From:          rmande@axionet.com (Rob Mandeville)
Subject:       World Ultimate Championships

Hello Everybody,

        Well,  it is only 100 days away now.  The most exciting thing in
Ultimate is about to descend on Vancouver and give all of us seven days of
the most extraordinary playing you can imagine.  There are teams
representing 18 countries at the tournament and an expected 1600-1800
players.  There are some remarkable things at this tournament, Brazil and
China are both sending teams for the first time to worlds, and Japan is
sending an amazing 11 teams, that puts them as the 3rd largest country
represented behind Canada and the USA.

        As you can imagine this is going to be a truly inspired tournament
for play, but what about all that other stuff that makes those players want
to come here.  All the organizing committee are doing a superb job of
getting ready for all of you coming to the tournament.  Chris Lowe and
Nylene Geyer and their crew have planned some incredible parties with great
bands and much booze to entertain everyone.  Remember that volunteering is
your ticket to these monumental parties and it is also a great way to meet
people from around the world.  Beth Freeman and her mighty crew are hard at
word getting sponsorship for fun things to bulk up the volunteer/player
packages.  If you know of anything/anyone who may be able to help her with
stuff for these packages give us a shout.

        Speaking of ways you can help we would like to have you help us
build our volunteer pool to even greater levels than it is at now.
Currently we have almost 100 volunteers helping at this point - WE WANT
MORE PEOPLE.  One of your first big task as a volunteer is to help build
our volunteer pool. "Find a friend or two" and recruit them to help us make
this tournament even better. We need more people who want to be part of the
biggest thing to happen to Ultimate in Vancouver.  I also want to remind
all of you to get in touch with Scott Lewis or Rob Mandeville if you are
having difficulty communicating with your section head, we will be more
than glad to help you connect with them.  Well that is all for now, and
remember only 100 more days.

Rob Mandeville
Volunteer Crew Chief