RETROSPECTIVE: Liz's pictures from Dalian Open

She may be back in the States finishing up college, but her pictures live forever here on the Beijing Ultimate blog.



Big Brother Sexy, runners-up

Big Brother Ugly, champs



Of course, much more coverage of this tournament here and here and here.

RETROSPECTIVE: Caps at Dalian Open 2010

And how it all got started:

RETROSPECTIVE: The barber is in

Dalian Open, Saturday night party: hmm, how could I have forgotten that this happened...






From the Dalian Facebook album

POSTSCRIPT: Mike Shyu finally made public his Dalian 2009 Facebook albums. Here and here. And while we're at it, here's his 2009 Tianjin clinic album and Hong Kong 2009.

RETROSPECTIVE: Faces of Big Brother from Dalian Open 2010

The Dalian Open tournament happened two weekends ago, and below you'll find some of the pictures we promised. Both those links, by the way, have more pictures of interest.

From this Facebook album.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Dalian champs!

Both Beijing split squads defeated Shanghai and ended up playing one another in a competitive finals. Relevant game scores from the weekend:

SATURDAY:
Sexy vs. Dalian Y, W 13-1
Ugly vs. Dalian X, W 13-1

Sexy vs. Ugly: Ugly W 11-9

Ugly vs. Dalian Y, W 13-1
Sexy vs. Dalian Z, W 13-1

Ugly vs. Dalian Z, W 13-1
Sexy vs. Dalian A, W 13-2

SUNDAY
Ugly vs. Shanghai, W 11-3
Sexy vs. Dalian X, W 13-1

Sexy vs. Shanghai, W 13-4
Ugly vs. Dalian A, W 13-3(?)

FINALS: Ugly def. Sexy 13-9

Pictures to come soon.

UPDATE, 9/24: Pictures here!

And below...

WEEK IN REVIEW: People are headed to Manila

Big Brother is preparing as we speak to train down to Dalian tonight to participate in this weekend's Dalian tournament. Rumor has it that the final is pre-determined as Shanghai vs. Beijing, a rematch of last year's final that saw Shanghai pull off an incredible and impressive upset victory.

The party theme is "glasses." Should we even try?

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:

Souk Trivia every Tuesday night. Jim and I host! Please come. The prizes are amazing, as you can see:



Pictures by Liz Lin

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Jehan caused a few people to re-book their flights when he posted the following on Sept. 5, titled, "1000 RMB round trip Manila Flights - Today only":

Cebu Pacific is having a ridiculous deal, 50% off international flights. Currently a round trip ticket Beijing-Manila is just over 1000 RMB all inclusive. This is also for other locations in Asia, so I think I'll be off to Japan afterwards for all of $70. Flights 10/1- 11/30, must book today, so go do it right now!

www.cebupacificair.com/

Yay for Hong Kong folks boycotting the Philippines!

RETROSPECTIVE: In preparation for this weekend's tournament, a look back

Last two photos from Liz Lin's album

Breaking news: Dates set for Dalian Open and Manila Spirits

Dalian: September 11-12, the weekend before Singapore Open.
Manila Spirits: Nov. 26-28, with Nov. 26 being a one-day single-gender tournament.

RETROSPECTIVE: Big Brother at Dalian

The forgotten tournament, in many ways, because it was cold and Shanghai won, freshly revisited by Mike Shyu's new Facebook albums.

RETROSPECTIVE: We are watching you

From Dalian tournament

WEEK IN REVIEW: Dalian

Backdated 10/21


Not to say a lot didn't happen at the tournament party, but we're pretty bummed about our 15-11 loss in finals and have nothing to say about anything happy.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Tao:

"I'm Mr. Awesome, cause I'm ripped, I got black spiky hair, but more
importantly, when I'm stripping and I'm dancing, I can pick that
dollar up off the ground with my butt cheeks! Yea, Mr. Awesome CAN do
that."

Go, now: http://v.youku.com/v_playlist/f2908794o1p0.html

For a future tournament party, we need to assign the following
monikers to everyone on the team. Reserve now if you'd like.

Party Tool
Slacker Tool
Tiny Tool
Loud Mouth Tool
Cold-Hearted Tool
Playa Pimpin' Tool
Power Tool
Greek Tool
Naked Tool
...and more!

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Dalian tournament

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

WEEK IN REVIEW: Preparing for Dalian tournament this weekend

During National Day preparations? Not always a good idea...

Jeff Orcutt:

The fact of the matter is that it is China and nobody really knows what is going on and even if they (they being whoever) truely knows at some point that doesn't mean it will not change as it is implimented. It also doesn't mean that every location will be operating under the same rules.

Basically, yes, they can close down the city to pedestrians. If they want to. the basic problem for everyone is going to be crossing Changan jie, where the parade practice is going to be held.

Since the subways are closing down at 4:00 I think that the streets won't totally close down until then and maybe a little after (I saw 17:00).

Since it is China be very friendly with the guards and if you get stuck just keep trying different intersections and guards until you find some that will let you through. Or just make sure you are south of Changanjie by 16:00 or 17:00.

I am going to leave a little bit later since I am feeling ill and need a nap (I know, gumpy old man). On the way to work in a cab this morning I saw that Changan jie was closing at 17:00 (that is what it said on the signs over the second ring road, again, not necessarily the truth). So I am going to get in a cab at around 4:00pm. Worse case I have to drive to the fifth ring road to get around Changanjie.

Be vigilant and leave plenty of time (two hours is more than enough time) but don't freak out and expect body cavity searches.

Cheers,

Jeff

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Oh, Ellen...

You do want to leave earlier since they will be setting up over there. A colleague of mine got trapped in his house last week when it was surrounded by tanks.

Enjoy!