nick@presby.UUCP (08/02/83)
What-It-Is Ultimate Captain's,
If you don't know me already, I'm your Regional Coordinator.
How's the Ultimate in your area this summer? Go to any big tour-
naments? I had a great time playing Martian Ultimate with my
team the Crusaders in the 6th Annual Mars Ultimate Classic over
4th of July weekend in Mars, PA. To get a feel for what went
down this Spring and Summer I've enclosed the results of all the
major tournaments. If you have any corrections and/or additions
to this list, please send them to me. Thanks!
Are you all ready for the National Ultimate Series this Fall!
The only bid in so far for Nationals is New Orleans. Remember,
if your team wants to compete in the Regionals this fall, you
need to have 50% U.P.A. members on your team. On that note, I've
enclosed U.P.A. membership/renewal forms. Note the change of ad-
dress to our new U.P.A. Treasurer, Carney Foy.
It's that time of year again for the Mid-Atlantic Ultimate
Captain's Meeting. It will be held like last year in Washington,
DC. at the Washington Monument Saturday September 3rd. I would
like to start around 2:00 P.M., that should give everyone enough
time to get there. I've enclosed an agenda of the meeting and a
map to help you get there if your coming to Washington for the
first time.
If you've never been to a captain's meeting before, most or
all of the fall tournament scheduling goes down. Team's announce
their home tournaments and other team's sign up. The Sectionals
and Regionals sights are voted on also. People complain about
rules and then everyone plays a little pick-up Ultimate. It's a
lot of fun! Most people stay the night and go to the Smithsonion
Air & Space Museum's Frisbee clinic that attracts some of the
best individual frisbee players around. I have been asked to run
an Ultimate clinic at the Smithsonion this year. If you are
staying Sunday and would like to help, see me at the captain's
meeting and I can get you a job at the Smithsonion. I highly
recommend staying for the weekend. There should be places for
you to stay Saturday night or you can camp out near Washington.
Brian Murphy, our new National Director, signed a contract
this summer between Seagram Distillers Company, importer of Crown
Royal, and the Ultimate Players Association (UPA) for sponsorship
of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Ultimate Frisbee Championships.
For our region this includes sponsorship of four or five Ultimate
clinics, all four Sectional Championships and the Regional Cham-
pionships. I'll be explaining the details of the sponsorship at
the captain's meeting.
College's, we're trying to put together a College National
Championship Series for the Spring of 1984. Andy Bornstein will
present a plan at the captain's meeting. This will have to be
planned well in advance to get major sponsorship and TV coverage.
Seagram's has already shown an interest in sponsoring it! We
need to know how may college's will be interested.
How would you like the New York City area Ultimate teams to
compete in the Mid-Atlantic Region? This would probably include
Kaboom, Heifers and a new team, Crimes of Passion. Andy Born-
stein will make a presentation at the captain's meeting on how he
would like to see the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions rear-
range. I plan to have a preliminary vote on the subject there to
get a feel for what people think of the idea.
How did you like playing under the new 8th Edition Rules this
Spring and Summer? Did you read the article in the last UPA
Newsletter on Points versus Time? Would you support their amend-
ment to switch to only point in the Rules? I would like to hear
your comments at the captain's meeting. We will have a general
discussion of the Rules and a preliminary vote on points versus
time.
I've started a disc newsgroup called 'net.rec.disc' on the
USENET computer network. Most of the major university's have the
network on their campus at their computer centers. I've put to-
gether a list of all the university's on the network with a per-
son to contact to help you send electronic mail messages
throughout the country. You can read or post disc news articles
with USENET. We should use it to announce tournaments and
results, ask for team information, and general Ultimate news.
Hope to see you at the captain's meeting and remember, when a
ball dreams it dreams of being a disc!
Saint Nicholas Puschak
Mid-Atlantic Regional Coordinator
Drexel University
Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.
32nd & Chestnut Sts.
Philadelphia, PA. 19104
Day: (215) 662-8730 or 8731
(215) 895-2935 or 2223
Night: (215) 763-7047 or 387-9435
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