Champagoyles!

The grand concerto of Spring League has finally ended, but not without an exciting last movement of upsets and nail-biters.

The Spring League 2012 Champions are...  

The Chupagoyles!

Our Final Standings went something like:

Champs: Chupagoyles

2.  Guardin' Gnomes

3/4 Nessie

3/4 Stackin' Kraken

5.  Calvinosaurs

6.  Funky Fly Foenixes

7/8 Blue Oxen of Minch

7/8 Lil' Griffins

9/10 Puff the Magic Jackalope

9/10 Man-Bear-Pig

And how the brackets shook out:

Spring League 2012 Playoffs (1)

That Forrest is a pretty excellent photographer..  if you haven't, you should check out his Flickr site, where he's been uploading all kinds of ultimate photos for many leagues. 
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ashevilleultimate/pool/
Here are some other tidbits from the Finals:

The sunset must have been inspiring.

There's a disc up there somewhere.

Bilman rises. 

Ari saves a poor decision. 

Mikey travels: Exhibit A

Kyle leaves his feet for the win. 

Craig's been here before. 

Playoffs Round 1

Announcements:

-Hat tournament this Saturday!  We have the fields reserved from 9am - 5pm, but I believe the hat tournament will not be getting underway until closer to 10am.  A hat tournament is a blast, and the theme is "Bring-A-Friend-To-Ultimate."  There will be Summer League signups available, and Linden Blaisus will be organizing.  Remember to leave your dogs at home.

-Afterwards, there is a Spring League Party held at the Altamont Brewery in West Asheville.  It's across from the Get-Down, and will be from 6-9.  A couple nice kegs and catering from Neo Burrito await.

But in other news, check out how the playoffs went down last night.  Behold, the updated brackets:
Spring League 2012 Playoffs



Here's a recap of the Jackalopes vs. Kraken game:
"Game was actually uplifting - I was late as a muth, found justin there in street clothes encouraging away and Damron was running shit.  DanK showed up at half to play a little O & handle, we still gave up a 8-1 half.  Only one lady too, so we weren't really in it, still it felt great to hit flow and make a run to 11-6 bad guys with a lot of peoples stepping up - John's wicked improved (great marks), Clark cut great, Adrian handled chill with Ben, Garret used his left hand a lot, Scott ran his ass of like always, I turned it over like fucking panckakes.  Everybody wanted it, okish deep cuts, the other team ran zone all the fucking time (EVERYPOINT) so looks were hard to hit." - Saggy
  
As a substitute for other recaps, please enjoy Forrest Samuel's photography.  He took some amazing shots, all available for viewing on his Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ashevilleultimate/pool/
There are some really good ones there, but here are some of his favorites:

Look at that knee flex.  

Kenny Bear gets the D

From now on, Callahan goals should be called Nosowitzing!

Good Form

"I had nothing to do with it!"

There goes our dream.

Seanboy with a thrilling layout "strip"

Just a snapshot of the action in this game

See you next week, when we'll crown our champions and see who gets the Golden Bucket!  Stay tuned for Summer League info.  

And Then There Were Playoffs

Last week's regular season games secured us the following seeds for playoffs:

1) Nessie (same record as Lil Griffins, won head-to-head match-up)

2) Lil Griffins (same record as Chupagoyles, played each other twice, each team won once, Lil Griffins have better point diff. between those 2 games)

3) Chupagoyles

4) Foenixes

5) Guardin' Gnomes (same record as Calvinosaurs, won head-to-head match-up)

6) Calvinosaurs

7) Blue Oxen

8) Kraken

9) Jackalope

10) ManBearPig

And so, here's our brackets for playoffs.  It's single elimination, so make sure you get to your games on time, and caps and forfeiture rules will be enforced.  

Spring League Playoffs

Week 10: The Happening

Hey All:

We're adding one more week of regular season games in order to make up some lightning-affected games and give a couple teams their quota of double headers.  We tried to be fair about it, tried to avoid too many rematches, that stuff.  After next week we'll have two Wednesdays of a single elimination playoff bracket.  So use this last week of regular season games to hone your stratagems so you'll peak at the right time.  These results will count towards establishing your seed in the playoff bracket!
Here's the schedule for this week's games:
5.30
Field A: Lil' Griffins (4) vs Puff the Magic Jackalope (8)
Field B: Stackin' Kraken (2) vs. Nessie (9)
7.00
Field A: Guardin' Gnomes (7) vs. Blue Oxen of Minch (6)
Field B: Calvinosaurs (1) vs. Man-Bear-Pig (5)
8.30
Field A: Calvinosaurs (1) vs. Funky Fly Foenixes (10)
Field B: Man-Bear-Pig (5) vs. Chupagoyles (3)

Now, last week's Results:

5.30
Stackin' Kraken vs. Blue Oxen of Minch
"A highly spirited game - no calls in the second half I believe.  Blue Oxen win 13-10 - Lexi was en fuego." - Seanboy
Oxen 13 - 10 Kraken

Man-Bear-Pig vs. Guardin' Gnomes
"There might have been a break or two in the first half by each team, but it was on serve at half, 8-7 bad guys. They score another break out of half, we get one back later, they get another to make it 12-10. They pull at 13-11, hard cap comes on during the point, we score, but lose by one at the cap...I remembered something!" - Cosgrove
Gnomes 13 - 12 Man-Bear-Pig

7.00
Guardin' Gnomes vs. Stackin Kraken
"Jason's team is really good.  We both had double headers and they proved fresher and less tired than us. " - Adam Morgan
Gnomes 13 - 9 Kraken

Nessie vs. Funky Fly Foenixes
"We played exceptional defense, but Nessie had a rockstar offense that wore us down. Foenix had some baller layouts, an outstanding showing by our ladies and a promising display of players who stepped into leadership roles as one captain was stuck at work and the other was gimping around the sidelines. We kept creeping back into the game and just when victory was within our grasp, it slipped out of our fingers again like sand through a sieve, or Cheetos into the couch. A competitive, entertaining and high-spirited game with many other awesome details I can't remember. Go team." - Winner
Nessie 14 - 10 Foenixes

8.30
Chupagoyles vs. Lil' Griffins
Chupagoyles 15 - 10 Griffins

Calvinosaurs vs. Puff the Magic Jackalope
"from all accounts a phenomenal game to watch. playing in it was much better. jackalopes closed the gap to two down at half, but the ryans duo (jesus they are fast) and the rest of their ballers came out blazing in the second half. it was damn fun."-Scott Hirons
Calvinosaurs 14 - 10 Jackalope


Leaving us the records:


Calvinosaurs 5 - 6
Stackin' Kraken 4 - 8
Chupagoyles 7 - 4
Lil' Griffins 7 - 4 - 1
ManBearPig 2 - 9
Blue Oxen of Minch 5 - 6
Guardin' Gnomes 6 - 6
Puff the Magic Jackalope 4 - 7 - 1
Nessie 9 - 3
Funky Fly Foenixes 8 - 4


See you Wednesday.

Week 9: Naughty

I wasn't around, but I heard there was lightning.  Here's the skinny results.

5.30

Guardin' Gnomes vs. Puff the Magic Jackalope

"Sorry to everyone playing at 7:00 yesterday - the kinetic energy and electricity from the 5:30 matchup between the Gnomes and Jackalopes must of stirred up a little something in the atmosphere.  Having to make multiple good decisions and consistant chilly throws during zone O created a surplus of unreleased craziness and holstered hucks.  This mixed with hard cutting and great D by both teams, all this energy created a nice little thunderstorm.  Our bad.  

Before we proceeded to truly 'make it rain':

• Jackawhaaaaats started the game holding onto a one break advantage until Gnomes went up 7-5.  
• A strong push from Jackalopes tied the game at 7's before Gnomes took half.  
• Jackalopes would have very likely taken the half had certain players not been strongly influenced to throw turnovers from sideline hecklers.  Seemed a good idea at the time.... the voice from the sideline seemed to only confirm my original intuition of 'Yes,  I DO have that throw'. We were both wrong.  
• After Garret throws ANOTHER awesome left handed cork-screwing hammer for a score, most of the team assumes this equates to a dramatic game-winning throw (refer to last week's write-up).  
• As basking in the glory of left handed hammers and the thrill of victory does not actually help much when the game is not actually over, Jackalopes quickly give up a point and the Gnomes take a 11-8 lead.
• Soft cap goes on sometime around now.
• Some of these points around now are pretty long.
• Jackalopes dig deep and claw back into a 11-9 game.  
• Seth gets a little manic again - accuracy of post-game write-up suffers.
• With a briliant, tow-the-line catch for score from Adrian, Jackalopes score another one!!!  This game is heating up!!!  They could do it!!!!  One more point for the tie!!!!  One more point for another thrilling universe point comeback win from the mighty Jackalopes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Wait, what?  Why are we shaking hands?  Hard cap went on that point... what?  Fuck.  Didn't hear that one.  " - Saggy

Guardin' Gnomes 11 - 10 Jackalope

and

Lil' Griffins vs. Nessie

Nessie 12 - 9 Griffins

7.00 Games Were Lightning-ed Out

8.30

Stackin' Kraken vs. Foenixes

Foenixes 13 - 11 Kraken

and

Calvinosaurs vs. Man-Bear-Pig

"after avoiding certain death by lightning the 8:30 crew got to play a game which was great! lots of running and catching and throwing" - Strazzer

Calvinosaurs 11 - 7 Man-Bear-Pig

And so the records stand:

Calvinosaurs 4 - 6
Stackin' Kraken 4 - 6
Chupagoyles 6 - 4
Lil' Griffins 7 - 3 - 1
ManBearPig 2 - 8
Blue Oxen of Minch 4 - 6
Guardin' Gnomes 4 - 6
Puff the Magic Jackalope 4 - 6 - 1
Nessie 8 - 3
Funky Fly Foenixes 8 - 3

See you tomorrow night.  Stay tuned for playoff info.