Best Brain Award goes to Mikey Reid for his double skid series in the finals
Bob Scoverski took so
many great pictures and they're posted on his web page (lots of photos here! 464K)
Passerbys became spectators - "cop a squat and watch some freestyle," said Peter Laubert, guest announcer and master of making spectators hang out and have fun.
Womens, Open Pairs, and Mixed Pairs teams competed under blue skys.
Nearly 50 registered jammers, 5 juniors.
At one point Brenda was overcome by the urge to do roots.
finals
The Mixed Pairs finals featured some great freestyle and several well choreographed routines. It came down to the home town team of Jeff & Cindy Kruger hitting their routine to put pressure on the World Champs Dave & Amy. Dave & Amy didn't throw the disc into the canyon (like the Jeep Commercial) this time and came away with the title. Steve Hays & Brenda Savage ("the Savage Beast") played consistently hein to suprise some people with a strong 3rd place finish. TD Lisa Hunrichs & her Rando-man bounced back from a lack luster opening routine to shred in the finals securing 4th.
1st - Amy Bekken/Dave Schiller
2nd - Jeff and Cindy Kruger
3rd - Steve Hayes and Brenda Savage
4th - Lisa Hunrichs and Randy Silvey
5th - Larry Imperiale and Judy Robbins
6th - Mary Jorgensen and Joel Rogers
7th - Tom Leitner and rose
8th - Peter Laubert and Lori Daniels
All 4 teams in the Women's pairs finals had well choreographed routines making it a pleasure for the
crowd and the judges to watch. Amy & Judy were "on" and hit several hein co-ops and indys to
take the top spot. Lisa & Mary played very well to their music and gave the crowd reason to make noise.
rose & Lori were solid throughout their routine edging out Cindy & Brenda for Third.
semisOpen Pairs provided one of the deepest fields in recent memory - it was difficult to make the finals in this event even though 4 teams from each semi pool made the cut. Despite the strong wind, Dan Yarnell and Steve Haynes of Texas re-introduced us to their masterful disc play. Steve pulled off his turn-over one handed walkover, and Dan displayed uniquely original, and highly restricted moves. They perfromed their highly difficult and uniquely twisted version of Texas freestyle to many Northerns who had not seen it before.
The first pool featured some high incrediblly hot jamming, and considering the number of great players not attending, it shows there are quite a few more quality jammers out there than you think. Especially the junior players who've been mentored by the likes of Mary Jorgensen and Mike Esterbrook.
In the first open pairs pool, The wind was strong, much to the dismay of many competitors. Big H-factor, with ground-abusing diving catches by The Beast, Amy, and The Lauber..
One of the hottest sequences of the tourney - prelims windy Mikey and Larry hit a clock yogi pass to change of spin scarcrow Mikey scarecrow brush to Larry's conescutive Scrow brush to a hein catch.
Finals
Upon completion of the finals, a case could have been made for any one of the top
four teams to be the winner. The high presentation and great choreography of
Silvey/Schiller, the incredible high difficulty of Leitner/Murphy,
Yarnell/Haynes' original, highly restricted acrobatic moves, or Mikey and Larry
using the wind as their friend to create excitement.
Despite having bad wind Greg & Mark pulled out some original moves with the precision of a brain surgeon. Mark did a great Oliver catch in a coop. They received a high presentation score doing lots of coops.
Seeing local Seattle favorites Dan Swanson and Craig Burris jamming was a sight for sore eyes - these guys still can shred with the best of them.
All the way from Puerto Rico Carlos "Pipo" Lopez came to compete with Joel Rogers. They feature many styles - executing wind moves, against moves and spontaneous co-oping. Seeing Joel, a mainstay San Diego shredder, hooking up with Pipo and his Island wind game was fun to watch.
Peter and Randy had high presentation despite a relatively high number of drops, but they managed to not let their execution errors detract from the flow of their routine. Peter played his usual inspired game highlighted by some of the smoothest rolls in the business. All weekend, Randy played as solid as I've ever seen him play.
With great form combined with technical and acrobatic manuevers, Dan shined brighter today and was rewarded with great pres. and great diff. scores, but finished early at 3:48, incurrng a 1.5 point penalty. Since the two lowest difficulty scores in each routine are dropped, the zero they received for their last 15-second segment in difficulty had little impact.
The Juniors competition was a close contest with Art Viger taking the top honor. The competitors had the opportunity to get their throws from some top players like Peter Laubert, Randy Silvey and rose.
