IMPORTANT: Final details for IFPA World Footbag Championship

[dex-ter]

The IFPA World Footbag Championships in Prague is just over a week away! We have some important and handy information to give you before you start your journey. Please try to read all the information below.

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1. SCHEDULE:

We have reviewed and updated the official event schedule, and it is now on the Worlds website at http://www.footbag.org/worlds2008 in the "Tournament" section. I'm also including it at the end of this e-mail below. (Please note: as always, the schedule is tentative and subject to change, but we are confident of the basic structure at this point, so you can make your final plans.)

2. LODGING:

Hostel Zahradni Mesto has no more beds available, so please do not contact the hostel to ask for a room. If you are still looking for a cheap place to stay, we have some recommendations for you on the Worlds website at http://www.footbag.org/worlds2008/accommodation.php (Note that we don't have an arrangement with any of the places listed; these are just ideas and recommendations from the Worlds staff.)

There are still hotel rooms available in the area around the Slavia sports complex. For hotels, please contact Mrs. Jirina Waidlichova who we have been using as our official local travel agent. The details for going through Mrs. Waidlichova are listed on the registration form:
http://www.footbag.org/registration/reg ... 1194517448

3. REGISTRATION: (**important**)

The registration deadline is on August 7th -- so you only have a 6 days left to register and pay.

IMPORTANT: We really need you to pre-pay. The benefits of this are enormous not only for us, but will make your day also. If you are pre-paid you will have your own express lane for check-in. All you will need to do when you go to check-in will be to sign your Player's Booklet, verify your events and partners, and pick up your player's packet which will be prepared for you beforehand with a "special prepayment" bonus for those who understand you have to pre-pay. This means your T-shirt (correct size) will also be reserved for you and put in a bag with your name on it, so that you don't have to worry if you arrive late and the size you want is gone!! This is a very good benefit for you, and helps us immensely as well, so we strongly urge that everyone pre-pay by August 7th, using the online registration form at:
http://www.footbag.org/registration/reg ... 1194517448

Late registration and check-in will run on Sunday, August 10th, at Slavia Athletic Stadium (the event site) from 11am (11.00) to 10pm (22.00).

This is the time when you can arrive, pay your fees if necessary, and get your player's pack. This is the ONLY chance for you to check in if you did not pre-pay by August 7th!! Only "guests" (not competing) or pre-paid players will be able to pick up player's packs after this time.

If you are pre-paid or a "guest", your registration is guaranteed, and if you can't make it to the express check-in on Sunday, you will still have two possible 2-hour windows when you can pick up your player's pack: on Monday and Tuesday from 11:00 - 13:00.

If you are just pre-registered but not pre-paid, then you will stand in a long line. If this is your case, please have your registration money ready in exact change.

If you are not registered at all, then you will pay a high late registration fee and will have to wait until all others are served. We are very serious about this -- please do everything you can to pre-pay so that you can avoid long lines and late-registration penalties. And please understand that if you did not pre-pay by August 7th, you must arrive by Sunday evening to register and pay on-site. After that, you will not be allowed to compete in any events.

Some people don't have international credit cards which are required for the online registration. In this case, we recommend you contact someone in your club who is also going, or a parent or family member, and ask them to pay your fee for you. Then you can pay them in cash. It is worth this, we promise! And you only have until next Thursday to do this, so please don't waste another minute.

If you are unwilling/unable to pre-register/pre-pay before August 7th, and you can't attend Sunday's check-in times to register and pay, then you must find a friend to do this for you, or you will not be able to compete in any events! This is very important.

On-line registration and payment should only take you 4 minutes. We strongly recommend you do this now and don't want until the last minute: http://www.footbag.org/registration/reg ... 1194517448

4. PLAYER SPONSORSHIPS:

If you have chosen to sponsor this event with a donation as part of your online registration, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. This event will be very expensive, and anything you can do to offset our costs would be greatly appreciated and will go to making this an even better event for all the players.

However, we need to know for sure who our sponsors are. Simply selecting a sponsorship amount on the online registration form is easy -- the hard and important part is actually sending us the money. Because we want to credit our sponsors in the player's booklet, and thank our sponsors in various ways, we really need to know for sure who is CONFIRMED as a sponsor before we print all the materials, etc.

So, if you are planning to donate money via the registration form, please be sure to pre-pay by August 7th! If you don't, we can't list you in the player's booklet and we may not be able to recognize you. We sincerely appreciate all the help we have been pledged through the online registrations to date, but only a few of the people listed have actually pre-paid; so unfortunately unless you go back and pay before August 7th, we may not be able to give you all the recognition you deserve. See above for additional pre-payment information.

5. NEW EVENTS ADDED:

Due to popular demand, we have added a few events to the registration form since our last announcement:

* We are offering a Master's Net Division (35 of age and up) for both master's singles and master's doubles net.

* For the Open Women's Freestyle Division, we're adding Open Women's Circle.

* We have added Open Sick 3-Trick to the freestyle events offered.

If you wish to compete in any of these events, and did not see them when you first registered, please simply return to the registration form and choose the additional events you would like to play. This won't change the cost; so, if you pre-paid, it will just automatically confirm your registration. To add or change events, simply return to the registration form as often as you like before August 7th and click through the screens until you confirm your new registration:
http://www.footbag.org/registration/reg ... 1194517448

6. GENERAL INFORMATION:

So far, we have 217 players from 24 countries who have pre-registered online. Unfortunately, of those, only 67 have actually pre-paid as of today -- not the ratio we were shooting for. So PLEASE do your part to pre-pay before the deadline.

Also, each night there will be a social gathering in various cool places; more information will be available in the player's booklet once you check in.

For local information, a lot of details are on the Worlds website at <http>.

Feel free to e-mail worlds2008 @ ifpa DOT footbag DOT org to get help with any last-minute questions or concerns you may have. We look forward to presenting one of the best IFPA World Footbag Championships to the footbag community in just a week and a half from now!

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Jan Struz
Tournament Director
IFPA World Footbag Championships
FPA European Freestyle Frisbee Championships
http://www.footbag.org/worlds2008
+420 603 435 677

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (*subject to change)

Sunday, August 10 - Slavia Athletic Stadium

11:00 - 22:00 Registration

Monday, August 11

11:00-13:00 Prepayed and Guests late registration

NET

11:00-11:15 Women's, Master's and Intermediate Singles Footbag Net
Players' Meeting
11:30-14:00 Intermediate Singles Net Pools
11:30-14:00 Master's Singles Net Pools (Pools of 3)
11:30-14:00 Women's Singles Net Pools
14:30-14:45 Open Singles Footbag Net Players' Meeting
15:00-18:00 Open Singles Net (Pools of 3)
18:30-19:30 Open Singles Net Round of 64

FREESTYLE

Welcome shred

18.00 Freestyle Judging Certification Clinic

Tuesday, August 12

11:00-13:00 Prepaid and Guest late registration

NET

11:30-11:45 Women, Open and Intermediate Doubles Footbag Net Players' Meeting
12:00-15:30 Open Doubles Net Pools
12:00-15:30 Women's Doubles Net Pools
12:00-15:30 Intermediate Doubles Net Pools
15:45-16:00 Mixed and Master's Doubles Footbag Net Players' Meeting
16:00-19:00 Mixed Doubles Net Pools
16:00-19:00 Master's Doubles Net Pools

FREESTYLE

14:00-16:00 - Intermediate Singles Freestyle Qualifications
16:00-17:00 - Open Doubles Freestyle Qualification
17:00-18:00 - Women Freestyle Qualification
18:00-22:00 - Circle Qualification

Wednesday, August 13

NET

DOUBLES NET EVENTS (10.00-16.00)

10:00-12:00 Master's and Mixed Doubles Net Consolation (1 game to 15 points)
12:00-15:00 Open, Women's and Intermediate Doubles Net Consolation (1
game to 15 points)
10:00-14:00 Intermediate Doubles Net thru Semifinals
10:00-13:00 Master's Doubles Net thru Semi-finals
12:00-13:00 Master's Doubles Net Semi-finals
14:00-15:00 Women's Doubles Net Quarterfinals
13:00-14:00 Open Doubles Round of 32
14:00-15:00 Open Doubles Net Round of 16
15:00-16:00 Mixed Doubles Net Quarterfinals

SINGLES NET EVENTS (16.00-21.00)

16:00-21:00 Open/Women's/Intermediate/Masters Singles Net Consolation
(1 game to 15 points)
16:00-19:00 Intermediate Singles Net thru Semifinals
16:00-17:00 Women's Singles Net Round of 16
17:00-18:00 Women's Singles Net Quarterfinals
16:00-17:00 Open Singles Net Round of 32
17:00-18:00 Open Singles Net Round of 16
18:00-21:00 Master's Singles Net thru Semi-finals
19:45-21:00 Master's Singles Net Semi-finals

FREESTYLE

14:00-19:00 - Open Singles Freestyle Qualifications
19:00-20:00 - Sick 3 Qualification
20:00-21:00 - STP Qualification
21:00-22:00 - Shred 30s

19:00 - IFC Meeting

Thursday, August 14

NET

DOUBLES NET EVENTS (10.00 - 15.00)

10:00-12:00 Master's and Mixed Doubles Net Consolation (1 game to 15 points)
12:00-15:00 Open, Women's and Intermediate Doubles Net Consolation (1
game to 15 points)
10:30-12:00 Intermediate Doubles Net Bronze Match
10:30-12:00 Master's Doubles Net Final
11:30-12:45 Open Doubles Net Quarterfinals (games to 15 points)
12:00-13:15 Women's Doubles Net Semi-finals
13:45-15:00 Mixed Doubles Net Semi-finals
14:45-16:00 Intermediate Doubles Net Final

SINGLES NET EVENTS (16.00 - 21.00)

16:00-21:00 Open/Women's/Intermediate/Masters Singles Net Consolation
(1 game to 15 points)
16:00-17:15 Intermediate Singles Net Bronze Match
16:00-17:15 Master's Singles Net Final
17:00-18:00 Open Singles Net Quarterfinals
18:00-19:00 Women's Singles Net Semi-finals
19:00-20:00 Intermediate Singles Net Final

FREESTYLE

15:00-17:30 - Open Singles Freestyle Semi-finals
17:30-18:30 - Intermediate Singles Final
18:30-19:00 - STP Final
19:00-20:30 - Request Contest

21.00 - EFC meeting

Friday, August 15

FREESTYLE FRISBEE - Slavia Ground Hockey Field

10.00-10.30 Players meeting
10.30-12.30 Prelims Pairs - two pools
12.30-13.00 break for the results announcement
13.30-14.30 Semi Pairs A
14.30-15.30 Semi Pairs B
15.30-16.00 break for the results announcement
16.00-18.00 Preliminary Coop - two pools
18.00-18.30 break for the results announcement
18.30-19.30 Mix Pairs Semifinals

NET

10:00 Women's Singles Net Bronze Match
11:15 Open Singles Net Semi-final 1
12:30 Open Singles Net Semi-final 2
13:45 Women's Singles Net Final
15:00 Mixed Doubles Net Bronze Match
16:15 Open Singles Net Bronze Match
17:30 Open Singles Net Final

FREESTYLE

19:00-19:30 - Sick 3 Final
19:30-20:30 - Open Doubles Final
20:30-21:30 - Circle Final

Saturday, August 16

FREESTYLE FRISBEE - Slavia Ground Hockey Field

10.30 - 11.00 Players meeting
11.00 - 12.00 Semi Coop A
12.00 - 13.00 Semi Coop B
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 - 15.00 Mix pairs finals

NET

10:00 Women's Doubles Net Bronze Match
11:15 Open Doubles Net Semi-final 1
12:30 Open Doubles Net Semi-final 2
13:45 Women's Doubles Net Final
15:00 Open Doubles Net Bronze Match
16:15 Open Doubles Net Final
17:30 Mixed Doubles Net Final

FREESTYLE

18:30-19:30 - Coop Freestyle Frisbee Finals
19:30-20:00 - Women Freestyle Finals
20:00-21:00 - Pairs Freestyle Frisbee Finals
21:00-22:00 - Open Singles Freestyle Finals

[Moglum]

Pls take a few minutes to read a last moment registration reminder

Looking forward to seeing you all in Prague!!

[Ian Brill]

This prolly doesn't need to be a sticky any more (for organizational purposes).

[mosher]

Also, from the sounds of it all this planning was mostly hypothetical.

[Ian Brill]

[C-Fan]

As long as this continues to be stickied, I figured it'd be a good place to put this article about Little Sister.

This New York Times article talks about how the financial crisis has hurt the prostitution business in Europe. Half the article talks about a brothel in Prague called "Little Sister." If it sounds familiar, it's because that's the place where the afterparty on Saturday night (so, the final party of Worlds) was scheduled to take place. When I got the players book at worlds, I thought it was a bit tasteless to have a strip club as the final afterparty of worlds, and to print it in the players booklet. Only now do I find out: it's not just a strip club, it's an actual brothel! Be sure to read the part about men getting to have free sex, in exchange for their consent to be filmed and broadcast.

You stay classy, Worlds 08.

[Moxie]

As long as this continues to be stickied, I figured it'd be a good place to put this article about Little Sister.

You'll have to find another place to post that now.

[mc]

historic post, ken. that is fuckin great. thank you for that!!

literal LOL on that one. God, I wish I could have been at worlds 08!

[Drew]

haha nice find! that article is a good read

Is it safe to say that nobody would want Prague to lose its spot as one of the world’s top 20 sex destinations.

[Wasabi]

Judging from all of the toiletry mishaps that happened during Worlds this year at Prague, I'm not sure if a brothel, given the opportunity to sex people up, would be a healthy idea.