August Bank Holiday means only one thing. Copa. This year's great festival of Ultimate was perhaps the greatest ever. - More teams than ever - More pitches than ever - Bigger Copa tent - Tournament Wristbands - Liz beating Jelley for the Sumo championship - Random MC named Dr. S stealing the party - The Mask and Incredi-girl... oh yeah and incredi-dog - Live Music from The sWord - A 75Kg pig - Oscar painted all in gold standing on a platform to kick off 'A Night at the Oscars' - Text message scoring (should be at every tournament) - One sheet laminated captain's pack (likewise) - Semi naked ultimate by flood lights - Karaoke - Dj's till at least 4am every night. - Some partying ... er quite a lot of partying
Results were as follows 1 WhipScar 2 Discuits 3 Mohawks 4 FLANGE 5 Bigger Than You 6 Silverbacks 7 Sock Cookers 8 Pen15 9 Addicted to Love 10 BASIC 11 BOSH 12 Flyght Club North Side 13 Team Montage 14 Hullumni 15 Chump Around 16 Mag Severn 17 Boogie Knights 18 Randomly Flung 19 Premature Huckulation 20 Hucking Hell 21 Flyght Club South Side 22 DrugStore Cowboys 23 Flaming Ghalahs 24 PAF 25 Lords of the Ring 26 AWT 27 Too Many Pies 28 Mental Discs 29 Random Fling 30 Finger 6 31 Red 32 --Strange Blue-- Spirit went to Discuits Karaoke prize to Mark from Basic Fancy Dress Best Male - Adam from bigger than you - The Mask Best Female - Lauren from ? - Incredi-girl and Incredi-dog Best Team - Too Many Pies - The Oompa Lumpas Sumo Women's Tournament - Liz from Hullumni Men's Tornament - Jelley from Fling Champion of Champions contest won by Liz in a completely unrigged contest Quote of the weekend from an unnamed top 4 player, "Tom, you've saved my life this weekend, the tournament has been brilliant, and Top 8 ultimate was getting so boring" So there you have it top 8 players, why not let your train hard play hard hair down once in a while and live it up at the Copa. Copa will be back next year and may well be bigger still. August bank holiday weekend 2007. Put it in your diaries now. It was my first outdoor event as TD and was quite an education. It's not like any other tournament such is the mental and physical strain of organising all that fun. And though I feel like I work my a$s off, I know I barely scratched the surface and if it wasn't for the massive efforts to those listed below the Copa Cabana would be nothing like the tournament it was. So major thanks to the following people who made the whole thing possible. - Dene Sheppard - Food - Absolutely everything else - Steve Giguere - The Website, Booking the band, providing advice and assistance, building the pitches, DJing, Designing the Discs and T-shirts - Jim, Ester, Raj, Dave, Oscar, Vince, Timo, Luke, Kat, Hovis and the Copa Tent Crew - Russ for Wristbands - Tim for Shopping - Kate, Allison and Cat for their support - Dom for organising the Sumo - Andy, Cheryl - scoring and timescheduling - Dani and Grant for holding the HQ fort in my absence - Dan Smith Rowsey for all the movie gear and the awesome oscars night decorations and lights (I missed him off my list at the presentation) - Oscar for being painted gold. - CG for cleaning toilets all weekend...again. - ACDC Entertainment - The sWord - Fancy a Nibble Catering - The Nottingham Moderns Staff - All the Flyght Club people who helped set up and take down pitches and did far pitch duty, especially Phil the Daddy (Also missed off at the presentation) - Gordon and Christie for helping with the barbeque and curry and wristbands (Also missed off at the presentation) - Everyone who worked behind the bar in the Copa tent. - Felix for filming everything that moved If anyone has any good photos of the weekend then please email them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and they will be added to the tournament gallery on the copa website. Off to bed now, See you at nationals or indoors Tom Styles Copa TD, Flyght Club Chair, Voice of UK Ultimate PS. Keep and eye out for these tournaments coming to a sports hall in Nottingham some time this indoor season. 21st and 22nd Oct. Damme Herre Slamme Fairre - the UK's premier indoor mixed event 27th ans 28th Jan. Damme Slamme - UK's premier women's indoor event __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
