What's Beijing Got On Us?

Allot more people, allot more money, allot more fireworks, kites, athletes… you name it.  But they ain’t go no footbag yo!  The 2008 World Footbag Championships in Praha, Czech Republic Opening Day in 3!  If you care, check here for updates, assuming we actually do have internet access from our flat as promised.

There is a net seeding discussion on the footbag forum and the seeding committee will post final seeding for at least Monday’s events here on Sunday night.

Seeding Discussion - Net - World Footbag Championships 2008

Let the debate begin.  Check out the forum at footbag.org for a discussion on seeding at this year’s World Championships.

http://www.footbag.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=38483#38483

From Air Jer to Air Jere in 1 weekend

Chaos#25, formerly known as ‘Air Jer’ invaded Finland this weekend and made his way to the open singles semifinals (where we won’t mention that he got his ass handed to him by Matti Pohjola).

Initially seeded 10th of 24 players, Jer won his pool by squeaking out a victory over his doubles partner Timo Vorne and beating two other players. #25 went on to win two more matches before losing to the number 1 and 3 seeds. With his impressive performance, the Finns have agreed to bestow upon him his finnish name, Jere Mirkennen. In other news, Air Jere was dubbed a “Super American” by Sasha Smirnov, with at least a 1.5 multiplier of awesomeness over the typical American. In doubles, Chaos #25 and his partner, Timo, were unable to capitalize on several match points and ultimately lost in the quarterfinals, securing 5th place in consolation.

Final impressions: the Finns are pretty good English speakers, they make funny English wise-cracks, and they know how to run a fun event. Mixed doubles and open doubles were run entirely on Saturday, and open singles was run on Sunday. No events started earlier than 11AM on either day, which was great considering the amount of alcoholic fluid imbibed by players during the prior evenings. Matti Pohjola got to the finals of all 3 events at his own tournament and won 2 of them. Jani Markannen is an excellent singles player and can definitely give Manu a run for his money in Prague this year. And yes, Oskari Forsten can his a fast roll-spike, as well as 20 other types of spikes. Helsinki and Turku were awesome places to visit. I hope I will be able to return next Summer.

Block Party!

Serving 14-14 in the third game of the final of the 20th aniversary of the Montreal Footbag Championships, in the pouring rain we got the block we needed. This was a game to remember!
Germans you are next! 

Montreal Results

Per the Mirk! - aka Chaos #25

Go Chaos! Super exciting doubles final in the rain, chaos wins in 3 games, 16-14.

Filet:
1) Manu w PT
2) Gilles w JF
3) Bob w John
4) Martin C w Patrick A
5) Jeremy w Yves
6) Seb Perron w Renaud
7) Sam C w Tuan
8) Frank w Luc
(15 or so teams)

Simple:
1) manu
2) John (scratch w respect to Manu who slightly tweaked knee)
3) Cote
4) Luc
5) Cory
6) Yves
7) Tuan
8) Bob
9) Jeremy
10) Cloutier

The Dilio From Montreal

Pretty Boy 4 reports…

Semis are set:
Manu vs Martin
Johnny vs Luc (beat JF in 3)
Manu/PT vs Pat/Martin (beat Frank and Luc in 3)
Johnny/Bob vs Gilles/JF

thx Johnny!

btw - dilio