Winter League Registration + New Site

Well, it's time to say goodbye to Blogspot. The site as served us well the past few years, but we have grown as a community and it's time to move on. Thanks for the good times, Blogger.com. You will be missed...

To check out the new site (which features team pages of Birmingham's traveling teams, a separate league page for all of the important league info, a detailed map listing the playing fields and a brand new forum for all our trash talk, mvp discussions and spam) simply point your browser to www.mudbowl.org.

There is still a lot of work to be done, so be careful around all the wet paint. But hopefully it will be a better experience for us all.

ALSO, it is time to start Winter League! Registration is currently open, so get your credit cards ready because this year, if you don't pay at signup, you won't be registered.

link - Winter League Registration

Winter League Games Poll

Recently we have been discussing the possibility of moving our winter league games from Sunday afternoon to Thursday evening. Some have stated that this would be a more convenient time for them. Others have said that it may be too cold on Thursday nights in January. While still others have remained neutral and want to see the two opinionated parties have a fight to the death to determine the fate of us all.

In order to appease everyone, we've decided to do this democratically. If you feel strongly one way or the other, please vote in the poll in the right sidebar.

Actually, we're currently exploring all possibilities and other considerations (such as field availability) might affect when we play as well. However, please feel free to let your voice be heard.

The Final Countdown!

We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

It's the final countdown...
The final countdown!

Here are the brackets and schedule for the End of Summer Tourney. Get there on time! Bring water, sunscreen, and your A-game!

Results + More Games!!

Here are the current standings after last week's games. Everyone's got a win and at least a couple of losses. Also, we have scheduled another week of play for this Thursday. The updated schedule for 7.29 is below. See you on the fields.

7.15.10 Results

Iron Men Win HuckFest2010

This past weekend, the Birmingham Iron Men travelled to Huntsville for the 2010 HuckFest. They went 7-0 for the weekend. In the finals, they played Agent Orange from Tennessee with a final score of 15-13. It was a come from behind victory with some amazing D's from Wes Bullock and Justin Thigpen and some great deep shots to Brad Sparks. Everyone played extremely well.

Congrats Iron Men!

7.8.10 Results

7.1.10 Results

*UPDATED* 7.6.10

Blue-Tang Clan wins Mid-Summer Tourney

This past Saturday the Blue-Tang Clan rose from their relative obscurity of a 4-6 season to claim the title of Mid-Summer Champs.

Their day started in a pool with two teams that had previously defeated them, SPF-175 and Mean HO Green. Knowing that the only way to the bracket was to win every game, Blue-Tang took early leads in their pool play games but allowed each opponent to come back and reach universal game point. For three consecutive games they maintained their composure and finished off the opposition by the slimmest of margins.

In the semis, Blue-Tang faced Chilipeno for the first time this season. Being forewarned about the Oaks-to-Oaks connection, the blue team played aggressive defense and managed to win their first game of the day by more than one point.

The finals pitted them against Mike Murphy's Huckamole. By this time the sun was out and it was HOT. Both teams used their share of timeouts and tried their best to play smart, conservative Ultimate. Huckamole took an early lead and maintained it all the way to a 10-7 game point. However, Blue-Tang miraculously managed to get two breaks back and tie it at 10-10. Needing to win by two, the game went into overtime. After a little back and forth, Blue-Tang took their first lead of the game at 12-11. Then, thanks to a big D by Wes Bullock, the blue team marched it down the field decisively for the score; Blue-Tang Clan over Huckamole 13-11.

The most noteworthy performances of the day have to go to Blue-Tang's three women. They played a short rotation through 5 games in some of the hottest conditions Talladega has to offer.

Congrats Blue-Tang Clan.

6.17.10 Results

Only 1 undefeated team remains. Who's going to be the one to bring them down?

First Annual State Championships

This past Saturday four teams competed in the first annual state championships. Two Birmingham Teams, Montgomery and Huntsville duked it out for the gold medal. Huntsville took home the gold while the two Birmingham teams took the silver and bronze medals. Congrats to all who participated and kudos to the TD - Steve Millburg!!

The Silver Medal Crew

The Bronze Medal Crew

http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-sports/2010/06/birmingham_teams_win_ultimate.html

Week 3 Results

Directions to Gardendale Soccer Complex

From here on out, we will be using the Gardendale fields for those games previously scheduled at George Ward. See the directions below.


Directions to Gardendale Soccer Complex:
Take I-65 N from Birmingham
Take exit 271 for Fieldstown Rd
Turn left at Fieldstown Rd 2.7 miles
Turn right at Jew Hollow Rd
Arrive at Gardendale Soccer Complex

Google Maps

Week 2 Results

Above are the current standings after two weeks of play. Only three undefeated teams remain.

Did you see any outstanding plays last night? Were there any Callahans? Who deserves MVP nominations? Begin chatter now.

Updated Schedule

Due to the rain, our summer schedule had to get moved back a bit. Here is the updated schedule as of 6.2.10

UPDATE: new schedule as of 6.4.10. For the remainder of the summer, all George Ward games have been moved to Gardendale (directions to come soon). Also, Comer has been renamed to Lily Field. We are just trying to keep you on your toes.

Week 1 Results

Here are the current standings after a slightly belated week 1. Feel free to insert your post game analysis and weak excuses in the comments.

Summer Schedule

Above is the schedule for all the teams this summer. Cap'ns should be emailing their teams but just in case anyone needs a reminder, the schedule is here as well.

See you all out there tomorrow.

SUMMER LEAGUE IS GOOOOOOOOO!!!

Summer League Teams

The results of the draft are finally available! If your captains haven't contacted you yet or if you are just anxious to see the other chumps that you'll be facing up against, check out the complete summer league teams list.

The full schedule should be posted shortly. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this thought from Chris "I'm on a horse" Acree:

"Hello captains, look at your draft choices, now look at me, now back to your choices, now back to ME. Sadly, they are NOT me. Look down, back up, where are you? You're handling on the field, wishing your popper could pop like me. What's in your hand? Back at me, I have it, it's that sweet hammer you just threw. Look again, I'm in the endzone. Anything is possible when you draft someone like me. I'm on a horse."

Summer League Registration

Summer League Signup is Closed.

The Draft will be Tuesday Night at Zydeco. You do not have to be present to get drafted.

Captains be there by 5:30. All others who want to come see what team they are on can come by at 7:30. Full team rosters will be posted by Thursday.

First games will be May 20th.

Your captain will contact you via email by this weekend.

Summer League Logo Needed

From Steve via the BUDA email list:

"Design the BUDA Summer League shirts and discs--and win a fabulous prize!

We need a logo for both shirts and discs (one design or two related designs). Hundreds of people will be wearing your designer outfits (by which I mean "T-shirts"). You'll be famous(ish)!

If you win, you'll get to play Summer League for free. And maybe I'll bake some cookies for you or something.

Please submit your design(s) to Lea Anne Williams:
LeaAnne_Williams@timeinc.com

Deadline is April 26 (which will also be the beginning of Summer League signup).

I'm looking forward to having your very own design close to my heart."