South Regionals

First round is in the books in Little Rock. All of the Bama Section teams are out of contention for a Nationals’ bid, but LSU took it to some of the region’s better teams in the 2nd-place bracket:

South Regionals Score Reporter

Ole Miss and Mississippi State both picked up a win after losing in the Championship bracket this morning.

If you have a first-hand account, broadcast it to everyone via the comments below.

Leave the Bama Section alone!

So it’s that time of year again … No, I am not talking about spring, or finals, or papers, or preparing for the summer, or celebrating bids to Regionals.

Nope, instead it is time to bash the Bama Section on RSD.

Happens every year. No matter how well the top team from the Bama Section performs (see ALL of LSU’s past performances at Regionals compared to their seed going into the tourney), Bama Secs gets no love. Not only that, but the section seems to be the whipping post for all of the wannabe ultimate gods and geniuses out there among the seemingly dwindling legitimate and logical ultimate minds.

For all of the non-respect the section gets, people sure do like to talk about us!

Not that the players/captains/coaches/bloggers of the Bama Section are free of blame here. Sure, we have added fuel to the fire in past years, but I always considered it self-defense. I mean, if no one else out there is going to stand up for the Bama Section’s honor than we certainly should.

Oh well, all of the chatter and Bama Section bashing will mean nothing once Regionals gets underway. Use it as bulletin board material if you like, but just make sure to break seed and beat at least one team that plans on looking past a Bama Section team at Regionals.

Oh, and one last thing …

2009 Bama Section awards

The voting period for All Bama Teams, Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year ended last night with a flurry, as several nominations were cast just before the midnight deadline. But all of the votes have been cast and counted, and I for one am thankful that this process is over.

Why?

Well first of all, I wanted to see who was going to win the two major awards this year. LSU swept the majors last year as Chris Bankhead took home his second consecutive POY honors and Daniel “DirtyD” Vermaelen walked away with the ROY award. But this year’s race for POY was up for grabs between two strong candidates — Bankhead and Mississippi State’s Arthur Corbitt — and the winner could not be determined until near midnight.

The ROY award also became a tight race between two young players from the state of Mississippi. Tyler Olander of Ole Miss and Daniel Zabaldano battled up to the midnight deadline along with Bankhead and Corbitt in another tight race.

Finally, I was tired of counting ballots and tallying the results. But now, the moment the Bama Section has been waiting for …

Bama Secs haiku contest

All of the action at the blog lately has been really, really fun. I love reading all the comments and keeping up with all the smack talk through the comments, and I hope y’all get some enjoyment out of it as well.

I figure if you did not, you would not read. But that has not been the case at all this week.

Since Monday, the blog has seen near-record setting days each and every day.

Badass

So to show my appreciation for everything that you guys have brought to the blog, I want to give something back. Not sure what to give yet, but determining the winner should be fun and worth everyone’s time: A Bama Secs haiku contest!

Winner gets something fun, discuss ideas in the comments. And start coming up with your best haikus. They can be ultimate-related, Vandy-bashing or Player-of-the-Year pimping, it is up to y’all! May the best hiaku win!

Submit your official haiku via email. I will compile the best-of-the-best and submit for all of the Bama Secs community to view and vote. Get ‘em in ASAP!

Ooooh, to kick things off:

Everyone loves haiku
Playing ultimate frisbee
John Clemmer’s sick pull

Nominations due by midnight

The voting process for All Bama Section Teams, Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year is four days in and going strong. Results will be posted tomorrow for all of the awards, so make sure to keep coming back to the blog for all the hearty discussion and reaction from the masses.

Just wanted to send this as a friendly reminded that nominations for these awards are due by midnight tonight. No nominations will be accepted after midnight, mostly because I am tired of tallying all of these darn emails. Nah just kidding, but I really do want to see the results of all this voting and I am sure most of you are eager to as well!

Quick update on the All Bama Teams

So I have spent the better part of the last three days compiling the nominations for the All Bama Section teams and making sure not to count the votes of those who voted more than once (I can figure it out, so why bother?). Anyway, I wanted to pass along a little update.

As I am sure most of you know, two players are running away with the nominations. And here is the real kicker: Right now, they only are separated by TWO NOMINATIONS. Unfortunately for you, I am not going to say who is in the lead, but I will say that one of these players had a double-digit lead heading into today and the other has made up significant ground.

Whoever gets the most noms is the Bama Section POY, so this is getting real interesting and fun for me to tally. So keep those votes coming — those of you who have not voted already, that is!

Pictures, videos, etc.

If you have any media — pictures, videos, Photoshopped goodness — from Bama Sectionals 2009 that you would like to share with all of us, please shoot it over to me via email.

As you can see below, pictures make the blog a better place. And videos even more so than that. And Photoshopped goodness is the stuff of legends. Just ask John “I can beat Vandy by myself, thank you” Clemmer.