Freestyle: Routines and Circle Contest Net: Singles and Doubles
The 32nd Annual East Coast Championships were held in Brooklyn, NY on Sept. 27th & 28th. With the help of great weather, we had a very successful tournament, with competitors from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Toronto, Montreal, and the Czech Republic in net and freestyle events. In attendance were the current world champion in freestyle circle, Evan Gatesman (who placed 2nd this year in routines at world's), last year's women's freestyle world champion, Cassandra Taylor, and 12-time singles net world champion, Emmanuel Bouchard. Ken Somolinos- the 2012 ECFC champ- took down this year's vice-world champion Evan Gatesman in routines. But Evan was able to hold off Ken to win this year's circle contest. In intermediate routines, Ben Babyak performing a great routine to take first. In intermediate circle, NYFA member Johnny Sarah stood out above the group and took first place. In net, the greatest of all time took first place in singles, showing his un- human talent against a VERY good Dan Greer. In doubles, Emmanuel Bouchard & Luc Legault showed their stuff and took first place over the tough team of Dan Greer & Martin Cote. Our friend from the west coast, Brett Milliken, was able to get by our ECFC gatekeepe,r Jack Lentz, in intermediate singles net. Thanks to all our sponsors and most of all thank you to all the players for making this year's event such a success. This announcement and results will be posted on the events page on footbag.org. Here are the complete results: Open Singles Net: 1. Emmanuel Bouchard 2. Dan Greer 3. Luc Legault 4. Martin Cote 5. Pavel Hedra 6. Jim Hankins 7. Marilyn DeMuy 8. Mark Hunsberger 9. Brett Milliken 10. Noah Hunsberger Intermediate Singles Net: 1. Brett Milliken 2. Jack Lentz 3. Pascal T 3. Zach Heffer Open Doubles Net 1. Emmanuel Bourchard/Luc Legault 2. Dan Greer/Martin Cote 3. Marilyn DeMuy/Greg "Nice" Neumann 4. Pavel Hedra/Ted Fritsch 5. Jim Hankins/Anthony Intemann 6. Jack Lentz/Brett Milliken 7. Mark Hunsberger/Noah Hunsberger Note: There was no intermediate doubles net bracket. Open Routines: 1. Ken Somolinos 2. Evan Gatesman 3. Brian Sherrill 4. Mathieu Gauthier 5. Ryan Thomas 6. Cassandra Taylor 7. Kevin Hogan 8. Anton Britting Intermediate Routines: 1. Ben Babyak 2. Marc Peralta ** 3. Greg Wenner 4. Andre P. Aberration Open Circle Contest: 1. Evan Gatesman 2. Ken Somolinos 3. Adam Greenwood 4. Chris Dean tie 5. Brian Sherrill tie 5. Mathieu Gauthier tie 5. Derek Littlefield tie 5. Mikey Etlinger tie 5. Cassandra Taylor tie 5. Anton Britting tie 5. Kevin Hogan tie 5. Ryan Thomas tie 5. Matt Kemmer tie 5. Nick Polini Intermediate Circle Contest 1. Johnny Sarah 2. Marc Peralta 3. Greg Wenner 4. Ben Babyak tie 5. April Tou tie 5. Ryan Morris tie 6. Vince Richardson tie 6. Daniel Carey
LODGING: We have a rental house located at 939 BEDFORD AVE IN BROOKLYN. It?s a 10-15 minute drive to the event sites. "Tara's Pasta Dinner" will be on Saturday night and is included in the registration fee. The house will be available starting at 2 PM on Friday. EVENT CONTACTS: Ted Fritsch (Tournament Director): 908-347-3540, yyz12428@yahoo.com Jim Hankins (Net Director): 732-648-7173, jhankins44@gmail.com Jon Schneider (Freestyle Director): 908-872-6707 REGISTRATION & FEES: Registration will take place at the rental house on Friday night and NYFA members? houses. Late registration will take place on Saturday morning at the event site. Open Competitors- $45 Intermediate Competitors- $25 All competitors will receive a player?s pack with a t-shirt. Non-competitors can receive a player?s pack for $15. LOCATIONS: There are TWO sites....On SATURDAY, 9/27, we will be at the RED HOOK RECREATION AREA in Brooklyn, located at the corner of Lorraine and Henry Sts, off Exit 26/25 from Interstate 278, near the Brooklyn Battery (aka Hugh Carey) Tunnel. Street parking around the park is available, though get there early for the best parking. On SUNDAY, 9/28, we will be at COMMODORE BARRY PARK in Brooklyn, located at the corner of Flushing Ave. and Navy St., right off Exit 29 from Interstate 278, near the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. Street parking around the park is available, though get there early for the best parking. SCHEDULES: NET SCHEDULE: SAT (RED HOOK REC CENTER): 8:30 AM Net set-up, late registration, & warm up 9:45 AM Net players meeting 10:00 AM Open & Int Singles 2:00 PM Open & Int Doubles SUN (COMMODORE BARRY PARK): 10:00 AM Open & Int Singles winners bracket & consolation 11:00 PM Open & Int Doubles winners bracket & consolation 1:00 PM Open Singles Final 3:30 PM Open Doubles Final FREESTYLE SCHEDULE: SAT (AT RED HOOK REC CENTER): 1:30 PM Int Routines- Prelims 2:30 PM Int Circle- Prelims 3:30 PM Open Routines- Prelims 4:30 PM Open Circle- Prelims SUN (AT COMMODORE BARRY PARK): 11:30 PM Int. Routines- Finals 12:00 PM Int. Circle- Finals 1:30 PM Open Routines- Finals 2:30 PM Open Circle- Finals Awards ceremony on site immediately following completion of last event