What: Gender Blender is a one-of-a-kind tourney that’s on the top of the bucket list for ultimate players.
Where: Fergus (near Guelph)
When: Friday June 3rd to Sunday June 5th, 2011

Details: www.genderblender.org

It’s a 2-day tournament with the fun starting on Friday night with the Blender Party and continuing with other events including the All-Star Game, catered meals, Talent Contest, cups tournament, Saturday Night Party and much more.… Until you’ve experienced it for yourself you can’t really understand how rare and exceptional it is.

I hope you’ll come to this tournament and experience it for yourself, or, if you’ve been before spread the word around the world as we continue to attract teams from near and far (including Barrie).

We look forward to seeing you in Fergus!

The Stall Fall Classic will take place on Saturday, September 18th and Sunday, September 19th at the Centennial Sports Complex and Guelph Lake Sports Fields. There will be two divisions: Competitive A Division (for experienced teams) and Competitive B Division (for teams with little or no tournament experience). Each team will play 3 or 4 games on Saturday and at least 2 games on Sunday. This year’s party theme is “Disco Fever”! Just a reminder that alcohol is not permitted on any City of Guelph Fields.

Space is limited, so don’t wait and be disappointed. The cost is $350/team. Check the website out for more details and registration forms. http://www.perpetualmotion.org/StallFall/Main.htm

I’ve set up separate forum discussions for each tournament, here and here. This is also the same weekend as Stall Fall, so it’ll be a busy weekend of ultimate! More info after the break…

Fundraiser Hat Tournament, North Bay

Here’s the email that Deb Dugas sent me:

Hi Guys,

I know I haven’t been around much this summer… but I am planning on playing in the fall. I just wanted to pass along this tounament information to those who might be interested in playing. It is just a one day fun tournament foundraiser for a girlfriend of mine who’s 13 year old daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor in May… she has had 5 operations and is on her way to recovery, but it has been a long road. They are staying in Toronto for rehab and it is getting pretty costly for them so we are doing what we can to help them out. Would really appreciate it if you could pass this info along to whoever you think might be interested.

Thanks
See you soon
Deborah Dugas

HI All,

Just wanted to send a brief hello and ask you to book Sat Sept 13th to be here in the Bay for a one-day Ultimate Hat tournament (enter as an individual). I will be running games during the day and a birthday pub at night as a fundraiser for Shan and Syd.

Syd has been doing better but still has a long road to go in her recovery. She is still at a rehab facility in toronto Sun- Thurs and is able to come home for the weekend. Costs continue to be difficult so all the proceeds from this event will go to them!!

All the details have to be worked out but Jen McNutt Bywater will be setting up an evite message at a later time: but the date is secured!! I know Shan has missed you all and is really hoping you will be able to come and see her for a good party on the 13th (Shan’s birthday is the 14th and she NEEDS/DESERVES a good time with all her buddies – and hates being a ‘Debby Downer’ so she just wants your smiles and laughter). Please let me know if you are able, ultimate play will probably be about $20 per player (it is a fundraiser so…) and the pub like $5 – $10…

Even if you’re currently out of province or country, we hope you can come!!! Don’t forget to spread the word as the more the merrier!!! Thanks!!

Cheers, Erin

Spirit Ultimate Charity Tournament

My name is Amy Read and I chair the Spirit Ultimate Charity Tournament presented by the Ottawa Carleton Ultimate Association (OCUA).

We would like to invite all teams from the Barrie Ultimate League to join us for our 6th annual event to be held on Saturday September 13th at the Gloucester Hornets Nest in Ottawa from 9pm to 7pm – www.ocua.ca/tournaments/spirit/.

All proceeds from the Spirit Ultimate Charity Tournament go directly to local charitable organizations.

Can you please let me know if you could post some information on your website or perhaps send out a team captain E-mail?

Please find our event details below. I look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks so much!
Amy.

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Amy Read
Spirit Event Chair

Work: 819-934-8440
Home: 613-236-4334
Cell: 613-222-4516
E-mail: catchthespirit@ocua.ca
Website: www.ocua.ca

It’s the 6th Anniversary of the OCUA Spirit Ultimate Charity Tournament!

To date, the Spirit event has raised over $56,000 for local Ottawa charities!

Spirit 2008 will take place on Saturday September 13th at the Gloucester Hornets Nest. We are again planning a great day including a BBQ lunch, McAuslan Beer Garden, Daredevil Discs merchandizing & interactive disc games in the Funzone, music, first aid services, massage therapy and of course, lots of exciting prizes for our pledge winners!

Registration
Please visit www.ocua.ca/tournaments/spirit for all the details. The team registration fee is $300. The team fee includes a complimentary BBQ lunch (including beverage) and massage coupon, as well as a minimum of three games through the day.

Don’t have a team? We’ll find you one! Individual registration is $25.

Our Charities
This year’s recipient charities are the Anxiety Disorders Association of Ontario, the Christopher Powell Carpe Diem Bursary, the Jennie James Depression Research Fund & Children At Risk.

Pledging & Prizes
We once again have some great prizes for collecting pledges! (prizes to be announced soon)

As pledge donations can significantly boost the overall funding we provide to our recipient charities, we encourage each team to raise a total minimum of $100 in pledges. And the more you collect the better chance you have at winning some of our cool prizes!

For more information about Spirit 2008, please visit www.ocua.ca/tournaments/spirit or E-mail catchthespirit@ocua.ca or call 613-236-4334.

Many thanks to our Spirit 2008 Sponsors:

The BEAR 106.9 fm
Rogers Television
The Ottawa Citizen
Daredevil Discs
McAuslan Brewery

The junior open team went 5-2 to finish second in the preliminary round—they get an automatic seeding in the semifinals.

The junior womens’ team went 2-4 in the initial round, so will need to win the C pool to get to the championships. Canada and the USA both won their first two games, so the head-to-head match-up (Thursday, 12:00 EDT) will decide who goes on.

UPDATE:
The junior open team lost in the finals to the USA, 17-7.

The junior women finished the medal round in fifth. Japan won the tournament.

Wednesday night practices are starting this week (April 30) at Barrie Central (see ‘field locations 2008′).  We’ll be starting around 6:30 p.m. and any women who are interested in touring or just want to check it out and get some practice time in are welcome to attend.

See you there,

Katie and Sarah

womens.touring@barrieultimate.com

Well I see the men’s team has beat us to the forum, but since there’s still snow on the ground, I think we still have some time to get organized Last year the women of Barrie started the league’s first women’s touring team “Dice”.  We played a few warm-up tournaments in Toronto and Ottawa and then made a name for ourselves at Nationals in Toronto.  This year we’re really hoping to have a committed and competitive group of women from Barrie that can play together all season and hopefully make the trip out to Calgary for Nationals in August. 

We’re really excited about growing women’s ultimate in Barrie this summer so we’d like to get lots of women out to our practices, regardless of experience or ability.  Practices last year were a lot of fun and provided a great chance for improving fitness and skills.  We’ll post dates and locations of the Wednesday night practices in a few weeks, but for now, if you’r'e interested in practicing and/or touring, please email: womens.touring@barrieultimate.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Looking forward to getting the season started!

Sarah and Katie

This post is for all of the fellas in the league that are interested in stepping up their game into a more competitive level. For anyone who doesn’t know last year Barrie put a Mens team into Canadian Nationals and we placed 13th out of 20, losing to the team ranked 5th in Canada by only 3 points. It was an amazing experience playing at the national level and helped put Barrie on the map in the ultimate community. This brings us to the current year. As the snow starts to melt it is time to start thinking about braving the wind and heading back outside to play some real ultimate.

So for all the Men in the league, if you are interested in playing on Barrie’s Mens team (whether you have never played, just started or are a seasoned vet) then please e-mail me at kooch_rox@hotmail.com for more information.

 Seven Strong.

-Kooch