2006 May Online Competitions - Official release.

[BalinorNZ]

2006 May Online Competitions

Posted below are links to the video for each competition, each contains all the video entrys to that competition.

Feedback:
I encourage everybody to post in this thread with your predictions on how the ranking will go, and feedback on everybody's entrys. The players enter these competitons so they can find out what you think! Please let us know

Please also let us know what you think of the editing this month. Positive and negative critisism is good for the editors to hear so we can improve the presentation of the online competitions next time!

The official ranking will be decided by a panel of judges.

Competition Videos: (Click to download)
Open Sick One
Open Sick Three
Novice Sick One
Novice Sick Three

Final Overall Rankings:
Open Sick One Ranking:
(coming soon)

Open Sick Three Ranking:
(coming soon)

Novice Sick One Ranking:
(coming soon)

Novice Sick Three Ranking:
(coming soon)


Special thanks go to:
Our Judges!
This months awesome editors: Gray Chadwick and Ben Roskoe!
The IFPA for hosting the competition videos for us!
Most importantly all the players for participating! Great Job Guys!


Note: My apologies for the late release this month. It was mainly due to the competitions falling at the same time as my exams . This ment I didn't have a lot of time to co-ordinate everything for the editors. The lateness is also partially due to the lack of entrys (having to postpone the due date) and two of my editors failing to complete the task appropriately.

[HG]

Oh my god. You so krayzeeee nic.

Henry says:
Comps up soon?
[StR]BalinorNZ - Hammer time, says:
just to let you know, I made a replacement for your video because of a number of reasons that I don't have time to explain right now.
[StR]BalinorNZ - Hammer time, says:
I just posted 3/4 comps
[StR]BalinorNZ - Hammer time, says:
4th is uploading now
Henry says:
lol wtf
[StR]BalinorNZ - Hammer time, says:
You can post ur version in the thread if u want
[StR]BalinorNZ - Hammer time, says:
But you basicly made a joke of the whole thing, it would be ok if it was a novcie comp, but its open, and it's serious

http://www.footbag.org/gallery/show/8827

Whoever saw my video, was it or was it not done correctly? Just wondering.

[zeroman13]

Whoever saw my video, was it or was it not done correctly? Just wondering.

I liked it Henry! If thats any consolation.


To the editors: I really liked how each one of you has your own style. I think it was Nic's that had the border with the names and the moves hit in the bottome corner, GREAT idea. Now everyone doesn't have to remember what the tricks were. I don't remeber who's but they should've put the people in alphabetical order by last name, or first.

Good editing, kool songs (even though I'm not really into the hip-hop/rap stuff).

[james_dean]

I don't have time to comment right now (or even download them all) but I will later. Just wanted to say that the ending to yours henry was definately not the right feel for open comps. And you put nic's country as "-Oz" which was really lame

[BalinorNZ]

Firstly, thanks to everyone who made these competitions possible I hope we get lots of feedback about both the editing and the entrys!

I will be posting a link to these competitions at footbag.org and will hopefully be posting each of the videos on youtube for some public exposure .

Oh my god. You so krayzeeee nic.

Sorry Henry, I didn't have time to explain fully at the time because I was leaving just as you msned me. No hard feelings, it's just your video was not up to open standard, here are reasons why:
The intro and outro had nothing to do with footbag or with online competitions. They may have been funny, but the competitoins are not a joke.
Your titles were inconsistant (font size), this just shows a lack of care.
You were missing at least 2 entrys if I recall.
You didn't include player credits at the end, these credits are very handy for judging the events and they add another element of professionalism to the competitions.
You hard erroneous information in some of the titles.

To be honest I expected a lot more from you as you have edited many videos in the past, that is why I asked you to edit an open video. I guess with experiance doesn't always come discression.

[Anz]

I want to ask something:

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO SEALING THAT MADE IT SO UNCOOL???

Players: it's ok to seal the bag after you complete the move/combo. Don't let it fall on the ground.

[Kyle Hewitt]

Am I the only one who thinks alot of the Torque moves (I've only looked in the open sick 1) are 'the'?

[C-Fan]

Just watched the Open Sick3s, and was overall impressed. A few quick impressions, and then I'll go in depth later.

1. I agree that Sick3s should be sealed. Unsealed Sick3s, or sick3s where the seal is edited out/not shown will be scored significantly lower by me.

2. Finland has some nice combos.

3. Lee Van Sickle plays kinda like Ricky.

4. Pixie merlin was the in my opinion.

[RawSko]

sorry I didn't come through on the Novice Sick3s, Nic...

Tony Whitney, the spinning osis at the end of your sick3 was prolly my favorite part of the whole Novice Sick3 section. Beutiful! Props

[C-Fan]

Quick impressions of Open Sick 1.

Phil Morrison: really cool trick, pretty hard too.

Serge Kaldany: cool trick, but no seal?

Michal: bs alpine toe blur is very sweet.

Ben: PSDLO is a hard trick only if you stay over the dexes. Notice how you rotated a full 90+ degrees? That's a sure sign that you jumped around the dexes, and not over them. I'd consider this trick to be the.

Gray: Phoenix! PhOEnix! PhOENix! Arrrrrrgh!

Bjoern: the symp rev whirl starts clean, but doesn't end clean. I'd say its thin.

Anssi: I didn't see a second dex. It looked like leggy pdx illusioning refraction.

Kyle Hewitt: your stupid? YOUR stupid what? You'RE stupid. Geez, learn some grammar.

matt Coffman: great execution

Josh Gayhart: Wow, that was awesome! Clean set, good dyno. Very cool and original.

Tony: Nice PhOEnix. Do you hear that Gray? Nice PhOEnix damnit!

Lee Van Sickle: I thought the swirl was the. I also think you can hit this cleanly, and that your pixie ducking set looks like you will soon hit lots of huge stuff out of it. I greatly look forward to seeing you progress, you have mad potential.

Jamieson Terwilliger Hickingbothingham, Esquire. I already used up my comment word quota just typing your name. Your name has more letters than my entire commentary for Matt Coffman! That said, nice trick: very rare, and it was hit well.

Toby: Good torquescrew. Good short name. Good boy.

Bathgate: No seal, no trick. OK seriously? Good try, but the duck was really high (so I can't call it clean) and there wasn't a good angle on the blender dex. I'd love to see you hit this tighter and cleaner, and with a seal.

Aleksi: I was impressed that you used a diff furious set than in your sick 3. This nemesis was pretty good, but it could have been better. Both Ales and Sunil recommend starting to throw the 3rd dex either during the second dex, or IMMEDIATELY after it. I felt there was too much separation between the furious set and the down double to be really clean, but I don't think it was the. Very impressive.

[Kyle Hewitt]

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO SEALING THAT MADE IT SO UNCOOL???

Hand sealing is for losers like you.


Ken:You are a poopy face =(

[BalinorNZ]

Lol Ken, what would we do without you thx for feedback, I will hit gangsta more cleanly for you. I had a massive debate weather I would enter this or mind bender, I decided since it 'would be' my first 7 (if it was sealed ) that I would go ahead and enter it.

Ben, don't sweat it, u did a great job on sick 1

[Cod]

My personal ranking for Open Big One:

1. Aleksi Airinen - Nemesis
Almost every Nemesis I've seen on video was "the". These one was cool!

2. Jamieson Hickingbotham - Atomic Vortex
Wow! Perfect execution of a very hard move

3. Michał Biarda - Quantum Ducking Symposium Mirage
Sweet and hard as hell, hehe

4. Anssi Sundberg - Paradox Fluxscrew
Nice try, but this Osis...

5. Josh Gayhart - Blazing Dyno
Hard and well executed original move

6. Riku Ahola - Stepping Reaper
Very clean, hard and controlled move

7. Lee Van Sickle - Pixie Ducking Symposium Swirling Osis
So cool, but Swirl dex was thin

8. Toby Suggate - Torquescrew
Clean dexes and even good Osis

9. Gray Chadwick - Voodoo
Clean, but I don't like the delay

10. Samu Ahola - Marius
Clean dex, but Osis sucks

11. Bjoern Seifert - Pixie Ducking Symposium Reverse Whirl
Nice 6-adder, but you should hit it more controlled

12. Matt Coffman - G.Y.B.A.S.
Well executed easy move

13. Tony Whitney - Phoenix
Well executed easy move

14. Ben Rinowski - PS DLO
Symposium DLOs aren't clean if you make a 90 degree spin...

15. Kyle Hewitt - Phoenix
Easy 5-adder, too bad it's uncontrolled

16. Tuomas Riisalo - Blurry Symposium Torque
Super hard move, but again Osis sucks and no seal...

17. Serge Kaldany - Nuclear Muted Swirl
Hard and stylish move, but no seal...

18. Nic Bathgate - Gangsta Party
Ducking sucks, no seal, but nice try

19. Phil Morrison - Pendu...
These are two separate tricks...

Players: it's ok to seal the bag after you complete the move/combo. Don't let it fall on the ground.

Come on, people. Give us your rankings even if you're not judges!

[max]

I'm not an official judge for this comp. and I've only had a quick once-over of the sick Open Sick 1 but here is roughly how I see things based on creativity, style, execution and difficulty:

Josh Gayhart - Blazing Dyno
Jamieson Hickingbotham - Atomic Vortex
Riku Ahola - Stepping Reaper
Michał Biarda - Quantum Ducking Symposium Mirage
Phil Morrison - Pendulum set blind pincher
Serge Kaldany - Nuclear Muted Swirl
Aleksi Airinen - Nemesis
Lee Van Sickle - Pixie Ducking Symposium Swirling Osis
Anssi Sundberg - Paradox Fluxscrew
Toby Suggate - Torquescrew
Gray Chadwick - Voodoo
Tuomas Riisalo - Blurry Symposium Torque
Samu Ahola - Marius
Bjoern Seifert - Pixie Ducking Symposium Reverse Whirl
Matt Coffman - G.Y.B.A.S.
Nic Bathgate - Gangsta Party
Ben Rinowski - PS DLO
Tony Whitney - Phoenix
Kyle Hewitt - Phoenix

[Anz]

Someone should give Phil a trophy for hitting that cool sick1 -- but punch him in the belly at the same time, for dancing instead of shredding in his sick3.

[RawSko]

Someone should give Phil a trophy for hitting that cool sick1 -- but punch him in the belly at the same time, for dancing instead of shredding in his sick3.

hahaha

I think he deserves a second trophy for the "dancing" in his sick 3! That looked so funny... awsome!!

[BalinorNZ]

19. Phil Morrison - Pendu...
These are two separate tricks...[/size]

How is it two moves? He does a pendulous set spinning blind pincher and seals it with atw, probably one of the hardest moves here by FAR and DEFINATLY the most origional.

The only reason to drop a seal isn't lack of control, there is unexpectancy among other reasons to think about. I don't think a trick should be ranked last simply because of no seal, and a gangsta party with a thin duck is still much harder than phoenix, gybas, ps dlo, pixie ducking symp rev whirl and torque screw, maybe even marius. - This is my opinion.

I will give my rankings when I got some time!

[Iron Clad Ben]

I was mildly upset that for my Novice Sick 3 the outlining which shows what moves I was hitting cuts off my feet so you can't see that I'm hitting my moves cleanly.

Am I the only one who thinks alot of the Torque moves (I've only looked in the open sick 1) are 'the'?

I'll keep my comments brief because I can't hit Torque, but I think I a lot of the torque moves ended in BS-y frigidosises with no spin and weren't sealed very well. The mirage dexes looked ok, it's just the catches that were bad IMO.

EDIT: "Shreddie" awards to follow later this week. I've got some good ones.

[dp]

Will these be posted on the .org video gallery? Cuz I can't access modified.in at my house for some reason, and while I'm at a friend's house right now, I can't download anything over here. Please, please, please put these in the .org gallery!

[Matt_mcfarland]

they are at the .org gallery