I’m going to put together anything I come across from Worlds. A lot of this is shared on the Freestyle Footbaggers page but not everything. It’s also nice to have access to it in the future once it drops off the Facebook page.
Official Worlds website – http://www.footbag.org/worlds2017/
Vasek routine (dropless) –
Nick Landes routine – https://www.facebook.com/josieann.kohler/posts/1525324194201525
TJ also went dropless though haven’t seen any footage of that yet. I believe Ivan will have comp footage up by tomorrow.
“On The Go With Joe” – http://www.kptv.com/story/36087636/on-the-go-with-joe-at-world-footbag-championships
Featuring Jim Penske.
Kickin’ it with 6x US Footbag Champ Jim Penske. He’s trying to win his first World Title in Portland this week. GO JIM! USA! USA! USA! pic.twitter.com/2o2gxacBaD
— Joe Vithayathil (@JoeVFox12) August 8, 2017
Oregon Live – 9 Things to do in Portland – http://www.oregonlive.com/events/index.ssf/2017/08/9_things_to_do_in_portland_in_the_week_ahead_1.html
Bits and Pieces from Portland Live – http://portlandtribune.com/pt/11-features/368208-249991-bits-and-pieces
Japanese article about Taishi – https://www.soccer-king.jp/news/japan/20170807/623489.html
Here’s a preview article I wrote on my Sport/Life site. http://sportslashlife.com/portland-prepares-world-footbag-championships/
Circle Contest Results – https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B86rdRJQKGcOb0wtczJHZ3ZwRFU/edit?filetype=msexcel
TJ Boutorwick, Nathan Bonslaver, Mark Monistere, Cass Taylor and Adam Keith through to main round of 16. Cass also beat Caroline Birch in Women’s Circle Contest, though I think there is a final still to come. The top 11 players had a bye.
Vasek was top see and his routine is above.
Open Singles Routines: Round 1 – Qualifications Tuesday, 8/8/2017, 1:15 PM
Pool A
Top 4 players advance:
Rank Player Score
1 Nick Landes 4.9368
2 Aleksi Airinen 3.8123
3 Wiktor Debski 3.3537
4 Daryl Genz 2.3263
5 Larry Workman 21 2.2512
6 Justin Blotsky 20 1.4416
Pool B
1 Ken Somolinos 4.2573
2 Gordon Bevier 3.2979
3 Nathan Bonslaver 2.9972
4 Cassandra Taylor 2.8940
5 Khoa Nguyen 19 2.8614
6 Bruce Li 22 2.8478
Top 4 players advance:
Rank Player Score
1 Jim Penske 4.6400
2 Taishi Ishida 4.1885
3 Pawel Nowak 2.9886
4 Peter Bowler 2.9264
5 Dante Diotallevi 18 2.4133
Pool D
1 Václav Klouda 4.9508
2 Juho Marjo 3.9925
3 T.J. Boutorwick 3.7913
4 Brian Sherrill 2.5936
5 Kevin Hogan 16 0.1021
There is a conference – the ESA conference next door and they have been posting a bunch of stuff on Twitter. I have a feeling this won’t work so well but you can click the links and see the Tweets themselves.
Added bonus at #ESA2017 in Portland. If the scale of the meeting gets to you, the world footbag championships are on next door. pic.twitter.com/vYhDrnpZBA
— Dieter Hochuli (@dieterhochuli) August 8, 2017
Today qualification round at World Footbag Championships in Portland USA. pic.twitter.com/WwxtUogESQ
— Vašek Freestyle (@vasek_freestyle) August 9, 2017
The 38th Annual IFPA World @Footbag Championships take place August 6-12! #portland #pdx #footbag #hackthesack https://t.co/ZmAQGO2k6l
— OR Convention Center (@oregoncc) July 14, 2017
#esa2017 is sharing the convention center with the footbag championships. Some participants are giving demos to ecologists! pic.twitter.com/If00Ewfabn
— Meghan Duffy (@duffy_ma) August 8, 2017
Matt Kemmer is going to be running some different panels, they sound really great. More info in this video