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Black Monday: Phoenix 2010

Chaos Domination Tour

Chaos #25 and his loot from the fiery Phoenix

Once again Amy hosted a great net event in Arizona (Thanks Amy!).  The field was small but deep, with players from Memphis, Oakland, San Francisco and Portland.  While the rest of the country was deluged with rain and snow, a patch of sun opened up over Phoenix for the season’s first throw-down.

Sunday was an exhausting day of doubles competition: Pools, Quarters and Semis.  The first semi-final was a re-match of last year’s finalists.  This time Chaos prevailed over Chaos/NPR in 2 sets.  The second semi-final was a Chaos vs. Memphis matchup.  Memphis surprised everyone, dragging Chaos’ finest into a 3rd set.  As the sun set over the arid desert, PT and Eric pulled down their blast shields and forced their way to victory.

Thus the doubles final was a repeat of last week’s tourney in Oakland:  Jeremy Mirken and Jack Harris vs. PT Lovern and Eric Wulff.  In a shocking coincidence, all four players showed up Monday wearing the same outfit, a variation on the ‘little black cocktail dress’.  PT and Eric pulled to an early lead in the first game, but Jack and Jeremy fought their way back, ultimately defeating the #1 seed in 2 sets.

In singles Chris Siebert and Jeremy Mirken battled it out in 3 sets.  Jeremy took the first set, but Chris dug in and ultimately prevailed.  Grueling, brutal, exhausting.  Need I say more?  Chaos is pushing for rally scoring (no side-outs) for singles only at tournaments.  Think about it.

Doubles Results:
Jack Harris / Jeremy Mirken
PT Lovern / Eric Wulff
Chris Siebert / Tuan Vu
Walt Houston / Ben Alston

Singles Results:
Chris Siebert
Jeremy Mirken
Walt Houston
Jack Harris

For complete results, check footbag.org.

Other Highlights:
Walt and Ben are on the verge of cracking the top ranks.  In pool play they took Jeremy and Jack to 3 sets, then repeated that feat in their semi-final against PT and Eric.

Sucky Brad has arrived on the singles scene (look out ladies!).  Mr. Williams pulled an upset in his pool, and later defeated Ben Alston in the first consolation round.  Max points were once again awarded to our very own boy toy.

Despite all the hype, their was no nipple exchange between Walt and Jeremy.  Jeremy was rebuffed on a technicality, and the Suckremony’s MC Sucky Brad was left holding the mic.

2010 January Chaos Indoor Tourney results are in!

Had some fun!

Chaos had a one day bracket for singles and doubles on January 9th. All games were rally scoring to 21, the losers bracket games were two out of three to 15 rally scoring. We “had some fun” here are the full results:

Doubles Net:
1. Jeremy/Jack
2. Eric/PT
3. Patti/Tuan
4. Chris Young/Fletcher Funk
5. Jake/ Josh Declercq
6. Brad/Dirk

Singles
1. Patti
2. PT
3. Jack
3. Jer
5. Brad
6. Chris Young
7. Jake
8. Josh

Schedule:

10:00 Singles Bracket to Finals
1:00 Doubles Bracket to Semis
4:00 Doubles Semis
5:00 Doubles Finals
6:00 Singles Final
7:30 Player Dinner TBA
Entry: $10 All events

Location: Tassafaronga Recreation Center 975 85th Avenue Oakland, CA 94621-1637

Contact: PT at ptlovern@chaosfootbag.com

Chaos Represents at South American Championships 2009

South American Championships 2009

For the third straight year North America’s finest footbag net ambassadors, the Chaos Footbag Club, represented at this year’s South American Footbag Championships 2009 in Bogota, Colombia. This year’s ambassadors were the Delegation of Destruction’s disciples #2 and #25 (a.k.a. Jack Harris and Jeremy Mirken). As expected, Chaos members made the finals of both the singles and doubles events, however, we were greeted with a rude awakening . . . . Read on to experience SURA 2009 through the eyes of Chaos #25! 

Patrick & Florian - World Champions Once Again!

Photo taken from Boston Globe

The first live streaming world footbag championships final was mostly successful.  It was taken off the air for 2nd half of game 2 and 1st half of game 3.  Reason?  Unknown to me.  Still, I got to watch it live on my big screen.

It was not a classic like their first meeting last summer but a pretty damn good match.  A descent come back in game 3, after being down 6-9, lent itself to some drama for the home crowd.

Flo and Patti have their 3rd World Championship in 4 years!!!!  They won 2 games to 1 over PT and Manu.

Congratulations to both teams and thx for the show!!!

Chaos at Finals of The World Championships - Streaming Live

World Championships streaming live!  PT, Manu VS Patti and Flo - 10am start time.  I’m watchin em warm up right now.

Later this morning, about 10am, Chaos #3, PT Lovern - Oakland, CA, and his partner Emmanuel Bouchard - Montreal Quebec, will meet Florian Goetze, Frankfurt DE, and his partner Patrick Schrickel, Chaos #8, in the Championships Match for the Open Doubles title.

These two teams met at the finals of the 2008 Green Cup and it was an epic match going the distance and more with Florian and Patrick taking the title.  Many folks have been eagerly anticipating a rematch, not least of all of all these 4 guys.  Today we will have it and in the most dramatic of settings.  Flo and Patrick are from Germany - Flo from Frankfurt and Patti from Berlin.  Patrick moved to the US 2 years ago and is a member of Team Chaos now.  So, they are looking for their 2nd 3rd World Championship overall and second on German soil.

Emmanuel and PT are looking to defend their World Championship and this is the team they want to challenge for it.

The Battle in Berlin!

The match up everyone has been waiting for is tomorrow! PT and Manu will battle Patti and Flo at 6 pm German standard time! Which is 9 am saturday morning!

You can watch it live here at this link!

LIVE STREAM

This match has been a long time coming as PT and Manu lost in 06 in the semis in Frankfurt then Patti and Flo lost in 09 in the semis in Prague and the other team won the title. The race for the 3rd Open Doubles title is on for PT, Patti and Flo. Manu of course will be going for his 7th Open Doubles title and his 12 consectutive Open singles.