From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Aug 3 13:24:12 1999 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA25043 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:23:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from [137.205.222.1] (mac-wie-31 [137.205.222.1]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25033 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:23:08 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: serai@mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk Message-Id: <l03102800b3cc8f25e305@[137.205.222.1]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:25:02 +0100 To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk From: "Jester Bit" <jester_bit@hotmail.com> Subject: Ultimate in the Big Issue Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Issue 232, July 29 - August 4, of the Big Issue in Scotland has the double page report BI said they would publish. I'm not going to type it all out but here are a few highlights: "American football without the ball" Ultimate is a serious sport: you play it with a Frisbee, you can sacrifice cakes before games[?], wear grass skirts on the pitch and take sofas for the substitutes. It's serious all right: serious fun - and the Big Issue in Scotland's sister charity is set to benefit. If you head for the pitches around St Andrews university next week, be prepared to witness some peculiar goings on. People will be 'going ho' (horizontal), some may 'moose'[?], they'll be giving it plenty of Zs and you could even winess a circle of death. Yadda yadda yadda Ultimate yadda Cult sport yadda WUCC99 yadda Not Frisbee, flying disc yadda Two teams of seven yadda Endzones yadda. Dave grayson is the Captain of the team carrying Scottish hopes into WUCC99. "I could never get to grips with football or rugby," says Dave. "I could never get the hang of pulling someone's jersey or kicking theier ankles. I wasn't good at any of that." [Dave will have his knitting taken away from him and undergo 'Corrective Re-Education' to turn him back into the disc hungry D machine we know and love before Worlds] Yadda yadda yadda No referees yadda Sport on the rise in Scotland yadda Spirit yadda Fund raising for BI yadda. According to the organisers, the pairing [of Ultimate & the BI] is ideal. Jon Hope, spokesman for WUCC99 explains "We think the charity, its ethos and the image of the BI are all highly compatible with Ultimate's dynamicism and emphasis on self relience and spirit." Yadda the rest of teh article stresses how Ultimate wants to be taken seriously but not lose the fun element. A good article overall, and a nice pic of Dave (attachment too large to be sent to britdisc - please contact Jester if would like a copy sent to you directly) but unfortunately they haven't printed any details of how to contact anyone invovled in Ultimate in the UK along side it e.g. the BUF URL? If you turn a few pages though you do get a full page ad in colour for WUCC with a nice pic of DoG v Sweden, the WUCC99 URL and a St Andrews phone number (which I guess is the Uni's). Good work fellas and respect to Jon and Tara for getting this coverage. Bes* Jes* "Jester Bit" <jester_bit@hotmail.com>