Beantown Throwdown '09 beeeches! April 24-26th

[slapdash21]

ITS TH' BEANTOWN THROWDOWN!

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you know where its at, now boys and girls here is some more informations for yous.

Who's Gonna Be There??!

Fo' Sho'
Boston Crew-
Pete Bowler
Doug Tank
Kevin Andrews
Francisco Dias
Chris Williams
Ben Little
~(beverly crew)Kevin Hogan
~(beverly crew)Kevin Lassar

Drew Krause
Drew Martin
Waylon Lew
Tim Smith
Jon Schneider!
Benny K!
Vince
Bob Reifer (oh snap son)
Flavio Loetscher
Will "spray lubricant" Digges
Ianek R.
Mathieu Gauthier
Mathieu Giard
Colin Kennedy
Bruce Dole
Aiden Clemente
Freddy Noinaj
Ben Cooke


Not Confirmed yet, dammit
Ken Somolinos
Sam Neale



Locations:

change of plans, we're using the park across the street from my house for convenience, for the ready-made 4 square court, and because of one other thing that has a lot to do with my lazyness...but the park across the street from my house is honestly a better spot anyway.

as far as a backup, indoor spot, i have a room downstairs (where church is held every sunday, actually) that if it was raining we could use as an indoor spot for shred and comps (WHICH ARE ON SATURDAY), however the most footbaggers it would be able to fit comfortably playing at the same time would probably be like 20. its like maybe a tiny bit smaller than that dance studio NYFA uses with the mirror on the wall and the weird bathroom. but it has a good tiled floor, good lighting, sound system, heating and A/C, and obviously bathrooms and a few refrigerators. my house is very easy to get to off the highway (93) as well. let me know if anyone needs help with directions n shit.

STUFF TO BRING-

-footbag gear...dont forget AT LEAST 1 pair of shorts, shoes, bags, etc
-5 dollars if youre just shredding and not competing, 10 dollars if you are competing
-money for food, beer, etc
-sleeping bag, pillow, blanket
-stuff for the party (remember, green is decriminalized in MA )
-anything else you're gonna want...duh


T-Shirts

There will most likely be NO T-Shirts. but maybe like stickers or something.

Cost:

5$ general entrance fee, 10$ total fee if you want to do any or all competitions.

Competitions: (*post or PM other suggestions for specific comps you want to do*)

Circle Comp (Cash Prize/trophy for 1st place)
Big 1 (trophy/footbag)
Sick 3 (trophy/footbag)
Rippin' Run (autographed Rod Laver/footbag)
10 (pride and glory)
routines (non-judged)
Weird 1 (autographed Rod Laver/footbag)
Squares (not sure yet)

Intermediate Competitions:
Circle Comp
Big 1 (dependant on participation)
Sick 3 (dependant on participation)


A rough schedule:

Friday:
6 PM to Late Yahtzee, Scrabble, whatever game you bring, Dinner at my house for whoever's arrived already, casual shred

Saturday:
9 AM-10:30 AM breakfast (maybe eggs, toast, cereal, pancakes, fruit, etc)
11:00 AM warmups begin
12:00 PM very light lunch, mostly fruit, energy bars, snacks, etc
12:30 PM Intermediate Big 1, Sick 3
12:45 PM Open Big 1, Sick 3, Rippin' Run
1:30 PM Intermediate Circle
2:00 PM Routines Open Weird 1, "10," and OPEN CIRCLE
3:30 PM Casual shred across street until 5-6 PM
4:00 PM 2/4 Squares Comp
5-6:00 PM Subs/Pizza from Al Capone's at my place, approx. $5 per person
6:00 PM Boston bowl for bowling/pool/arcades
8:00 PM Head to Fran's apt for players party, Competition winners announced, Prizes awarded!

Sunday
Up by 12:00, light breakfast of whatever
12:30 PM head downtown by car/train for downtown shred on common
2 PM-rest of day probably lunch in food court downtown, sight-seeing, shred around downtown, possibly Northeastern, etc

SUBJECT TO CHANGE, open to suggestions


Crash Space:

My House (my parents house, QUIET HOUSE, NO SMOKING/DRINKING/PARTYIN')-
Jon Schneider
Mike Toolan
Drew Krause
Waylon Lew
Ianek R.
Mathieu Gauthier
Mathieu Giard
Colin Kennedy

Fran's Apartment (Party Location, Smoking/Drinking ok, Cigs outside)


Doug's Dorm (lame, but at least its a suite)- room for 3
Ian Pf.
Flavio L.

Sponsors:

Bruce Dole, of NYFA (trophies)

Freedom Footbags

Pete Bowler, and the BSC (footbags, moneys)

Ian Pfiefer (prize bag)

Drew Krause (prize bag)

Matt Cross (prize bag)

MY CELL PHONE NUMBER

617 312 5341

[Fraun]

I can provide some crash space for some non sketchy footbags

[mtoolan]

i could be convinced

[BenRea]

im totally willing, it's only 2 and a half hours away.


the only issue would be if I have a race that falls on any one of the days.

[C-Fan]

If I can get Vince or Age or both to drive, then I am 90% likely to show up (the 10% would be if I have a business trip).

If I can't get a ride, then I'm still 50%, which is pretty good.

The earlier you settle on a date, the more likely I'll be to make it.

Hope this happens.

[Drew]

I'd bus it there, hellz yeah

[Iron Clad Ben]

If I can get a decent price flight, I will definitely be there.

March would be terrible, it's still gonna be snowy and I'll be busy with work. April will still be a little bit chilly, but workable. Potential conflict with Montana Jam, do not make me choose! Not sure of the college schedules these days but people may be busy with final exams in early May. So my vote is for late May.

Venue? Boston Common? I'm excited to see how this plays out. Let me know if you need any help doing the event planning.

Ben

[Rieferman]

I know I recently wrote that I doubt I'll ever go to another event, but this could combine to be the perfect storm.

A) It's peeeeeeeeeeeeeete bowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwler! (in the voice of that guy that announces detroit pistons games) So I have to try.

B) I'm planning another Boston visit to see my buddy (like last year) in the spring time, so it could be very convenient.

I picked May because I think you'll have the highest chances of good weather, and shredding outside is fun.

(PS - Drew, if it works out, maybe we can share gas cost at least one way or something)

[C-Fan]

Mason is very cool.

On that note, I think we should do May, son. I'd prefer an outdoor jam, and I doubt that'd be possible before May.

[acxel22]

depends on the date, but highly interested.

[slapdash21]

alright so may is the big winner. that was easy. more information will come as its decided

[Rieferman]

not mother's day weekend if possible.

question, will you have indoor backup if weather doesn't cooperate?

[slapdash21]

yeah im gonna have it on the most random weekend in may, so travel and hotels will be as cheap as possible. i might even call a few hotels and ask when they will be the cheapest in may.

i have one potential back-up indoor spot and im going to work on another to make sure, because the one i have lined up we could only use on saturday, and only has room for about 20 shredders comfortably.

[century264]

If i could pick I'd say earlier than may, just because it may conflict with finals for me, but if it's in May, I'll just have to buck up and study on the bus there and back

[Zac Miley]

i could be convinced

[slapdash21]

in that case i'll make sure both of you are convinced. sexually.



ha no really.



im leaning towards early may so it wont be too close to finals.

[DTank126]

When exactly do people have May finals, like last weekend in May? I'll be on co-op so as long as I stay local I'll be here and have available crash space. I might be able to swing something at NU for an emergency rain venue. Either way, I'll be sure to steal lots of food from the dining hall. No footbagger shall go hungary!

[Max Power]

I'm down. I don't go to school so finals don't matter to me and i like footbag.

[semiconscious]

I dunno when My finals are... definitely before the end of april. This is by far the closest event to Halifax that's happened since i got here... I really wanna come!

[Wasabi]

I'll graduate from college by then, so [heck] yeah I'm down!

NYFA needs to represent big at this [informal] jam.