Captains Meeting

THAT Captains:

This information will serve as the captain’s meeting. Because we’re not having a meeting on Saturday morning please plan on being at your assigned field ready to play at 9:30am. It takes 2.5 hours to get to Wenatchee from Seattle/Spokane. If your first game starts at 9am you should probably leave Seattle at 6:30am.

I will try to be brief as there is a lot of information already on the web site including directions and schedules. Please forward this page to your teams.

My cell number is 509-264-3698, if something should come up and you need to reach me.

Camping: There is free camping on Friday and Saturday nights at Squilchuck State Park. There are about 24 campsites and there could be as many as 150 people. Please limit your team to two campsites. I will get up there around noon on Friday and open the campground. If you need to be in there any earlier please give me a call. There are four or five sites immediately after the lodge on the left and 19-20 sites at the top of the hill. There is one shower in each bathroom but showers will be available Saturday after pool play at the field site. Please clean up your campsite and take all of your stuff with you on Sunday because the park will be locked at noon.

Party: The party is also at Squilchuck State Park at the lodge just down the hill from the camping. If you are camping please park your car at your campsite and walk down to leave space for those who are driving up from town. There will be beer/soda and pizza starting around 7:30pm and we’ll have the music playing well into the evening. Thanks to Manny at Georgetown Brewery for the beer and for Chris Watkins for spinning the discs!

Schedules: The schedule of play is here. There will be five rounds of pool play on Saturday (four games and a bye). On Sunday morning the top team from each pool will have a bye while seeds 3-6 play for the right to play 1 & 2 in the semis. Reseeding for Sunday will be done in each pool first by win/loss record, then by head-to-head, point differential of teams with similar records (if more than two teams have the same record), point differential against all teams, points for, points against, and finally (like it will ever come to this) coin toss.  The schedule was set up to maximize the number of games against different opponents so the reseeding games do not strictly follow the normal format.

 

Fields: The fields are located at Foothills Middle School. Please, please, please keep your clothes on and your drinks hidden. These fields are school district property and we get the fields for free. Fields in Wenatchee are extremely hard to reserve. If we lose the fields because of your negligence you will be held responsible and not invited back.  The school district has a policy of no dogs on the fields.  The city patrols the fields and hands out tickets. You have been warned.

 

Food: There will be the regular fare at Disc Central, fruit, chips & salsa, etc. There will be water but please bring a water bottle already filled to cut down on the amount of water we have to provide.

Showers: These will be available after play on Saturday night from 4:30-7:00pm at the field site. There is only one shower at the campground.

 

Spirit: Please leave your bad spirit at home.  This isn't the finals of the UPA Club Championships, it's Wenatchee.  If anyone continually violates the spirit of the game they will not be invited back. 

 

Tournament Rules: We are using the UPA 11th Edition.

UPA 11th Edition rules, including:
   - 20 yard brick
   - Callahan score
   - Mirror half
   - 3 time outs/game - Max of 2/half
   - Saturday all games are to 13
   - Sunday all games are to 15

 

Cap Rule: There will only be a time cap horn blown. When the horn is blown, finish the current point and add two to the highest team's total (unless it exceeds 13/15) and play to that score. First one to that score wins; win by one. As soon as the point has been scored the next point starts. The next horn will be the start of the next round.

Ratio of men/women, 4/3 or 3/4, is decided by the offense before the pull. Please be nice. Don't abuse this rule on teams that don't have many women.

Here are the substantive changes of the rules from 10th to 11th edition.

 

Places to Eat: There are at least three Starbuck’s in town. There is a new one right when you enter town from Highway 2 on the left, one at the Albertson’s just past Maple St., and still another at the Safeway farther up Miller. There are plenty of Mexican eateries, El Abuelo (on Mission St.), El Porton (in East Wenatchee), Tequila’s (on Wenatchee Ave.) and three pretty decent pubs, McGlinn’s (on Orondo), The Apple Wood Grill (down by the river on Columbia), and The Raven (on Wenatchee Ave.). Good breakfast can be had a The Wild Huckleberry (Mission), but it’s somewhat small, Shari's (as you enter town), and McGlinn's (on Orondo).  Lemolo’s Café is good for dinner (on Wenatchee Ave.) as well as The Wok About Grill (Mongolian Grill on Wenatchee Ave.)  Ask any of the locals for the beta on places to go.

Weather: It's gonna be hot with temperatures in the 80s to 90s.  Be prepared.  There will be plenty of water but not a lot of shade at the fields.  Don't forget your sunscreen and sunhat.  Here is the current forecast.

Hospital: There is a hospital about a mile and a half away from the fields. Go back to Wenatchee Ave. and turn right. This turns into Miller St. Follow Miller St. until you see the hospital on the left. There is also a clinic on Chelan Ave. Go back to Wenatchee Ave. and turn right, get in the left lane and turn left onto Chelan by the McDonald's. The clinic is on the right just past ninth street.

 

Disc Golf:  There is a small disc golf course just up the road from the fields, about 1/2 mile.  Just continue up Maple St and you'll see it on the right.  It's nine holes and you could probably play the whole thing on your bye.  Hole #1 is in the southwest corner of the park. 

 

That’s all I've got for right now. If you have any questions or you see something that I didn’t cover please let me know.

See ya on Saturday!

Ray Birks, THAT TD