Phoenix

An interesting day of Ultimate at the Ontario Open Regionals has finished and the top three seeds are each tied for first with three wins and one loss apiece. Firebird has proven to be particularly strong and will likely not face ROY in the game to go on Sunday afternoon. Day 1 results are available on the WODSwebsite: Day 1 results .

Ultimate season has kicked off in North America with tryouts and as our top teams form up my thoughts turn (once again) to WUCC 2010 in Prague. While announced years ago the preparations and team lists for Prague are far from complete. Teams across the divisions continue to drop out (Ultimate players are notoriously flaky…ask any Tournament Director) while dedicated teams fill the spots freed up. Last week Doublewide locked in their spot and a team that hasn’t been seen internationally all that much should stun many teams this July.

Thank you to Jamie for providing the Phoenix roster as selected for Phoenix. Unlike many teams Phoenix hasn’t changed much from their CUC 2009 roster. Jamie Craig (C) Andrew Corey (C) Derek Alexander (C) Kenneth Alexander William Alexander Jonathan Haig Ewan Reid Reynaldo Arteaga Mathew Goodkey Robert Schmidt Sebastian Bell Brent Gerhart Dan Turcotte Ramsey Wright Matthew Cole Colin Froats Aaron Kucherawy Joel Bellavance Ryan Bauer Bryce Ring Mathew Berg Kielan Way Sean Harkins Luke Phelan Paul Cobb Neal Dawson Scott Westwell Karl-Frederick Loiseau This is a young and fit team with plenty of experience; how will they fare against Australia and the UK?

During our live broadcast the server first went down at the end of the Open game (I could feel the frustration). Here is the end of that game to all those that missed it. Mephisto in black, Phoenix in white. [flv:http://s1.iamultimate.com/cuc_2009_open_finals_end.flv 400 320] Sorry, no iPhone version this time around.

July 4th weekend fast approaches and while that means Potlatch in the NW it means Flatlands in Manitoba (Prairie Regionals included) and Jazz Fest in Montreal. Teams and seeds have been postedfor Jazz Fest and it looks like it’s going to be tightly competitive. As expected Storm takes the top seed followed closely by PPF (who will be without their captain Darcy D. as she’s at Potlatch). Conspicously missing are Stella and Lotus persumably due to Boston Invite last weekend but one would expect Stella to play in a tournament so close to home.