See You In Berlin!

The FC Footstar Club will host The 2009 WFC in Berlin, DE

It’s official.  A direct quote from Julie Symons on behalf of the IFPA Worlds Oversight Committee…

“The 2009 IFPA World Footbag Championships have been
awarded to the FC Footstar Club in Berlin, Germany.  The WOC has vote
unanimously to award the bid to Berlin.  It’s official.”

Current IFPA Footbag Net Rankings

Emmanuel Bouchard and Florian Goetze - For The Green Cup 2008

Flash!  World Rankings for all open players are now generally up to date and the UI is more user friendly.  There are a couple frames so column and row headers remain in view as you scroll up and down and the data is generally updated within a couple weeks of any major tournament submitting results.  Furthermore, links to this data will not change.

We’re confident the data is accurate but it’s surely not perfect.  When you find discrepancies please contact us and we’ll fix it asap.

It takes many volunteer hours to process and publish this data and we’re constantly working to improve the system for accuracy and efficiency.  Many thx to the Grischa Tellenbach and the entire IFPA statistician crew!

Now, for your enjoyment or torture, see how you measure up.  :D

Current World Rankings - Open Categories:
Doubles
Singles
Doubles Women
Singles Women
Mixed Doubles

Find a discrepancy?  Email ewulff at chaosfootbag dot com

Chaos Fall Open Sessions are Happening Now!

Alexis sets up Eric for the Roll

Who will be a future Green Cup Champion? Will this player be trained this fall? Chaos Footbag Club is officially in rebuilding mode! Come out this fall and learn the ways of the dark side from our club’s top players. We are hosting Open Saturdays at Lake Merritt and Thursdays at Bushrod(starting October). If you are interested in training contact us at practice@chaosfootbag.com.

Number Two For Number 3

PT Lovern, Chaos #3, and Emmanuel Bouchard are the World Champions

PT Lovern and Emmanuel Bouchard are the World Champions!

They won in straight sets over Gilles and JF (Montreal, Quebec) 15-5, 15-11.

Gilles Demers and JF Lemieux defeated 2 time defending World Champion Florian Goetze and Patrick Schrickel (Frankfurt, DE and San Lorenzo, CA, USA) in the semifinal 2 sets to 1 (6-15, 15-13, 15-8) to reach the final.

PT and Manu were a well oiled machine and JF and Gilles never really got into rythm in the Championship match.

In the other semifinal PT and Emmanuel defetead Matti Pojhola and Oskari Forsten in straight sets.

Oxana and Julia are the Womens’ Open Doubles Champions!

I’ll try to add to this later but that’s the news of the day so far.

Chaos!

Eleven!

The Open Singles World Champion for 2008 is Emmanuel Bouchard.  JF Lemieux put up a good fight, it was a great show, and Manu’s complete domination of Open Singles continues.  Emmanuel won the first game, which was close throughout, 15-12.  JF jumped out to a 9-4 lead in game 2 before Manu worked his way back and then took the lead 12-9.  The venue is small but it was packed and the crowd was, shall we say… very appreciative.  JF would not go easily and came back yet again to take the lead 14-12.  He had one shot at a game point and the crowd definitely wanted to see more, but he could not convert and Emmanuel closed it out 16-14.  It’s definitely one of the great singles finals of all time.

Matti Pojhola (Team Finland) is the bronze metalist over John Leys (Team Chaos) in straight sets.

Oxana Prikhodko, of Russia, is the Open Singles Women’s World Champion defeating Julia Tikhomirova, also from Russia, in straight sets.
Ok, off to the site for the Doubles matches.  I’ll be back

Quarterfinals For The Ages

All 4 quarterfinal singles matches were well played, having at least some drama, and were very entertaining.  On top of that, they were staggered just enough so the fans could move from the finish of one match to the final game of another catching the climactic final set of all if they so chose.

The Fins have another representative in the Semi’s!  Matti Pohjola, of Team Finland, defeated Florian Goetze, Team Deutschland, in a dramatic 3 set match (11-9 in the 3rd).

They had a glimpse at history too with Tuomas Karki taking Emmanuelle Bouchard to task in game 2 of their quarterfinal.  Tuomas was unable to convert on a game point in the 2nd set and ultimately fell in strights sets with the score 10-12 in the 2nd.

JF Lemieux, of Montreal Quebec defeated Andy Wolff, of Frankfurt Deutschland, in 3 sets.  All 3 games were dramatic and while JF took control in game 3 it was still closer than the score would indicat with JF prevailing 11-3.

Finally, John Leys, NYC USA and Chaos #4, was steady enough to close the book on Oskari Forsten’s Cinderella Story performance.  Oskari made a furious comeback in the 3rd set after being down 8-2 only to fall short as John tightened up his defense to close out at 11-9.

So, the story of the event so far is still the Finns I think!!

Singles Semis:
#1 seed Emmanuelle Bouchard of Montreal Quebec VS #3 seed John Leys, Chaos #4, of NYC USA
#8 Matti Pojhola of Finland VS #6 seed Jean Francios Lemieux of Montral Quebec

Doubles quarters was pretty much the opposite.  All matches went in straight sets with perhaps a little drama with Franky and Luc pushing the defending World Champions, Flo and Patrick Schrickel - Chaos #8, but Flo and Patti were able to come back after significant deficits in each of the first 2 sets to win the match in straight.

Gilles Demers and JF Lemieux were very much on top of their game and defeated John and Eric in straight sets.  I think it was disappointing for all to see Chaos #4, John Leys, revisit a calf injury early in game 1.  The chances for a good showing reduced significantly from that moment, and Gilles and JF took full advantage as they should continuing to play at the top of their game throughout.

Emmanuelle and PT, Chaos #3, dominated the Finnish Team of Tuomas and Jesse winning in straight sets.

Matti Pojhola and Oskari Forsten defeated the bronze metal team from last year, Jakko Inkennen and Jani Markkanen, in straight sets.

So - Doubles Semis
Matti and Oskari (Finland) VS PT and Manu
JF and Gilles of (Quebec) VS 2 time defending World Champions Patrick Chaos #8 Schrickel and Florian Goetze.  Patrick now resides USA and Florian, of course, is from Frankfurt, Germany