14 July 2003
at Tim's place. ~10 attending. Beer was drunk, pizza was eaten. :-)
SURVEY
A survey for summer league will be put together by Justin, who will
send it to Kelly to put on our web page using our own survey software.
This will continue to be a regular thing after every season. This one
will also include a question to women only about whether or not they'd
join a womens league if one were offered, possibly winter, possibly
other times. It will also ask players which teams they're on and
specific questions about spirit and their captains.
SUMMER LEAGUE END OF SEASON TOURNAMENT
TD- Brian Amer, helping Sean Holleran
The summer league tournament will consist of all summer league players.
Teams will be those from rec night, combined as necessary due to
attendance, and with Tuesday players (who aren't already on rec night
teams) distributed as pickups to the other teams. Everyone gets to
play, but we won't have the Tuesday night teams dominating the games.
Tim will verify the number of fields we have available- but it's
probably way more than we need. We expect about 150-200 people to
attend.
There will be 3 games that everyone plays in, with a possible 4th game
to determine the ultimate championship team for that day (though no
prizes or anything for that team). If the Tuesday night captains agree,
we might have the Tuesday night championship game at the end of the
tournament as well.
Sean will email all summer league players soon reminding them of the
tournament and the time and date (10am, Saturday August 16th), and
asking them to email their captains to let them know if they'll be able
to make it or not, so we can start forming/combining teams ahead of
time. Likely we will combine like colors as much as possible.
Tim will get Griff's shade tent (for $40, and he'll set it up too),
which we'll put possibly on the hill in the middle of the fields.
Beer will be obtained by Heather from the Michigan Brewing company, and
will be at the Island Park pavilion. Brian will make signs reminding
players that no beer is allowed on Fuller Fields, just at the pavilion.
Beer budget is about $400 and the plan is 16 cases (plan on 200 people
each drinking 2, on average). This beer will be a) good, and b) in
plastic jugs which we need since we can't bring a keg (park rules) we
don't want glass, and it's hard to get good beer in cans anyway.
Tim will bring Cups games supplies, and let people who want to play set
that up at their liesure.
Harry will take care of the food. We'll get Pringles, Oranges, Bananas,
Pickles, Oreos, and Hot Dogs & Buns, and a couple of bags of charcoal
and lighter fluid and spatulas and condiments- we provide hot dogs, if
people want to bring other grillables they're certainly welcome to.
Again we're planning on 150-200 people. Food budget is about $400.
Each team playing that day will pick one person who had the best spirit
on their team that day. These people will get a free disc or t-shirt,
as they choose.
We talked about the possibility of having an all-stars game (pick the
best players as above, have the game be featured at the end of the day
with spectators), and possibly a spirit players game, and possibly a
rookie game, but it was also agreed that people were more likely to
just go eat/drink instead, since the pavilion is away from the fields a
bit.
TUESDAY NIGHT COMPETITIVE LEAGUE
The last 3 games are playoff games to determine the league champions.
We will try to find prizes to hand out like the visors from last year
but not visors again. The budget is about $10/player, and I'm looking
into that, but I welcome suggestions. Anyone know where I could get
bandanas with stuff printed on them?
FALL LEAGUE
Registration: August 1st - 20th.
Captains meeting (Will's in charge of captains again): Tuesday August
26th, location TBD, but with free food & beer and you can get your free
captain's disc or t-shirt only at this meeting. We're trying to up the
captains meeting attendance this way. We also might try to find big
poofy captains hats to hand out.
Sundays, 2:30pm (i.e. 3), Sunday September 7th through Sunday November
16th.
Mon/Wed, 6pm, Wednedsay September 3rd through Wednesday October 22nd.
(you play both nights for the same team)
End of season party at Leopold's again on the 16th after the last game.
BEER ON THE FIELDS
Jim Berry will put together an email that the junta leadership (I
recommend Amer) will send out to captains of all nights reminding them
that beer on the fields could get us kicked off the fields permanently,
and it's not to be done. This comes up after one of the teams was
observed having boat races after one of the games. People should go to
Banfields, it's not worth risking summer league just to have beer on
the fields, as nice as beer on the fields would be.