The 1st Australian Beach Ultimate Championships (ABUC) has come and gone!! We had 6 teams attending, 1 local team, 4 from the Brisbane area and 1 Sydney based team come to enjoy the sunny Gold Coast. The weather for the weekend couldn't have been any better so if you live south of the border and want a break from the cold you are more then welcome to come along next year. The hotel selection by some of our attendants (a huge Pent House at only a couple minutes walk from the fields and with an incredible beach front view) created the perfect balance between competition and hard party plus they made everybody feel welcome. A great way to finish each day: Drinks, jacuzzi and get ready for dinner and party....or fly back home.
Results for ABUC 2012
1 - HUCKleberry Quince Crumbed (Spirit of the Game winner)
2 - Flex on the Beach
3 - Stoned Fish
4 - UQ Ultimate Lovers Fluttershy
5 - HUCKleberry Quince Finned
6 - UQ Ultimate Lovers Applejack
The winners of our competition; with their 3 games on the final day going to universal point HUCKleberry Quince Crumbed from Brisbane took the victory out of the hands of the locals Flex on the Beach. Not happy with just winning they also took the Spirit Prize!! It was great to hear from one of their very experienced players (one of 2012's flying foxes - the women's masters team) that it felt great to win both the tournament and Spirit. It led us to think that the level of competition was high enough to make this achievement special to them. Millerine Brikker from the Sydney based team (Stoned Fish) and Myles McCallum from UQ won our Our of their Skin prizes, a modified version of Most Valuable Player. The Out of their skin nomination encourages you to choose someone who played beyond your expectations. There is usually a short list of usual suspects when we have MVP nominations. The beauty of Out of their Skin has been that there is a very long list of people who gets nominated. It asks you to recognize the hard work of those who are not necessarily the most skilled, not the most experienced but the toughest warriors!! For them we offered either an annual subscription to ulti.TV or a three months subscription to The Ultimate Athlete Project, a training program specifically tailored at Ultimate Disc (Frisbee) players.
Congratulations to all involved with this event - It was nice to get the first National Beach title in before the first national indoor titles... it is Australia after all :-) Hope to see you back again next year and some new faces as well.
Results for ABUC 2012
1 - HUCKleberry Quince Crumbed (Spirit of the Game winner)
2 - Flex on the Beach
3 - Stoned Fish
4 - UQ Ultimate Lovers Fluttershy
5 - HUCKleberry Quince Finned
6 - UQ Ultimate Lovers Applejack
The winners of our competition; with their 3 games on the final day going to universal point HUCKleberry Quince Crumbed from Brisbane took the victory out of the hands of the locals Flex on the Beach. Not happy with just winning they also took the Spirit Prize!! It was great to hear from one of their very experienced players (one of 2012's flying foxes - the women's masters team) that it felt great to win both the tournament and Spirit. It led us to think that the level of competition was high enough to make this achievement special to them. Millerine Brikker from the Sydney based team (Stoned Fish) and Myles McCallum from UQ won our Our of their Skin prizes, a modified version of Most Valuable Player. The Out of their skin nomination encourages you to choose someone who played beyond your expectations. There is usually a short list of usual suspects when we have MVP nominations. The beauty of Out of their Skin has been that there is a very long list of people who gets nominated. It asks you to recognize the hard work of those who are not necessarily the most skilled, not the most experienced but the toughest warriors!! For them we offered either an annual subscription to ulti.TV or a three months subscription to The Ultimate Athlete Project, a training program specifically tailored at Ultimate Disc (Frisbee) players.
Congratulations to all involved with this event - It was nice to get the first National Beach title in before the first national indoor titles... it is Australia after all :-) Hope to see you back again next year and some new faces as well.
