From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Sun Nov 5 15:13:55 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA02139 for announce-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:13:55 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from smtp2.kolumbus.fi (smtp2.kolumbus.fi [193.229.0.37]) by LLIC.Market.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07965 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:26:06 -0800 Received: from footbag (kb169u3hel.dial.kolumbus.fi [193.229.164.169]) by smtp2.kolumbus.fi (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA01806 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:25:40 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <027b01c04442$c2880bc0$5f49e5c1@footbag.pp.kolumbus.fi> Reply-To: "Justin Sexton" From: "Justin Sexton" To: Subject: [announce] Resuts: Finnish Footbag Championships Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:31:47 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by list.footbag.org id PAB02139 FINNISH FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS - RESULTS Here is a report and the results of the 4th annual Finnish Footbag Championships. This year the tournament was bigger and better than ever before. This three day tournament and was held 27th-29th of October in Turku, two hours from Helsinki. The tournament started on Friday with the media conference in the Turku Fair Center at 11.00. Then the Team Finland top freestylers had a demonstration in the big shopping center right downtown Turku and after that at the same spot there was a warm-up jam and a players meeting for all competitors until 7 PM. After that we all went to the Sports Hall the Net prelims and intermediate freestyle was held and where all the competitors could stay for the tournament. for some more freestyle and net warm-up. On Saturday morning at 10.00 AM Intermediate and Pro Singles net Prelims started and after they were over started the doubles. When the last doubles matches were done it was time to start intermediate freestyle. Of all the 31 Intermediate freestylers it was won by Juho Marjo the youngest player of the tournament who had just turned 12. He did an amazingly choreographed routine with only 3 drops and 119 adds in the finals! After the intermediate Finals about 9.00 PM started the players party and the Hall was open for pick up netgames and freestyle shred. On Sunday morning at 9.00 AM we had a nice breakfast for all the competitors and transportation with a bus to the Finals site that was in the Turku Fair Center in conjunction with the Move2000! Sportexpo. The Finals started at 12.00 and there was a bigger crowd that we could have ever expected, if you came too late you actually were not able to see it because there were too many people around the court that was surrounded with a rope. It was great. The Finals started with Open Freestyle. We had 16 players which from 8 were cut to the Finals, all the routines were very high quality and showed that there really are some amazing new freestylers in Finland. After that there was the Match for third place in Doubles Net where Olli Savolainen&Jesse Ruotsalainen beat Aleksi Öhman&Jani Markkanen. An awesome match that showed to the crowd the other aspect of footbag. Then it was time for the 45 second shred. All the pro players went into to a half circle and one at a time in the ranking order went into the middle to show his skills when the other players cheered for him with the crowd. After the Shred contest It was time for the Doubles net finals, Jukka Peltola/Justin Sexton against the current champions Tuomas Kärki/Jesse Fryckman. With Tuomas setting Jesse up for huge spikes they were just unbeatable and they took the crown in two sets. The last event of the Finals was pro freestyle finals which was probably the most awesome show of the whole tournament. After the amazing Finals there was the awards ceremony and then it was time to thank the spectators and close the 4th annual Finnish Footbag Championships, after the good-byes people started heading home and when you looked outside you saw the first snow started snowing down and the official Finnish Footbag season for the year 2000 was over. Here are the results of the tournament: Open Freestyle (Top 8 of 16 competitors): 1. Justin Sexton 2. Mika Koistinen 3. Ilkka Malin 4. Juho Vesa 5. Samuli Viitanen 6. Jere Linnanen 7. Jere Vainikka 8. Miikka Laine Open Singles Net (Top 4 of 20 competitors) 1. Tuomas Kärki 2. Jani Markkanen 3. Jesse Fryckman 4. Jesse Ruotsalainen Open Doubles Net (Top 4 teams of 22 competitors) 1. Tuomas Kärki & Jesse Fryckman 2. Justin Sexton & Jukka Peltola 3. Olli Savolainen & Jesse Ruotsalainen 4. Aleksi Öhman & Jani Markkanen Intermediate Freestyle (Top 12 from 31 competitors) 1. Juho Marjo 2. Toni Tuormaa 3. Antti Lehikoinen 4. Jyri Ilama 5. Sakarias Liukko 6. Jaakko Inkinen 7. Ville Laakso 8. Mikko Lepistö 9. Lasse Salmenhaara 10. Sami Hirvonen 11. Juha Heinonen 12. Uve Poom Intermediate Singles Net (Top 4 of 28 competitors) 1. Jaakko Inkinen 2. Tuukka Antikainen 3. Timo Vorne 4. Jyri Ryyppö Intermediate Doubles Net (Top 4 teams of 21 competitors) 1. Mikko Inkinen & Jaakko Inkinen 2. Jani Lirkki & Juha Heinonen 3. Matti Ellonen & Joni Puska 4. Mikko Tapaninaho & Pekka Marjamäki It was truly a great year for footbag in Finland. This tournament showed that the numbers and the level of players has gone up amazingly fast. Now it is time to choose the new Team Finland for the year 2001 which you can check out soon from www.footbag.fi (there are lot of new faces...) and get ready for the next footbag season in Finland and make it even better. Justin Sexton Tournament Director justinsexton@footbag.fi From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Sat Nov 11 11:01:03 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA16466 for announce-outgoing; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:01:03 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f From: David Sanchez Received: from imo-r06.mail.aol.com (imo-r06.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.6]) by LLIC.Market.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12534 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:27:02 -0800 Received: from Orbspiders@aol.com by imo-r06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.32.) id z.39.c866772 (15900) for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:25:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from web33.aolmail.aol.com (web33.aolmail.aol.com [205.188.222.9]) by air-id09.mx.aol.com (v76_r1.20) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:25:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:25:53 EST Subject: [announce] TV opportunity for footbag in Pennsylvania To: announce@footbag.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown Message-ID: <39.c866772.273dc1e1@aol.com> Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Hello all, Comcast Sportsnet has decided to run a show on footbag. This has been the topic of conversation on the northeast list but for those of you not on that list, we urge you to come out and play for the camera. The date is sunday 11/12. We will be playing in Newtown, PA which is about forty five minutes or so to the north of philadelphia. Originally we had only planned on a half an hour of filming but have recently found out that our filming time has been stretched to about two hours(give or take a few moments). The focus of the footage is footbag net but a few strings of freestyle have also been promised to be captured. If you cannot make it but would like to watch it, the show will air either next wednesday and thursday or the following wednesday and thursday(to be decided by comcast). The channel is Comcast Sportsnet(obviously). This is a fun chance to get some good promotion for the sport, the more people that show up for this the better the sport looks on television. So show your support and exer cise your talent in front of a camera. Sorry for the short notice but details have been coming in surges and this has only been known about for less than a week. If you cannot make it then I urge you to get out and play anyway,,, I hear sunday is gonna be the best weather in the ten day forecast(may not apply to your area:) Have a fantastic day, david sanchez philly footworks For directions or further information e-mail either myself at Orbspiders@aol.com or Bob Riefer at Rieferman@footbag.org or RoRiefer@ikon.com From owner-announce@list.footbag.org Mon Nov 27 10:56:39 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by list.footbag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA18441 for announce-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:56:39 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: list.footbag.org: majordom set sender to owner-announce@footbag.org using -f Received: from dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net [129.250.36.43]) by market.llic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA10299 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 06:27:42 -0800 Received: from [129.250.38.64] (helo=dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net with esmtp id 140PFp-0007jd-00 for announce@footbag.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:27:37 +0000 Received: from [209.107.90.78] (helo=[209.107.90.78]) by dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net with esmtp id 140PFo-0000hr-00 for announce@footbag.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:27:37 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: copyset@pop.interaccess.com Message-Id: Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:23:54 -0600 To: announce@footbag.org From: Scott Davidson Subject: [announce] Chicago Millennium Footbag Jam, December 30th and 31st, 2000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-announce@footbag.org Hello Fellow Footbag Enthusiasts! Chicago Millennium Footbag Jam December 30th and 31st Saturday from 1:00 to 6:00 PM Sunday from 10:00 to 5:00 PM Free Admission to entire sports festival! No entry fee, this is a footbag exhibition, not a tournament. McCormick Place, South Building, Main Floor Chicago, Illiniois Footbag Freestyle Jamz, Footbag Net Jamz (at least two nets), Footbag Consecutives Demo's with Ted Martin Come Freestylers, Come Netters, Come Consecutives Mongers of all ages! This is a JAM! A free event that gives us a venue to display the sport of footbag to other sports enthusiasts, as well as a chance to JAM until our legs go numb. Then PARTY to celebrate the beginning of the new millenium! More party info will be available on the event listing at footbag.org later. It's official! There are freestyle jamz happening in SoCal and PA, so we have filled in the midwest gap with this "get ill in IL" event. We have arranged indoor adjacent space for net players as well, so come out and jam! It is likely there will be an informal tournament held in net on each day, as well as exhibitions of freestyle events like Phat String and Sick 10 and Shred. We don't want to step on the proverbial feet of the east and west coasts by having an event on the same weekend, we had opportunity call, and we opened the door. This is the premier shred event in the midwest, so be there! Be a part of a new tradition in Chicago... the Holiday Sports Festival (this was previously the annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament)! A free event for spectators that allows competition in Basketball, floor hockey, nerf football, volleyball and soccer... and hosts interactive zones featuring: FOOTBAG, Badmitton, Ping Pong, Kick Ball, FourSquare, a Climbing Wall, Fishing Pond, Boxing, toddler sports area and fitness stage. They are also hosting clinics by Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Fire (soccer), Chicago Enforcers (XFL). Chances to win prizes in these clinics. Footbag will be included in the media kits and will be added to their web site by the end of next week, and we will be actively promoting this event with the media sponsors (along with their own scheduled media blitz, and our own). Sponsored by: Chicago Sun-times, Chicago Transit Authroity, Chicagoland Television, Coca-Cola, Communications Direct, ESPN Radio 1000, FOX Chicago, FOX Sports Net, Hyatt Regency at McCormick Place, Sparkling Spring Water, and XFL Enforcers. We are arranging rooms at discounted rates at the Hyatt during this event. Please check http://www.footbag.org/calendar/current/ (and then click on "Chicago Millenium Jam") for more information. The City of Chicago website has the event listed (footbag isn't mentioned in there yet, should be there in a week)... http://www.cityofchicago.org/SpecialEvents/SportsFest.html Contact: Scott Davidson 773.237.9255 (Evenings) enlightener@footbag.org