MIDSUMMER MADNESS

Bienvenu BUDA,

The MidSummer Tournament went out with a bang this year! Congrats to Grite for taking the cake, beating Mustachio Pistachio 13-9.

Grite fought through the ranks, beating Toxic Sushi in the quarters and Brian's Fire in the semis. Mustachio dominated the Red Rockets and Giang's Last Stand to land in the final game.

In the final matchup, Jimbo Tucker made a monumental layout D, landing in bounds by the very skin of his toenails. A huge layout-D response was brought by Ben Pendergrass of Mustachio to steal some momentum from Grite. In the end, Grite took the game and reserved a spot as Mid-Summer Champions. Mustachio Pistachio reserves a spot for BEST TEAM NAME EVER.

Thanks to all who volunteered to help out with the weekend. Shout outs to:

• Hoa for delivering the kegs to the fields!
• Steve Millburg for supplying cones and helping with setup/take-down
• Annie Mayhew for post-finals cleanup and lost-and-found management
• Jay Pigford for organizing and fronting the money for your Saturday eats
• Cory, Chris, Elizabeth, and Megan for waking up super early and helping set-up.
• Paul, Brad, and everyone else at the camper for getting super drunk and supplying entertainment to the worker-bees.
• Anonymous Pranksters for putting duct-tape on Cory's tires. I have a wonderful scrape on my knuckles which was well worth it for the opportunity to peel tar-covered tape from the tires on the side of the highway.
• Gwen for taking excellent pictures! View them HERE (You'll need a Snapfish account)
  

• EVERYONE in this organization for showing up, playing with spirit, and helping make this tournament a blast all around.
  

Note:

There are no games this Thursday due to July 4th weekend. Games commence next Thursday, July 10th.

Discs will be ready in 3 to 4 weeks.

Go to Sauce on the Side and look at my bombtastic t-shirts.


If you have other finals highlights you'd like mentioned in this post, you can email me at meroth3@gmail.com.

ULTIMATE!

Week 4 Standings and MVP's

After week 4, Team 1 is still rolling, even with the absence of their superstar, Gray Lloyd. On the other end of the spectrum, every team in the league has recorded at least one win. The Red Rockeeeeeeeeeeets made a jump from dead last by winning both games last week.

Mustachio Pistachio is making a run towards the top with two very convincing wins in Week 4. They are the first team this season to record 22 "Points For" in one week.

Write ups to come later.



Week 4 was apparently an off-week for several of the captains in the league. We had very few submissions for MVP of the week. The most convincing write-up was for the MVP selection for Week 4, Jennifer Bryson. She had to be marked by a man on the Black team to keep her out of the endzone. She was apparently displeased by this, but it did earn her MVP for Week 4.

Mid-Summer Tournament!!!!

Summer Leaguers:

Saturday, June 28th is the Mid-Summer Tournament.

• Games will be played in Talladega across the street from the Talladega Superspeedway.

• Games begin at 9:00 A.M. sharp!

• Captains meeting occurs at 8:30 A.M.

• There will be three pool-play games, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals.

• Beer and food will be provided in the afternoon, but bring plenty of water and snacks for the morning.

Let's all make a big effort not to leave trash on the sidelines as we move from field to field.

And may the best red team win!!! ;)

Jewelry at Summer League

Due to an unfortunate incident last night at open play, I am going to make it mandatory to remove all jewelry before playing Summer League games.

Last night, Chris Yearout suffered a nasty cut that lacerated some of his forearm muscle, required a trip to the hospital and eight stitches. The cut was thought to be caused by the ring of another player.

Please, to avoid future incidents, remove all your jewelry before games. Thank you for your understanding.

-CC

Summer League Week 4

Summer Leaguers,

Tomorrow night week four games commence! Your captains will have your shirts ready tomorrow night before games begin. Discs will arrive soon.


Teams: Don't forget to pick an MVP from your own team as well as one from each team you play tomorrow night. Captains should send your teams' votes to Cory at ccasella3@gmail.com. Don't tell him at Zydeco - he's not going to remember.


Play hard and have fun!!

Week 3 results and MVP Nominations

Below are the results from Week 3 play. Dennis and Jessica Vincent are still rolling towards that undefeated season... Will any team be able to stop the Spike to Gray combination?

On the low end, there are still two teams that are 0-6, including my own. Will they be able to break out of the funk?




As some of you may know, this week I asked each captains to submit 3 MVP nominations for the week: one from each team they played and one from their own team. Below is the list of names submitted for Week 3. Congratulations to David Hilgemann, this week's MVP. He had a ridiculous layout Callahan on universe point to win the game for his team against Jeff Elliot and Lilla's "David HasselHUCK."

Stay tuned for next week and come back to the blog for more write-ups from week 3!

Summer Tournaments

BUDA:

Dates have been set for our two tournaments.

Mid Summer : Saturday, June 28

End of Summer: August 2nd

Both tournaments will be held at the Talladega Superspeedway, across the street from the track.

Your captains will keep you apprised of the details as the dates near. Cheers!



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IN OTHER BUDA NEWS:

Summer Leaguer and many-year BUDA Ultimate veteran Lee Green and his wife invite everyone to the art opening at Naked Art taking place this weekend, Friday night and Saturday afternoon. Lee's wife, Delaine, will be presenting her personal show, "Retropolis," a collection of functional and funky modern artwork for which she has become well known in the Birmingham Community. Come out this weekend to enjoy Delaine's artwork, complimentary wine and food, and a thriving community of artists.

Friday night, June 13th, 5-9 pm
Saturday June 14, 1-6 pm

Naked Art Gallery
3612 Clairmont Ave.
(right next to Silvertron)

Week 2 Standings, (With colors)

Teams were sorted by number of wins, then by overall point differential for the season. If you would like to see my statistical model of the rest of the season, MIT will be publishing it in their July issue of "Stat Rat."

-CC

Week 2

All teams have picked colors and shirts should be in in two weeks, discs by mid-summer tournament.

Captains, don't forget to have your new players sign wavers!

Zydeco, after games tonight. $5.00 pitchers on all draft beer, food can be brought over from Roly Poly next door.


See you all on the field! :-D

Summer League 08 Schedule!