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.