As For The Green Cup 2011 - Au Revoir

Here’s what ESPN page 2 has to say: http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=6615647

Here’s what I have to say…

Santa Cruz, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland, Memphis… Montreal, Berlin.  Over 30 players and 15 open doubles teams.  Francois Depatie Pelletier and Luc Legault stand on top!  Yves Kriel is a Champion.  The Green Cup will spend a long cold winter in the hands of our enemies.  $#%* this!

I mean, it was a great weekend and I’m so thankful .

Chaos #3 and Jody Welch are the mixed doubles champions again.  It was a great mixed doubles final on Sunday night.  Thanks for the show Jeremy and Julie (the damn - it shoulda went 3 - silver metalists).

Chaos #4 and 2, John Leys and Jack Harris, defeated Yves Archambault and Yves Kriel for the bronze metal.

The weather was just about perfect for competition on Championship Monday and Jake Declercq set a new world record in the ‘OMG that was some friggin tasty tri-tip’ category!  Chaos set a new Green Cup record for beer quality - period (Lagunitas, Booze Brothers, and Dying Vines).

We hosted 3 super cool house parties starting out Friday night at PT’s with 8 different home brews on tab, followed on Saturday night with Jack’s Bachelor pad in the Berkeley Hills… hot tub, deck, fine tequila, yada yada, and finished with the after Championship Monday party at the Ley’s residence with food galor, more beer, more tequila, more noise… shhhhhhh the neighbors are trying to… whoopsie there goes the freestyle net player into the hot tub. 

Remi Kristensen and Alan Peterson played their fist competition in over 15 years.  It was great to see them back on the court.

Damn it! I don’t have freestyle results yet but that’s my own fault because Steve ran freestyle and he no doubt has all the details.  I’ll get them up here asap.

Wait, here they are - Complete Results on FW

Short and bitter sweet is the competition story from my perspective.  Perhaps I’ll be back with more on that.

On behalf of The Chaos Footbag Club I want to thank all the players who took the time and made the trek.  We also have a tremendous staff who, again, came together to make this year’s event a great success.  Thank You!  I will dare to note standout staff members at the risk of missing folks.

All our line judges on Monday
Brad - everything including my partner on the mic on Monday
Carine - not just for dealing with us, which is enough, but also for a great party Monday night, etc!
Chris Ott - site producer and head judge - always clutch with the banners and more!
David Butcher - making sure Edwin gathered some line judges on Monday and head judging much of the afternoon when not line judging
Dustin - on the tunes all day Monday - yes?
Edwin - gathering line judges Monday
Jake - everything including a ruinous performance on Saturday night and an outstanding job on the grill Monday
Jack Harris - shit… flatbed, Saturday party, countless other things
Jeremy - generator plus!
Jay - for showing us a little freestyle on Monday despite being overworked and underpaid
John - Director… too much to mention really.  Great job Johnny!  Ok, 1 of particular note - perfect timing on the little body check putting Yves K into the hot tub.
Josh DeClercg - where the hell are you man?
Katie - merchandise and food prep on Monday, cupcakes, smiles
The family Leys for making it out.
Leti - hostess, apron craftswoman, merchandise and food prep on Monnday, medals, and more
Lisa - what am I missing here?  damn it!
Me - for not playing Van Hagar
Pat Keehan - our bodywork man, our margarita man, and he’s also on general staff
PT - I don’t know how you pull us all together but you have a vision and it keeps on keepin on.  oh yeah, and plus all the actual work you did, and the Brew.
The family ShrickRiguez for making it out.
Steve Goldberg - for completely owning and driving the freestyle event.  Amazing!  We need to show freestyle some more love next year.
Tuan - housing czar, Sunday daytime event director, on and on
The Team

Did I miss anyone?  Hopefully I’ll remember or someone will remind me and I’ll correct.

See you next year at The Green Cup!

Chaos Results
Complete Results on FW (Including Freestyle)

The 2010 World Footbag Championships

More than you’d ever need to know as a player or spectator is right here.  Errrr, or can be accessed via the links in ‘What’s Up’ above (see World Championships | WFC General Net Schedule | WFC - Everything Net).

Want to see your seed?  What pool are you in?  Who are you playing in your opening match?  It’s all there - for Sunday morning anyway.

Sunday, August 1st is Opening Day at the 31st running of The World Championships of Footbag.  At least 150 players representing 10 countries or more have arrived in Northern California and are prepared for 7 Days of competition which kicks off, sorry , Sunday morning at 9am with the first round of Open Singles Net.

What’s it all about?  If you don’t know footbag… well… it’s hard to describe in words.  Hmm, an amalgamation of martial arts and volleyball with your feet?  If you’re familiar with a sport called Takraw, it’s similar but played as doubles or singles instead of 3 per side, and the ball is much smaller.  Matches are generally the best of 3 games to 11 or 15.

Footbag?  Yes… footbag.  I know :(.

It can only best be described with visuals so embedded below is a highlight video from The Green Cup in 2008, a footbag tournament hosted by Team Chaos from the Bay Area.

All the Open players/teams are now seeded and the pools and brackets are drawn up.  We’ll try to update the status of the net competition here daily.  The ‘WFC - Everything Net’ link(s) should be useful and mostly up to date throughout the week.

Follow yourself or your favorite players, get event locations, match times, contact information, etc.

The featured matches happen on Thursday and Friday in the evening, and Saturday.

The 2010 Green Cup Presented by Chaos - code name Tahoe

The Chaos Footbag Club is pleased to announce that the 2010 Green Cup Presented by Chaos will be held in beautiful South Lake Tahoe on July 24th and 25th, 2010.

This will, no doubt, be an epic Chaos event.

We elected these dates in order to provide a pre-Worlds tournament that will draw the World’s top talent.  Players will try to improve their world ranking heading into the World Championships, which begin the following weekend in Oakland, California

The location will show off some of the most scenic areas California has to offer; provide for some high altitude training; and allow you to relax and prepare for 2010’s biggest event.

Google Map with all event-related locations (Meet at the “BIG HOUSE” Friday night unless instructed otherwise.  For driving directions click on the BIG HOUSE link in the Google Map):
Green Cup 2010—Lake Tahoe Map

Pre-registration is now live, please register today:
http://www.footbag.org/registration/register?tid=1268445253

The event listing at footbag.org is at:
http://www.footbag.org/events/show/1268445253

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For The Green Cup - 1a

Chaos #3 (PT Lovern) and Emmanuel Bouchard (Oakland, CA and Montreal, QE respectively) VS JF Lemiux and Benjamin Rochon (both from Montreal, QE) in the Open Doubles Championship Match at The Green Cup presented by Chaos Footbag, 2009 edition.

For The Green Cup - 1b

Chaos #3 (PT Lovern) and Emmanuel Bouchard (Oakland, CA and Montreal, QE respectively) VS JF Lemiux and Benjamin Rochon (both from Montreal, QE) in the Open Doubles Championship Match at The Green Cup presented by Chaos Footbag, 2009 edition.

Post Green Cup Blues

It was quite a weekend and now another epic Green Cup is history.  Some quick results.  I hope to post more about the weekend later.

Emmanuel and PT Lovern (Choas #3) took game one of the Green Cup final 15-12.  JF Lemieux and Ben Rochon took game 2 15-12.  At 3-0 (JF and Ben) in game 3 and after using up all their time-outs PT Lovern and Emmanuel had to scratch out due Emmanuel’s cramps.  It’s really too bad because the players were putting on a defensive clinic and the match was on it’s way to meeting expectations set by last years final.

Alexis Deschenes/Francios Pelletier won the bronze over Yves Archambault and Luc Legault in straight sets.

The highlights of finals day was the semi-final between Lus/Yves and Emmanuel/PT which went the distance with many epic exchanges.

The Singles championship is JF Lemieux’s over Greg Lima in straight sets.  The mixed title goes to PT Lovern/Jody Welch over JF Lemieux/Lisa Monti Vu in straight sets.