Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Happy Birthday, Wanda June!

It's a widely recognised fact that the Australian ultimate community is bored with standard tournament formats. Hats? Bah. Surf and turf? Humbug. Fantasy pairs? Don't get me started.

What we need is a hat-ish tournament, where all the different months battle it off against one another.

I tried doing this whole list to a pre-2009 uni games standard - max 16 on the roster - but that got too hard and uneven, so now it's down to starting 7's.

January

MEN
Tom Brennan
Alex Britten-Jones
Lee Baker
Rueben Berg

WOMEN
Megan Gamble
Joy Lee
Cath Matthews

February

MEN
Alex Baume
Tim Hordern
Sam Smith
Brett "Sweet As" Middleton

WOMEN
Liz Edye
Greta Hunt
Heather Smith


March

MEN
JD
Nick Dowle
Owen Shepherd
Peter Blakeley

WOMEN
Lisa McGinnigle
Erin Wallis
Blair Sheard

April

MEN
Andrew Moroney
Mike Baker
Angus Keenan
Chris Lavis

WOMEN
Rebecca Carman
Mel Gangemi
Isobel McAuley

May

MEN
Mike Neild
Kendall Thorn
Abra Garfield
Chris Freise

WOMEN
Ellie Sparke
Fee Macrae
Anna Kaineder

June

MEN
Calan Spielman
Matt Hill
Matthew Oswald
Joe Leung

WOMEN

Ash Martens
Tania King
Rachel Grindlay

July

MEN
Dan Rule
Tarrant Meehan
Chris 'Boo Boo' Stephens
Phil White

WOMEN
Loren Viswalingam
Sarah Hammer
Lyra Meehan

August

MEN
Rory Connell
Jonathan Potts
Lachlan Gregory
Jimmy Tod-Hill

WOMEN
Clare Hussey
Ju Birchall
Diana Worman

September

MEN
Seb Barr
Matt Faulkner
Ewan Wymer
Malcolm Green

WOMEN
Nikki Shires
Carol Seeto
Gaby Melo

October

MEN
Matt Dowle
Ant Dowle
Julian Sacre
Stephen 'Cleetus' Johnson

WOMEN
Cat Phillips
Nat Chinn
Yvonne Shepherd

November

MEN
Ken Shepherd
Warwick Shepherd
Tom Tulett
Jake Angelovich

WOMEN
Keah Molomby
Nicky Smith
Clare Gavin

December

MEN
Mark Evans
Mike Tarn
Chris Hill
Alistair Don

WOMEN
Molly Young
Tiffany Mann
Meagan Carraro

What stuck out to me is, despite some months having a far broader pool to choose from, essentially all these teams are competitive with one another. There are a few slightly weaker teams in February, October and December, as well as a few stand outs in January, March and May. I am also missing a few big names - most likely because we aren't friends on Facebook.

Thoughts?

4 comments:

Simon Talbot said...

Semis will be Rocktober, May, March and July.

Matt Hill said...

How can you call a team with both Matt and Ant Dowle weak?

Megan Maurice said...

You could make your October team stronger if you used Leanne King :)

Unknown said...

One must ask where the WA women are?