** UPDATE**
Due to xmas holidays affecting the sign up, the tournament has been postponed until early 2012. Keep in touch to catch the revised dates!
Hello all!
Cape Town Women’s Ultimate is happy to announce the first of what we hope will be many women’s hat tournaments!! The details will be set once we get a better idea of numbers, but we’re looking to combine skills training with a traditional hat tournament. Two to three skills clinics will be set up between/in parallel to hat games. We will be developping 20-30 minute skills clinics, the topics of which will be determined based on numbers.
When: Saturday, December 17th (that’s a long weekend!), from 10/11am to 4pm
Where: Wynberg Sports Club fields
See attached flyer [
Hat Tourney Invite ] for more information and some sweet pictures of awesome women dominating at Ultimate. Please circulate widely, bring friends and sign up using the link below!!
Sign-up sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArqEE6VWLqVvdFI5Q0JINWtkemJycGdqQWwydGhRWFE
The infamous Jozi Rocktober Ultimate tournament did a celebrity tour of Durban this year over the weekend of 15-16th October.
Ultimate teams from around the country descended into KwaZulu Natal with boardshorts and sandals packed, expecting the full brunt of a Durban spring. What they got instead was overcast and windy conditions with slight sprinkle of rain. This did nothing to prevent competitors from showcasing some great Ultimate at the Westville Old Boys club.
The Prawn Bunnies made us all very comfortable by organising awesome food, a Red Bull tent for shade and bean bags to have a nap on, and finally added the Red Bull truck and DJ as motivation to get out of the bean bags when the legs were complaining. The atmosphere was lively and the party on Saturday night good fun with a few hucking and macking contests revving up the crowd. Those that stayed to the end would have seen some impromptu kareoke by a certain Cape Town player.
Credit should go to team TnT from Durban and Jack Sparrow from Joburg who competed in their first tournament. The Ultimates showed great spirit and Dabique crossed international borders in the name of disc love. Prawn Bunny used their home field advantage to achieve a great result ahead of the ever challenging Joburg teams. The Cape Town rivalry team was fierce, each one hoping for a good crack at the reigning champs. UCT fought valiently in the semis narrowly missing out, and took out their frustrations on Chilli in the 3rd place playoff. The Long Donkeys showed why they were the defending champs and arrived at the final with annoying ease, using their atheticism to full effect. 1Up had a strong tournament with a good display of old school strategy and cool heads, reaching the final with confidence in spite of some interesting height mismatches and a gusty wind that favoured the Donkeys zone defence.
The final matched up two teams that were as yet unbeaten in the tournament and it could have gone either way. The Donkeys got off to a cracking start with some early break points putting 1Up on the back foot. 1Up finally settled down to give the Pietermaritzburg boys and girls more of a challenge and got stuck into narrowing the points difference. The score evened out and 1Up were gaining momentum when the Donkeys called a few time outs and adjusted their zone. With the time cap approaching 1Up needed to work quickly if they were going to take the win. The teams more or less traded points with the Donkeys leading until the time cap was called and the Long Donkeys took home the trophy for the second year running. Credit to both teams for putting on a good show for the spectators and huge thanks to the tourney organisers for all their efforts, we hope that next years tournament can live up to your standard.
Final Results:
- Long Donkeys (PMB)
- 1Up (CT)
- UCT (hmm… CT)
- Chilli (CT)
- Prawn Bunny (Dbn)
- Ult-Cntl-Del (Jhb)
- Northern Lights (Jhb)
- Dabique (Mozambique)
- Jack Sparrow (Jhb)
- The Ultimates (Polokwane)
- TnT (Dbn)
