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)