GRUB 2008
17th Annual Grass Roots Ultimate Benefit Tournament
Tournament Overview
Date
July 19-20, 2008
Location
Boulder, Colorado: Pleasant View Soccer Complex
(click here for a map)
Tournament Director
Dave “Baker” Rosenthal
Format
32 mixed teams, 2 Divisions, 11th Edition, Overage to Beneficiary.
Cost
$35.00/player plus a refundable $100 teams deposit.
Bids
Teams are set, no further bids will be accepted for GRUB 2008.
Questions about bids/teams can be emailed to:
grub [at] gru [dot] org
Beneficiary Information
Proceeds raised at GRUB will be donated to Eco-Cycle to fund the development of a program helping events similar to GRUB become Zero Waste events. Eco-Cycle will also be working with GRUB organizers, making GRUB likely the first Zero Waste Ultimate tournament in the nation!
Eco-Cycle was founded in 1976 as a community-based, grassroots recycling organization. Since the mid-1990s, Eco-Cycle has broadened its efforts to pioneer the next revolution in resource conservation: Zero Waste. Zero Waste is a global movement that addresses resource use from product design to disposal, where there is no such thing as “waste” and materials are kept in the production cycle—through reuse, recycling and composting—rather than tossed into a landfill. Eco-Cycle is partnering with industry, businesses, municipalities, schools, community event organizers and individuals to create a Zero Waste community and to provide a Zero Waste model for the rest of the world. Learn more about Eco-Cycle and Zero Waste at www.ecocycle.org.
Visit the Eco-Cycle site at http://www.ecocycle.org/.
Please make your checks out to Rocky Mountain Ultimate. RMU is the 501c3 non-profit entity that does business as Grass Roots Ultimate. If a written acknowledgment of your donation is required for tax purposes, you must make your check out to Rocky Mountain Ultimate. If you have questions about the tax benefits of your tournament donation, please contact a tax professional. Please send requests for receipts to giving@rockymountainultimate.org.
GAME DAY Details
TOURNAMENT BRACKETS
A Division
B Division
PRIZES
The GRUB tournament is not only a great Ultimate tournament, but a fundraiser. Please help raise funds for our worthy beneficiary, Eco-Cycle, prior to the tournament. Use this to collect donations from friends, coworkers, family, significant others, bums on the street, etc. Every dollar you raise will help Eco-Cycle move our community one step closer to Zero Waste (and help make future Ultimate events Zero Waste as well).
Folks who raise / give the greatest donations get great prizes:
Top overall donor: a 4 night long weekend escape in a splendid cabin on Steamboat Lake in Steamboat Springs ($675 value). Details about this prize can be found here.
Top female donor: Women’s Clif Bar Bike Jersey, Women’s Go Lite backpack
Top male donor: Men’s Go Lite backpack, Wright Life hooded sweatshirt
Top total team donation: organic cotton jerseys, recycled plastic discs, & beer for everyone!
$25 donation: GRUB mini flash flight disc & pint glass
$10 donation: GRUB pint glass
Zero Waste Champion Prize
This prize is awarded based on an individual’s Zero Waste activities at the tournament and is based on nomination. Stop by Frisbee Central to nominate yourself or a friend as the Zero Waste Champion.
Zero Waste Champion Prize
This prize is awarded based on an individual’s Zero Waste activities at the tournament and is based on nomination. Stop by Frisbee Central to nominate yourself or a friend as the Zero Waste Champion
DOWNLOADS
Click here for the beneficiary pledge sheet.
Click here for the team waiver sheet.
CAPTAIN’S MEETING
The captain meeting is at 9am on Saturday. Games start at 9:30. Due the likelihood of routine late-day rain showers in Colorado summers, please adhere to the time schedule.
FOOD and WATER
Plenty of bplenty of water (please bring a reusable water bottle to fill), fruit, bagels, and juice will be available courtesy of our sponsors.
DINNER/PARTY
Place: Boulder Beer Pub (click here for a map.)
Time: 6pm
Food: Dinner provided 6-7 pm by: Lucille’s, voted “Best Creole Restaurant” by Westward Magazine.
Band: SoundRabbit Learn more about them at http://www.myspace.com/soundrabbit
FIELD USE
We are again playing on the City of Boulder’s beautiful
Pleasant View Soccer Complex fields. Remember as in most urban centers, quality recreational spaces are sparse and competitive adult ultimate does not get highest priority when it comes to obtaining these fields. So be mindful of the surrounding neighbors, obey the park regulations, and use your common sense so that you do not jeopardize GRUB and other ultimate events in years to come.
No glass bottles permitted on the fields.
Dogs are not permitted at GRU tournament events. Really no dogs, not in your car, not on the fields, and not in the parking lot.
Please do not practice on the Pleasant View site until the day of
the tournament. If your team is coming in from out of town, there are nice fields at Foothills Community Park (aka Violet Fields). Here is a link to a map: Practice Fields
Violation of these rules or behavior deemed unacceptable will be grounds for expulsion from the tournament and the facility. The Grass Roots Ultimate Board of Directors (and its designees, including the Tournament Director) and the City of Boulder Recreation Staff reserve the right to enforce this policy.
ZERO WASTE
GRUB will be Colorado’s first Zero Waste Ultimate tournament (and perhaps the first in the US). This means that event planners have designed waste out of the event in every way possible. You are a huge factor in the success of this Zero Waste tournament. Please:
· Bring a reusable bottle to refill with the fresh local spring water that will be provided
· Bring snacks in reusable containers (like Tupperware or plastic bags you can reuse)
· Clif Bars will be provided at the tournament. If you want to bring more energy bars of your own, please bring Nature Valley, Power Bar or Clif Bars. We are partnering with TerraCycle, a program that can accept those specific wrappers to be made into eco-chic accessories. We will not be able to accept other mylar wrappers in this program, so please avoid bringing them.
· We will be sourcing our food as local and organic as possible. We encourage you to do the same.
· Ride your bike or carpool to the tournament.
Zero Waste stations will be provided throughout the tournament. These stations include a recycling (for all traditional recyclables including plastic bottles, aluminum cans and foil) and a compost bin (for all food waste, including meat and dairy, and all non-plastic-lined paper products). All utensils distributed at the event will be made from compostable plant starches and all paper products will be compostable too. As long as you bring recyclable or compostable materials with you as well, we’ll have a successful tournament with virtually nothing thrown in the landfill!
LODGING
There is no camping on the fields.
SPONSORSHIP
Boulder Beer
Eldorado Spring Water
R.W. Knudsen – Recharge Sports Drink
Peak Form Physical Therapy
Guided Heights Massage Therapists
Izze Sparkling Juice
Clif Bar
Sunflower Market
Breadworks
Moe’s Bagels
The Wright Life
(If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact the tournament director for more information.)
Past GRUB Beneficiaries
2007: Kit Faragher Foundation
2006: Intercambio de Comunidades, Boulder
2005: Sage Community Partnership, Boulder
2004: Boulder County Partners
2003: People’s Clinic
2002: Colorado School Mediate Project
2001: Out and About
2000: Earth Force
1999: Volunteer Connection
1998: Boulder Rape Crisis Center
1997: Boulder Day Nursery
1996: Emergency Family Assistance Association
Past GRUB Results
Past A-Division Winners and Runners Up
2008: Paper Champs over Liver Punch
2007: Liver Punch Revival over Mile High Club
2006: Liver Punch Revival over Pimping Ain’t Easy
2005: Liver Punch Revival over D.T.L. (rematch)
2004: Liver Punch Revival over D.T.L.
2003: Duff over Bad Larry
2002: D.T.L. over Bad Larry
2001: Pimping Ain’t Easy over Holes and Poles
Past B-Division Winners and B-Division Runners Up
2008: Jumping Bones over DOA
2007: Grip over Fayetteville
2006: Jumping Bones over Evil Black Bunnies
2005: ABQ over Jumping Bones
2004: Unknown
2003: Unknown
2002: Unknown
2001: Step Behind over Jumping Bones
Posted: 07/17/2008 03:46 PM by Jenny Nunemacher
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