Kaboom #8 seed at World Clubs

The draft seedings for World Clubs have been released.

Force Side Line has a great break down of the seedings and what the Australian teams pools are.

Check it out

http://forcesideline.com/?p=445&cpage=1#comment-168

Trivia Night June 7th

Next week is the final week of Autumn League before everyone finally admits it's too cold and heads inside for Winter. What better way to celebrate the change in seasons (and the glorious acheivements of your team over the last few weeks) than to head along to the Kaboom Trivia Night. Apparently there will be audio and video rounds as well as the usual types of questions, so it promises to be good fun.

Place: Duntroon Golf Club
Date: 7th June
Time: 7:30pm for and 8pm start, finish up around 10-10:30
Cost: $10/head; Tables of 6-10 people each.
(Drinks will be available at the bar, about $3 a schooner I think?)

Email me (who dot is dot the dot schmooze at gmail got com) for more information or tickets.

So get your league team together to form a table and come along. It's a fund-raiser for Kaboom's trip to Europe to compete in the World Ultimate Club Championships and it's one of the only chances you'll get to see ACTUAL Kaboom players in the ACTUAL real world. There will be prizes. I don't know what they are. I'm sure they're nice though.

Soma training is HUGE

Brett has promised some more information on Soma's first training session last Sunday but apparently a whopping 30 people showed up. Awesome!

So if you're one of those people who waits to see whether everyone else likes something before trying it out it seems the evidence is clear. People like Soma training so you should get involved.

New Rules Website

The WFDF Ultimate Rules Committee has launched a new website to assist players in learning and understanding the Rules of Ultimate: http://www.wfdf.org/rules_ultimate.

The site contains a wealth of resources to help players self-referee as easily as possible, including; rule of the month, a basic version of the rules, various translations of the rules, decision diagrams, official interpretations and the all important rules quiz!!

I encourage everyone to check out the site - or if you have other rules related questions feel free to drop me an email (rules@afda.com)

Jo Creswell
AFDA Rules Officer

Two clubs in one weeked

Hi avid readers,

This weekend saw Canberra's two mixed clubs take to fields around the city. Although each club is at a very different stage in their journey it's a super exciting time for both clubs and well worth hearing about.

New Canberra club Soma started training on Sunday afternoon. It's great to see another club forming in the ACT. It'll give a much needed opportunity for local players to enjoy tournament ultimate and build and develop their skills. Unfortunately I couldn't make it along to their session but if anyone has any details they want to share it would be great to get a write-up to stick on the blog. Hopefully I'll get a chance to meet the crew and see how things are shaping up soon. Stay tuned for more details on this awesome development in the local scene.

Old Canberra club Kaboom had their second last training camp this weekend in preparation for the World Ultimate Club Championships in Prague in July. With the big event creeping ever closer Kaboom (minus local heart-thob Andrew Jackson and interstate weapon Michelle Philips who were at training camps for the national under 23s teams) had a strong weekend of high level and high intensity ultimate. Look out for an article (hopefully flattering) on Kaboom in that paragon of local reputable journalism "City News". There might even be some photos of somewhat dishevelled Kaboom players braving the cold nights at training last Thursday.

OK, my takeaway is no doubt ready so I'd better sign off. Keep an eye out for players from the local mixed scene at league or around the traps and stay tuned for more details on the exciting ultimate the ACT is producing.

Div. 2 ladder

Here is the updated div. 2 ladder:

Team	Win	Lose	Draw	For	Against	Difference	Total
Discotheque	5	0	0	50	36	14	10
ANU	4	1	0	45	40	5	8
Bananas	3	2	0	55	35	20	6
The Punters	3	2	0	48	39	9	6
Boffins	1	3	1	40	42	-2	3
Damn Beavers	1	3	1	38	41	-3	3
Devolutionaries	1	4	0	35	55	-20	2
Revelation	1	4	0	31	54	-23	2

Discotheque are now top of the ladder after beating ANU 11-5. Boffins and Damn Beavers both won their first games. With one game left the top 4 teams are decided, only the order they finish can change. Looking at points difference you would expect Bananas to finish 1st, Discotheque 2nd, Punters 3rd and ANU 4th. This just shows the importance of winning the close games, which there has been a number of this league. Had the Boffins and Beavers won more of these they could well have made the top 4.

Div. 3

Hi all,

Here are the div. 3 ladders so far:

Pool A			Pool B
King Truckers	10		Spin Doctors	8
The Brethren	6		Dickey Knees	6
Team Team	4		Ugly Shorts	6
ANU	4		Dynoshite	5
Go Fetch	4		La Da Duchi Crew	3
Bunny & The Bureaucrats	2		Muthatruckers	2

King Truckers are the only undefeated team so far.

The top 3 teams now go into a new pool and the bottom 3 also go into a new pool. Points carry over from games against the teams going into your pool. So with 3 games to go the new pools look like this:

Pool C			Pool D
King Truckers	4		Dynoshite	4
Spin Doctors	4		Go Fetch	4
Dickey Knees	2		ANU	2
Team Team	2		La Da Duchi Crew	2
The Brethren	0		Muthatruckers	0
Ugly Shorts	0		Bunny & The Bureaucrats	0

My div. 3 predictions are quite off which is probably to be expected. I am going to go out on a limb though and say that King Truckers will win the competition and Dynoshite will top pool D.