(EVERYONE IS INVITED!)

This is the event you've been waiting for...
The First Annual Santa Cruz Invitational,run by two of your favorite footbag personalities
and overall attractive people (Moxie a.k.a. Emily Kulczyk, and 
Senor Grommet a.k.a. Jeremy Mirken), and an up-and-comer, who is also more attractive than
your average footbag player (FunkLovesFootbag a.k.a. Fletcher 
Funk). The Santa Cruz Invitational (AKA Emily's Birthday Pajammy Jam) will be held on June
10th and 11th, 2006, the weekend after my birthday. We will be 
celebrating that weekend so bring your presence, jammys, party hats, and Lavers. We are
expecting players from all over California and hopefully from several 
surrounding states.  Several high level players will be present including Jeremy Mirken,
Lon Smith, Big Add Chad, Nick Landes and others.


Our venue is the Aptos Academy which has a thinly carpeted gym floor and a stage.  The
weather will be nice enough for us to kick outside as well.  The 
high in that part of June is usually about 72F and the low is about 50F. So bring warm and
cool weather clothing.

Aptos Academy
1940 Bonita Drive
Aptos, Ca 95003

Event Schedule: ***Subject to revision

Friday Night (June 9th):
7PM-12PM Player's party (dinner) for all ages at "99 Bottles" in Downtown Santa Cruz.
Private room upstairs, food and drink, darts, enjoy socializing.

Saturday (June 10th):
10AM event doors open
11AM- Start warm-ups for events
1130AM-Intermediate Competitions
-Shred 30
-Sick 3
-Sick 1
12:15PM- 15 minute warning for Open competitors
12:30PM- Open Competitions
-Shred 30
-Sick 3
-Sick 1
1:15PM- Lunch for players arrives and is eaten
2PM- Digestion or shred happens
3:00PM- Novice Competitions (watch, shred, or hang)
-Consecutive kicks
-Sick 3
-Sick 1
3:45PM- Shred and be happy
5:30PM- Clean Facility, leave by 6pm-ish. (saturday night dinner still being arranged)
8PM- Beach Bonfire
10PM- head to Jeremy's place for party.
11PM- Jeremy's house: Emily's Pajammy contest and prize handed out.
11:20PM
-eat, drink, be merry,
-shred at Grom's Grotto (space for 4 players in garage), or
-head back to event site for late night kick instead


Sunday (June 11th):
10AM Facility set up
11:30AM 4-Square competition
1PM- Award ceremony (when the 4-S competition is over)
1:30PM- Lunch and Shred
2PM- Unofficial festivities and competitions (last man standing, mirage races)
3PM- 5 on 5 basketball tournament outside (if interest)
5:30PM- clean up and get out by 6pm. Some players leave, others stay, hang at Jer's
house.
8PM- bowling is an option. Sounds fun, right?

The site is minutes from Jeremy's house, the beach, and highway access.  On the highway,
downtown Santa Cruz is about 12 minutes away.


Pre-registration is over.


All Open competitors will be required to be IFPA members. If you are not a member at the
time of the event, we will collect $10 cash or check at the event-
 not during pre-registration.


4-Square competition: Our 4-Square event will be run by Joe Crain, the inventor of Footbag
4-Square.  A $5 entry fee will guarantee prize money for the winner.


T-shirts will be sold at the event for $20.

Music: (This is neat-->)  All pre-registered players have the option of sending in one
song they would like added to the music selection at the event. *NOTE* We
 may not play all music that is submitted, but we will do our best. After you register,
send your song as attachment to Fletcher at FunkLovesFootbag@footbag.org.

 
Prizes:
Videos donated by Big Add Chad 
Hand-stitched 32 panel footbags from several well-known stitchers including but not
limited to: 
Jeremy Mirken 
Richard Abshire 
Johnny Suderman 
Jeremy O'Wheel 
Joshua Raye
Jake Raye

There will also be bags for sale.

We would like to thank our sponsors:
Freedom Footbags 
Planet Footbag
Aptos Academy 
 
Non-Footbag Related Fun:
Players party 
Late night beach fun
Pajammy contest/party

Crash Space/Lodging info:

The KOA campground is full, and the Manresa campground was almost full a few days ago when
I checked.  Please find lodging ASAP.


I think this is the updated list.

Confirmed for this event:
Gray Chadwick
Mark Chafe
Joe Crain
Chad Devlahovich
Fletcher Funk
Daryl Genz
Sunny Freeman Genz
Steve Goldberg
Mike Hansen
Richard Iannucelli 
Emily Kulczyk
Nick Landes
Andrew Lecher
Nate Linscott
Jeremy Mirken
Dave Morawski
Isaac Noyes
Jim "Pimpske" Penske
Dat Phan
Dustin Rhodes
AJ Shultz
Lon Smith
Michael Stokely
David Wright

Hopefully attending:
Farzon Almaneih
Ted Anderson
Blurred Vision
Justin Dale
Rory Dawson
Bryan Fournier
Ahren Gehrman
Jesse Lindley
Samuel Drake McAulay
Eric Palmer
Chris Pinkus
James Randall
Shredmonton
Ken Somolinos
Stanford
Stu
Sole Purpose Footbag Club
Tsiangkun
You?