tied for 9th Mark Regalbutti/Randy Wylot Tom Lasher/ Jay Mouldenhauer Fernando Direito/Scott Sailor Cindy Kruger/Jeff Kruger

tied for 13th Mary Jorgenson/ Steve Hayes Randy Lahm/ Peter Albers Evan Henemann/Chris Filer Mark Horn/ Christoper Horn

tied for 17th Scott Stokely/ Dan Roddick Snapper Pierson/Conrad Damon Jennifer Griffin/ Blair Paulsen

tied for 20th Sunny Cade/Johnny Lighthizer Beth Verish/Susie Horn

spencer bradley

Womens:

1. Judy Robbins
2. Tam Wolfe
3. Beth Verish
4. Sue Whitlock

Grandmasters Freestyle:

1. Steve Hays/Mike "The Farmer" Esterbrook - HOT!
2. Steve Scannell/Joe Messner/Doug Korns
3. Mark Horn / Snapper Pierson /Paul Thompson

-Chris "Max" Voigt won this battle of long-arms by beating Scott Stokely, Randy Lahm, and Flo Pfender in distance.

-Year's of working at The Wright Life paid off for Andy Malishenko as he finishes in the top ten overall.

-Harvey catches a big MTA on his last throw to win MTA over Lahm, Stokely, Kirkland, and Voigt.

-Harvey/Robbie beat Conrad/Stokely in a great DDC finals.

Colorado Disc or Die Results continued.....

Women's highlights (evidently forgotten in previously sent results):

Kaili Young crushes the women's field in golf.

Jennifer Griffin big arms the field of women and throws over 100 meters in the finals!

Judy Robbins takes first places in MTA, Accuracy and Freestyle winning the overall by a half point margin over Kaili Young.

A fun time was had by all....and kudos goes to Holly Wright and Gee Kirkland who competed in DDC and Accuracy!

Zzzz's to all,

Judy Robbins

From: ToddyBro@aol.com

Take care, Stefan Karlsson

The finals were held at 11:00 am on the road next to the Sheep Meadow, playing on concrete. Wham-O set up a nice stage along with a serious sound system. With a large promotional effort complete with free t-shirts, hula-hoops and frisbees we gathered a good crowd given the early hour (NYers are not early risers). The play was better than the day before with the following results.

1. Arthur Coddington and Dave Lewis (dropless)
2. Carlos "Pipo" Lopez and Paul Kenney (big crowd favorite)
3. Pat Rabdau and Krey van Sickle (nice routine as usual, hard time with the small space)
4. Robert Fried and Doug Simon (some of the hardest individual moves of the finals)

Wham-O did a great job and everyone had a great time as the weather was awesome (though a bit windy).

This is an expanded review of the NYC tournament.

We had a gorgeous week-end here in NYC and all who took part in this event were able to enjoy the activities as well as a full Memorial Day week-end as the official events were over by noon on Saturday. This worked out great as it allowed some to depart for other obligations, and many of us to spend a relaxed day jamming in the Meadow on Saturday.

The event start officially on Friday evening in the Sheep Meadow located in Central park. The Sheep Meadow is a beautiful area that is reserved for relaxing and one recreational activity, that being Disc. You can (and often are) stopped from ball play including baseballs, football and the like. You cannot play Ultimate there, but a casual catch is OK.

Many people came early and there was great jamming prior to the event, with a number of non-entrants enjoying the activities. I have been recovering from a sprained ankle and am only just beginning to play again thus did not enter into the tournament. Also jamming but not playing were Ted Oberhaus, Scott Sailor and other local players.

Brad Keller of Rotation Point Productions was running the Freestyle Competition and was responsible for locating the sites, judging and had the assistance of a few locals as well as the Wham-O Staff. Special thanks should go to Daniel Flores and Lance Redford who as usual were a big help in a wide variety of tournament activities.

The play started at about 6:30 with 10 judges using the rank system. The judges were a combination of freestylers who were not entered (like myself) and others who were familiar with Freestyle. The prelims were four minute routines and there was a boom-box providing music, but this was low as the Meadow is a "quiet-zone".

Steve Scanell and Todd Bradeur were first and had the worst wind of the day. The first few teams also had to contend with low sun that was in line with the wind, creating another hazard. They played well though had a number of drops. With the exception of Arthur and Dave, the other 5 routines had between 11 and 13 drops each.

Bill Dubilear and Richie Regansberg played well, starting out very hot, but cooling off towards the end with some unforced errors. Bill and Richie play a lot together and are able to work well spontaneously with hot Counter play.

Robert Fried and Doug Simon also started off well hitting a number of planned co-ops. Robert then nailed some extended maneuvers and they looked like they would get real hot. But the wind and time caught up and they finished the routine with a number of drops.

Pat Rabdau and Krae started off slowly dropping many in the first half of the routine. But they were able to regroup and got hot towards the end to salvage the routine. Again the wind made their tight routine hard as they have beautiful choreographed routine that is timed to the music.

Carlos Pipo Lopez and Paul Kenney were also hot though had many drops. Paul has improved incredibly and has some of the best turnovers I have seen, with great control of the disc while it is in a variety of orientations.

The evening ended with Arthur and Dave Lewis who played well dropping only about five. They were able to do some of their co-ops and easily won the pre-lim.

The finish between 4th and 5th was as close as it could get with Rob and Doug edging out Bill and Richie Regs.

Evening activities included Mexican food and drinking at a local watering hole that a local NY jammers works in. Spencer Bradley hosted us at the Bourbon Street bar on Amsterdam Avenue. The drinking was restrained as play would resume early the next day with the finals starting at about 11:00.

Saturday was another beautiful day with jammers starting to gather as early as 9:00. Brad Keller and Wham-O put together a great site drawing many eager families to see what the action was all about.

The finals site was "the road" next to the Sheep Meadow. This is a long concrete walk-way between the Sheep Meadow and the Bandshell. It worked well to keep the event contained.

There was (I forget her name) an awesome Hula-Hooper who really amazed all viewers with her hooping talents. Her level of difficulty, consecutive moves and acrobatic abilities were appreciated by jammers and non-jammers as well. My own two kids were there and really enjoyed the activities, Daniel (8) and Lilli (6).

At about 10:30 the "show" began with a demo by a sizzling young woman jammer who performed with her father. They jammed for about 10 minutes and then worked with some kids from the crowd. The freestyle began shortly after this with the announcement of the judges.

The esteemed judges were none-other than myself along with Todd Bradeur from Boston and Jonathon Weinstein, a local jammer. We used the rank system to judge and were placed up on the stage overlooking the play. The crowd formed a relatively small circle for the play and this created a nice atmosphere, if not the best playing conditions.

The first routine was Robert Fried and Doug Simon who played well to set the stage for a quality finals. My highlight was when Doug did an inverted delay right under the nose of a small boy in the audience. As usual Rob went nuts hitting many heinous consecutive moves. They were able to hit many of their co-ops and we were off.

There were mini-shows between the routines; a juggler, hacky-sacker as well as Arthur doing a quick Frisbee demo.

The second team was Krae and Pat. Right when their music started a huge wind gust came up and fortunate for them it blew part of the stage netting onto the playing surface. This slight delay allowed the wind to calm a bit and they started their routine. They were able to maintain their choreographed routine, but had a number of drops as the wind and small playing field was not conducive to this type of routine. All in all it was still a good routine.

Pipo Lopez and Paul Kenney were next and had the crowd going. They displayed real showmanship as they stretched out their seals and were able to bring real excitement to the finals. They had very few drops along with many serious moves.

Arthur and Dave were going to have to play better than they had the day before if they wanted to hold seeding and they did. Going dropless with one bobble they were able to win going away. The play was conservative for them, but this translates into high difficulty for most mortals.

After the finals there was a long Hula-Hoop show with Wham-O giving away Hula-Hoops to all comers and trying to set the record for most hula-hoopers at one time (I am not sure if they succeeded) with a veritable throng of hoopers doing their thing. The jammers were right in there with myself, Doug, Dave Lewis and others trying our hula skills.

I had to leave with my kids and missed the mass Frisbee toss but heard it was good, though a bit congested.

The gang moved next door to the Sheep Meadow for a big day of jamming that must have left a few of us sore for days. It is always great to have this energy to mix with what is already a great local jamming scene. Bill Dubelier hosted us all that evening for a BBQ bash at his Chelsea loft. The party was going strong when I left at the early hour of Midnight! Thanks Bill!

All in all it was a great event! kudos to Wham-O and Arthur and special thanks to Brad Keller, New York's own Frisbee Promoter. Brad was able to work well with Wham-O to locate and set up the site and make this a truly happening event. Brad's local connections with the Parks department allowed Wham-O to come in and go right to work. Brad, though his Rotation Point Productions has brought serious competitive jamming back to New York, as well as starting some programs with local organizations and the schools. The only bad thing about all the work Brad is doing is that we have been deprived of his hot play as his freestyle time has been curtailed by these efforts.

We look forward to his next tournament, the Eastern Nationals(?) scheduled for later this summer.

Happy trailing edges.......

Roger Meier

Soak Grove 98

An excellent time was had by all at the 2nd Annual "Expression Session." Kudos to host Steve Scannell who did an excellent job organizing the event/party. Freestylers from five states attended including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New York to meet for a wintertime tourney/jam in Lakeville, MA. Also attending were significant others and a rare appearance by Joe Proud, legendary tourney announcer, disc man extraordinaire and winner a numerous freestyle drinking contests, otherwise known to most as "Lick me."

An interesting experiment in video judging, using FPA scoring sheets, resulted in the standings below. The final point results were tight across the board.

Open pair results:

1) Brad Keller/Scott Sailor
2) Rick Williams/Carl Emerson
3) Petri Isola/Alan Caplin
4) Steve Scannell/Mark Ide
5) Toddy Brodeur/Chris DePaola
6) Nikki & Rick Ross

Playing order for open pairs was selected randomly in the order below.

First up: Petri/Alan. Alan and Petri had the highest diff scores and played well-including a total of 8 double spins between them and several co-ops. Petri alone closed four hard double spinning catches including a double laser, flaud, gitis and scarecrow (I thought this was the muy hein and can't remember seeing this in competition recently). Alas, they had a few too many drops and came in third.

Second up: Toddy/Chris. Toddy and Chris came out flowing and working the disc between them well. In spite of too many drops they had high diff. Chris pulled off some moves I haven't seen him do in the few competitions he's been in lately, especially a real nice barrel catch, an excellent UD crow, plus his original rapid gitis pull to a gitis catch.

Third up: Steve/Mark. Other than Nikki and Rikki Steve and Mark had the most planned routine starting out with three discs and juggling. Their ex was good and helped them clinch fourth place, with Steve doing his signature moves. A relative newcomer to competition, Mark raised his level, held his own and helped boost pres scores.

Fourth up: Rick W./Carl. Not knowing in the car who he would jam with, having an unmentioned styler bail on him that morning, Rick teamed up with surprise show Carl Emerson. Both these guys have been around and have their patented moves down. With good ex and both pulling off their moves they came in second. WTG! (Way to go)

Fifth up: Nikki & Rick. We all keep marveling at the progress that Nikki Ross is making (she will rule one day). Both Nikki and Rick played well with some nice speed flow moves and choreography. Plus Rick pulled off a nice crow!

Sixth up: Brad/Scott. These guys from New York came up and pulled the rug out from under New England. With Scott showing improvement every time you see him and Brad doing his NYC flowstyle they pulled out a win. Variety, co-ops and flow says it all.

After open pairs, co-op teams were selected randomly and given 30 minutes to pick music and come up with an impromptu routine. Judges were asked only to name the top team (Petri, Todd & Brad).

Random Co-op results:

1) Petri, Todd, Brad
T2) Scott, Alan, Carl
T2) Rick W., Steve, Nikki
T2) Rick R., Chris, Mark

After jamming we all went to the Chateau duLac (Steve's) for chow and merriment.

Seymour Trixx