Tryouts and open training sessions started last week for the 2011 campaign. We are always interested in getting more people along to training and for competitive new blood, so if you are interested in coming to our Tempe sessions please contact us.
Umlaut attended the Australian Ultimate Championships over the Anzac Day long weekend and achieved moderate success, clocking up a few wins and holding seed.
Although the team had a win every day of play they failed to crack the top 12, then lost in a close and exciting game against Thunder in the 13/14 play off. Umlaut had beaten Thunder 15 - 9 on day two, but Thunder (the Australian under 19s representative team) had improved immensely throughout the tournament. Umlaut had a bad start, trailing 6 - 1 early and 8 - 4 at half, but pulled out all stops to be within 1 point for most of the second half. The juniors held out to take the game 15 - 12.
This is the third year of Umlaut's existence and the second year of Nationals, and each year has seen huge improvement. The team sent to Nationals this year was by far the best Umlaut team seen yet. Even between Regionals and Nats there was a vast improvement, which is a credit to the effort the players have put in.
We hope to see this trend continue and Umlaut emerge even stronger next season.
At Regionals Umlaut failed to cause any upsets, but held their ground to make seed. This initially was not enough, but with the North region not taking all their spots another became available for the East region. So Umlaut has scraped through as the seventh team from East, and the fourteenth seed overall.
Seeds for the Australian Ultimate Championships 2010:
1 Heads of State (South)
2 Colony 1 (East)
3 Chilly (South)
4 Colony 2 (East)
5 Firestorm (North)
6 Sublime (West)
7 I Beam (East)
8 Karma (South)
9 Fyshwick Utd (East)
10 Ultimate Evolution (South)
11 Queensland 2 (North)
12 Eastern Greys (East)
13 Fakulti (East)
14 Umlaut (East)
15 Bad Apples (South)
16 Aussie Thunder (u19s)
The location of Eastern Regionals has finally been announced by UFNSW.
Ultimate Frisbee New South Wales is plased to announce that the upcoming Opens and Women's Eastern Regional Qualifying tournament will be hosted by Newcastle Ultimate on March 13 and 14, in Tarro, Newcastle.
The tournament director is Ellie Sparke and will be assisted by the members of the TOC including Tim Lindsay-Brown, Liz Dodd, Rhys Clenton and Chris Hill.
The AFDA have announced the allocations for Nationals bids.
Based on the AFDA policy http://www.afda.com/policies/national_championships_policy_20090228.pdf
and
Current rankings http://www.afda.com/showcontent.php?page=national_rankingsThe allocations for Nationals 24-27 April 2010 Adelaide would be
Open
North 1
South 5
East 4
West 2
NZ 1AFDA - allocated to U19 team
Wildcards 2 (Based on Regional participation)
Total 16
East is likely to get at least one of the wildcard bids, but the competition for that last place at Nationals is still likely to be fierce. Newcastle, Fyshwick United and the two Sydney Men's teams are likely to take up the first four spots. It's not certain what other teams will be competing, but it's likely Umlaut will be jostling with Fakulti, Hills, Manly, and possibly others for the final place.
Umlaut will be holding tryouts for the 2010 open season on Wednesday nights during January. Any guys who are keen to play and train are welcome.
Umlaut is an open club team which trains in the Inner West.
Dates: Wednesday 6th, 13th and 20th January
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Steel Park, Illawarra Rd, Marrickville (same place as Inner West League)
To put yourself up for selection just turn up on the first night. If you are interested in playing with Umlaut but are unable to make any or all of those dates, please email me.
Following our somewhat successful 2009 campaign, qualifying for Nationals in our second year, Umlaut will be back at Eastern regionals contending for a place at Nationals in Adelaide. Training will be starting sometime early next year, on Wednesday nights at the Steel Park fields in Marrickville.
A proper plan is forthcoming, but we'll probably be having tryouts in January.
If you are interested in playing with Umlaut please email the captain wally@walradio.com.