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South American Killers -- SURA 2009

Here, finally, is some video footage of SURA 2009 in Bogota, Colombia.

The future of footbag net is in South America!
I encourage everyone to think about attending SURA 2010 in Caracas, Venezuela.  Venezuela is home to some of the world’s finest beaches and coral reefs, as well as the world’s tallest waterfall.  Venezuela would like to remind you that they win a disproportionate number of beauty pageants, too.  Early December, warm and dry, is an ideal time of year to visit…

Chaos Approved
In 2007 PT, Eric and Patti attended the 1st South American Footbag Championships in Medellin, Colombia.  Their mission: To develop a relationship with the growing footbag net scene in South America.  They provided coaching and participated in various exhibitions to promote the sport, but did not compete because of the wide disparity in skill levels.

In 2008, Jack and Jeremy of Chaos joined Yves Archambault of Pro-Kicker to continue that mission in San Cristobal, Venezuela.  This time, perhaps prematurely, the norteamericanos entered the tournament.  The energy and style of the South American players was easy to appreciate, however, there was too much focus on offense--with plenty of injuries and fouls--and not enough on basics and defense.  That said, a few of the players could legitimately have competed internationally at the open level.

This past December, Jeremy and Jack returned for the 3rd South American Footbag Championships in Bogota, Colombia.  Things have changed.  Several of the South American players are now clearly ready for international competition (you will get to meet a few of them at the 31st IFPA World Championships in Oakland), however, most of these guys are quite young, and though their fortunes may rise with Venezuela’s and Colombia’s, for now it is prohibitively expensive for them to travel abroad.  In the short term, the goal is to get enough North American and European players to attend next year’s tournament to raise SURA 2010 to level 3.  Think about it…

2010 Worlds is coming to Oaktown August 1st-7th!

Chris Ott put it all together.  Chaos will be driving the net competition!  More details to come soon. See you here!

31st IFPA WORLD FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS
August 1-7, 2010
Oakland, California, USA
Contact: Chris Ott, chris@footbag.org, 707 576-8145
(Prize money event)

Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, California 94607 USA

Full details Here

Black Monday: Phoenix 2010

Chaos Domination Tour

Chaos #25 and his loot from the fiery Phoenix

Once again Amy hosted a great net event in Arizona (Thanks Amy!).  The field was small but deep, with players from Memphis, Oakland, San Francisco and Portland.  While the rest of the country was deluged with rain and snow, a patch of sun opened up over Phoenix for the season’s first throw-down.

Sunday was an exhausting day of doubles competition: Pools, Quarters and Semis.  The first semi-final was a re-match of last year’s finalists.  This time Chaos prevailed over Chaos/NPR in 2 sets.  The second semi-final was a Chaos vs. Memphis matchup.  Memphis surprised everyone, dragging Chaos’ finest into a 3rd set.  As the sun set over the arid desert, PT and Eric pulled down their blast shields and forced their way to victory.

Thus the doubles final was a repeat of last week’s tourney in Oakland:  Jeremy Mirken and Jack Harris vs. PT Lovern and Eric Wulff.  In a shocking coincidence, all four players showed up Monday wearing the same outfit, a variation on the ‘little black cocktail dress’.  PT and Eric pulled to an early lead in the first game, but Jack and Jeremy fought their way back, ultimately defeating the #1 seed in 2 sets.

In singles Chris Siebert and Jeremy Mirken battled it out in 3 sets.  Jeremy took the first set, but Chris dug in and ultimately prevailed.  Grueling, brutal, exhausting.  Need I say more?  Chaos is pushing for rally scoring (no side-outs) for singles only at tournaments.  Think about it.

Doubles Results:
Jack Harris / Jeremy Mirken
PT Lovern / Eric Wulff
Chris Siebert / Tuan Vu
Walt Houston / Ben Alston

Singles Results:
Chris Siebert
Jeremy Mirken
Walt Houston
Jack Harris

For complete results, check footbag.org.

Other Highlights:
Walt and Ben are on the verge of cracking the top ranks.  In pool play they took Jeremy and Jack to 3 sets, then repeated that feat in their semi-final against PT and Eric.

Sucky Brad has arrived on the singles scene (look out ladies!).  Mr. Williams pulled an upset in his pool, and later defeated Ben Alston in the first consolation round.  Max points were once again awarded to our very own boy toy.

Despite all the hype, their was no nipple exchange between Walt and Jeremy.  Jeremy was rebuffed on a technicality, and the Suckremony’s MC Sucky Brad was left holding the mic.

2010 January Chaos Indoor Tourney results are in!

Had some fun!

Chaos had a one day bracket for singles and doubles on January 9th. All games were rally scoring to 21, the losers bracket games were two out of three to 15 rally scoring. We “had some fun” here are the full results:

Doubles Net:
1. Jeremy/Jack
2. Eric/PT
3. Patti/Tuan
4. Chris Young/Fletcher Funk
5. Jake/ Josh Declercq
6. Brad/Dirk

Singles
1. Patti
2. PT
3. Jack
3. Jer
5. Brad
6. Chris Young
7. Jake
8. Josh

Schedule:

10:00 Singles Bracket to Finals
1:00 Doubles Bracket to Semis
4:00 Doubles Semis
5:00 Doubles Finals
6:00 Singles Final
7:30 Player Dinner TBA
Entry: $10 All events

Location: Tassafaronga Recreation Center 975 85th Avenue Oakland, CA 94621-1637

Contact: PT at ptlovern@chaosfootbag.com

Chaos Represents at South American Championships 2009

South American Championships 2009

For the third straight year North America’s finest footbag net ambassadors, the Chaos Footbag Club, represented at this year’s South American Footbag Championships 2009 in Bogota, Colombia. This year’s ambassadors were the Delegation of Destruction’s disciples #2 and #25 (a.k.a. Jack Harris and Jeremy Mirken). As expected, Chaos members made the finals of both the singles and doubles events, however, we were greeted with a rude awakening . . . . Read on to experience SURA 2009 through the eyes of Chaos #25! 

Patrick & Florian - World Champions Once Again!

Photo taken from Boston Globe

The first live streaming world footbag championships final was mostly successful.  It was taken off the air for 2nd half of game 2 and 1st half of game 3.  Reason?  Unknown to me.  Still, I got to watch it live on my big screen.

It was not a classic like their first meeting last summer but a pretty damn good match.  A descent come back in game 3, after being down 6-9, lent itself to some drama for the home crowd.

Flo and Patti have their 3rd World Championship in 4 years!!!!  They won 2 games to 1 over PT and Manu.

Congratulations to both teams and thx for the show!!!