The Canberra Ultimate Blog would like to apologise to

Chris Warris.


Sorry Chris.

(And sorry to Roger, whose photo I've slightly stolen. Am I allowed to do this? I can take it down if there's a problem. You should check out Roger's photos, he's got lots and they're grouse.)

You see, Blogger now gives statistics on pageviews for each post of a blog, and (in a really depressing way) the most commonly viewed post for this blog is the one from 2008 about the 2012 Dingos, the national men's team. In it, ACTUA graciously decided to save the AFDA the heartache associated with picking the team by doing it for them in an arbitraty and inexplicable way. However, looking back at this post to see just who was selected for one of the highest frisbee honours in the country, I noticed that we left off one man who would definitely be in any team ACTUA ever picked to represent the nation, Chris Warris.

We at the Canberra Ultimate Blog sincerely hope that Chris doesn't now dislike us because we left his name off the list, especially when there are so many other fine reasons to dislike us. It would be a shame to pass all of them over just because of a crazy mistake.

Anyway, this is a fine opportunity to educate the good people of the ACT about Chris Warris, and in doing so recall a fine era in the history of our fair city.

Chris Warris has been a stalwart of Australian representative teams for ages. He's played on the Dingos a bunch of times (and even been Vice Captain or something respectable like that), played Clubs with King Brown (an old-school men's club), Pie Wagon and Deathstar and even got the call up for Doughboy, a mysterious team of mostly Australian ex-pats who go to tournaments like the Kiamana Klassic each year in Hawaii. He also earned a well deserved gold medal at nationals with Newcastle's I-Beam earlier this year. It's a great track record.

But in amongst the glory, people overlook some of Chris Warris' real acheivements, like winning back-to-back league finals with Homebrand back in 2003 in Canberra, and leading the ACTion Men (second worst team name ever after Team Happy) to an earthshattering quarter final finish at nationals in Canberra in 2003 (back when the ACT used to host really big tournaments, when Jason De Roy lived here - he now lives in Queensland, guess which state is hosting the big tournaments now). He also hosted one of the last great house parties of the Canberra frisbee scene, with the stated aim of finishing all the alcohol in the house before he left town. I walked home at 3:00 wearing none of my own clothes and as I closed the front door I heard Pete Liddicoat say "Hey, I've found a bottle of wine." Good times.

So, we at the Canberra Ultimate Blog salute you Chris. Your plucky, reliable handling, enormous workrate, deft skills and unwavering committment are something for us all to aspire to. You'd definitely be on the 2012 Dingos if we were picking the team. Which we aren't. But you'll probably still be on the team anyway, because it's just good sense.