RETROSPECTIVE: Bill's Chengdu Hat Facebook album

I know we just did a Chengdu Hat retrospective not long ago, but Bill McGrath just created a Facebook album, and he WAS one of the tourney organizers...

RETROSPECTIVE: Chengdu Hat album

There are 180 pictures in this Chengdu Hat album from the Chengdu Hat tourney a couple months ago. Samples:

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Chengdu hat results

Gareth's team beat Bill/Tao's team twice on Sunday, both times on universe point. An EPIC final point in the finals resulted in five combined turnovers, including three from Bill's team. There was a hand block, a caught huck not-quite-for-score, a near-layout-D, etc. etc. It was pretty awesome.

Wish you could've been there.



Couple pictures from finals:



And afterwards:

Mythical Seven, or something

Winning team

Technically not from Sunday, but this was my team



Jim won the party award... again (Jim was actually the lone winner at Kunming, though the rest of Beijing's players helped him out). This after winning a skirt from the bar Saturday for beating everyone in limbo. Who could've guessed? Oh wait...

More pictures here (Chen Yangming), here, here, here, here (Dean Huang) and here (Ruth Yoder).

UPDATE, 8/11: My Facebook album here.

WEEK IN REVIEW: Beijing Ultimate greetings from Chengdu!

The hat tourney in Chengdu is this weekend. I am in Chengdu right now, and this is what it looks like...

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:




Okay, the above are from Mt. Emei, which isn't quite the same thing as Chengdu. As in, it's much more breathtakingly stunning.

Jim, Jeff, Alicia and I say hi.



GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Beijing Ultimate Summer League 2010! From Tao, 6/16:

Thanks to everyone who came out to the hat tournament. Now onto the next big thing: summer league!

The fourth annual Beijing Ultimate Summer League (BUSL) will begin Sunday, June 27, at Happy Valley fields at 2 pm. We'll send a reminder later. Summer league will run seven weeks, with the final week being a two-game affair with beer on the field and a PARTY afterwards (tentatively planned for Saturday, Aug. 7).

If you would like to participate in summer league, please email me the following information by Thursday, June 24 (so we can draft you onto a team):

--NAME
--GENDER
--PRICING OPTION (see below)
--SKILL LEVEL (1 to 4, with 1 being "complete beginner" and 4 being
"club-level player")
--T-SHIRT SIZE (Chinese sizes)
--WILL YOU BE AT FINALS? (yes, no, maybe)

PRICES (we will collect on June 27):
1) Full-season (all weeks, including finals/party): 250 (working adults) / 140 (local Chinese students)
2) Half-season (3 regular season games + finals/party): 150 / 80

Both the above include an official summer league shirt (50 rmb if purchased separately)

Party = all-you-can-eat food and all-you-can-drink beer on field

Each game: 40 / 25
Finals/party: 70 / 45
Finals only, no food: 50 / 30
Party only: 30

Talk to me if you have questions/comments/etc.

Introducing: Chengdu Hat Tourney info (June 19-20)

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