[BD] Copa Cabana - Where music and passion etc.

[Tom Styles]

August Bank Holiday means only one thing. Copa.
This year's great festival of Ultimate was perhaps the greatest ever.
- More teams than ever
- More pitches than ever
- Bigger Copa tent
- Tournament Wristbands
- Liz beating Jelley for the Sumo championship
- Random MC named Dr. S stealing the party
- The Mask and Incredi-girl... oh yeah and incredi-dog
- Live Music from The sWord
- A 75Kg pig
- Oscar painted all in gold standing on a platform to kick off 'A
Night at the Oscars'
- Text message scoring (should be at every tournament)
- One sheet laminated captain's pack (likewise)
- Semi naked ultimate by flood lights
- Karaoke
- Dj's till at least 4am every night.
- Some partying ... er quite a lot of partying

Results were as follows
1       WhipScar
2       Discuits
3       Mohawks
4       FLANGE
5       Bigger Than You
6       Silverbacks
7       Sock Cookers
8       Pen15
9       Addicted to Love
10      BASIC
11      BOSH
12      Flyght Club North Side
13      Team Montage
14      Hullumni
15      Chump Around
16      Mag Severn
17      Boogie Knights
18      Randomly Flung
19      Premature Huckulation
20      Hucking Hell
21      Flyght Club South Side
22      DrugStore Cowboys
23      Flaming Ghalahs
24      PAF
25      Lords of the Ring
26      AWT
27      Too Many Pies
28      Mental Discs
29      Random Fling
30      Finger 6
31      Red
32      --Strange Blue--

Spirit went to Discuits

Karaoke prize to Mark from Basic

Fancy Dress
Best Male - Adam from bigger than you - The Mask
Best Female - Lauren from ? - Incredi-girl and Incredi-dog
Best Team - Too Many Pies - The Oompa Lumpas

Sumo
Women's Tournament - Liz from Hullumni
Men's Tornament - Jelley from Fling
Champion of Champions contest won by Liz in a completely unrigged contest

Quote of the weekend from an unnamed top 4 player,
"Tom, you've saved my life this weekend, the tournament has been
brilliant, and Top 8 ultimate was getting so boring"

So there you have it top 8 players, why not let your train hard play
hard hair down once in a while and live it up at the Copa. Copa will
be back next year and may well be bigger still. August bank holiday
weekend 2007. Put it in your diaries now.

It was my first outdoor event as TD and was quite an education. It's
not like any other tournament such is the mental and physical strain
of organising all that fun. And though I feel like I work my a$s off,
I know I barely scratched the surface and if it wasn't for the massive
efforts to those listed below the Copa Cabana would be nothing like
the tournament it was.

So major thanks to the following people who made the whole thing possible.
- Dene Sheppard - Food - Absolutely everything else
- Steve Giguere - The Website, Booking the band, providing advice and
assistance, building the pitches, DJing, Designing the Discs and
T-shirts
- Jim, Ester, Raj, Dave, Oscar, Vince, Timo, Luke, Kat, Hovis and the
Copa Tent Crew
- Russ for Wristbands
- Tim for Shopping
- Kate, Allison and Cat for their support
- Dom for organising the Sumo
- Andy, Cheryl - scoring and timescheduling
- Dani and Grant for holding the HQ fort in my absence
- Dan Smith Rowsey for all the movie gear and the awesome oscars night
decorations and lights (I missed him off my list at the presentation)
- Oscar for being painted gold.
- CG for cleaning toilets all weekend...again.
- ACDC Entertainment
- The sWord
- Fancy a Nibble Catering
- The Nottingham Moderns Staff
- All the Flyght Club people who helped set up and take down pitches
and did far pitch duty, especially Phil the Daddy (Also missed off at
the presentation)
- Gordon and Christie for helping with the barbeque and curry and
wristbands (Also missed off at the presentation)
- Everyone who worked behind the bar in the Copa tent.
- Felix for filming everything that moved

If anyone has any good photos of the weekend then please email them to
steve at thecopa.co.uk and they will be added to the tournament gallery
on the copa website.

Off to bed now,
See you at nationals or indoors
Tom Styles
Copa TD, Flyght Club Chair, Voice of UK Ultimate

PS. Keep and eye out for these tournaments coming to a sports hall in
Nottingham some time this indoor season.
21st and 22nd Oct. Damme Herre Slamme Fairre - the UK's premier indoor
mixed event
27th ans 28th Jan. Damme Slamme - UK's premier women's indoor event