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Daniel Boyle (boyle) · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:13 am Post subject: 2012 Nationals

What's the plan? This didn't really come up at Nationals this year...

I am fairly unlikely to be around...as I will be moving to Chile in October for a couple of years. I may come backfor a visit at some stage though.

Nathan Cope (Cope) · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 1:33 pm Post subject:

Im pretty sure Jeremy and Lotus are going to put in on in Tassie.

Grant Kingston (lotus) · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:21 am Post subject:

The truth of the matter is that I am keen enough, but Jeremy is not!

Here are the issues ...

It currently looks like I will be moving to WA with my wife and kids mid-January next year ... which means that Nationals would need to be held over New Years or the first week of January ... I didn't think the shorter time of 6 months between Nationals would be a problem, but Jeremy seemed to think it would for some players. I also do not like the idea of doing all the organising for Nationals whilst also trying to organise the big move of my family and all our stuff, etc.

In our much loved 2007 event that was held early January, Jeremy used an inside contact to get us a spot at the Taste of Tasmania Festival. This gave us a perfect performance space, an instant crowd, and a great atmosphere to work with. Re-creating that again would obviously involve Jeremy, as he's already got that contact with one of the people responsible for organising the large Taste festival.

An alternative idea floated by Jeremy was to hold the comp at The Falls Festival, which would involve getting free passes for everyone and all involved bringing tents, sleeping mats/bags/etc ... all creates numerous logistical considerations with transport of people arriving and departing at such different times, etc. That said, it would be a cool place to have it ... albeit incredibly stressful/hectic.

So that's what came from my and Jeremy's brief discussion about the peoples notion of wanting Nationals to be in sweet sunny Hobart!

Nathan Cope (Cope) · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:53 pm Post subject:

Falls fest! Lets do it.

Jeremy OWheel (owheelj) · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:52 am Post subject:

If we can get a guarantee of at least 5 people putting in a decent effort at constructing and seriously practising some routines, I'd be happy to attempt to organise the event to be held either at Falls or the Taste, but if it's going to be like it was this year, it seems counter productive to have such a public display.

Both events are now less than 6 months away. I doubt that makes Falls at all possible, and the Taste is probably unlikely too. In 2007 I had been in discussions with the Taste organisers since before the 2006 Aus champs, so it wasn't that difficult to fit us in, but because it's an international buskers show that they put us in, they work out the schedule with time to select and notify international buskers, so I don't know if they'd be able to fit us in with this short notice. Basically they begin organising the next years Taste almost as soon as the one before finishes - so they've already been working on it for 6 months.

Daniel Boyle (boyle) · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:01 am Post subject:

I honestly don't think there's the standard at the moment to do such a public event, where we are such a "show" (eg like the last Hobart Nationals were). Especially for an event that is less than six months away, which would basically leave the rest of the year with a lot of blank spaces on the calendar.

Ian Pritchard (chopper) · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:26 am Post subject:

Seconded.

Grant Kingston (lotus) · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:09 am Post subject:

Thirded.

Jeremy OWheel (owheelj) · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:42 am Post subject:

Yep that was my feeling too. And I don't want to burn bridges with the people organising those events by getting space and then putting on something that isn't entertaining. It would be better to have something like this years event, without really organising anything, but just agreeing to get together at a particular date and place. We could even have events at Narooma. The other thing worth considering is whether we should have an annual event, or perhaps a biannual event?

Edit; Unless there are people who really want to work hard and prepare for the competition. If there are a few people like that, we should definitely give them a proper event, so that it can be helpful.

Ryan Richardson (ryaricho) · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:20 am Post subject:

I kicked with Phil and his friend in NZ on Sunday and they both seemed keen in attending the event next year. I am also kicking everyday and will hopefully improve dramatically by next year so that I can actually do an exciting routine.

Dyalan Govender (dyalan) · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:57 am Post subject:

If Phil can afford to come out - I think it'd be great to have him around at the 'oom and I think he'd really anjoy it and get more value for his money than if we tried to have a public nationals style event.

I think you need 5 serious competitors (training and preparing for the event) able to compete over a full weekend of competition in a range of events with minimal drops in order to have nationals run as a public event.

Since we don't have this I think nationals should be for us - and if we want to do events to get exposure they should be demos tailored around who is available.

I don't want to be too presumptious but I think I'd be right in saying that like me, Mitch and Ian are really flat out and work and don't really intend on spending the small amount of time we have to dedicate to footbag organising events.

I'm sure we could have small nationals in Sydney without requiring the sydney crew to go to a lot of effort - provided those interstate people attending were happy to use the forum to organise it. But obviously it would be less than ideal. If we were to do it in sydney I be inclined to do it on the day of Newtown festival - not on any of the stages but just somewhere nearby - if it rained we'd just head to the pub. The other idea I had was a place called golden goal (indoor soccer venue) - used to do lock-ins. Not sure how much or if they still do it - but if they do we could book a lock in and shred overnight.

But ideally I think it would be best if it wasn't in sydney next year.

Adam Fox (hackey) · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject:

Hey everyone,
Ive been watching this topic since comming out of retirement.
My new memebers have been asking me about comps particularly the aus champs for 2012. I would love to give these new players the chance to experience a getogether of a wide range of players and styles and competition, and the chance to meet all you great bunch of people.
With that being said, time and money is going to be an issue ofcoarse as most of us work full time and also i have a baby on the way in feburary Smile

So hopefully a decision will me made soon of when and where the aus champs or get together whatever it becomes will be held... the closer the better... im just sayin Smile

Id love to get the chance to catch up with some old faces and also meet some new ones!

Daniel Boyle (boyle) · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:25 am Post subject:

I think Brisbane would be cool. I probably won't be able to make it next year, as I will live in a different country. BUt I think it is good to share around between the different cities.

Brisbane has been off the footbag map for way too long!

Dyalan Govender (dyalan) · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:19 am Post subject:

We need to make some decisions about Nationals this year.

Given the lack of suggestions and discussion I expect it will be similar to last year.

That's fine - and it makes organising it a lot easier.

We need to start by picking a city.

I propose we do it in Sydney - we do it in the same style as Melb last year - no booked venue, just an amp and a shred spot. I would not be doing a lot of organising and I would be doing no promoting - I would simply seek someone to Judge, establish a schedule for the weekend that would include routines, shred 30, sick 3, footbag golf. I would ask a couple of people for some assistance with t-shirts or jumpers and for supplying some prizes as we have had in the past - but there are no guarantees re prizes as I have very limited time to chase things up and I would be relying on the kindness of the footbag community. I would not be looking to link up with another event in Sydney.

Thoughts? And I don't want to hear about all the great things we should do. Nor do I want suggestions for things I could do or to hear about other events we could explore linking up with. If you have something specific that you are willing to organise then put it on the table as an addition or alternative to the above idea

We need to do this ASAP so people can plan some leave and set aside some savings.

Nathan Cope (Cope) · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:21 am Post subject:

Sounds good Dyalan. I would like to sugest October long weekend, or something towards the warmer months. In any case I am almost certain to attend. We could have it at the YHA on the rocks again.