xEUCF 2009 Results

xEUCF, hosted in London, winners were...

Champions of Europe are:

Open: Chevron Action Flash (UK)
Women: Iceni (UK)
Mixed: Brighton (UK)
Masters: Helsinki (Finland) (runner's up, UK's Age Against the Machine)


Spirit Winners are

Open: Wall City (GER)
Women: Hot Beaches (CZ)
Mixed: Frizzly Bears (GER)
Masters: Frisbeurs (FRA)

Congrats to all teams involved, particularly all the very successful GB teams.

Happy Birthday!

Leamington Lemmings Ultimate Club have now been running for three years since being started up by someone who didn't even play at the time, back in September of 2006!


Back in 2006/2007 they entered fun tournaments, Glastonbury being their first ever outing. In the 2007/2008 season they started to enter UKUA Tour events, where they finished mid C-tour in the Open Division and had mixed fortunes in the Mixed Division. MT1 they won every game, MT2 they lost every game and MT3 they won every game; disc is a funny old sport. In the current 2008/2009 season Lemmings climbed towards the top of the B-Tour in the Open Division and recorded a top 16 finish in the Mixed Division, they also entered Leamu, a joint midlands team into the Womens Division.

Leamington Lemmings are now fairly established for such a young team, and are looking to build upon that in the 2009/2010 season. They continue to train over the winter, with excellent floodlit facilities and a huge sports hall at their disposal, why not go along and throw a disc with them, details on their website or facebook group. If Lemmings are one of the youngest teams, who are the oldest teams? Answers on a postcard...


This post was written whilst mostly listening to the rather excellent Lisa Hannigan album.

Burla Beach Cup 2009

Burla Beach Cup is a 5-0n-5 beach tournament just west of Pisa in Viareggio. To be honest, its a blimmin' great tournament. Pack your suncream along with a whole host of Brit teams, jump on a budget airline then party and play with a load of Swedes, Austrians, Germans, Dutch and Italian on the beach in the sun. Sounds like fun? That's because it is! (oh, and the Woodchicas are there too).

Bommie (Team Two) lays out for a disc in the Open Final (Photo: Paul Holden)

Three days of Ultimate are accompanied by three nights of partying, this years theme being Smurfs. Running on sand after a night on the pop is hard work, doing that for three days in a row in the hot sunshine is very hard work, yet still strangely enjoyable.

Josh from Bears throws whilst Red Wiley looks on (Photo: Paul Holden)

Division One, all the top Open teams, was won by Team Two, a team that looked to be made up of international superstars including The Beast. Division Two, the mixed division, saw a great final between Espana (Spain) and Bears Cavalry (UK) with the Spanish team just beating the Warwick students. Division Three, women and other party teams, was won by BASIC, the second time they've won it, congratulations to them.

Bommie bids on a disc in the final (Photo: Paul Holden)

It's a very well run tournament, and this year was as enjoyable as all previous years' classics. See you there in 2010.

This post was mostly written whilst watching the Singapore GP, they race at night don'tya'know.

Midlands Summer League Results

Midlands Summer League was a great success this year, hosted in Royal Leamington Spa, a total of six different teams competed to be crowned MSL '09 Champions.

There were appearances by University Nationals Champions, the Warwick Bears; Euro's entrants EMu also joined the party. Nearby school team Flux sent a Seniors and a Juniors team, plus hosts Leamington Lemmings entered a team plus second team the Leamington Lemurs.

Finals Standings* for MSL 2009:

1st - Flux Seniors

2nd - Leamington Lemmings

3rd - Leamington Lemurs

4th - Warwick Bears

5th - EMu

6th - Flux Juniors

A big thanks to all those who came along and enjoyed playing some great ultimate in some great sunny conditions!

This post was mostly written whilst sorting out the last few details for Burla Beach Cup.

* positions worked out by adding cumulative event results, points won = ((n+1)-p), where n equals the number of teams at the event and p equals their final finishing position.

Glastonbury Preview

Glastonbury is this weekend, you won't get chance to see Bruce Springsteen there, but you do get to play some Ultimate at the foot of Glastonbury Tor.

It's a great venue and a really fun tournament.

Leamington Lemmings at they're first ever tournament, Glastonbury 2007.

At the moment the weather's looking pretty damn fine, lets hope it stays that way!

According to the schedule Catch 22 have reformed, they've got to be one of the favourites to win it, as ever the Makings and Team Flange will also be up there. Will Super Mannschaft prove they're worthy of being seeded first, or can Vice cause an upset?

This post was mostly written whilst listening to the new Jamie T album.

Follow Up Edit: Catch 22 did indeed win the tournament with Team Flange runners-up, Flaming Galahs won Spirit.

Disc Golf, like Ball Golf but with a Disc

Last weekend DUFFA came down to Leamington for a joint social with the Leamington Lemmings. A game of Ultimate on the Saturday, was followed by a house party then a trip to Quarry Park for a game of Disc Golf on the Sunday.

Disc Golf is not a team sport, participants go around 18 'holes' in the fewest number of throws possible. You drive off from a 'tee' using a disc of a similar weight to an Ultrastar but much smaller in diameter and thinner in profile.

Lucas (L) and Smiler (R) win the Bronze at Duffa/Lemmings Doubles 2009

Duffa and Lemmings paired up and played doubles, results as follows:


1st Taj & Paul

2nd Steve & Bungle

3rd Smiler & Lucas

For more details on Disc Golf check out http://www.quarrypark.co.uk/

This post was mostly written whilst listening to Beck's 'Mellow Gold'.

Ultimate Clubs AGM

The Leamington Lemmings AGM is tonight.

University clubs have already had their AGMs for the forthcoming year, they did that ages ago. When do most Open (or Mixed or Womens) clubs have their AGM? At the end of the UKUA Tour Season (i.e. now) seems like a fairly logical place to start, but it's a long way off the start of the next outdoor season. Then again, do the Captains and Coaches need to be in place now for Winter training in preparation for the next season?

Also, where did all the 'roles' come about. It seems most Ultimate clubs have the same roles or positions as each other, did we all just copy each other? Not many other UK sports clubs have a 'President'. If the sport was invented in the UK, I wonder what roles we'd have had then?

I wonder who will be at the reigns of my club* after tonight, I'll probably ponder that whilst at Quarry Park on Sunday, playing a game of disc golf. Come join me.

*my club, as in the club I belong to, not meant in the possessive, although it is my club.

This post was mostly written whilst reviewing the exec roles and responsibilities document.