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:

Alicia's layout D in Shanghai Open finals

Brought back due to foul call (GIF via Weibo).

UPDATE, 7:02 pm: A bit more info: This happened on game point, 14-13. After getting this one back, Shiok scored a few throws later (going downwind) to win 15-13. Congratulations to them.

(p.s. Beijing Big Brother, last year's champions, is in red.)

UPDATE, 7:26 pm: crowd reaction, at 3:16 mark: 

Watch: Beijing Ultimate Frisbee players party it up in Hennessy ad

Hennessy ad featuring Tao, Alicia, Sam Dreiman, Ken Su, Yan Hao and Steven Zhang!

We spent about ten hours filming in an underground garage near East Fourth Ring Road. What you see is the result. Thanks to the company Sparkle for producing it, and to Alicia for hooking us up.

We just came back from a Hennessy "viral video" shoot

Here we are looking badass. Thanks to Ken Su for the picture.

An interview on the website Ultimate Interviews

Of me.

The return of Joe P.

He's back! After successful surgery in the States, Mr. Joe P (not Paterno) will be making his first public appearance in Beijing TONIGHT at the Kro's Nest Trivia, 35 Xiao Yun Lu, 8:15 pm. See you there.

RETROSPECTIVE: Possibly the strangest picture that's been taken in Pyongyang's Yanggakdo International Hotel

Video evidence that Ultimate Frisbee was played in North Korea

WEEK IN REVIEW: The first pictures of Ultimate in North Korea

Gonna hit you up with a video after the weekend.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Trivia winnings party a winner

On Saturday, September 3, Kirby had a trivia winnings party at his place. A lot of people got really drunk.

Some people have been raving about this new Taiwanese club at The Place called Sparks. Ask Sam Dreiman about it if you want the details. YJ knows too.

WEEK IN REVIEW: Off to North Korea...

Not much to review this week... two things to preview though: Big Brother's second practice is tomorrow -- the first on real fields -- and a few Beijingers are going to North Korea for an Ultimate tournament. Will check in after we get back on Tuesday.

I'll be tied up with a writing assignment for a couple weeks, so expect this blog to be silent for the duration.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Thrombosis, veins, and mini-hulk earns his nickname

Tuesday: Uh-oh, Joe! Thrombosis, and such.
Friday: Joe's drinks night at Let's Seafood. Kevin's parents still in town. Also, Stumble Inn first-year anniversary.
Saturday: Chaoyang Park: first Big Brother practice of fall season.
Sunday: Something...

Joe's arm puffed up. It was scary. He's gonna have to go back to the States to get that fixed via surgery...

WEEK IN REVIEW: Faces of summer league

God we're all still hung over. Wait, what day is it? Not Sunday? Okay, nevermind. I'm okay. Alex is okay. Ginny is (maybe) okay. We're all okay.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:

Can you guess which of the following people is hung over? (From summer league finals on Saturday.)

A year ago, if I told you Matt Mueller would not be one of the answers to the above question, would you believe me?

And what if I told you Ivan, making a special Beijing appearance, would be, having nearly died the day before drinking baijiu with Alex and Ginny?

Change is a strange beast.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Tao, 8/19: Subj: Fantasy football:

Who's in?

Gonna start a standard-setting yahoo league with a live online draft, for fun. Let me know ...

p.s. Only join if you enjoy fantasy sports and don't mind losing to me.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Summer league champs: The Weasleys

Congratulations to The Weasleys, champions of Beijing Ultimate Summer League 2011.

The Weasleys, however, lost its final regular-season game to The Raging Boehners and needed a soft-capped victory by Fei Pan Da over Fuzz Bullets to enter finals. Once there, both teams fought hard for the championship, but The Weasleys wanted it a little more and prevailed 13-10.

More pictures on Renren here, via Wang Yao.

More pictures will be posted later this week as well.

Afterwards, we went to Kro's Nest, and much later, Kevin's show at Luga's. I may or may not have gotten really drunk because it was my birthday.

WEEK IN REVIEW: On this, the eve of BUSL 2011 finals...

Andrew Moffat, better known as Baby Girl, dares speak with this video. Watch it.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:

From Week 5 ... yes, that's Shan Wu making a guest appearance!

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Tao, 8/8:

This is actually pretty good: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjkyNDIzMzI0.html

The last clip is from Shanghai Open though: me to Alex.

Everything else: I think Baby Girl is trying to say Fuzz Bullets are going to crush Fei Pan Da to make it to the finals of Beijing Ultimate Summer League 2011.

RETROSPECTIVE: Beach volleyball 2008

Picture by Steph Kwan

The greatest Olympics ever.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: The Weasleys et al. invade Beijing

A group of Beijing Ultimate Frisbee players went see Harry Potter Saturday night, where they, of course, won the screening. Below is Ginny signing an autograph:

Pictures by Nina

Updated summer league standings (one week left):

Fuzz Bullets, 3-2, +6

The Weasleys, 3-2, +5

Fei Pan Da, 3-2, +5

The Raging Boehners, -16

RETROSPECTIVE: Farewell to the Ascott

Not too long ago, Ellen Wong (right) moved out of her Ascott apartment for good. This post is to commemorate the place. An room with thinner walls would have gotten her kicked out of the building much sooner.

Micah, pictured left, before his crippling hamstring injury.

RETROSPECTIVE: A wedding

From Edward's wedding. (I think Richie Liu took this picture, but I've forgotten.)

More of these to come in the next year, I think.

Summer vacation time

Summer league, house parties, Google Groups, pickup ... what else is new? Dog days of summer, everybody -- time to take a break.