As For The Green Cup 2011 - Au Revoir

Championship Monday at The 2011 Green Cup - 5-30-2011

Here’s what ESPN page 2 has to say: http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=6615647

Here’s what I have to say…

Santa Cruz, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland, Memphis… Montreal, Berlin.  Over 30 players and 15 open doubles teams.  Francois Depatie Pelletier and Luc Legault stand on top!  Yves Kriel is a Champion.  The Green Cup will spend a long cold winter in the hands of our enemies.  $#%* this!

I mean, it was a great weekend and I’m so thankful .

Chaos #3 and Jody Welch are the mixed doubles champions again.  It was a great mixed doubles final on Sunday night.  Thanks for the show Jeremy and Julie (the damn - it shoulda went 3 - silver metalists).

Chaos #4 and 2, John Leys and Jack Harris, defeated Yves Archambault and Yves Kriel for the bronze metal.

The weather was just about perfect for competition on Championship Monday and Jake Declercq set a new world record in the ‘OMG that was some friggin tasty tri-tip’ category!  Chaos set a new Green Cup record for beer quality - period (Lagunitas, Booze Brothers, and Dying Vines).

We hosted 3 super cool house parties starting out Friday night at PT’s with 8 different home brews on tab, followed on Saturday night with Jack’s Bachelor pad in the Berkeley Hills… hot tub, deck, fine tequila, yada yada, and finished with the after Championship Monday party at the Ley’s residence with food galor, more beer, more tequila, more noise… shhhhhhh the neighbors are trying to… whoopsie there goes the freestyle net player into the hot tub. 

Remi Kristensen and Alan Peterson played their fist competition in over 15 years.  It was great to see them back on the court.

Damn it! I don’t have freestyle results yet but that’s my own fault because Steve ran freestyle and he no doubt has all the details.  I’ll get them up here asap.

Wait, here they are - Complete Results on FW

Short and bitter sweet is the competition story from my perspective.  Perhaps I’ll be back with more on that.

On behalf of The Chaos Footbag Club I want to thank all the players who took the time and made the trek.  We also have a tremendous staff who, again, came together to make this year’s event a great success.  Thank You!  I will dare to note standout staff members at the risk of missing folks.

All our line judges on Monday
Brad - everything including my partner on the mic on Monday
Carine - not just for dealing with us, which is enough, but also for a great party Monday night, etc!
Chris Ott - site producer and head judge - always clutch with the banners and more!
David Butcher - making sure Edwin gathered some line judges on Monday and head judging much of the afternoon when not line judging
Dustin - on the tunes all day Monday - yes?
Edwin - gathering line judges Monday
Jake - everything including a ruinous performance on Saturday night and an outstanding job on the grill Monday
Jack Harris - shit… flatbed, Saturday party, countless other things
Jeremy - generator plus!
Jay - for showing us a little freestyle on Monday despite being overworked and underpaid
John - Director… too much to mention really.  Great job Johnny!  Ok, 1 of particular note - perfect timing on the little body check putting Yves K into the hot tub.
Josh DeClercg - where the hell are you man?
Katie - merchandise and food prep on Monday, cupcakes, smiles
The family Leys for making it out.
Leti - hostess, apron craftswoman, merchandise and food prep on Monnday, medals, and more
Lisa - what am I missing here?  damn it!
Me - for not playing Van Hagar
Pat Keehan - our bodywork man, our margarita man, and he’s also on general staff
PT - I don’t know how you pull us all together but you have a vision and it keeps on keepin on.  oh yeah, and plus all the actual work you did, and the Brew.
The family ShrickRiguez for making it out.
Steve Goldberg - for completely owning and driving the freestyle event.  Amazing!  We need to show freestyle some more love next year.
Tuan - housing czar, Sunday daytime event director, on and on
The Team

Did I miss anyone?  Hopefully I’ll remember or someone will remind me and I’ll correct.

See you next year at The Green Cup!

Chaos Results
Complete Results on FW (Including Freestyle)

6 Weeks To The Green Cup 2011

Gilles Demers and Francois Pelletier - Our Green Cup Guests of Honor for 2011

The Green Cup is back in San Francisco on Memorial Day weekend for 2011.  The preliminary rounds are in Oakland and most of the championship matches will be played on Monday, Memorial Day in Golden Gate Park’s Peacock Meadow just like in years past.  More details are coming so stay tuned.

You can also see ‘the green cup’ link for more details.

Dates: 5/28 - 5/30/2011

This year we are extremely pleased to have as our guests of honor - Gilles Demers and Fancois Pelletier of Montreal Quebec!

We’ll see you at The Green Cup in 6 weeks!

World Champions Again!

Florian Goetze and Patrick Schrickel - The Rock!

I’m too tired to write just now.  Doubles Championship Saturday lived up to the hype and more.  Patrick and Florian are Champions again and Gilles and Franky are perhaps the best silver medal team in Open Doubles history.

Chaos brings home a 3rd World Championship - PT and Jody in Mixed Doubles - and has 6 core players in the top 8 open teams finishing in 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th - more players than any other club :o.

What a great week!  Thanks to everyone who came out to support the event!  I can’t thank our net staff enough - everyone simply kicked ass all week!  Of course, it’s nothing without the players an Thanks So Much to all the those who took the time to travel all the way to Oakland from around the country and the world and thx to all the local players for hosting them.  You made it a fantastic week!

Check out the ‘WFC - Everything Net’ link above.  I updated it with photos of all the brackets in all nine categories.  I think we got em all.

Here’s a link to them and another album on picasa…

2010 World Footbag Championships: Net - All Brackets

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Complete Net Results - 2010 IFPA World Footbag Championships [click ‘read more...’ below]

Finnish It!

So Close! Florian and Patrick were so solid when it mattered most and that's why they're vying for their 4th The World Championship tonight!

Tuomas Karki is the man and Finland has their first World Championship!  Tuomas and Florian battled for nearly an hour and a half in the Open Singles Net Championship match last night and Tuomas had just a bit too much for Flo on this night.  I don’t remember the scores but I think the last game was 15-13.  It was the last match of the night and the previous two were tough acts to follow.  These guys did not disappoint.  Everybody that came to watch stayed til the sweet sweet Finnish - yes I’m gonna see how many times I can punnish this Finnish word play game .

Once again, time is tight so I’m gonna stop making ambitious promises for what I’ll post.  Suffice it to say - you’ll have a complete story with brackets and results soon.

The Gilles and Franky clinic was on last night and they’re going to the championship against… Florian and Patrick.  Gilles and Franky were on this Friday night and they’re looking to push the defending champions hard.  PT and Manu put on quite a show as only they can but it just wasn’t enough this time.

John Leys and Tuomas Karki were oh so close to the upset of the tournament so far.  Perhaps a bit closer than the 3rd game score which I believe was 15-12.  Chaos #4 and #0 took game 1 15-12 or 13 and this match was played at such a high level from both sides - yep… it’s one of those matches where neither team deserved to lose.  But one of em deserved to win for sure and The Rock - Florian Goetze and Patrick Schrickel.  They always seem to raise their level when they must so let’s see it one more time tonight!!  Florian and Patrick - The New Establishment VS Gilles and Franky - Montreal 3.0 for the title.

Don’t forget… we also have the great pleaure of witnessing Genevieve Bousquet and Jody Welch twice tonight as each of them are vying for 2 world championships.  They will face each other in Women’s Doubles and also in Mixed Doubles.  Also, on the card for this evening - PT Lovern - Chaos #3 - is looking for his first Mixed Doubles title to go along his Open Doubles World Championships from 2004 and 2008.  Lisa McDaniel and Julie Symons are competing against each other and both seeking their umpteenth Women’s Doubles championship.  Luc Legault is the only competitor on the court tonight who doesn’t have a World Championship but you better believe he has all the skills and motivation to change that.

It’s Doubles Net Championship Saturday at The 2010 World Footbag Championships!  We’ll see you tonight for the Grand Finnale!  $10 for a good cause - The IFPA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Results to this point…

*- to be determined today

Open Singles Net
1 Tuomas Kärki
2 Florian Goetze
3 Matti Pohjola
4 Kenny Shults
5 Gilles Demers
6 Yves Archambault
7 Jeremy Mirken
8 Christopher Siebert
9 François Pelletier
10 Alexis Deschenes
11 Luke Legault
12 Cory Current
13 Walt Houston
14 Philippe Lessard
15 Grischa Tellenbach
16 Jack Harris
17 Tuan Vu/Victor Lezama
18 Tuan Vu/Victor Lezama
19 Benjamin Alston
20 Dominic O’Brien
21 Sébastien Duchesne
22 Samuel Cloutier
23 Carlos Márquez
24 Edwin Veltman
25 Rob Adams
26 Tim Vozar
27 Chris Cleaver
28 Diego Chavez Diaz
29 Daniel Greer
30 Justin Sexton
31 Fletcher Funk
32 Alexander Smirnov
33 Greg Neumann
34 Oscar Loreto
35 Kevin Fura
36 Benjamin Kellman
37 Josh DeClercq
38 Jake DeClercq
39 Dan Baron
40 Olivier Berthiaume-Bergé

Open Doubles
1 Gille & Franky or Flo and Patrick*
2 Gille & Franky or Flo and Patrick*
3 John Leys / Tuomas Karki
4 PT Lovern / Emmanuel Bouchard
5 Jeremy Mirken / Jack Harris
6 Christopher Siebert / Kenny Shults
7 Eric Wulff / Luc Legault or Matti Pojhola/Janne Uusitalo*
8 Eric Wulff / Luc Legault or Matti Pojhola/Janne Uusitalo*
9 Jim Derricott / Steve Dusablon
10 Walt Houston / Benjamin Alston
11 Andrew Ronald / Alexander Smirnov
12 Cory Current / Scot Hansen
13 Tuan Vu / Alexis Deschenes
14 Yves Archambault / Dominic O’Brien
15 Grischa Tellenbach / Samuel Cloutier
16 Sébastien Duchesne / Philippe Lessard
17 Victor Lezama / Diego Chavez Diaz
18 Carlos Márquez / Oscar Loreto
19 Daniel Greer / Chris Cleaver
20 Edwin Veltman / Tim Vozar
21 Chris Young / Fletcher Funk
22 Jim Hankins / Greg Neumann
23 E.J. Gammage / Dan Baron
24 Justin Sexton / Olivier Berthiaume-Bergé
25 Josh DeClercq / Jake DeClercq
26 Rob Adams / Kevin Fura

Mixed Doubles
1 Jody Welch / PT Lovern v Genevieve Bousqet / Luc Legault*
2 Jody Welch / PT Lovern v Genevieve Bousqet / Luc Legault*
3 Becca English-Ross / Kenny Shults v Julie Symons / Alexis Deschenes*
4 Becca English-Ross / Kenny Shults v Julie Symons / Alexis Deschenes*
5 Lisa McDaniel / Janne Uusitalo
6 Florian Goetze / Kerstin Anhuth
7 Lisa Monti / Dominic O’Brien
8 Alexander Smirnov / Julia Tikhomirova
9 Steve Dusablon / Michelle Chen

Open Women’s Singles
1 Geneviève Bousquet
2 Julia Tikhomirova
3 Kerstin Anhuth
4 Darlene House

Open Women’s Doubles
1 Julie Symons / Jody Welch v Lisa McDaniel / Genevieve Bousquet*
2 Julie Symons / Jody Welch v Lisa McDaniel / Genevieve Bousquet*
3 Becca English-Ross / Tricia George
4 Julia tikhomirova / Darlene House
5 Lisa Monti / Kerstin Anhuth

Intermediate Singles (missing a couple final places here)
1 Jean-Francois Bélanger
2 Luka Weyler-Lavallée
3 Theodore Fritsch
4 Jack Lentz
5 Brett Milliken
6 Leiner Hevia
7 Robert Creel
8 Michelle Chen
9 Joey Vu

Intermediate Doubles Net (still compiling - missing some data here)
1 Jean-Francois Bélanger / Luka Weyler-Lavallée
2 Chris Hughes / Brett Armstrong
3 Theodore Fritsch / Leiner Hevia
4 Michelle Chen / Brett Milliken
5 Jack Lentz / Dillon George
6 Jasper Shults / Joey Vu
7 ??????
8 ??????
????? Robert Creel / Benjamin Benulis

Masters Singles
1 Tuan Vu
2 Rob Adams
3 Edwin Veltman
4 Tim Vozar
5 Dan Baron
6 Theodore Fritsch
7 Diego Chavez Diaz
8 Kevin Fura
9 Jim Hankins

Masters Doubles
1 Jim Derricott / Tuan Vu
2 Becca English-Ross / Steve Dusablon
3 Rob Adams / Dan Baron
4 Edwin Veltman / Tim Vozar
5 Diego Chavez Diaz / Theodore Fritsch
6 Tricia George / Lisa Monti
7 Jim Hankins / Kevin Fura

Reality Show!

A picture speaks a thousand words, eh?  Well, I don’t have one nor the time for a thousand words.  I know, you’re thankful for the latter no doubt.  Here’s the deal…

Open Doubles - check our seeding via WFC - Everything Net above - the top 8 are IN.  Figure the quarterfinals from that.  1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, 4 v 5 tonight at 6pm at the Oakland Convention Center at the Marriott City Center.

Open Singles - check our seeding via WFC - Everything Net above - the top 4 are IN.  We’ll have a Fin in the finals of the World Championships for the first time ever I believe and it’s long over due.  NICE!

I’ll try to get pics of the beautiful brackets Johnny has printed up and on the walls of the convention center uploaded to chaosfootbag today so anyone who wants can see the entire competitive progression.  Sorry, I’ve just been way to busy to get it up here before today.

Ok, it’s showtime - quarters thursday, semis friday, for the world championship on Saturday Night.  Doubles events anyway.  Does anything else really matter?

The 2010 World Footbag Championships

More than you’d ever need to know as a player or spectator is right here.  Errrr, or can be accessed via the links in ‘What’s Up’ above (see World Championships | WFC General Net Schedule | WFC - Everything Net).

Want to see your seed?  What pool are you in?  Who are you playing in your opening match?  It’s all there - for Sunday morning anyway.

Sunday, August 1st is Opening Day at the 31st running of The World Championships of Footbag.  At least 150 players representing 10 countries or more have arrived in Northern California and are prepared for 7 Days of competition which kicks off, sorry , Sunday morning at 9am with the first round of Open Singles Net.

What’s it all about?  If you don’t know footbag… well… it’s hard to describe in words.  Hmm, an amalgamation of martial arts and volleyball with your feet?  If you’re familiar with a sport called Takraw, it’s similar but played as doubles or singles instead of 3 per side, and the ball is much smaller.  Matches are generally the best of 3 games to 11 or 15.

Footbag?  Yes… footbag.  I know :(.

It can only best be described with visuals so embedded below is a highlight video from The Green Cup in 2008, a footbag tournament hosted by Team Chaos from the Bay Area.

All the Open players/teams are now seeded and the pools and brackets are drawn up.  We’ll try to update the status of the net competition here daily.  The ‘WFC - Everything Net’ link(s) should be useful and mostly up to date throughout the week.

Follow yourself or your favorite players, get event locations, match times, contact information, etc.

The featured matches happen on Thursday and Friday in the evening, and Saturday.