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Turnier für den Deutschen

Chaos officially welcomed Berlin’s Patrick Schrickel to town this past weekend by hosting a mini tournament in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA. Patrick arrived from Berlin, Germany last week and will be training with team Chaos until late February. Patrick teamed with Chaos #4 - John Leys, and they finished in 2nd place at the event. Afterwards, Patti had this to say…

“Ich hatte wirklich viel Spass. Aus einem bestimmten Grund konnte ich heute aber mein maximales Leistungspensum nicht abrufen. Es ist naemlich so, die Bears haben morgen ein wichtiges Spiel. Die Bears brauchen meine menthale Unterstuetzung, sozusagen als zwoelften Mann und das ist das einzige an was ich denken kann. Mein heutiges Footbag-Spiel hat im Vergleich dazu einen wesentlich geringeren Stellenwert. Das kann ja wohl jeder nachvollziehen, oder? Auf geht’s, Bears!”

Translation - ‘Da BEARs!’.

Needless to say, he’s staying with El Presidente, Chaos #3 - PT Lovern, whilst in the US.

- results -

In other noteworthy happenings, there is no off-season for Chaos.  Check out our events page - we have an open indoor kick two nights per week over the winter months, another German may be paying us a visit this winter, and plans for the latest installment of “The Green Cup” - presented by Chaos, are shaping up nicely.  Furthermore, rumors are circulating that Chaos may be road trippin for the NPR bounty in January.  Perhaps NPR will return the favor - a little Chaos home cookin in late February when we host our second German quest of the winter season? 

Stay tuned.

Oakland To Offer Footbag As A Community Program

The Chaos Footbag Club is excited to announce that the City of Oakland is going to offer footbag as a community program!  We have located a gymnasium for weekday nights in Oakland and practices are scheduled for TUESDAY AND THURSDAY from 6:00-8:30 pm!

The first month is likely FREE and there will be just a $25 fee per person - per month there after.  Very Reasonable!

The center has THREE courts, we will have two reserved for footbag net and one reserved for Takraw.

Interested Players can write PT directly at ptlovern@chaosfootbag.com or go to the evite directly to register.

We love Oaktown!

evite: http://www.evite.com/practice@chaosfootbag.com/bushrod

Bushrod Recreation Center: http://www.oaklandnet.com/parks/facilities/rc_bushrod.asp
560 59th Street - Oakland, CA 94609
Phone (510) 597-5031, Fax (510) 597-5008

Jousting On The Forum

Chaos VS NPR?  Europe VS USA?  Two parts trash talk and one part philosophy - A few net enthusiasts representing NPR, Chaos, and other net hotbeds from Canada to Russia debate the merits of breaking the plane.  Check it out on the forum at fw (portal to a world that revolves around footbag).

What do you think?  Is breaking the plane good or bad for the game?

Also, why didn’t Wulffy just continue this ridiculous debate by posting on the original thread?  What a jerk!  Perhaps he’s just afraid of exposing himself via those pics Bob got documenting his queen-ness.

Deutschland - No Kidding!

(final report from the 2005 WFC)

World Championship Results - Complete and Final

Apologies for a very late final report.  I was unable to access the Internet before my worlds trip came to a close and then I was on vacation and off the grid for awhile.  Anyway, the nitty gritty…

Chaos had 6 players represented on 4 doubles teams, all advancing from the preliminary round, and 2 of our 4 entrants in the open singles event also advanced from pool play to bracket.  Of those who advanced from prelims, our teams finished in 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 13th place out of 31 total teams, and the singles players finished in 2nd and 16th place in the 48 player field.  Check the link above for complete World Championship results.

Of course, we’re covering freestyle highlights here too and the highlight of highlights for USA/Chaos is that Carol Wedemeyer, Chaos 5.1 beta, won her 7th Women’s Singles Championship in a row and in dramatic fashion.

Semi Sweet USA

(report #2 from the 2005 WFC)

Singles Net:
John Leys cruised into the semifinals of open singles net on Wednesday while Eric Wulff was unable to upset his way into the top 8.

Round two began with Eric scoring an 11–9, 11–2 victory over Vince Bradley.  Next up was Andreas Wolff, this year's European Overall Champion, the winner going to the quarter finals.  Eric fell behind early before coming back from a 10–4 deficit in game one, finally succumbing 12–10.  The second game was less dramatic with Andreas maintaining control to advance with an 11–6 triumph.

Chaos - All In

(report #1 from the 2005 WFC)

After two days of competition in Helsinki, Finland, host city of the 2005 World Footbag Championships, preliminary rounds are complete and all entrants from Team Chaos advanced. Furthermore, each Chaos competitor held seed or moved up in the brackets.