Important China Nationals deadline announcement

DEADLINE FOR TEAM REGISTRATION IS NEXT FRIDAY, MAY 1. GO TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE TO REGISTER NOW.

Jeff Orcutt speaking on today's meeting:

Hey everyone,

At the meeting Tao and I discussed the format of the tournament and he is going to go crazy making us multiple scenarios and generally geeking out on the project. In the UPA tournament format document they start by saying all you really need for a tournament are fields and a schedule.

Congratulations, I think we can truthfully say that we have a tournament now.

But about all that other stuff....

Hotel deposits are in and sponsors are coming in. We are picking up 500 discs from ultipro (trying out the tiananmen design) in Shanghai and we have the fields up north. The restaurant in a muslim place right next to the hotels.

We now have a number of estimated expenses and only hypothetical revenue. Please encourage the people you know to register. Dalian, Hangtime, and air woo (wuhan) have all registered. Remember to remind all the chinese people that you don't have to pay tournament fees next year if you win.

And what do the tournament fees get you?
Awesome fields -- 2 Days!
Lunch -- twice!
Kick ass dinner/boozey party with some games (and drinking)
Field food (forever)
Beer on Sunday (after noon)
Probably a disc (if we don't go broke)
Transportation
A crap ton of Facebook photos

Joe mentioned that maybe we don't need a theme to the party. We can still play the interesting games. However, I don't believe I would get to know people well enough to make the questions. could someone please volunteer to help the teams make hints about people who are coming? Probably could be done a short time before the tournament (like in the last week?). Right?

With no theme we can also concentrate on fun games and getting to know each other. And it doesn't stop people from dressing funky anyways.

So what do you guys think? Theme? No theme? Cowboys? no pants?

tomorrow morning I want to send out a email to all of the captains giving a deadline of the 30th to get all of their team registered. I would love to be able to tell them the party/theme. If I do not hear disagreement about the Cowboys theme I say let's do it.

Ok, Let's do this thing.

Cheers,

Jeff

China Nationals website

Jeff Orcutt writing:

Hey everyone,

I hope everyone has cleared the weekend of the 16th and 17th of May since this year’s China Open (Nationals) is going to be awesome. After some technical difficulties we are ready to go live with our website. Please visit the site http://chinaupa.fiveultimate.com to get information from around China concerning Frisbee.

Captains should sign up and register their teams for China Nationals through this site. Please email orcutt.jeff@gmail.com or nationals09@chinaupa.com for detailed instructions.

Thanks guys and we all look forward to seeing you in May.

China Nationals Crew

大家好，

我希望每个人都已经清楚比赛将于五月十六号、十七号举行。今年的公开赛(全国赛)将会非常棒。在解决了一些技术难题后，我们的网站将投入使用。请登录http://chinaupa.fiveultimate.com 来收集国内外关于飞盘的信息。

队长们应该在这个网站上注册，并且为他们的队伍报名参加今年的全国赛。详情与说明请致电邮到orcutt.jeff@gmail.com 或者nationals09@chinaupa.com

谢谢大家！我们都期待在五月见到你。

中国全国赛团队

GUEST POST: the random email from betsy

hey flatballers,

i'm sure i was not the only one to notice, and i'm sure that you have decided to leave it up to me to call him out on it. well here goes: jeff, your pathetic attempts at stealing credit from me and duff for the single most successful day of ultimate in the history of beijing was just sad. i'm sure your friends will forgive you someday, but it probably won't be a while. i think it's best for everyone if you just stay away for the next few weeks. let's call it a moratorium. and not a moratorium in the way that you've 'quit' smoking. but a real moratorium. no exceptions. we will
review your petition to return in early may, at the same time we review ken 2.0's.

don't forget we have frisbee tonight. it's outside, because it seems the majority of you like playing in cold, smog and wind, when we could be playing inside. well, you asked for it, and you better be there tonight.

the weekly quiz:

betsy has installed hidden cameras in all your homes. which of the following is the reason she most wishes she had not:

a) after watching kevin, his girlfriend, and their housekeeper in the laundry room, just hearing the word threesome makes betsy nausous

b) jim and char have been playing monopoly for two weeks. it's the game that never ends. and betsy can't turn away. no, char, don't roll an 8. you can't afford to land on marvin gardens with four houses. you've spent your whole life trying not to go into debt. don't do it now. don't you realize that 70% of relationships fall apart becasue of financial matters?

needless to say, betsy hasn't been sleeping well this week

c) the no pants rule at doc, candice and alicia's is definitely best left to the imagination.

d) first sandy slept with chris. then chris slept with chip's girlfriend, while chip watched. then sandy slept with chip's girlfriend, while chris watched. then mini hulk burst in, threw the refrigerator out the window, because he hates any tangible reminders of his sober self, and then ran upstairs and inappropriately fondled chip, while sandy watched. in the process, a blue vase was broken. betsy always liked that vase.

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new business:

betsy has learned that we have a new player who's coming to beijing. her name is charlotte. apparently she is conceited and gets belligerent when she's been drinking red bull. but betsy won't hold that against her. but she will hold it against her if she thinks that she can come to beijing and take betsy's place as the supreme diva. this is my town, sister. but i'm sure barbie would like some company in my entourage.

here's what charlotte has to say for herself:

hi betsy,

i heard you like baking. because someone said you like to make donuts. i think we are going to be great friends.

i'm going to be coming to beijing at the end of march. i grew up in ohio. my family moved around a lot, one of the perks of growing up in a mobile home. of course, there were a lot of tornadoes, but we learned to cope. i like drinking beer on the porch, cruising the strip at night, hanging out in the dairy queen parking lot, and listening to ac/dc cover bands. i heard there is a sweet band that plays at tun every tuesday night. i'm so excited.

so, i'm coming to beijing to study mandarin and find a part time job. anyone that has any leads on apartments or work (teaching or otherwise) please let me know. i'd prefer not to waitress though. i've had enough of that, doing double shifts at the all night diner. but hey, it beats stripping!

so seriously, if anyone has any useful information that will help me settle in beijing, my email is yellowspiderlove at gmail.com.

see you all in a few weeks,
charlotte

thanks charlotte. beijing ultimate appreciates honesty from it's soon to be community members. especially after the way kevin mislead us with his nice guy routine.

and in the spirit of tradition, charlotte's new beijing ultimate nickname is daisy. please update your rolodexes accordingly.

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which brings us to your moment of zen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxvjTNiEAPA&feature=related

catch you at the fields,

betsy
xxxooo

GUEST POST: Jeff Orcutt on the recently concluded Kunming Hat Tourney

Thanks to everyone that made Kunming such a fun tournament. Seriously. If you didn't come this year you have to go next.

Take a second to ponder the following. Do you like:

• Sunburn (and the associated beautiful weather)
• Huge tubs of pineapple
• Cute girls (and Joe making out with them for beer)
• Cute men (so I'm told)
• Nice grass
• A party that is downstairs from your bed
• Relaxed competitive Ultimate
• Southern China
• The Berry brothers
• F-ing amazing tournaments
• A really pumped Ningbo team?

If you answered yes to some, none or all of the above then you should have been there.

Feel free to add to the list if you were there.

Also, if you are interested playing outside Wednesday evening at Deshengmen send an email. Yea, Ultimate. It rocks. Frisbee!