*Please Note: There is a No Walk On Pick Up policy during league nights on Tuesdays. To enquire about pick up opportunity please send an email to tommy.fung@hkupa.com. Thank You.

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HKUPA Spring Tournament Call-For-Players Registraion

We are officially calling for players to register for HKUPA’s core two spring
tournaments.

Players of any level is welcome to register and show interest to find a

suitable team for:

China National Tournament 2010, Beijing (May 15-16)

*Hong Kong represented itself as reigning to be the best in China. In 2009, HK won the national championships and it’s your responsibility in 2010 to show your pride and defend our crown!

*20 teams, 8 fields in 2009

*Tournament sponsorship opportunities available and economical $150-$350 (Early Bird Registration Fees by March)

*All levels of players are welcome

12th Annual Shanghai Tournament 2010 (June 5-6)

*Represent HKUPA on lush fields and the great saturday party

*17 teams, 7 fields in 2009

*High calibre Asia-wide club teams (including Singapore, Philippine, and Chinese teams in 2009)

*Visit the World Expo at the same time

Take 2 minutes and register now here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENNTXNHSWRPemN4ZmtiTW1HSWNtaXc6MA

Your individual registration expresses your interest and will go through a selection process. Depending on the number of players, all members of HKUPA are selected onto HK Junk, HK Star Fairies, or HK Bauhinias as a first priority for HKUPA members. In case there is no HKUPA team attending, we will then help you find non-HKUPA teams as a second priority. A commitment after your expressed interested from both parties will be needed at approximately 2+ months before the China Nationals in Beijing and Shanghai tournaments.

See you at The Great Wall and the World Expo!

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

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TOSSCARS! 

Do you remember who won last year?

Who will win this year...

MVP male & female...

Best new player...

The Paul Bartels 'Blood & Guts'...

...and the rest of the coveted awards?

Stay tuned for the when, where of things to come

and how you can participate!

If you don't know what Tosscars! is,

start asking and get ready for a fun-filled and

exciting ceremony!

Our Tosscars Team are working on this great annual prize giving event of HKUPA

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2010 HKUPA Spring League Registration

The deadline has passed for the Spring League Registration. If you would still like to play, please send an email to tommy.fung@hkupa.com.

For further information please go to www.hkupa.com/league

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Ultimate Training

2010 Ultimate training starts from Jan 17 (Sunday) 3-6 pm at Tai Hang Tung.  Get ready to polish your Ultimate skills.  Beginners and veterans are welcome.  Cleats on and sideline warm up at 2:45pm the training will start at 3pm led by Calvin Cheng.  Every week will begin with a warm up and some basic drills plus some more advanced drills as appropriate to help you improve your Ultimate skills.

No matter if you only heard about this excellent, graceful and spirited sport recently and just wanted to learn some basic throw or you are athletic and eager to play with the Hong Kong team in the Asian Tournaments or the World Championships you are more than welcome to join us every week.

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HKUPA & ULTIMATE PROMOTION VIDEO featuring Coach Michael Hsu, Apple, Ming, Kat & HKUPA members: http://teenpower1.rthk.org.hk/tptv/inside.php?id=204

Please feel free to link and promote it amongst your friends!

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2010 WFDF WORLD ULTIMATE CLUB CHAMPIONSHPS!

WUCC 2010 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic between  3 - 10 July, 2010 and expecting 100+ teams, 2000+ players and the best club team competition from around the world.

HKUPA is now calling for players to register a team and indicate their level of interest (You may confirm at a later date but we just need to know if you are interested).  Please do not miss this chance or you’ll have to wait another 4 years!

Take 2 minutes and indicate your interest here: 

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDRPdGRNZWxBSG9fSVhaektyWWRqNUE6MA

For team enquiries: michael.hsu@hkupa.com

For tournament info: www.wucc2010.com

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Asia Oceanic Ultimate Club Championships 2009 (Thrillah in Manila)

Summary from Hong Kong Junk Captain Michael Hsu:

Hong Kong Teams: Winners of the 2003 Manila Spirits and AOUC2007 participants, Hong Kong in 2009 had no high seeding to maintain but to prove to themselves.  In 2008, HK had 1 team with less than 10 male players and 0 (zero) female players.  In 2009, HKUPA, HK Junk, HK Star Fairies, Hong Kong (Open) creates history by:

1.      having the most HK players in an overseas tournament ever by dramatically growing to 34 players with 2 mixed teams and 1 open team.

2.      having its FIRST FULL SQUAD (w/ 2 HK lines) open team ever.

The 2 above is an accomplishment by itself.

Quoted Summary from Rick, Manila:

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2009 Hong Kong Pan Asian Ultimate Tournament

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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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.

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.

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

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

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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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.

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.

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

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

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Register on this website to receive e-mails regarding practices, cancellations and upcoming events.

Player Development / Competitive Programme / HKUPA tournament teams

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Victory! Victory!

Hong Kong took the Crown

in China Nationals 2009

With the team working effectively, lots of captaining plus precise line calls by Captain Michael Hsu, we made it and had the Hong Kong Flag flying in Beijing with glory.

Championship Video Clip:

v.youku.com/v_show/id_26900857.html

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WEEKENDS

Occasional beach Ultimate outings will be arranged, usually on Saturdays -  REGISTER on this website to receive e-mails with details - Beach Ultimate is FREE and all are welcome.

Sundays (Saturdays starting September 12th replaces Sundays) will be at Tai Hang Tung from 3pm to 6pm as usual.  PLEASE BRING BOTH RED & WHITE SHIRTS to play in (not dark & white) - this will help to improve our image and standing as a club and as a sport.  We are having trouble booking the fields because the management doesn't think we are playing a real sport or are anything more than an informal gathering of people playing "catch".  If we look more organised, then this will create a better image, and maybe we'll get a bit more consideration from the management at the fields (and maybe people will stop walking across the fields during our games). Your efforts in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Visitors and new players are welcome on Sundays - Non- members fee is $50 ($20 for students).

MEMBERSHIP FEES

Annual Fees will remain HK$500 (HK$250 for students)

As we are half-way through the year , new members pay HK$250 (HK$120) for the remainder of 2009.

Please pay Alex Chapman or Carlene Chan

Apple Tong

President

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