Chaos Coup - Shults, Mulder, Cote, Russians, Germans... Wedding Bells?

Randy Mulder Back In The Day! courtesy of world footbag magazine

Mulder and Shults are back!  Yes, you read correct… your eyes do not deceive you.  I think it’s kinda like footbag’s version of Rock & Roll’s ‘Zepplin @ the O2 Arena’ event earlier this winter.  They’re back for one performance… that we know of.  Will a tour follow?  Only time will tell.

Randy Mulder and Kenny Shults were one of the most dominating doubles net teams in the history of the great sport of footbag.  They revolutionized the game when they hit the scene as a team in 1992 and proceeded to win 4 World Championships in a row while not even relinquishing a set during that run and on route to 5 total.

It is our great honor and privilege to have them as our guests of honor at this year’s Green Cup!

We have been trying to reel in Kenny since we started honoring players 3 GCs ago but professional engagements kept Shults from our event… until now.  How’d we get him this year?  Well, aside from the professional engagement thing and the ‘maybe he has a life’ thing or whatever, Skeletor.

What?  Mulder?  We figured this guy was off the footbag radar.  But then he surfaced on the forum this past summer so we kept tabs on him, tapped his phone, etc.  You know what I’m talkin bout.  It was for our own safety man.  Yours too.  This guy is dangerous.

The Green Cup 2008

The Green Cup is always a work in progress but we’re starting to kick it into a higher gear now for the 2008 edition.  It will be a very special year for us.  More details are coming soon.  For now, mark May 24 thru the 26th on your 2008 calendar because if you are into footbag net you do not want to miss this event.

For The Green Cup

Doubles Championship Match From GC 2007 - Powered By YouTube

Many Thanks to Tuan Vu, Chaos #7, for working real hard to get this published asap!  Now, for you viewing pleasure… The Final Match

Going To The Show

Championship Monday At The Green Cup

Chris Siebert, Amy Wetberg, Jody Welch, PT Lovern, Yves Archambault, Luc Legault, Patrick Schrickel, Alexis Deschenes, John Leys, Eric Wulff, and Jack Harris are going to the show. 

The semi-finals for open doubles are set as are the championship matches for mixed doubles and open singles.  Matches began at high noon starting with open mixed doubles.

The schedule is posted here -> Schedule Of Matches - Championship Monday

There have not been many upsets in the higher ranks at the event so far with seeds 1, 2, 4, and 5 making it to the open doubles semis and the no. 1 and 2 in both mixed and open singles will face off in the finals.

Both singles semi-finals matches were ones to remember with Yves Archambault pulling out a 3 set victory over Alexis Deschenes.  This will be Yves first open singles final at The Green Cup.

John Leys outlasted Patrick Schrickel by taking control in the 3rd game.  Patrick was forced to withdraw with cramps in game 3 after falling behind 6-13.  John came back to win game two 15-12 after Patrick took game one 17-15.

Of course, there will be more to tell tomorrow and in the coming days.  For now know this… we’ll be relatively silent until the championship doubles match is posted to YouTube.  Check in right here for the links to that.  We’re committed to getting it up by Tue - 5/29 early morning Pacific Standard Time(UTC -8 hrs) but we hope to do so by midnight on Green Cup Monday - 5/28.

Pre-Registaration Closes Tonight

If you’re planning on competing at Green Cup 2007 please pre-register now.  It only takes a minute and you don’t need to pay until you Fri night or Saturday.  If you plan to play singles let us know by pre-registering so we can have the brackets ready by Saturday morning.

Top Ten Thins All Green Cup Players Must Know - #3

Players Will Officiate Pool Matches:
All open net matches will have a head official.  When we say all - we mean every match.  This includes the preliminary pool play which shall be judged by the players in other pools.  Our schedule will stagger pools for this reason.

Responsibilities of the Head Official:
a. make plane foul calls
b. when players are in disagreement over a call it is the job of the head official to make the final call
c. maintain the score - head officials will keep track of the score only in order to correct a player should he/she forget or mistake it.  head officials will not announce the score until semi-final matches. It is players job to announce the score until then.
d. return the Prokicker match footbag to the event staff after the match (see #3 below)

Responsibility of the Match Players:
a. keeping and calling the score (head official should overule when a correction is necessary)
b. making all line calls (head official overules in the event of a disagreement)