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COED AT SOLSTICE!!

Eugene's 2008 Summer Solstice Tournament is June 21-22!

The Darkstar Alliance would like to draw your attention to an expansion of the co-ed division. We're looking for high-level clubs from around the Northwest and beyond, and also Oregon-based, recreational-level teams that want to experience tournament play. There will be two co-ed divisions: One for organized, traveling clubs, and one for teams that compete in local league play and/or the pick-up scene but may not have traveled to many tournaments or entered the UPA championship series.

The idea for the rec-level teams is to bring Ultimate players from around the state together for a fun, competitive, high-spirited tournament. The format is 4:3/3:4 (men:women/women:men), offense chooses, latest edition UPA rules (www.upa.org), and hopefully an easy-going format with lots of games and the finals at disc central. The standard tournament fee is $350 per team; the rec-level teams get in for $250 each, but must also pay a fee of $10 per player, per UPA rules.

At 30 years old, Solstice is one of the longest-running tournaments in Ultimate, and it features top teams from the Northwest and beyond. World-class teams like Furious George (Vancouver, BC), Sockeye (Seattle, WA), Riot (Seattle, WA, women's) and Fury (San Francisco, CA, women's) have all won national and world championships, and all of them come to Solstice.

If you want to bring a team to Eugene for this tournament, visit the Solstice tournament page on this Web site or contact Matt Cooper, mmcooper12000@yahoo.com, with questions. And please forward this to your local disc community. The tournament fee pays for fields and field food, dinner on Saturday night, an awesome party with many, many, many kegs of beer, and so on.

Cheers!
The Darkstar Alliance

posted: 03.09.2008

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