Vol.6

July 13, 2012

Playing for Phillis

News and Notes
Mixed: USA, Canada, Australia, and Japan advance tothe semifinals. The winner of USA vs. Canada andAustralia vs. Japan will advance to the finals.
Women’s: Japan’s victory over Canada gives them
Colombia in the 1 vs. 4 seed semifinal, while Canada
will have to go through 3-seed USA to advance to thefinals.
Masters: After intentionally throwing the first gameagainst team USA in order to play them again in thesemis, Canada won the game that mattered, beating
the Americans 17-12.

As many in the ultimate community and spectators
here at the WUGC have noticed, German teams
have been wearing black ribbons during the games.
Recently, only a few weeks ago, the German Openteam lost an outstanding player, team captain, andbeloved friend, Philipp ‘Phillis’ Timmermann. He was
33 years old. Phillis played for the German open
team since 1998, and as a member of HardfischHamburg and Flying Angels Bern he had manyfriends in the European ultimate community. The
German Open Team will raise a glass in his nameafter their last game at the 2012 WUGC and all of hisfriends who are here in Sakai are warmly invited tojoin and share some good memories.

Farewell Party
19:00-25:00 @ Entame-kan (5 minutes from J-GREEN). Party Time!! Open Masters Final streamed live by NexGen!

Guts Final and Friendship Events for Players/Spectators
Watch Guts Open Final
USA vs. Japan RED 13:00 at F7. This rivalry will feature discs thrown with a speed of over 130 km/h by the great
Guts players of the USA (2008 World Champion) and Japan (2004 World Champion).
Guts Speed Throw Challenge
Let’s try to break the world record for the fastest Guts throw! The current record (140km/h)was established during
WUGC2012 by Shori Ouchi on July 9 (Player/Coach/Guest pass required).
Guts Game Experience
Let’s play Guts! Instructors of JFDA will be onsite teaching those interested the game rules and how to throw Guts
discs. AD pass not required.

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Sweden upsets
Japan in a shocker

Great Britain overAustralia

All it took was a little change inthe weather and Sweden has
found themselves in thesemifinals of the open division.
Utilizing the right strategy andexecuting in the wind, theystole a win from favorite Japan.
With the wind blowing at 30-45
kph, Sweden employed a tallzone from the get go, making it
incredibly difficult for Japan tomove it upwind. On thedownwind points they relied onhucking from any position on
the field… Continued Next Page

In the end, it was another gameabout the ability to score upwind.
Great Britain took an early lead offof an upwind huck, but could notpreserve it until halftime. Down 86 Australia ran off a string of 3
points to take half 9-8. GreatBritain battled back, getting one
upwind point in the second half,carrying that lead all the way to14-13. Despite the Aussies having
chances to get it back on theupwind, the Great Britain offense
held for the 16-14 victory.

Stat Leaders By Division
Open: Davide Morri (Italy) 45 pts
Women’s: Yina Cartagena (Columbia) 66
pts
Mixed: Brian Garcia (USA), Jon Greenberg(China) 41 pts
Masters: Tom Rogacki (Australia) 41 pts
Women Masters: Nakamura Noriko(Japan) 28 pts

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Japan with the early exit, could not perform in the wind (cont.)Open…didn’t waste any time looking for the underneath cuts and finding main target Sebastian Sporrong, who led theway with 3 assists and 5 goals. Sweden found ways to score over the smaller Japanese upwind with 50-50s andother varieties of floaty passes, building a 9-6 halftime lead and never looking back. They also had their hands on
two more discs in the upwind end zone, but couldn’t reel those in. Sweden will go on to face Great Britain in thesemi-finals.

USA meets Canada in the semifinals for a rematch of the 2008 final
Canada and USA have quite the Ultimate history: those who were at WUGC 2008 in Vancouver will remember
the gold medal game where the Canadians took down the Americans. However, the rivalry doesn’t end there, asboth club teams that lay the basis for these nationals teams, Furious George for Canada and Revolver for USA,are regional rivals within the U.S. club series. Both squads are already familiar with each other, which sets up fora great match-up. Although many expected this to the be the finals, one of these teams will be out of contention
early. Team USA is still undefeated going into this semifinal, while Canada has one loss to Japan in power pools.
Expect a physical, gritty defensive game; both teams have the ability to score quickly and will likely do so withlittle to no wind in the forecast.

Women’s

MixedTimeFi el d

9:00

S1

11:00

S1

13:30

S8

New Zealand － Colombia

13:30

S9

Austria － France

11:00

S26

Canada

13:30

S10South Africa － Netherlands

12:00

S22

13:30

S11

Italy － Philippines

12:30

13:30

S13

Mexico － Hong Kong

13:30

S25

13:30

S26

16:30

S22

TimeFi eldTime

Field

Sweden － Great Britain

9:00

S7

Australia－ New Zealand

9:00

S9

USA － Canada

9:00

S8

Great Britain－ Germany

9:00

S10

9:00

S14

Finland－ Singapore

9:00

S11

China

－ USA

9:00

S12

France － Great Britain

Japan－ Colombia

9:00

S13

Philippines

S14

Finland－ Mexico

11:00

S23

Canada－ USA

15:00

S7

[WT5-Win]－ [WT6-Win]

12:00

S24

Australia－ JapanAustralia － Germany

15:30

S8

[WT5-Lose]－ [WT6-Lose]

15:30

S9

China

Japan － Finland

16:00

S14

Singapore － Mexico

15:30

S10

15:30

S11

Colombia

15:30

S12

[MT9-Win] － [MT10-Win]

15:30

S13

[MT9-Lose] － [MT10-Lose]

16:30

S21

[MT5-Lose] － [MT6-Lose][OT5-Lose] － [OT6-Lose]

Open Masters

16:30

S24

[WT1-Lose]－ [WT2-Lose]

Womens Masters

Ti me

Field

Time

Field

11:30

S6

France － Germany

9:00

S6Great Britain－ Germany

14:30

S23

[OMT3-Lose] － [OMT4-Lose]

9:00

S24

Canada－ Australia

19:00

S1

Australia － Canada

9:00

S25

Japan

13:30

S21 [WMT3-Lose] － [WMT4-Lose]

17:00

S1－ USA

Colombia－ South Africa

Finland － Hong Kong－ Russia－ Germany－ Hong Kong

Finland － Netherlands－ Russia

Guts
Time

Fie l d

13:00

F7Japan RED－ USA[WMT3-Win] － [WMT4-Win]

Australia’s Gavin Moore (#1) gets up for the defense against Emman Rodil of the Phillipines (#15) in the mixed quarterfinal.

Women’sOpen
SingaporeJapan
Australia
New Zealand
Italy
Colombia
FranceCanadaUSA
Singapore
South Africa
New ZealandColombia
Netherlands
Japan
Germany

14 13
14 － 17
14 － 16
17 － 135 － 1412 － 1117 － 617 － 417 － 716 － 516 － 817 － 1215 － 1317 － 917 － 13
13 － 15－MexicoSwedenGreat BritainSouth Africa
Austria
Netherlands
Philippines
Germany
FinlandHong KongItaly
Austria
FrancePhilippines
Australia
Finland

CanadaFinland
USA
Great Britain
New ZealandColombia
Germany
JapanJapan
USA
Australia

Mixed

17 715 － 617 － 911 － 1411 － 1217 － 211 － 1217 － 3
13 － 917 － 117 － 5－

Germany
MexicoAustralia
Colombia
Finland
MexicoGreat Britain
Singapore
CanadaSingapore
New ZealandOpen Masters

FinlandUSA
Colombia
China
Australia
CanadaJapan
China
Colombia
FinlandGuts
14 915 － 1215 － 1412 － 1116 － 717 － 416 － 1317 － 11

South Africa
21 12－
Great Britain Australia20 South Korea
Hong Kong
21 15Netherlands
210Philippines－
Japan WHITE 20 India
France210Germany
South Africa
21 15－
17 11 Netherlands Japan RED－
20 Australia－
10 16 Russia
21 12－Womens Masters

Great Britain 17 － 10 France
New Zealand 17 － 15 Germany
Great Britain 17 － 11 New Zealand

USACanada
Australia

17 － 9 Japan
17 － 6 Germany
17 － 6 Great Britain

JapanUSAAustralia
Japan

15 － 11 Great Britain
17 － 6 Germany

14 － 16 Australia
12 － 17 Canada

17Japan WHITE 021172121South Korea

Australia

2 USA－

200 India－2101221

20 Japan WHITE－1721

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