2009 Pan Asian Ultimate Tournament

Congratulation to

Champion Team Shanghai HuWa

1st runner-up Ringer of Fires

2nd & 3rd HK Junk & Singapore Mondster's Army

Spirit Award - Philippine PH Monster

Great work TD, tournament committee & Volunteers

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Welcome to the website of the Hong Kong Ultimate Players' Association (the HKUPA). On this website you can find out ...
- WHAT is Ultimate (also known as "Ultimate Frisbee")
- WHEN is the next game of Ultimate coming up in Hong Kong
- WHERE do we play Ultimate in Hong Kong

You can also ...
- CONTACT us with any questions you may have
- COMMENT in our forum discussions about Ultimate

Love and Layouts,
- The Hong Kong Ultimate Players' Association (HKUPA) Leadership Team

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HKUPA AUTUMN LEAGUE 2009 - Round 1 Review

Greetings HK disc players!

It's excellent to be back for another round of league!

Field 1 - White vs. Red

It was quite a game between white and red.  Although, the real story has nothing to do with the fact that they traded points most of the evening, but rather that the red guys are missing out on the chance to meet up with the abundance of single ladies.  All six of the women showed up to play, but the red guys only managed to produce five able bodies.  Unreal!  Apparently there was something more important going on for the rest of the guys... such as tea-bagging paulie coffey.  Anyway, the non-tea-bagging red guys played savage for the evening and managed to stay point for point with white.  Great job.  The only downside to their game were the incredibly long breaks between points.  Alex was getting so desperate for me to do something that he was willing to pawn off any future children.  Thankfully Kristin and I are not ready for kids.  In the end, white managed to capitalize on the abundance of turnovers more than run and pulled out their first victory with a score of 7-6.

Field 2 - Blue vs. Yellow

Meanwhile, there was a slaughtering happening on the field next door.  Based on previous league experiences, we learned that Jake's team was guaranteed a losing record for the season.  Not so now!  After much practice picking fantasy football squads, Jake overcame his previous poor league choices and managed to sneak a team of experienced players together.  Well done you cheeky bugger!  It certainly showed as blue dominated the game play for the evening.  It even inspired KP to complete his second lay-out catch of his ultimate career.  However, yellow was not without their shining moments.  There was some excellent handling from Dr. Evil himself, who managed to complete numerous throws to our UCLA representative, two-tone Harry.  It is also worth mentioning that Neal was rubbing heads...errrr, getting heady... errrr, Neal was doing something with the any and all sidelined persons.  However, Neal's antics and cheers were not enough, and team yellow ended in a 15-5 loss to blue.

Finally, most of team black was playing cards with the auto mechanics on caroline hill road for the duration of the evening.  Hopefully we'll see a better turn out of the bye team next week.

Farewell for now,
Grant

STATS (wins-losses-ties)

Black 0-0-0
Blue 1-0-0
Red 0-1-0
White 1-0-0
Yellow 0-1-0

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Lei Out! Beach Ultimate Tournament 2009

Lots of sweat and excellent team spirit throughout the whole hot sunny day.  Inspiring team cheers and Ultimate circle of love finished every game in joy and appreciation.  More than 80 Players aged from fifteen to fifty-something had a truly great day with no serious damage; a few blisters but no broken noses for sure. Also, there were lots of respectful calls in the games that were all played in the hard-core but fun-focused manner that we can be proud of.  

Six teams with a broad mix of abilities; super fast athletes, occasional players taking a break from their desk-bound day jobs, newbies and teenagers dashing like wind all over the beach.

Spectacular layout catches... unbelievable layout defense.... feats to get your blood pumping just by watching in every single match.... skying battles took your breath at the Endzone.....  This is Ultimate!

Thanks to the captains for their leadership bringing all the players to the games with great performances and sportsmanship and giving us the most fun and competitive beach Ultimate tournament.

Snow White (White) - Captain Super Hsu (Michael Hsu)

Lobsters (Pink) - Captain Calvin Cheng

Dirty old men (Blue) – Captain Jake Ulick

Heatstroke (Red) – Captain Rob Adams

Big Stupid Sunglasses (Yellow) – Captain Paul Coffey

Melange (Orange) – Captain Brian Marterer

Congratulation to the Champion team Snow White (White) with great consistency and co-operation that defeated the most experienced team The Dirty Old Men (Blue) in a thrilling final.

We attracted some new recruits to HK Ultimate and hopefully some of our more recent members have been thoroughly bitten by the Ultimate bug and are now totally addicted. We sincerely hope that they will keep playing, join our league and add their energy to the growing force that is HKUPA.

Thanks to everyone who helped organize, set-up and pack-away, particularly;

Sjoerd Hoekstra, Kat Mok and Philip Mok (setting up the field before players woke).

Kelvin Mulvey, Jake Anderson taking care of the Beverage supply.

Neil Gysel (idea of design and game scheduling/timekeeping)

Paul Coffey setting up the webpage for registration.

Wilkie Chu for the connection to D Deck.

Alex Chapman for team selecting, meeting and score sheet.

Marcus for arranging the lunch and dinner.

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2009 Beach Hat Tournament Sep 6 (Sunday) at Discovery Bay Tai Pak Beach

Last year HKUPA, in association with D-Deck hosted the 2008 Discovery Bay Beach Ultimate Hat Tournament with big success and over 100 participants from Shen Zhen, Zhu Hai, Macau, Guang Zhou join together had loads of fun.

With the generous support from D-Deck again Ultimate will fly round Discovery Bay Beach on Sunday 6^th September 2009. Come join us.  To register, go to the Upcoming Events area on the right of the homepage and click on the 2009 Beach Hat item.

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HONG KONG PAN ASIAN ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT OCT 24-25
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Hong Kong Ultimate Players Association's biggest and most competitive annual event is finally here!  With over 200 Hong Kong and international players that attended last year, we are now calling for HK players to register to play for a HKUPA team. 

We will host and we will have our very own parties and at least 2-3 of our most competitive mixed teams playing.  If you want to play, register NOW.

If you don't want to play, completely new to the game, can help out or will come to the parties, e-mail me the Tournament Director or me so I can forward it.

Please take 2 minutes to register your status by filling in 6 quick questions + contacts and tell us you want to play on a HKUPA team (so we can plan your team/practices) with the form below now or before Thursday, September 3rd!

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WFDF ASIA OCEANIA ULTIMATE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS NOV 6-8 (AOUCC, A.k.a. Manila Spirits)
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Sanctioned by WFDF (the governing body for Ultimate worldwide and the World Championships), AOUCC is the biggest and the most competitive tournament in Asia taking place only every 2 years all over Asia.  (It's also the cheapest competitive tournament in Asia with $900 flights including tax! This is your chance!)

In AOUC 2007, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Phillipines, Chinese Taipei, etc., sent their best teams to Taiwan.

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AOUCC 2009 Mixed and Manila Spirits (Mixed) will take place on November 7 and 8.
AOUCC 2009 Open (Mostly Men) and Womens divisions will be completed on the ONE day, Friday November 6. 
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We are now inviting players to register for the Hong Kong or HKUPA MIXED team.  Players are allowed to play for the mixed team on Nov. 7/8 AND a 2nd Open/Womens team on Nov. 6 without their schedules conflicting.  To prevent confusion, this is the official HKUPA or Hong Kong team(s) and is separate from "Greater China" or Chinese team(s).

If there are sufficient numbers for an Open or Womens team from Hong Kong, we may look to make this happen as well.
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ACTION:

If you indicate "confirmed" or "interested" for either competition on the form, you will get group e-mails asap.  The rostering for teams and practices will start next week and is therefore crucial that your name is on this list by registering before this THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.

Let's rock these tournaments and please register now!

Ultimately Yours,

Michael "Suu" Hsu

Executive Director
Advanced Training & Development (A.k.a. Competitive Program)
HKUPA

Please fill out the form ONCE only at the following address if you want register for one or both of the following tournaments:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFhZekxuX0tlV0tlbmpfa1FVS0RFYmc6MA..

Enquiries can be sent to michael.hsu@hkupa.com

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Tuesdays
Tuesday night disc starts tomorrow (18th August) ay So Kon Po in Causeway Bay 9pm until 10.30pm

We will have pick-up for a few weeks until we get our Autumn league started (sometime in September).

Now is a very good time for beginners to start, so if you know anyone who wants to learn, bring them along.  We will have people available to coach beginners if there is a need.

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Singapore Open Aug 8 & 9 this weekend.  HK Junk team and Captain Michael Hsu won the Spirit award.  We are so proud of you guys.