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

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Shanghai tournament recap

Read about the 11th annual Shanghai Open over at China Ultimate.

Congratulations to Tory Hislop for absolutely dominating for Big Brother and getting selected onto the Mythical Seven all-star team.

Congratulations to Beijing for winning the party award.

And, yes, congratulations to Shanghai Huwa for winning for the third straight year.

Much more to come...

Beijing Big Brother's gift to Shanghai Huwa

One final little leftover from Jeju...


Video by Mike Shyu

From...



...with something resembling love but creepier.

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: Tianjin

Congrats to Shanghai for winning 11-9 over Beijing. More later.

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":

Beijing Big Brother in Hong Kong

This is from the official party of the 11th annual Pan-Asia Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Hong Kong, October 25, 2008. As you'll learn soon enough, Beijing has quite the reputation at these sort of events.


(Props to Kevin Reitz for taking the footage.)

The longer version of this video -- basically the same as above, except bookended by bonus scenes -- can be found here (lesser quality due to the extended length).

Shanghai won "Best Performance" for its rendition of Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat, but were they really better? You decide.



The next day, Big Brother easily won its quarterfinals matchup before prevailing on Universe Point in semis against Ringers of Fire; then lost 15-12 in finals against the Philippines' Sunken Pleasure.

Matt Knowles -- a.k.a. Shaq Fu, the guy going nuts in the extended video's bonus footage -- won tourney MVP.

A character not included in the cast credits but very much should be, played by Toder (see if you can spot her in the video):


More still-frames:

Sorry, Care Bear.

Sipping raspberry Smirnoff out of a straw is even more disgusting than raspberry Smirnoff itself.








More pictures here (from Tim ORourke, previously linked).