Weekend Roundup 2/8/10

A very uneventful weekend, with all major outdoor tournaments cancelled.   TiV barely managed a day of play before the subsequent two days were cancelled due to inclement weather.  The weather sure has been malevolent with practically no ultimate being played over the last two weeks.  Hopefully the trend does not continue for the weekend coming up;  some big national tournaments this weekend.

Bama Sectionals 2010 Location and Date

Just shot out a quick email to all the captains in the Bama Section regarding the location announcement for Bama Sectionals 2010:

We are going back to T-Town, baby!

Tentative date is April 10-11, so mark your calendars and alert the troops. As soon as I have confirmation on that, I will pass it along.

Tuscaloosa has consistently been a great location to host Bama Sectionals in the past, and this year should be no different. I will post the bid information for both cities that submitted a bid — T-Town and Huntsville, Ala. — later on the blog.

For now, enjoy the weekend and WHO DAT?!?

Weather Causes Havoc Once Again

The weather has once again cancelled tournaments this week with at least T-Town Throwdown and Discs over Georgia both being cancelled so far.   With 5 or 6 (I can’t really tell) Bama teams planning on attending T-Town, most of the section is sitting this weekend out.  Hopefully, T-Town can be rescheduled for later in the year.

Nationally, the big tournament this weekend would be Cultimate’s Trouble in Vegas.  No bama teams made the trip this year, but there is some South Region competition in Vegas.  Both Rice and Arkansas made the trip to TiV.  It will be interesting to see how they do.

T-Town Throwdown Seeds and Pools

Sam Bailey from Alabama was having some technical difficulties posting seeds/pools to the UPA’s Score Reporter, so he asked that I post them here on the blog.

I LOVE this kind of exclusive access!

Seeds

1. Bama
2. Miss State
3. Auburn
4. Vandy
5. Harding
6. Ole Miss
7. Lipscomb
8. Valdosta St.
9. Rhodes
10. UGA-B
11. Tenn Tech
12. Harding-B
13. UGA-D
14. Auburn-B
15. Bama-B

A Pool

1. Bama
2. Ole Miss
3. Lipscomb
4. Harding-B
5. UGA-D

B Pool

1. Miss St
2. Harding
3. Valdosta St.
4. Tenn Tech
5. Auburn-B

C Pool

1. Auburn
2. Vandy
3. Rhodes
4. UGA-B
5. Bama-B

Buy a Disc, Support Haiti

By now we all know about the tragedy in Haiti caused by the earthquake last month. There have been so many ways to offer support to date, but none quite like this.

Ultimate players now can purchase these discs for $20 to support the people of Haiti.

I am sure a number of you would be interested in this effort. Please pass this along to your teammates and anyone else you think might be interested in supporting a great cause.

SEC Championships

Inspired by the recent creation of the ACC tournament, I was thinking about what conferences could potentially do the same type of thing.  First, I had to look at what the ACC did do and model it after that.

The first thing that I did was look at the current ACC tournament being held.  I saw that the schools are in general very close together except for two outliers, Boston College and Miami.  These two schools were an average of 758 miles away and driving time of about 12 hours away so it made a sort of sense for them to not go.  They are also both relatively recent ACC members so rivalries might not be as pronounced as say NC St., UNC, and Duke.

Hub City Huckest

Lots and lots of tournaments to get to now that the season has started, but I got a note from the young team at Southern Miss regarding a tournament they plan on hosting later this spring.

Please consider sending your team to Hattiesburg to support this program. Get those bids in ASAP, because space is limited!

Info from the TD:

Hey guys,

USM is hosting a tournament in Hattiesburg, Ms on March 6-7. Cost is $150 per team, but we only have room for 10 teams. Deposit is due Feb. 24th.

See ya there
Red Mummert
USM Ultimate