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)

RETROSPECTIVE: Pictures from Autobots, Deploy!'s final show

Videos begin here.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Duanwujie hat tournament

The Dragon Boat Festival being this Wednesday, China's new "weekend" for the week is Monday and Tuesday, which means everyone had Monday off (while working Saturday and Sunday). Beijing Ultimate spent this time playing in a hat tournament -- the fourth straight year we've done this to kick off summer league -- results of which are below.





The captains were Tao, Mike Shyu, Ivan Xu and Jim. The results (captain names as synecdoches for the team):

Rd. 1: Ivan def. Jim 9-6; Mike def. Tao 13-6
Rd. 2: Mike def. Jim 11-5; Tao def. Ivan 11-9
Rd. 3: Jim def. Tao 8-6; Mike def. Ivan 8-7

If in round 3 Tao and Ivan's teams would have won, three teams would have been 2-1 and point-diff would have decided the champion. (Mike's team would still have won.) If only Ivan's team would have won (Tao's team losing), then Ivan's team, by dint of head-to-head, would have been the champs.

Here were the final two points of the Mike vs. Ivan game:


Team list:

Tao:

Adam Nowak
Chaitkin
Chirona
Dong Xiaoming
Grace
Jehan
Joel Rosen
Juan
Lao Zhao
Li Hao

Mike Shyu:

Alicia
Carissa
Daniel
Gu An
Iyake (Rob's friend)
Kevin
Pat Li
Rob Adams
Xiangke
Russell

Ivan:

Amanda
Andrea
Andy
Brian
Derek
Evan
Gareth
HHH
Jeff Orcutt
Xiaofei
Xiaoxiao
Zhou

Jim:

Baby Girl
C-dice
Doc
Guy
Men 3
Jeff L
Ting
Yan
Yaoyao
Yu Xiangtian
Zhang Yuepan

POSTSCRIPT: It was Baby Girl's birthday! He's 23 and still legal... but unavailable. His girlfriend, Leigh, bought him a cake:


And others at dinner at our go-to post-game Shanxi restaurant -- the name of which we still don't know despite two and a half years of patronage there:



Yes, that's Chirona, Return Of.