ACT bid for regionals

It's been a lean few years for major tournaments in the ACT. We hosted the Brisbane Canberra Iinvitational in early 2009, which had 8 mens teams and 4 womens teams, but before that the only really big tounrament we've held was Nationals in 2003. The ANU and SOMA have been really active lately, running hat tournaments and IVs, but there hasn't been anything on a national or regional scale for a while.

With this history it's pretty exciting that the ACT women's team, Factory, have put in an expression of interest to run Regionals in mid February. Apparently there have been a few bids for regionals from around NSW and the ACT, so let's hope the admin gods smile on us and let us run the tournament here. After all, we've got great fields. Last nationals, all four of the semi finalists in the Open division were from the Eastern Region, as well as 3 of the four women's semi finalists, so Regionals always features some quality play.

The Brisbane Canberra Invitational is also set to be held in Canberra in March (it switches between Brisbane and Canberra each year). This is Australia's only invitiational tournament and is set up to produce some great games.

If you're interested in helping out at either tournament let me know at who dot is dot the dot schmooze at gmail dot com. We'll need volunteers to help with managing the tournaments, parties, food, billet and money as well as a horde of helpers to put up shade tents, collect scores, refill water containers, sort lunches and fill the jelly wrestling pit on the weekend themselves.

Even if you can't help out, make sure you come to the fields when the events are on and support the local teams. High level ultimate is great to watch and you can see where some of the best teams in Australia are headed. I'll post more details when I get them.