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Ultimate Happenings: Issue 109 - Aug 14 1999

OCUA Web site: http://www.ocua.ca

"Everybody repeat after me, we are all individuals"

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CONTENTS:

- Editors Note
- Looking For Nationals Volunteers
- Thanks
- Roster Deposit Cheque Status
- The 3rd Annual Ultimate Corporate Challenge
- Toronto Area Tournament - Zodiac 99
- 1999 Upa Upstate NY And Ontario Coed Sectionals
- "Ottawa Tree-Oh Challenge" Results
- Did You Know?
- Fundraising Garage And Bake Sale
- Roommate Wanted
- Lost
- Calendar Of Events

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EDITORS NOTE:

There was too much information for one Ultimate Happenings
post so I split it up into two messages. The other one contains
Nationals information and this one contains non-Nationals
information (other then the request for volunteers below).

Later
Mike

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LOOKING FOR NATIONALS VOLUNTEERS:

Hey all,

Well, nationals is a mere 5 days away, and things are really
starting to take shape. As we enter into the final week,
however, it's apparent that what we need more than anything
is bodies. We need more volunteers to handle things like setup,
parking, scorekeeping, water distribution, garbage collection,
merchandise sales, reporting, computing, cleanup, you name it.
We've done a lot of work to make sure that this is the best
nationals ever for both the players and the spectators, but
we need support from the OCUA community to make it happen.

As such, I'm making a personal appeal to all of you to please
consider volunteering some time, and to pass this message on
to your teammates and encourage them to do the same. You don't
have to help for the entire 6 days (4 days of play + 1 day
setup + 1 day cleanup) - even if you only take a shift or two,
it will help us out immensely. There is a volunteer form that
you can fill in on the nationals web page (www.ocua.ca/nationals),
which allows you to indicate the times that you are available,
and the areas that you would be most interested in helping in.

So, what does volunteering get you, you ask, aside from a deep
sense of satisfaction for helping stage Canada's premiere
Ultimate event? :) Plenty, especially if you're planning to
come out and watch anyway. Basically, you receive the same
benefits as a player - free dinner on Thursday and Friday,
and free admission to the party Saturday night, which will be
absolutely rocking. Plus, every volunteer receives a free
Canadian Nationals volunteer t-shirt.

Now I realize that a lot of you will actually be playing at
nationals, and if you are, please be assured that I don't
really expect you to help, unless you can help out with setup
on Wednesday or cleanup on Monday. Your #1 priority at Nationals
will be your team, and so it should be. But once again, I do
strongly urge you to help out by forwarding this on to players
on your league teams, and encouraging them to be a part of
what will surely be a fantastic event.

Finally, even if you or your friends can't help out, please
encourage them to come out and watch. There will be a lot of
media exposure at this event, and a lot of people in the
community will be watching what happens at this even as well.
We need fans to help make this a premier event, and show the
people in the community that Ultimate is for real. The bigger
and better this event is, the better it will be for Ultimate
in Ottawa.

Thanks for your support,

Ken Lange
e: kblange@nortelnetworks.com>

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THANKS:

Mucho thanks to Dean Manning, Don Lane, Gavin Thompson,
Richard Griffith, Simon Clifford, Gwen Prillo and Jonothan &
Katy Wilker who showed up last Saturday and moved all those
railway ties around the parking lot at the Manotick Station
fields.

Mike Hall-Jones

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ROSTER DEPOSIT CHEQUE STATUS:

The roster deposit cheques and the bios/ballots for the OCUA
Board of Directors election will be mailed out next Monday or
Tuesday.

Please please please help me out. I still have not received
any contact info for the following teams. I cannot mail out
the package for these teams until I receive this information.

- 668 (Wed 5/2)
- 911 (Wed 4/3)
- Disc Devils (Wed 4/3)
- Disco Quinz (Wed 4/3)
- Discount Prophets (Wed 4/3)
- Frisbee Pie Co. II (Wed 5/2)
- Frisbee Pie Company (Mon 5/2)
- Green Side Up (Mon 4/3)
- House Of Representatives (Tue 5/2)
- Loons (Wed 5/2)
- Murph & The Discs Of Steel (Tue 5/2)
- Shutup&Run! (Wed 4/3)
- South Park High (Jr) (Wed 5/2)
- Spinsters (Thu Women'S)
- Strange Brew (Mon 5/2)
- Swillbillies (Mon 4/3)

Thanks
Mike
e: mharley@sympatico.ca

ps. Thank you very much to the two people who told me where
    I could look up incomplete postal codes on the net.

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THE 3RD ANNUAL ULTIMATE CORPORATE CHALLENGE:

http://www.ocua.ca/tournaments/challenge

September 25, 1999

This popular one day co-ed tournament is being held once
again at the Sod Farm.

Due to the success of this corporate event over the last two
years, it has been decided to increase the the number of teams
participating in this tournament to 40! Register soon as
openings are filling up quickly.

The format is 4-3 and all levels of play are welcome. Your
team will be seeded according to the level of play you
indicate.

If your company is not capable of fielding a full complement
of players, non-employees are eligible to play with you.

Need more information? Want to register?

Please visit
http://www.ocua.ca/tournaments/challenge

You can register your team on-line. Note: Please read the
instructions carefully for submitting payment for the tourney.

Contact Information:

REGISTRAR
  Renee Riendeau
  The Door/La Porte (Ottawa-Carleton)
  e: swago@sprint.ca

EVENT COORDINATOR
  Danielle Barrette-Marcuccio
  The Door/La Porte (Ottawa-Carleton)
  e: dbarret@magma.ca

TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR
  Kelly Mac Millan
  OCUA
  e: kellym@techspot.com

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TORONTO AREA TOURNAMENT - ZODIAC 99:

Limited Space!!!!!

Zodiac 99 is planned for Oct 2/3 this year!

Please check out the site at
http://www.interlog.com/~parki/zodiac-99/

This is a coed HAT tourney where teams are made up of players
of the same sign. 12 teams x 16 players/team.

John C Harris
p: 416-441-2773
e: harrisj@interlog.com

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1999 UPA UPSTATE NY AND ONTARIO COED SECTIONALS:

When:
September 25-26, 1999

Where:
Hamilton, Ontario

Team Fees:
$75 by Sept 3
$100 by Sept 17
$125 after

UPA Fees:
$US 10 per student or junior
$US 25 otherwise
(all players must pay UPA fees)

More Info:
http://www.hamiltonultimate.org/sectionals

Send your team fee by cheque or money order payable to Sean
Phillips:
96 Case Street
Hamilton, ON
L8L 3G9
Canada

UPA fees must be paid by cheque or money order payable to the
UPA in US funds. I will collect these cheques at the captains
meeting. Teams will not be allowed to begin play until all
fees have been paid.

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For those of you that have no idea what I'm talking about, the
UPA is the Ultimate Players Association. It is the ruling body
for Ultimate in the United States, and it has recently expanded
to allow Canadian teams to compete in its Fall Championship
Series.

The fall series includes a Sectional, Regional, and National
tournament. The top teams at Sectionals advance to Regionals,
from which the top two advance to Nationals. This is only the
second year that Coed has been included in the fall series,
and the Sectional Championships for our area, includes all of
New York State (except for metro New York City) and Ontario,
will be held in Hamilton on September 25-26th, 1999.

Regionals will be held on October 2-3 (location yet to be
determined), and Nationals are on October 28-31 at the Rancho
Santa Fe Polo Fields in San Diego, CA!!

If you wish to enter this tournament please reply to
ssphillips@bigfoot.com or call me at 905-545-7403. I need your
team name and contact information including email, phone number,
and mailing address. Also include a brief bio and a description
of your team strength for seeding purposes.

Notes:
1) The roster for each team is frozen after sectionals (ie.
   only those players that compete for one team at sectionals
   may compete for that team at Regionals or Nationals.
2) All players that compete at Sectionals MUST be UPA members.
   You may join the UPA on the day of the tournament. Fees are
   $US 10 for students or $US 25 for non-students for a one
   year membership. Membership gets you several newsletters
   per year plus many other benefits (see
   http://www.upa.org/upa/upa-intro.html
 for more info).
3) You may only compete in one division in the fall series
   (ie. you must choose between open/women's or coed).
4) The gender default rule is "No more than 4 of either gender
   on the field - offense picks the balance." This default is
   required in all Nationals games and in Sectional/Regional
   semi-finals and finals. Teams unable to field 4 of either
   gender at any time may continue to play with fewer players
   than their opponent.

Sean Phillips
Upstate NY Coed Sectional Coordinator
e: upa_ne_upstate_xsc@upa.org

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"OTTAWA TREE-OH CHALLENGE" RESULTS:

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Pressbox/9615/treeohres.html

If you have any feedback on the tournament or other photos
that you would like me to include on the results page, just
send them off to me and I'll include them in the next update
to the results page.

Regards,

Don
Tournament Director,
Ottawa Tree-Oh Challenge
e: donlane@iname.com

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DID YOU KNOW?:

Ever complained that one of your teammates throws to hard?
You might want to think again.... The world record for speed
of a disc that was caught is 119.14 km/h in a game of Guts
played August 25th 1980. They were only 14m apart and it was
caught with one hand!

Ever get bored of tossing the disc waiting for a game to start?
Not a pair of players in San Marino California. They set the
24hr pairs distance at 592.15 km in 1993.

Don't think the players in cup should be pulling because they
won't have enough time to get to the disc? Some people can!
The records for Throw, Run and Catch are 92.64m for men and
60.02m for women.

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FUNDRAISING GARAGE AND BAKE SALE:

AUGUST 28th at 143 THIRD AVENUE (just West of Bank St.)

ALL proceeds go to help orphans, homeless children and victims
of war in Romania, Albania and Kosovo. I will be travelling to
all three countries for four months, starting in September to
do volunteer work and am asking for your kind support.

There will be lots of funky stuff!!! Come on out for a coffee
and check it out!

For further information, please feel free to contact Caroline
Sansom at 565-3018.

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ROOMMATE WANTED:

(Ideally) For October 1 (but possible for September too),
looking for a non-smoking professional male or female to share
very large 2 bedroom apartment (main floor of 1910 house) with
dining room, sun room and fireplace, hardwood floors & large
kitchen. Green, leafy neighborhood across the street from
MacDonald Park (very close to river, New Edinborough and great
running & biking trails), 15 minutes walk to Market, 5 minute
drive to downtown & foreign affairs. $525 + hydro and phone.
Parking included.

Call Jacqueline Kappers at 598-3151 (w) or 244-0029 after 6pm.
E-mail is jkappers@edc-see.ca.

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LOST:

Lost a men's wedding band at SOD 14 Tuesday August 10. It
would be around the middle of the inner sideline (along the
shallow ditch).

Obviously great sentimental value. If anyone comes upon it
please contact Allen at atough@magma.com. Thanks.

Thanks,
Brad

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

Aug 19-22: XIII Canadian Ultimate National Championships
Sept 25: Cisco Systems - Annual Ultimate Corporate Challenge

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