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:

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Shanghai 2011 champions: Big Brother!

Big Brother ended a seven-year winless drought at international tournaments by winning Shanghai Open 2011, trailing only once all weekend (in the semifinals vs. Korea). The team from Beijing beat Team Philippines 15-10 in the finals, with its O-line committing only three turnovers all game (no breaks). Tao was selected finals MVP along with TP's Pia Ybanez (who has a tag on this blog because she's visited Beijing before), and Lauren Reed, for her O-line handling, was selected onto the Mythical Seven team.

The top three plays of the weekend (as selected at a team party on June 18 (this part is backdated)):

3. Kevin at the party (see below)

2. Alex's layout on Saturday vs. Team Philippines ... the first point, he decided he'd layout about chest high for a score.

1. Christian's defense in the end zone vs. Korea on Sunday. Big Brother was down 6-5 (and before that, down 6-4) when Christian pulled it, then sprinted 80 yards to D the first throw. Tao proceeded to throw a break score to Micah after a timeout to tie the game as part of a 9-1 run for Beijing, which eventually won 13-7.

Brother's three captains deserve praise: Jim Kirchhoff, one of the team's founders; Gareth Marshall, in his second year leading BB; and Mike Shyu, whose diplomacy, line-calling and stat-keeping were first-rate.

There are four Facebook albums currently up with pictures: Sunday, pt. 1; Sunday, pt. 2; Party pt. 1 (Big Brother Presents: Once Upon a Time Prom); Party pt. 2 (Big Brother Prom Photobooth).

More pictures to come in the coming weeks.

vs. Korea:


vs. Team Philippines in the finals:

One of Tao's four assists in the game to go with three goals.

Big Brother, which has a history of dominating Shanghai parties, went into this year's extravaganza, themed "Once Upon a Time," determined to not just "win," but win so convincingly that IF the party award went to any other team, the entire idea of a "tournament party" would be exposed as a farce.

Big props to Kevin Reitz for this idea: to rebrand the party as Big Brother's prom (themed "Once Upon a Time Ultimate Prom"), effectively Shanghaiing the event (pardon the expression). He printed up banners and we prepared a dance, a musical playlist, spiked punch and a king/queen ballot box.

Highlights:




Alas, Shanghai decided a team could not win both the tournament and the party. But Zahlen put it best (paraphrasing): "There's a difference between 'winning' a party and 'owning.' They haven't invented an award for owning, yet."

But they should. It would be called the Big Brother Party Award.

Here's Kevin on Sunday morning:

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Nanjing champions ... Alicia selected Mythical Seven at Jeju

Big Brother won the first-ever Nanjing Open over the weekend, and across the way on the island of Jeju, Alicia was selected to the Mythical Seven team for her dominating performance at the Jeju Dirty Dozens Tournament.



Tao (that's me... yeah) performed admirably (if I may say), accounting for 5 of the team's 7 points in an 8-7 opening-game loss to 1-seed Gold Star (3 assists, 2 goals) and 6 of the team's 7 points in the quarterfinals on Sunday. That performance, however, was marred by a point block on universe point -- by Zahlen -- which resulted in the game-winning point for Kim Jong-Illin'.




vs. Kim Jong-Illin' in the quarterfinals on Sunday


vs. Clown Punch in the 5th-place game, i.e. consolation finals

Kevin Reitz most definitely won the party, pictures of which are so good that we're going to show you on Friday. Yes, you will have to wait for it. (Or read about it here.) He also tried to win the party by schmoozing with everyone and doing a couple beer bongs and assisting on several others. He and Tao also staged a wrestling match. Yeah. How Kevin didn't win "best mustache" is beyond everyone's ken. It is ludicrous and outrageous. There should be several people feeling very ashamed this very moment. UPDATE: Here.




Rob Hogg and Jenn Brown played on the B-Pool-winning team at Jeju. Jenn Brown also won that pool's female MVP.



And Zahlen, he of Five Ultimate and a Beijing Ultimate alum, was also selected onto the Mythical Seven team.



Oh, and of course ... YJ Tan of Beijing was on the runner-up team, Whisby Nation...



...which lost to Iku in the finals:


In the end, it was a Yoshio love fest:


UPDATE: See Nanjing party pictures here.

RETROSPECTIVE: Caps last fall

From Zahlen's megashots dos Facebook album.

WEEK IN REVIEW: Manila Spirits and ... a pink party!

As we collectively recover from the weekend in Manila (feel free to read about the preparation for the weekend in Manila as well), we look ahead to a party. Zahlen's upteenth goodbye party is a... well, I'll just let him explain it:

Subject: PSF - A little hang out session
Date: December 2, 2010
Body:

Any guesses what PSF stands for?

I'm taking off on Saturday morning, so I'm hoping to catch up with a few peeps for a drink or two on Friday night. Swing by after dinner to the dojo for some good times, and maybe if we decide to fight the cold, we'll head out somewhere afterwards.

*PINK

Bring something to share, and we'll make merry!

I live at Concordia, Jia he li yuan (嘉和丽园) complex, near nv ren jie, near the flower market, near the new US embassy, on xiao yun lu and tian ze lu.

*SHIRT

Building A - 1905 嘉和丽园 北京
This one:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=beijing+c...

*FRIDAY

Z

PS. people not wearing a pink shirts will not be easily admitted.

Sweet.

Jia from Ninja Cowboy Bear is also in town, so this is our big chance to show an outsider what Beijing Ultimate's all about. Hopefully no one dies.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:
This is what we left:



Pictures taken on a drive from our villas in Clarke to Subic Bay on Monday (before heading back to the Ninoy Aquino Airport in Manila the next day).

The Google Groups Post of the Week is an email this week, from Jim, captain of Big Brother, sent on Wednesday, 12/1.

(Disclaimer: all scores probably made up.)

Subject: Spirits Recap

HOOOOO HAAAAA!!!!

What a weekend! Big Brother rolled into the Philippines boisterously (but with class) and left a T-Rex-size footprint behind. Everywhere we went, people had a great time and learned to party. Whether it be seedy clubs in seaside Subic, pre-tourney house parties hosted by Circus, street parties at the Bora house with lots of "shoulder injuries" and "shirtings" it was an awesome weekend!

I had a blast playing with everyone, so thank you to everyone who came and made the weekend so much fun. Let's keep building, we've got a great foundation leading into 2011.

And now, the business of recapping on field shenanigans. For party recaps and more specifics talk to each other or respond to this email with some stories.


Friday: Open and Women's

The weekend started for most of us with a day of open and women's games. For those of you who didn't hear, Mike Chaitkin flew in form the US to start the weekend with the welcome (and surprising) return of one of our own and Beijing's long lost son, Zahlen, played with both the open and mixed team.

The men's team was CUUP (China United Ultimate Party) featuring almost all of BB's men plus the following cast of characters: Ken Su, Wil Turner, Jia Xie, Jon Greenberg, Uli Burke, Will Chen, Yoshio Leeper, Sam Axelrod, and Zahlen. A very strong team on paper who had no trouble rolling through pool play and quarters. Semis brought on Hong Kong (and friends) who looked to be the first real test for the team. It was a much harder fought game, however the score never left any doubt as CUUP coasted into Finals to face Singapore.

Meanwhile, the women's team called Hong Kong but with many friends including, Alicia, HHH, Nicki, and Cdice in prominent roles, had a tougher road. I didn't get to see pool play action due to conflicting schedules, but the ladies won their pool and faced Bebots, the Filipina team and 1 seed entering the tournament in semis who had lost a game in pool play to force the tough match up. After going down 7-5? (i'm hazy on score and will make them up from here on out) the HK women came charging back, scoring 3 or 4 in a row to take the lead. Not to be outdone, Bebots remembered how to score again and kept it neck and neck to the end. Finally HK pulled through winning on universe? or by 2? Regardless, an awesome game.

In finals, the brought HK up against the Singaporean women. HK came out strong and took a 3-4 point lead going into half time. The game had no time cap however and people began to get tired in the second round as the singaporean ladies came back to tie it up in the second half. Someone needs to fill in play by play here as the men's final had already started (poor scheduling from the TD) but from what i understand HK managed to hold on and trade points again winning on universe? Apparently an awesome game.

Men's finals pitted CUUP against the Singaporean men. (both finals were china v. singapore - could it be there are the centers of quality ultimate in asia?) Okay, I'm getting tired of typing so, both teams basically traded point the entire game (again a race to 15 with no time limit). CUUP went up by 2, only to have the score brought back even. We then traded points until 10s or 11s when CUUP was finally able to pull away. Final score was 15-11? 15-12? with the game lasting a full 2 hours. Everyone was exhausted, but with both the men and women taking home championships, there was much rejoicing. =)


Saturday: Day 1 of Mixed

Let me preface the outcome of this day by saying that we had what was the strongest pool of the tournament by far. And the tourney format had no crossovers. To quantify that statement, our 3 seed took 3rd place in the tournament (winning the 3 v 4 game), and defeating our 1 seed in quarters on universe point. Our 4 seed ended up the 10 over all in the tournament (which was the original rank of our 3 seed).

Day one started inauspiciously when our first game against the one seed in our pool, Shiok, was delayed nearly 15 minutes while their captains argued to play the game 3 men 4 women when the tourney was a 4 men 3 women format. The TD finally ruled that they could only go 3:4 if we agreed (which with 6 women we did not). That time would have helped greatly as BB started a little flat and immediately dug ourselves into a hole. Shiok also had a remarkable amount of luck completing at least 4 passes that went over the head of or were tipped by the intended receivers only to be caught by a teammate.

Shiok took half easily at 6-2? before BB finally started to click. Again, we had little time and the time cap went off at 7-4, ensuring our loss before the start of the final point. Shiok wins 8-4. This game also reduced our women from 6 to 5 as Nina jacked her back and was unable to play the rest of the weekend.

In game two we faced the "3 seed" Sexual Chocolate. A very strong team of Filipinos augmented by Fei Fei from Taiwan and Mark from Team Canada. The game was an intense battle but Sexual Chocolate took an early lead on our errors and never gave it back. Final score was 11-8?

In our third pool play game we faced a local team from one of the islands in the Philippines named Extreme. This was one of the more fun teams of the tournament. The average male player was maybe 5'6" 120 pounds. They were tiny and SUPER quick. Every throw was a low release and these guys loved to break the mark. Using our height and experience advantage (they had only been playing for two years) we went up early and took half 6-4. In the second half however, they elevated their game and earned some Ds with their quickness to tie the score at 8s. We then traded a pair of points before breaking them to take the game 11-9.

This is where the tournament got frustrating as the crossover games were not crossovers. Due to the format of the tournament, our crossover game to enter the A Pool was against Sexual Chocolate, with the winner to play Shiok in Quarters on Sunday. BOOOOO tournament organizers. This also resulted in 20 minutes of discussions between the captians to change the format, which we did. Only to have it changed back again when one of the team captains objected.

Moving on....

This was the game of the weekend. This was a must win for two very good teams who had both already played each other once that day. BB started on D and got a turnover, only to be unable to convert. The next point we allowed ourselves to be broken, leading to a 2-0 hole. From this point on we basically traded long, intense points. The game had no real change at we approached the time cap with Sexual Chocolate leading 10-7 with us pulling to them. I think this was the point where Zahlen pulled out a D, allowing us to break them with about 2 minutes left on the game clock 10-8. We threw out a strong line and got another D. We tried to convert quickly only to turn the disc back. And then get it back again. Tao(?) then puts a blady huck into the back corner of the endzone into traffic which Gareth rips down in a crowd and toes in the back corner making the score 10-9 with seconds to spare. With BB on D, if we score, we will force universe point. If they score, game over.

BB pulls the disc and runs down on D. On the 4th(?) pass of the point, Tao get a ridiculous hand block on the man he's covering and our sidelines go wild. We pick up the disc and center it. With nothing in the middle, the disc swings right. On the return dump pass, Fei Fei layouts out and knocks down the pass. Sexual Chocolate then marches down the field to seal the win 11-9. =( So close. This team would end up the #3 in the tourney beating Ninja Cowboy Bear in the 3-4 game.

For Saturday night party details, gossip with your friends :)


Sunday: Day Two of Mixed - B Pool

1st round saw a very sloppy SProaches team that had a number of uncharacteristic drops and throwaways, which we converted to crush them 11-2. This game was never in doubt despite our late night partying.

2nd round we faced the team from Korea. This proved to be one of the lesser spirited games with lots of snarky comments and contested calls from our opponents. However, as the superior team, BB kept its cool and kept the game in hand, ultimately winning 13-6? or something like that. Gareth owned their big man in the air and our team played a much cleaner game, earning the win.

In B Pool Finals we faced Extreme again. The fast, short little team from the provinces that never gave up. It was at this point that we realized they were playing with only 3 or 4 subs. Yet somehow they still weren't getting tired. This was a race to 15 with no cap so we knew we had to dig deep. Extreme played an offense of give and go between their quick male handlers who would them look to bomb it deep to their women. Our big men had difficultly matching the quickness underneath so it was up to our women to own the air in the endzone, and they did. There were a number of Ds by our ladies in the endzone which kept the game under control though it was tight the whole way.

We got broken once in the first half, but broke them twice to take half by one. We punched in the first point of the second half and proceeded to trade points, with both offenses scoring on their possessions. at 11-9? we got another break, giving us some much needed breathing room as we later gave them one more break. Our final D line closed out the game 15-12 to take B Pool champs.


A few shout outs to people who stepped up and did awesome things (which is everybody):

- Zach, aka Tea Party, playing in probably his first ever open tourney got a sick layout D in the finals on a deep shot to the endzone. He also won an individual party award as Green Man
- Nicki and Gareth made the all-tournament team for the B Pool - congrats on great performances
- Gareth also made tourney team for men (i think - i couldn't hear the announcement, so sorry if I missed someone here. i thought i heard alicia's name at some point too but i was drunk :) )
- HHH got B Pool female MVP despite playing on a rolled ankle and two bad knees. Bad ass!
- Jim (that's me!) got MVP for the open tourney for being the only guy who could fit into the free shoes they gave the winner
- Marc Scott played w/ Beijing again and had a sweet layout goal against Sexual Chocolate in the "crossover" game he also ran hard all weekend and is a super spirited dude
- Baby Girl really stepped up his game and was awarded the Beijing Frisbee as standout player of the weekend
- OUR LADIES played awesome all weekend. With only 5 women after the first game they were huge. A HUGE thank you to Jenn Brown for flying out to join us once again and a TRIUMPHANT return for Ellen to Beijing Ultimate. Thank you ladies!!!
- Ellen, despite being afraid for her life and her health, D-ed a deep throw in the endzone in B Pool finals w/ a guy trying to sky into her space. Booyah!
- Nina, though injured, took a shit ton of pictures on her, Tao's, and Chaitkin's cameras. Everyone make sure to take a peak, some looked pretty sweet.
- Baby Girl and Andy, aka Sticks, were inseparable and led the party charge. Also leading everyone at the tournament to call Andy "Baby Girl" for the rest of the weekend (except for that one girl who still calls you Sticks). Way to go boys and way to rock those mohawks!!!
- Rob proved to be a great wing in our clam that we threw. For those of you who I kept saying were doing it wrong, talk to Rob. He also gave our victory speech to Korea. Suck it Korea!
- Chad proved that proper cutting gets you open. A lot. On both the break and open side. Learn from him, people.
- Chatikin was a rockstar on and off the field. He gets a special shout out not only for surprising us all with his presence and joining the squad, but also for ........(censored content)............. you are the man!
- Kevin, the Bulldog, Reitz was solid as a rock. Man played like he had just been underwater for the last week and saw everything in slow motion while he was moving at regular speeds. hooray for diving. pretty sure his 40 yard up line pass to Zahlen in the B Pool finals was a high release flick (sick!). he also made friends with every filippino we saw, including scoring lots of apple vodka on the beach while singing KTV
- Toni Toni Toni led up the D line once again and brought his fire. No one wants to win more than Tao (except maybe Alicia) Speaking off....
- Alicia once again was a work horse in the middle and on D. In the second Sexual Chocolate game, she adjusted her coverage of their main woman cutter Michelle (?) and basically prevented her from scoring (she had probably 4 goals in the first game). Way to play smarter.
- Zahlen was back with Beijing. Saturday he had sweet throws and that HUGE D in the Sexual Chocolate game. PLUS he was rocking a sweet mustache for Movember. Welcome back buddy.


If I forgot anyone/anything, I apologize. I'm confused by all these letters as this email is already way too long. Let's have an awesome off season and start thinking about next year. We will do a team dinner next week to celebrate and plan for 2011. Keep your calendars open. Tentative date Saturday, December 11. If that doesn't work, give me a shout now so we can move it earlier in the week.

No practices this month, but let's use pick up (now twice a week!) to work on our throws in the off season.

Da Ge....

RETROSPECTIVE: China Nationals 2010!

This is only the tip of the iceberg as far as China Open coverage. We'll be back with scores, etc., later in the week.

WEEK IN REVIEW: More parties!

Seriously, my body's getting tired.

Nov. 21: Ellen's Thanksgiving party
Nov. 27: Ellen's foosball tourney
Nov. 28: Mike and Helen Shyu's Thanksgiving dinner
Dec. 4: Liz's birthday + Autobots, Deploy! at D-22
Dec. 5: Nicki's housewarming
Dec. 12: Lauren's going-away, Liz's going-away

PICTURE OF THE WEEK:

From Kevin Reitz at the Shyus' Thanksgiving dinner

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

A tie! Zahlen, in the post titled, Barbie's Imminent Going-Away Party: The Legacy of Pink, Dec. 12:

One time when I was out of town, Doc broke into my house and stole ALL my pink clothing.

I returned to Beijing late on a (Pink Shirt) Friday night, and went from airport to home and direct to the bars. I had acquired a few new PSF shirts while in the states, so I didn't miss a beat. Doc was flabberghasted when he saw me show up in a pink shirt. I was doubly flabberghasted when I went to grab another pink shirt the next PSFriday and found that my wardrobe had shrunk considerably.

True story, real people.

Z

And me, replying to Alicia's post, Wednesday night Frisbee - BCIS from 7 - 9pm!!!

Jizz! Jizz! Jizz! OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THERE IS JIZZ EVERYWHERE!!!

BCIS is awesome. I was really excited.

RETROSPECTIVE: Five Ultimate going into Japan?

Zahlen, owner of Five Ultimate, addressing the Flippers, a Japanese team CUUP played in its first game Friday at AOUCC/Manila Spirits.

Has it been a month already?

WEEK IN REVIEW: Parties galore

Thursday: the Beijinger's party at Chocolate, an all-you-can-drink fiasco where I had way too many mohitos though probably could've used more than three white Russians ("candy," as Zahlen put it).
Friday: Pink Party; Jameson's at Ken and Steph's
Saturday: Joe's birthday at Fubar

...and not a picture from any of them.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Betsy, 10/20:

scoober reboocs,

the tournament season is ending on a high note, with beijing representatives bringing strong teams to hong kong and manila. betsy promises a fantastic time at both tournaments, and not like what happened the time when tao was drunk on baijiu and he promised everyone they would be taken up to the great celestial city by the emissaries of the heavenly aeon in a plastic disc-shaped space-vessel powered by baijiu. betsy recalls everyone was a little disappointed, as it clearly did not look anything like a frisbee.

WEEKLY ITEM #1: The Weekly Schedule

Every Tuesday, Pick Up, 8-10, Deshengmen

remember to pack you woolies and mittens, as the pitch will be powerful brisk in the evening.

Every Sunday, Pick Up, 3-6, Happy Valley or ISB

show your support for beijing bang this weekend by staying in beijing and playing pick-up. is this the last of fall’s wonderful weather? possibly!

_________

WEEKLY ITEM #2: Upcoming Tournaments

Oct 24-25: Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China.
Oct 28-31: Boracay Beach Tournament in Boracay, Philippines.
Nov 6: Worlds Qualifier in Manila
Nov 7-8: Manila Spirits in Manila, Philippines.

really, if you haven’t made your plans to go to at least one of these tournaments by now, you should probably just start hibernating immediately. only six months to jeju.

_________

now is the time in the weekly email when betsy gives her weekly shout outs and call outs. remember, you want to get shouted out, but you don't want to get called out.

a shout out to bill. thanks for running and organizing a fantastic clinic on saturday. chris would be proud.

a call out to chris. chris wins the award for only person to not attend the clinic on saturday. congratulations, chris, for the no-attendance thing.

a shout out to gareth, alicia, jeff, jim, barbie, shen, and mike. you helped run the clinic. you are bad mamma jammas, you are the sunshine of betsy’s life, and other stevie wonder lyrics.

a call out to sciatica. you know what sciatica? you’ve got some nerve. or you are nerves, or something, betsy isn’t really sure and wikipedia was a little vague. anyway, you’re not very nice. betsy and joe are going to have a serious talk about your future. you will remain called out until further notice.

a shout out to beijing bang. represent beijing well. big brother has more important things to do this weekend, like, there’s this party at chocolate on thursday. most of big brother probably won’t be going, but they like to keep their schedules open just in case. jia you bang.

a call out to fall. where are you going? come back here, betsy’s not done with you yet.

a shout out to char. if you shout out to char, but she's not around to hear it, does she still remain shouted out?

_________

WEEKLY ITEM #3: Lunch Time Poll

beijing ultimate is growing in numbers this fall, and is expected to continue through the winter, in part because beijing is expecting it’s first ultimate baby. mike may have played an integral role in the baby-making, but we are all responsible. many are the times mike has been liquored up and sent home to his wife, judgment inhibited. as such, it’s only fair that the community collectively decide the name.

which of these is the most appropriate name for baby shyu? as always, feel free to write in your own suggestion.

a) eleventh edition shyu

b) garethia andsandy shyu

c) whosacutie yesyouare shyu

d) espn.com/shyu

cast your votes!

_________

and finally, your moment of zen…

http://www.soundsleeping.com/vibes_small.html

catch you on the field,
betsy
xxxooo

RETROSPECTIVE: Best jersey in Asia?

The Philippines may have something to say about that, but there sure were lots of players from non-Beijing teams wanting Big Brother jerseys this past weekend.

Thank you, Zahlen...

Announcing! Announcing! Announcing!

If you're in Beijing this Saturday (tomorrow), you should go to this: a "monthly Frisbee community event," January 10, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Yi Zhuang Middle School "Zhang Bei" Athletic Center 3rd Floor Basketball Court. Meet at the Dongzhimen McDonald's at 1 p.m. if you want to carpool over.

Here are the original announcements, first in Chinese, via Roger of Hang Time:

各位北京飞盘爱好者和所有HANGTIME队的老朋友们：

应Zelen和北京飞盘委员会的提议，HANGTIME定于1月10日（星期六）下午2点到5点 组织一次室内飞盘活动。此次活动将安排1个小时的训练和 两个小时的混合制比赛。
具体安排：
1月10日下午1点钟在东直门银座麦当劳门口集合，包车前往。
活动地点是在亦庄中学张贝健身三层篮球馆。
玩完飞盘以后，包车原路返回去朝阳门外圆缘园茶坊 桌面游戏活动，之后聚餐。
本次活动得到了北京飞盘委员会的全力支持与帮助

费用细则：来回路费每人20元（金杯客车两辆）
篮球馆为1W平米，每小时收费280元。
桌游活动：游戏是免费玩的，只用交在那个茶坊的饮料钱，一般15到25元不等。大家自由选择，不强求非去不可。

最后希望大家都能来参加这次飞盘活动，谢谢。

注：若到时未能及时赶到东直门的朋友可以坐地铁五号线到刘家窑下车，然后再打车到亦庄中学，出租车费用应该在20元左右。

有事请留言或者直接与hangtime队的刘杰（Roger）联系，电话：81157325（随时都在）

In English, translated by Jim Kirchhoff:

Hi all! Your friendly neighborhood alcoholic translator here. (shen has apparently gone awol - damn you all)

So, Hangtime is taking the advice of the Beijing Ultimate Committee (BUC) and stepping up to organize the first "Monthly Frisbee Community Event" on January 10 from 2pm - 5pm with fun afterward. (ps - Jim is awesome)

The event will involve an hour of super amazing fun practice/drills followed by two hours of playing. (has anyone noticed how dreamy Jim is?). The location will be at the Yi Zhuang Middle School "Zhang Bei" Athletic Center 3rd Floor Basketball Court. (More Capitalized Words Please).

Please meet at Dong Zhi Men McDonalds at 1pm if you want to carpool and take a van down. Or take Line 5 subway to this stop "刘家窑" and then cab it from there. (sorry, I don't know how to read Chinese, just how to translate it!)

After frisbee is over, the van will take people to Chaoyangmen Wai Yuan Yuan Yuan Cha Fang (圆缘园茶坊) for "table games". (I think this may involve drinking). Then DINNER to follow. WOO WOO!!! Go HANGTIME YOU GUYS ROCK FOR ORGANIZING!!!! (almost as much as Jim for translating! what? free beer for translating? you are too kind!)

Anyway, costs should be as follows:
- roundtrip van ride rmb 20
- disc at Yi Zhuang 280 per hour for the group (YOU CAN SHOWER TOO!)
- drinking games and dinner - up to you. avg 15-25 for reg beverages. for heavy drinkers, no idea....

IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME!!! SO EVERYONE SHOULD COME SUPPORT BEIJING ULTIMATE!!!! BUC! BUC! BUC!

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or if you want a new translator, please contact

刘杰（Roger）
tel: 81157325
MSN：liu9649@hotmail.com

If you'd like to buy Jim beer for his efforts, find him at the event, or drop him an email. (sorry, no phone number, i was mobbed with too many calls after my last excellent *breathes on knuckles and rubs them on shirt * translation effort. gosh i'm amazing - just ask Char =)

Happy New Year!

And a little something from Zahlen of the renowned Titcomb family:

Bring a light and dark shirt for games.

The facility has free showers, so if you want to shower after playing and before rocking out, bring your own towel and product.

See you all saturday (i'm pumped)!