To celebrate the thawing of the fields, and dusting off of our cleats, we’ll have a hat tournament!  All are welcome — you do not have to be registered for any league, or even be a part of Delaware Ultimate to participate.  It is a great way to introduce a friend to the sport.

When: Sunday, March 14th, 9:30 AM.  Arrive early so we can get the teams selected and games can start timely.  We will try and fit three rounds in so we can have one definitive winner.
Where: By the Can-Do playground at the Alapocas Run state park.  Yes, these are the great fields where we play league.
How Much: $5 gets you up to three games, plus a bit of food and fun.  Overage, if there is any, will go to support Delaware Ultimate.

There is no preregistration for the Spring Thaw Hat Tourney — just show up with $5 in hand and a will to play hard.

You’ve probably gathered that DelawareUltimate.com looks a bit different.  As you meander through some of the content on the site, if you see anything that looks odd, or jut isn’t working like you’d expect, drop my a note in the comments section.  (That’s right, comments are now enabled, so we’d like to hear from you, the Delaware Ultimate Community.)

For those of you still living in Internet Explorer 6 Land.  First, I’m sorry.  Second, some things on the site may not work exactly as expected.  IE6 is a nightmare and I won’t be supporting it in any designs going forward.  If you’d like to learn more about why, let me know and I can send lots of documentation your way.  I would strongly suggest moving up to the most recent version of IE (8), Firefox, Safari or Chrome.

Now that league is over, you have a burning hole in your Sunday schedule that needs to be filled. Filled with dreamy dreamy winter ultimate.

New Pickup

Sunday afternoons at 1PM in Rockford Park

If there is another activity taking up the fields, then we can play on the rear fields.

* Weather will not effect this pickup. I.e. if there is a little bit of snow, don’t wonder if it is happening. Throw on a sweatshirt and COME OUT!
* Pickup will play with current UPA rules. Also league level strategy will be employed (i.e. stalls, stacks, forces, etc). Still fun, still pickup, just smart pickup.
* Coed. Please please coed.
* Beginners welcome and encouraged. Learning and advancing your game is welcome and encouraged as well!
* First game is THIS SUNDAY (Nov 22nd) at 1PM! Bring a light and a dark! Bring water! Bring on your groove!

Please pass this on to email groups that you know who also play ulty, who might be interested (Arden, AI, Lums, PADA, etc). This pickup will not work unless folks know about it and come out.

Today concluded Fall League 2009 with a 3 round tournament.  Blue Team came out on top against the Black Team in the final game.  Fun was had by all.  Enjoy some pictures:

More:
From Alan Harbaugh http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2040457&id=1006437839&l=7520b134e1

From Matt Jones http://s983.photobucket.com/albums/ae311/delawareultimate/?albumview=grid

Pictures from the End of Season Party by Kennedy Comer:  http://www.facebook.com/KennedyComer?v=photos#/album.php?aid=2316072&id=11324069

If you’ve got pictures to share, email patrick@delawareultimate.com

FALL LEAGUE TOURNAMENT!

Reminder, this weekend is the FINAL TOURNAMENT. First round games begin at 10:00AM on Sunday (arrive a bit early to warm up and stretch).

Details as follows:
Round 1:
10:00 – 11:45
Field 1, Game A: Tye-Die (3) vs Red (6)
Field 2, Game B: White (4) vs Yellow (5)
bye: Blue (1) and Black (2)

Round 2:
11:45 – 1:15
Field 1, Game X: WA vs. Black
Field 2, Game Y: WB vs. Blue
Field 3, 5th 6th place: LA vs. LB

Round 3:
1:15 – 2:30
Field 1, 3rd 4th place: LX vs LY
Field 2, 1st 2nd place: WX vs WY

Round 1 & 2 games to 13, round 3 games to 15
Other details:
1 time out per half + 1 floater. All games 5/2 gender ratio unless captains agree to something different. Win by two, hard cap at +2 (ie. 15 or 17 depending on the round). Time cap goes on 15 min before game ends; under time cap add +1 to the highest score at the next goal, no time outs, hard cap.

Snacks (i.e. pizza probably) and drinks to end season.

Note:  Starting this week, November 1, League games will begin at 3:00PM sharp to account for Daylight Savings.

The scores and standings will be posted on the 2009 Fall League Page. Check it out!

The Fall League teams and schedule are posted on the Fall League page.  You should be hearing from your captain soon with a bit more information.  Our first game of the season is this Sunday, August 6 at 4pm.  See you there!!!

Fall League registration will be open until Friday (8/21), so register now.

Wait list for fall league begins on Saturday, and there is no guarantee you will get on a team if you sign up after Friday, so register today!

A few members of the Delaware Ultimate crowd joined the thousands of other players in Wildwood, New Jersey this past weekend.  There were a total of 102 fields, with most being used at the same time in games of 4 on 4.  Andrew Wisor took some photos for all to see:

http://skydrive.live.com/play.aspx?path=/photomail/%7B6c7684c1-13fc-4fb2-8895-739fb739d499%7D&image=F1016DAC7DCDB9D0!131&imagehi=F1016DAC7DCDB9D0!129&CID=-1080461847979771440

That’s right folks, Delaware Ultimate has jumped on the Twitter bandwagon with it’s very own twitter account (deultimate).  Get game and pickup reminders as well as other short tidbits of information by following DEUltimate.

Go ahead and follow us… we’ll wait.