2010 US OPEN FREESTYLE FOOTBAG CHAMPIONSHIPS July 24th-26th

Aaron Shepard · Post by **Aaron Shepard** » 21 Jul 2010 20:10

Oh, I almost totally forgot!

The annual Portland Brew Festival is this weekend. Maybe the 21 + year old players would like to check that out, hmmm I don't know yes duh?

Scope it out at

http://www.oregonbrewfest.com/

Awwww yaaaaaa

redshredz · Post by **redshredz** » 21 Jul 2010 23:39

Just announced; there will be a party at Evan Lovely/Nick Landes' house Saturday evening, starting around 9pm. It is not far from my house, walking distance in fact. Good times!
Red

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 21 Jul 2010 23:48

calemccoy wrote:kevin, are you staying at reds? i cant wait to hang out with you man.

staying at evan's house. will arrive thursday night

habitat · Post by **habitat** » 22 Jul 2010 01:39

Sporatical_Distractions wrote:
calemccoy wrote:kevin, are you staying at reds? i cant wait to hang out with you man.
staying at evan's house. will arrive thursday night

Me too. I'm so stRoked.

mahhkohh · Post by **mahhkohh** » 22 Jul 2010 04:14

Aaron Shepard wrote:Oh, I almost totally forgot!

The annual Portland Brew Festival is this weekend. Maybe the 21 + year old players would like to check that out, hmmm I don't know yes duh?

Scope it out at

http://www.oregonbrewfest.com/

Awwww yaaaaaa

saw that when i was checking for infos about portland.... i want

i so want!!!!!!!

put me in for the street fighter fun. also if someone has reds adress, or anyother adress from footbagers in portland, i need it to check in my flight, so i need it right now...

pm me please

redshredz · Post by **redshredz** » 22 Jul 2010 09:26

Hey all,
If you are flying in, I recommend jumping on the MAX train that is at the airport and taking it down to Pioneer Square in downtown Portland. From there give me a call for sure. My number is
503-380-4395

Again our address is;
2828 SE Franklin St.
Portland, OR 97202

See you soon for sure, good times!
Red

sidekick · Post by **sidekick** » 22 Jul 2010 20:22

Attention USO arrivals, we will be having a session downtown at Pioneer square at 2 pm. If you are flying in then the MAX (the light rail that leaves from the airport) will take you directly to the site

if you have any questions call me at 503-960-1735
The adresse to out house is 3414 SE Lincoln st

Cod · Post by **Cod** » 25 Jul 2010 03:15

Hey USO guys,

Give us some results or sidelines stuff, please

.

shreddaily · Post by **shreddaily** » 25 Jul 2010 05:25

Nick Landes won routine prelims. Circle semis, let alone finals should be ridiculous!

Damien and Anssi meets Jim and Lon is a very, very good scene...

Zeb Jackson · Post by **Zeb Jackson** » 25 Jul 2010 06:26

the resulting video should epic as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

redshredz · Post by **redshredz** » 25 Jul 2010 20:14

This just in!

Official Results for the 2010 US Open Freestyle Footbag Championships

Open Routines:

1. Jim Penske
2. Damian Gielnicki
3. Scott Bevier
4. Nick Landes
5. Wiktor Debski
6. Szymon Kalwak
7. Justin Dale
8. Evan Gatesman
9. Lon Smith
10. Eric Chang
11. Evan Lovely

Jim Penske is the 2010 US Freestyle Footbag Champion

Women's Routines

1. Hania Mickiewicz
2. Gosia Debska
3. Sunny Freeman Genz

Hania Mickiewicz is the 2010 US Women's Freestyle Footbag Champion

Intermediate Routines

1. Larry Workman
2. Cale McCoy
3. Chad Clement

Larry Workman is the 2010 US Intermediate Freestyle Footbag Champion

Circle

1. Damian Gielnicki
2. Jim Penske
3. Nick Landes

Damian Gielnicki is the 2010 US Open Circle Champion

Open Best 3

1. Damian Gielnicki (Spinning Eggbeater-Paradon Swirl-Symposium Torque)
2. Evan Gatesman (Atomic Ducking Butterfly-Ripped Warrior-Blurry Whirling Swirl)
3. Luis Monhollon (Paradox Torque-Paradox Torque-Paradox Torque)

Women's Best 3

1. Hania Mickiewicz (Dimwalk-Ripwalk-Paradox Whirl)
2. Sunny Freeman Genz (Butterfly-Paradon-Paradox Mirage)
3. Gosia Debska (Butterfly-Butterfly-Osis)

Intermediate Best 3

1. Cale McCoy (Ducking Leg Over-Pixie Leg Over-Phoenix)

Request Competition

1. Anssi Sundberg
2. Damian Gielnicki
3. Evan Gatesman

Best Bag

To be concluded and posted Monday

Sole Purpose Footbag Group Inductees:

Naomi Williams
Evan Lovely
Cale McCoy

Welcome to the Sole Purpose Group!

Thanks to all of our sponsors, judges, camera crew, on site crew, Fourkast booth operators, European players, and other contributors. Very special thanks to Nate Linscott and Naomi Williams, who supported the event greatly. It was very appreciated guys! Also a big shout out to Mr. John Stalberger, the father of our sport. He was a great source of inspiration, promotion, and wisdom working on this event. Thanks Johnny, as always it's an honor working with you!

Here are our list of sponsors again, all very supportive of footbag and the US Open. I am happy to say that this year again was a cash prize event thanks to the above mentioned companies.

Pac Trust
Realty Pro
Wham-O
Freedom Footbags
Whole Foods
Pine Meadow Golf/Accent Marketing
Ideal Foods
Burgerville USA
Nate 'The Great' Linscott
Naomi Williams
Nautilus Inc.
Richard Abshire
IFPA
John Stalberger

I am happy to say that this year again was a cash prize event thanks to some of the above mentioned companies.

It was a great event, and we still have one more day of it. Next up, the Water Temple Shred! More info to come!

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 26 Jul 2010 05:25

Did Anssi not compete in Circle or Routines?

redshredz · Post by **redshredz** » 26 Jul 2010 23:30

Heya,
Anssi judged Circle, and did not compete in routines. He rocked Request however. Sorry for the slow updates, with everyone staying in Portland between the US Open and Worlds, it feels like the event is still going. Everyone just got back from Nick and Evan's, Landes finally cut his hair. There are some great before and after shots. Same guy?

http://www.fourkast.com/gallery2/main.p ... alNumber=2

We have something like 11-12 people in our house right now, with another 6 or so people staying elsewhere. Water Temple rocked as usual, definitely feels like the summer of footbag here right now. We will be taking the out of town shredders sight seeing, then simply play footbag for the rest of the week. The clan goes down on Friday or Saturday, should be fun! More info to come...

calemccoy · Post by **calemccoy** » 27 Jul 2010 01:01

best picture ever.

Aaron Shepard · Post by **Aaron Shepard** » 27 Jul 2010 15:50

Hello,

I apologize for the delay, but here are the official results for the Best Bag Competition.

There were 11 footbags entered by seven stitchers. The footbag stitcher was kept anonymous to everyone except me, until now.

There were 5 judges, and they judged aesthetic and playability value. 1 was the lowest score possible, 6 was the highest. I then took 60% of the playability score and 40% of the aesthetic score and added them together for the final score.

Here are the 11 footbags in the random order as they were presented to the judges and the crowd.

Footbag one:

Footbag two:

Footbag three:

Footbag four:

Footbag five:

Footbag six:

Footbag seven:

Footbag eight:

Footbag ten:

Footbag eleven:

Footbag 13:

The people's choice award was determined Saturday. Anyone in the audience could come look at the footbags, feel them, kick it a few times, and then write their top three choices. I collected all of the votes and awarded one point for a third place, two points for second, and three points for first.

1st - 1 - 15 points - Hanna
tie 2nd - 11 - 14 points - Hanna
tie 2nd - 10 - 14 points - Brian
4th - 7 - 13 points - Liz
5th - 5 - 10 points - Waylon
6th - 13 - 9 points - Marco
7th - 4 - 7 points - Brian
8th - 12 - 6 points - Aaron
9th - 2 - 5 points - Will
4 way tie 10th - 3, 6, 8, 9 0 points - Will, Maryanne, Liz, Nick

You may have noticed that footbag 9 and 12 do not exist. That is because Nick and I submitted footbags for the People's Choice award, but could not participate in the best bag competition because we were judges.

The first score is aesthetics/ the second is playability.
Footbag# Judges One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Average Total

1.) 5.7/5.6; 4.6/5.0; 4.5/4.5; 5.6/5.9; 4.0/3.6; 4.88/4.92
2.) 4.7/5.2; 4.5/4.5; 3.5/2.75; 5.0/4.9; 4.1/5.2; 4.36/4.51
3.) 5.2/4.7; 5.0/4.5; 3.0/3.75; 5.6/5.5; 3.1/3.1; 4.38/4.31
4.) 5.9/5.2; 4.4/4.8; 5.0/5.5; 5.1/6.0; 5.4/4.8; 5.16/5.26
5.) 6.0/5.4; 5.1/5.5; 4.5/4.75; 5.8/5.8; 5.8/6.0; 5.44/5.49
6.) 3.0/2.0; 4.3/3.8; 2.0/1.0; 5.2/3.8; 4.2/2.0; 3.7/2.52
7.) 5.8/5.5; 4.2/4.5; 6.0/3.75; 6.0/4.3; 6.0/4.4; 5.6/4.49
8.) 4.0/5.0; 4.0/3.9; 3.0/2.75; 5.1/4.5; 4.2/3.5; 4.06/3.93
10.)6.0/5.7; 4.9/4.7; 5.0/5.25; 5.75/5.9; 5.1/6.0; 5.35/5.51
11.)5.7/5.8; 4.5/5.3; 3.75/4.5; 5.65/5.4; 4.8/4.5; 4.85/5.1
13.)5.1/5.4; 3.9/5.0; 3.75/4.25; 5.0/5.7; 5.3/4.1; 4.61/4.89

Footbag#) Total Points - Rank
1.) 4.904 - 6th
2.) 4.45 - 8th
3.) 4.338 - 9th
4.) 5.22 - 3rd
5.) 5.47 - 1st
6.) 2.992 - 11th
7.) 4.934 - 5th
8.) 3.982 - 10th
10.) 5.446 - 2nd
11.) 5.0 - 4th
13.) 4.778 - 7th

Final Placements for Best Bag:
1st - Bag 5 - Waylon - 5.47
2nd - Bag 10 - Brian - 5.446
3rd - Bag 4 - Brian - 5.22
4th - Bag 11 - Hanna - 5.0
5th - Bag 7 - Liz - 4.934
6th - Bag 1 - Hanna - 4.904
7th - Bag 13 - Marco H. - 4.778
8th - Bag 2 - Will T. - 4.45
9th - Bag 3 - Will T. - 4.338
10th - Bag 8 - Liz 3.982
11th - Bag 6 - Maryanne - 2.992

I will make this more comprehendible soon, but please note that Waylon beat Brian by 24 thousandths of a point.

will_T · Post by **will_T** » 27 Jul 2010 17:31

nice entries by everyone! congrats to waylon for winning the competition. so what's the final plan for all the bags entered?

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 27 Jul 2010 18:19

Got a text from Aaron after work today saying that I won Best Bag. Thanks for giving me the honor to participate in this contest, and having to submit my bag to a tough assortment of amazing entries from stitchers across the US, Canada and Europe. It's been a pleasure, and I had fun and a bit of an anticipation on what was happening with this contest in this year's USO.

I had a lot of fun making my entry. I thought about the design and playability, and felt to the best of my ability on what would make a great playing bag for footbaggers attending the USO, or rather, kickers/freestylers and their critique on what makes a great footbag to play with in general. My gut instinct on the colors, design and fill really paid off, and really I just wanted to have fun and give to the USO a great looking and playing bag for whoever wants and deserves it. It is my hope that my entry goes to someone who would treat her well, since the worth of a footbag is really dependent on its worthwhile use than just another collector's item imo.

I don't know how prizes are done for this contest. I wasn't really expecting much (aside from my snarky comment about getting a Fourkast jersey and/or shorts as a prize for winning in that one thread under B&E). But if the prizes boils down to collecting the spoils of footbags leftover from the contest, then I'm hoping that Liz Nation 92-panel is still available, because that is one purrty bag. :3

I'll see y'all at Worlds next week!

CIC flurry · Post by **CIC flurry** » 27 Jul 2010 18:20

bag 10 was my favorite.

I also voted for bag 1 and bag 5.

Just based on feel.

brianbear · Post by **brianbear** » 27 Jul 2010 20:24

this was a great contest, with a lot of tasty bags!
i lost to hania by one vote in peoples choice

and then by .024 to waylon in the other (with slightly more emphasis on playability it would have been mine!)
crazy.
The coolest part of this contest was when the people's choice was going on, pretty much everyone got involved with the voting.
im glad you liked bag 10 tom!

I believe I am missing a big 32 with leopard print radiations and a 14 panel bag (both new) and a 4 stitch green and yellow bag that is really crusty.

Abe · Post by **Abe** » 28 Jul 2010 06:56

the bag looks so amazing bear! soo juicy