Big Brother 2014-15 Season-in-Review Slideshow

We haven't done this in a while, have we? This is the Big Brother Ultimate Year-in-Review Slideshow for 2014-15, made by Tao and Alicia. For more information, please check out Big Brother's Facebook page.

Big Brother players who attended at least one tournament:

Aaron Leung

Nitai Deitel

Alicia Lui

Anthony Tao

Alex Ornik

William “Ginny” Perry

Peter Behr

Jarred Mihalik

Kevin Reitz

Jeffrey “Drunkbus” Kessler

Brendon Schramm

Sam Dreiman

Matt Sheehan

Michael Austin

Jared Getzoff

Adam Lerman

Ken Su

Jonathan Wright

Mitchell Sayasene

Ivan Xu

David Libo-on III (Dada) 

Jeffrey Rodriguez 

Dominic Famorcan (Baboy)

Udo Lam

Evan Kornbluh

Alex Lindahl

Theo Glauch

Quoc Tran

Daniel Tremblay-Sher

Caroline “C-Chow” Chow

Esther Moss

Sarina “Sarz” Zhou

Hannah Lincoln

Zhang Wen

Katie Lepak

Lin Lin

Dana Fong

Kelsey Bilek

Zoe Berling

Jillian Bowzer

Helen Lu

Charlie Blair

Mikaela Koke

Danielle Connelly

And here's the video on Youku:

Video evidence that Ultimate Frisbee was played in North Korea

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Kevin's band, his band, his band

Newly rechristened Loveseat, Kevin and Jon Kelly played a two-hour gig at Luga's on Saturday night, and it was pretty great. Short video clip here:



It was also Sam's birthday. His face newly rechristened after a bar fight, Sam got, predictably, wasted once again.

On Friday, some kids had a naked party. I won't go into details.

On Sunday, we went to the pool at Chad's. Our winnings from the Nanjing Open have officially been (well) used.

WEEK IN REVIEW: Shanghai wrap-up

Big Brother will have a boozy Chinese dinner (BCD) tomorrow to celebrate the end of its spring/summer season, which ended with the team -- you may have heard -- winning Shanghai Open last weekend. Kevin Reitz has recently posted a blog about the event titled "How Beijing Owned Shanghai in 2011." The party was his "Opus."

Meanwhile, Gina of Korea and Zahlen visited this week, and Korea's Dray and Tori are in town.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:


From Zahlen and Gina's Wednesday "BCD" at Dongbeiren Restaurant (not a real BCD cause the restaurant took away our caps).

PICTURES OF THE WEEK, part 2:

Some of the better pictures from last weekend of Big Brother came from Vince of Shenzhen, who, in addition to the GIF linked to below, also got a nice GIF of Ginny's layout D and Pia's layout. He also took these photos:

Dray's poach D

Jim a bit late to help on Dray

Ginny and Zahlen

Tao D'ing some Korea guy

Gareth catching it on Derek Ramsay in the finals

Rumor has it that Stallion took about 800 pictures on Mike Shyu's camera. It remains to be seen whether those are better than Vince's.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Marshall Wang, who someone got this before any of us in China (6/15):

SUBJECT: Have ya'll seen this?

http://i.imgur.com/ZAnMK.gif

The full point:

RETROSPECTIVE: Video of the Big Brother vs. Team Philippines finals from Shanghai Open 2011

Not every point is included, but nearly every one. Thank you, Wanda!


Click here for the entire playlist of 25 videos.

The prettiest point:


Alex's grab of Tao's huck:


The final point:

RETROSPECTIVE: Tianjin Open 2011 party ... or, This is what happens when you challenge Big Brother to a drink-off

Above two pictures by Kevin Reitz

The party theme was "Rainbow," which is why Tao (and a few others) dressed in all white. Well, Tao was dressed as a prism, to be exact.

Big Brother would go on to win this thing. For more on the tournament, see here.

















And what would a Tianjin party be without a boat race? Here is Jim starting off the first race:


And here's Baby Girl and Tao winning one for Big Brother, after Jamie and Micah failed to get the job done in the video above.

WEEK IN REVIEW: St. Patrick's Day shenanigans

Before we mention what happened after trivia on St. Patty's Day, here's Global Times' piece on Jim as part of its ongoing "Who questions the quizmasters" series:

Name: Jim (aka "Jimmy Neutron") Kirchhoff

Age: Would you still believe 16?

Quiz: Souk [editors' note: currently defunct - for now at least - Jim has found temporary refuge under Kro's wing]

Amount of years in Beijing: Eight

Strengths: The gift of gab.

Weaknesses: Kryptonite.

I'm running a quiz in Beijing because: I crave the spotlight.

Specialty?subject: Girls.?Who am I kidding? I run a quiz....

How come no girls run quizzes? Because the guys would never stop hitting on them.?It would be like wolves stampeding toward an injured rabbit.

How do you rate the competition? In answering questions, I give them the edge. In entertaining a crowd, get in line, boys.

How do you rate your chances? Terrible. I'm just here for the free beer.??

Our odds: Worryingly, Jim is under the impression that his weekly "banter" as compere of a local quiz ranks as entertainment. For that alone, we're worried whether he might have a touch of Charlie Sheen Syndrome and start talking about "earthworms entering his immortal octagon" or some such. That said, we quite like Charlie Sheen - but we still feel the need to punish Jim for his unfailingly US-centric quizzing. 14-3

After the quiz we hit up Great Leap Brewery, met up with Zach at Stumble Inn and played pool at Cheers.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK:



And a video!

The first-place team chose to do a chug off to determine the champion. And for the second straight week, that team lost.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Jim, 3/17: St. Patrick's Day Party Tonight!

Hey guys!

Come celebrate the fantastic Irish holiday of drinking and brawling known as St. Patrick's Day tonight with a PARTY at KRO'S NEST, hosted by our own jim and tao! We will be passing out some free Jamesons and beer during our Irish-themed trivia night and trying to convince Ginny to boat race another team by himself with car bombs!

The Theme is GREEN and St. Patrick's Day. Wear a costume, win some free stuff!!! Woot woot!

Doors are open all night, we'll be swinging the party into gear starting at 8pm. Trivia and prizes will be happening as well starting at 8:30.

Venue: Kro's Nest. No. 35 Xiao Yun Lu, Chaoyang District across from the Renaissance Hotel, near Bellagio restaurant
Bring friends!

The Beijing Ultimate 2010 Year-in-Review Slideshow

And Youku:

Prologue, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Also on Facebook (missing the Subic pictures in Part 3):

Prologue, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

And for the last time, a (nearly comprehensive) list of everyone that appears, in order of appearance:

*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
Mike Shyu
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 (Xiaonan)
Jeff "Drunkbus" Kessler
(Jason Cox)
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

All the pictures in the slideshow were taken by the people listed below:

Ingrid Bonde Akerlind
Jenn Brown
Michael Chaitkin
Chen Yangming (Nico)
Cai Cai
Nick Cheng
Nitai Deitel
Kristin Franke
Nicki Fung
Caleb Heine
City Weekend
Nina Helmke
Marc Hiller
Robert William Hogg
Hsing-hui Hsu
Shira Klane
Steph Kwan
Forrest Li
Elizabeth Lin
Nick Liu
Mel Lozano
Alicia Lui
Hong Ly
Bill McGrath
Falon Milligan
Matt Mueller
Lien Ngo
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Jeff Orcutt
Joshua Phua
Ben Redden
Kevin Reitz
Matt Sheehan
Helen Shyu
Mike Shyu
Chirona Silverstein
Anthony Tao
Zahlen Titcomb
Aurora Yao Wang
Balance Wang
Carissa Wong
Shan Wu
Tina Yen
Mandy Yeung
Ruth Yoder
Zhang Yang
Marc Zeiger-Guerra
Box Zhang

Previous slideshows: 2008, 2009.

Beijing Ultimate 2010 Slideshow PREVIEW

Here it is:


And Youku.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Pink Party, Jump, Jive, and Super Quiz, Oh My!

On Friday select members of the Beijing Ultimate community went to this bar and bought pints and then growlers and got drunk ... off beer! For the first time in a long time. Then it was off to Zahlen's for the Pink Party, which proved horrendously fun as always, and someone may or may not have closed Chocolate.

On Saturday, after pickup, Mike and Helen (and Emma!) Shyu (but mostly Mike and Helen) hosted their annual Jump, Jive and hey someone kill the Turkey Already Thanksgiving dinner (their seventh time doing it, actually). Mike gave a heartfelt speech about the meaning of family and then we dug into the meal, which was so big everyone had leftovers. (A few days later the Shyus hosted another mini-feast to get rid of their leftovers). Pictures below provided by the estimable Kevin Reitz:





And finally, to top off a wild weekend, Jim and I hosted the Image round at the Beijinger's Super Quiz at Hard Rock Cafe. The Beijinger's write-up of the event is here, and this is a live blog from Beijing Boyce. Here's Jim during the first round:


Picture from tbj

This is more or less how our round ended (at the 51-second mark, you'll recognize a certain clip that appeared last Halloween; answer at the bottom):



And because we were up first, we spent the rest of the quiz night getting drunk on Tiger (then Stella) beer. Here we were at the end (yes, Jim is wearing that):



Picture from tbj

Answer: Remember this?

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Autobots, Deploy! play their final show ... and Halloween!

Josh of Ellen fame held a raucous Halloween party on Saturday, an event on the Beijing Ultimate calendar eclipsed in significance only by Kevin and Jeff of Autobots, Deploy! fame's final show. We took about 20 videos (ok, more like 18), the first 10 of which start here:


I'll post the rest in a retrospective a little later.

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RETROSPECTIVE: Caps at Dalian Open 2010

And how it all got started:

RETROSPECTIVE: Videos from Dalian beach tourney finals and party

The Chinese hecklers who you can hear during the middle of the video are especially hilarious.

Both the above videos are also on Youku: Party; Finals.

And Facebook albums are now available: Saturday; Sunday.

And a couple pictures from Yang Yang:

WEEKEND ROUNDUP, pt. 2: BUSL finals -- pics and vids

UPDATE, 8/11: Facebook album.

The results are in from the 4th annual Beijing Ultimate Summer League.

In the semifinals on field 2, Huck took a 7-4 lead on Burn and looked to take half when a dropped pull and a first-throw turnover -- on successive points -- led to consecutive breaks for Burn and a 7-7 tie.

Huck did eventually take half, but Burn had seized the momentum and ran off with six straight points to take a 13-8 lead after intermission. Huck made a small run to make it 13-10 before Burn scored the next two to pull off the upset win.

On field 1, undefeated Pillage beat Bid 15-4. The game was relatively close at 9-4 before Pillage decided to redouble the pressure.

In the 3rd place game, Bid used a zone to slow down Huck's attack and won 12-9.

The finals started out close, but Burn threw away a couple of points and Pillage, doing what they do best, took full advantage of every mistake. They ended up winning 15-9, running their record to 8-0 with a +68 point differential. Pretty dominant indeed.

Videos of three of their points:




Pictures from the day of games:

Ethan and Wally of Huck

Brian vs. Patrick Marco of Burn

Joe vs. Jim

Kelly vs. Kelsey


Team Bid... started 0-5, ended 2-6. Not bad.

Alan of Team Pillage in the finals

Peter with disc

Joel Brand, Pillage male MVP, elevates for the score

Zach, Joe, Andy, Brian, Wes. The girl is 17-year-old Cheris from Tianjin.

Jim in middle of team huddle

Joel with co-captains Mike Shyu and Alicia


The awards ceremony:



Jordan consummating the Team Bid Spirit Award

Peach and Joe (Female MVP and Spirit)

And then, of course, the party in Wudaokou's Solutions. This is right after dinner:

Around the table from the left: Boehner, Michelle, Jeff, Steph, Ken Dry, Matt, Cheris, Jehan, Gareth

Kelsey, Andy, Wes, Ethan, Chirona, Chris Carlsen

Mandy, Andy, Kelsey, Wes, Ethan, Chirona in a picture that will surely make the 2010 Beijing Ultimate Slideshow...

And then, an hour or two later, this happened (all names withheld to spare potential embarrassment):































Until next year, Beijing Ultimate summer leaguers....

POSTSCRIPT: This was after a pretty good party on Friday at Solutions, which you can read about here.

POSTSCRIPT 2: City Weekend gave us a shout-out. Thanks Charlie!