however awesome those places may be. We cannot stress this enough. After you arrive in Beijing, walk around Dongzhimen until you find a) an obviously drunker-than-he-should-be foreigner mumbling about how he can't believe he just took that last shot, b) someone walking with a disc, c) Shaanxi Noodle House (陕西面馆), or d) an abnormally tall Asian with green skin and fangs. That's Shen. Don't worry, he won't bite -- but if you're worried, email one of us listed on the side panel and we'll prepare his muzzle in advance of your arrival.

Q: Can you score me some pot?
A: Yes. No.

Q: What is your drink of choice?
A: Baijiu. We only ask that you ask for it by name: baijiu. If we ignore you at first, it's because we actually require you to ask for it three times, as in: may I have some baijiu baijiu baijiu? The more times you ask, the more we'll like you. Especially five minutes later.

Q: Do you use the serial comma?
A: On this site, yes I do -- unless I don't, in which case, I guess not.

Q: Why do you sometimes write in third-person plural?
A: Believe it or not, humility.

Q: I've heard the Beijing Ultimate community is transsexual. Is this true?
A: I think you mean "transient."

Q: I'm a girl with two college- to young-professional-aged sisters, and we're all considering a move to Beijing, but we're a little concerned that as Caucasian women in a strange community we'll be excessively ogled and harassed and, frankly, taken advantage of. You guys won't try to, like, impregnate us, will you?
A: Don't worry about it, we're all pretty sterile.

Q: I'm a guy who's been a bit down on my luck in the romance department. Are there single, attractive girls within the Beijing Ultimate Frisbee community who won't blow me off just because I'm a little awkward around the edges?
A: Yes. But if you're a white male, allow me to speak for the entire Asian male population when I say STAY THE $#@% AWAY.

Q: Hi, my name is David Marriott, also known as...
A: Yes, I know you. You're my first murder victim.

Q: Are you guys any good?
A: The club team Big Brother is eager to improve on its second-place finish at the 11th annual Pan-Asia Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Hong Kong (video here), Air Kazak is the reigning China Nationals champion, Beijing Bang's so sexy they'll make you swoon, and Hang Time has some of the best-spirited players this side of Middlebury. But, hey, if that's not good enough for you, you can always do shuttlecock.

Q: Are you guys any fun?
A: That depends on your definition of fun. If you enjoy sports, the outdoors, good food, cheap entertainment, live bands, jokes, human social bonding, beer, dressing up and winning parties, travel, adventure, and general amusement, then yes, I suppose we're alright in that category. If you prefer discussing the merits of realized eschatology as popularized by C.H. Dodd, well, actually, we can do that too. Or maybe a good goat-milking is your idea of fun, in which case, we can probably find a goat somewhere and, you know, do it together. Are there any limits? Well, let me just put it this way: modern cosmology has more or less proven that the universe is infinitely expanding.

But seriously, come join us. Or at least continue checking this blog to find out all the fun you're missing.

After the weekend we'll continue our week-long blog-launch party with Betsy Appreciation Week.