Get The Led Out

We've set a date for the 5th annual Get The Led Out.

It is Saturday April 24th at the Cumberland Fairgrounds. Yes, I tried to get the first weekend in May, but we gave that date up for Rugby and the second weekend in May is usually Get Ho Get Lei'd at Middlebury College.

As usual, a ton of games, great music, awesome BBQ and a new twist this year, $1000 to the winning team.

Who can't use $1000? Use it for practice under the lights, new uniforms, the trip to worlds, donate it to a worthy cause...... The list goes on.

Cost per team is going to be $200.

So, what's holding you back?

Submit a comment using the 'contact us' link above if you are interested.

There will also be an athletic trainer on site.

Teams so far and their bios:

1. One Trick Pony

Fall 2009 was our first season playing together. We played in Division 2 of BUDA Club and finished 3rd place. We lost a few members from the team and are still looking for a couple of replacements who'll fit in with us. We're looking to play an active Spring Tournament schedule to get ready for the upcoming Summer Club season. We're looking to have another strong season and aiming to finish in the top half of Division 2 again.

If we win? I'd have to say we'd probably use the money to fund our Wildwood Trip for this year, but that will be a team vote.

2. Wheaton Ultimate

Wheaton Ultimate is a growing program with plenty of potential and talent. We're young and mostly fast and love sketchy throws. We are looking for more intense competition to challenge and hopefully beat down on our way to sectionals...which, ironically enough, is before Get the Led Out..theres always the fall!

If we win the $1000 we will immediately catch a bus to Foxwoods and promptly spend it on slot machines and overpriced drinks.

3. Quiet Coyote

Quiet Coyote began in 2007 as a way for some friends and former teammates to get together and hang the heck out on some weekends in the summer. While it wasn’t a terribly successful season on paper, it was a blast and laid the foundation for the current team. Season by season, Quiet has put in more work as a team and has seen the 10th place finish at 2007 Northeast Regionals turn into a surprising 3rd place finish at the 2009 UPA Championships. Along with the strong placing at the UPA's came a bid for the 2010 World Club Championships in Prague. This spring, Quiet is looking to continue to tighten up their act on the way to representing the United States this summer in Prague.

If Quiet were to win at Get The Led Out, the $1000 prize would go directly towards reducing the the expense of airfare and hotels for the World Championships. Quiet Coyote is looking forward to this tournament as a way to get some good, early-season competition in as well as have an opportunity to win some money to help cut down the costs for our trip to Prague.

4. UNE

The UNE ultimate frisbee team has been up and running for a few years now and is steadily gaining more steam. It is comprised of a very athletic group of mostly second and third year players with some new recruits also. Although slightly inexperienced when compared to other teams, UNE is physically capable of keeping up. Last year at the Get the Led Out tournament UNE did not win a game, but kept several games tight including a one point loss in their last game after a hard cap. This year we hope to expand on strides we have made in prior tournaments and put together a shot at surprising a few people. If we were to win the tournament we would likely put the funds into getting some team sweatshirts and use the remaining funds to put towards more tournaments next year to help further expand the growing team.

5. Mogwai

UMaine Farmington alumni and Portland players combined in 2008 to form Mogwai. We have grown significantly in the last two years and established ourselves as a competitive New England team. Last year we finished in 7th place at regionals. This year we hope to play well enough to put ourselves in one of the games to go to Nationals. If we win the money will go towards traveling to tournaments that Chum will not be at.

6. Shipwreck

Shipwreck are the defending champions of the Get the Led Out. We are a group of Red Tide men with a sprinkling of ladies that we have picked up along the way. Hello Ladies!! We hope to get a good run in that day, hang out with some old friends, drink some beers, have some fun, maybe win a few games. When we win the $1000 we are going to use the money for lights, because Frisbee isn't free.

7. Chum

We are an older team with a bunch of kids on the sidelines. If we win the $1000, we will drink it all away that night.

8. SS Arg

Get the Led Out was a great start to the season last year and that's what we hope it will be this year. After a long hiatus from ultimate, we plan to use this tournament as a way to gauge what we want to work on for the upcoming season and what kind of what we need to be in to reach those goals. What Get the Led Out really does for us is remind us how much we want to be playing frisbee with the people on S.S.Arg.

If we win the one thousand dollars this year, we will use it to hire babysitters to attend every practice. We will rent out the most exceptional facilities and snack on organic fruit and fiji water.

9 . Molotov

Molotov: We rock the party that rocks the body.... And we will be buying $1000 worth of 40's, gasoline and rags. We didn't play last year, but plan to win it all this year.

10. Slams

SLAMS (Sean Laing's Army of Midget Sluts) Team Makeup: Mostly Slow White (boston based elite mixed ultimate) - UPA North East Regional champs and 12th place at UPA club nationals in 2009. Chances are we'll be in the running for the regional title this year and will be looking to make noise at nationals. Bio: SLAMS is a side project/fun team that competes from time to time in and around New England.

What we would do with $1000: Some might think midget slut upkeep is cheap... its not.

11. Sucker Punch

"Sucker Punch". If we win the $1000, we'll be so excited to have beaten quiet coyote that we will probably donate some of that money to them to go to Worlds while we use the rest of it to buy board games.

Sucker Punch

We basically live our lives with the philosophy that when life gives you lemons you turn around and give it Sucker Punch. Then as it is doubled over, you lean down and whisper in it's ear, "That's how Houdini died." We like to hang out with rad people like Arnold Palmer and the Kool-aid man. Once we invited the entire A-Team to our birthday party, but they didn't come. Don't worry though, everything is cool between us now. We spend a lot of free time not working and playing board games. We are really good at games. I bet between the whole lot of us we know how to play more than 32 games. I know it sounds unbelievable but we're not making this stuff up. Some of us have played Ultimate before. I digress.

We also play games like Mario and Mario Kart. Bubbling-up has saved many a friendship on this team. It has also created many an enemy. So I guess take what you want out of that. To be completely honest, there is only one guy on our team who will actually sucker punch you (maybe 2) but it will be in a real loving manner, after all there is a possibility we will see you again and that could be really awkward.

12. DiscLexic

In the year 944 AD, over three decades before the supposed "invention" of Ultimate by Erik the Puce (Erik the Red's lesser known half brother), four hunters stumbled across a mysterious carving in a cave in the Borneo jungle. This carving depicted a game being played by a group of young men wearing loin cloths and primitive trucker hats, featuring a flat disc of some type. Unfortunately, the carving did not make clear what the game was about, but instead appeared to depict a dispute of some type. Later linguists have tentatively translated the captions as "What kind of australopithecine calls a pick outside of the fall series?" and "I picked your mom last night!" Two of the young men seemed to be attempting to resolve the dispute, which goal was apparently frustrated by the fact that "paper" and "scissors" hadn't been invented yet (come to think of it, this chronicler knows players who still rosham that way). Unfortunately, before these brave hunters were able to carry news of this amazing development in classic sports reporting, they were all eaten by snakes.

This anecdote has nothing to do with the team Disclexic; in the immortal words of Monty Python, "I was deliberately wasting your time."

The 22.3 members of Disclexic have spent between them 47 years playing ultimate, 3 months arguing foul calls, 6 years in prison, 18 years in remedial English, and one night in Bangkok. They come from New York, except those who don't. Disclexic plans to improve on last year's inaugural performance at Get the Led Out by maybe winning some games this year, although that goal is of course secondary to their real purpose: bring back the firecracker play! BOOM! They intend to use the winnings from this tournament to buy a spot in the Ultimate Hall of Fame, further remedial English classes and, most importantly, a much better PR guy.

13. Awkward Seaturtle:

A mixed team out of the Amherst/Northampton area. There is a lot of turn over from the previous team (jiggle the handle/disaster) but with new leadership and a new outlook on how to run a team. We are a serious team that likes to have fun, regardless of winning or losing. my goal is to have this team able to compete with mixed teams out of eastern mass by mixed easterns, and with the talent that exists out here I believe that we can do it. Plus the name totally rocks.

Being that this would be our first tournament of the year, I cant say exactly how I think we will do. A bunch of us played together on the same team last year and were looking for a better organized offense, which I plan to have. So judging by the teams that you showed I would put us just out of the top quarter. But again we could play much better than that.

The $1000 would go a long way to helping us go to tournaments. People have always talked about trying to go to jazz fest and Mars but one of the big issues was cost. (younger team) So the $1000 would definitely go towards tournaments first, Jerseys second (we have an awesomely awkward logo) and lastly I have been thinking about trying to hold a tournament somewhere in western mass and that money would definitely be useful in helping to defray the startup costs of renting a field and throwing a party.

14. 2 Big 2 Fail

Deep in the Vermont woods an ancient spirit is growing. The elemental forces have contrived to send forth frisbee-chucking warriors whose only enemy is dishonesty and who wield the weapons of Love. Out of the miasma of chaos and distrust has emerged one force to challenge the great powers of Ennui in this world: And they are Too Big To Fail. The squad is diverse. We have age-old heroes, renowned in song. We have young bloods who ache to test their long training on the field of battle.

We have goals not easily understood by most men. We seek a pulpit. We seek the power of togetherness. But even more, we seek the simple joy of the flying frisbee. Welcome to the dance.

15. The Rebel Alliance

We started last fall in BUDA Club, division 2 mixed. We really came together as a team last fall in the fall season's tournament, finishing 4th by losing to One Trick Pony in the consolation round. (we beat them in pool play earlier in the day.) We also won our division in Get Ho Ho Ho on Cape Cod last December. (it was reorganized div 2/3, as some teams left from the cold weather) My co-captain and I are newer to the sport of utimate, last year was our second season of playing competitive ultimate and we were tired of trying to find a team, so we decided to form our own team of friends we had met through playing in the last couple years. We are mix of new players and a few more seasoned veterans, but together we are learning a lot and having a great time doing it. We hope to become more competitive this season and go further into all tournaments we participate in. We also tend to break into light saber battles on the sidelines. Off the field, as a team we often get together for Rock Band nights, Vermonster competitions, and general partying fun. If we were to win the prize money? I'd say we would spend it on a few things: Buying everyone on the team Rebel Alliance discs, matching team shorts, and paying for the next tourney. Oh and we'd definitely have a party.

16. Enough Monkeys

Enough Monkeys is a 7th year team from Hanover, NH with a 175-100 tournament record since the team started in 2004. We finished 4th at regionals in 2009, which is likely somewhat higher than we'll finish at GTLO. If we win the $1000 we'll use it to purchase a private jet to fly us to tournaments.

17. Spawns

Coming all the way from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, ‘Spawn’ is a mix of old experience and raw athletic youth. We are a group who play hard on the field, and always represent well at the party late into the night (or early into the morning) J Last year was a ‘rebuilding year’ for the team, aiming for a good competitive ulti season in 2010. We placed 21st of 36 in UPA Mixed Easterns, 1st in Catch n’ Release in Halifax, Nova Scotia, & 2nd at Fruitbowl (our indoor home tourni) to name a few. We’re looking to come out strong this spring and into the summer, aiming to win Canadian Atlantic Regionals and place top 10 at CUPA 2010 Nationals.

If we win the 1000$ we’ll be putting it towards our goal of competing at Canadian Nationals again!!!

18. Eastern Connecticut State University

We are the ThunderCougarFalconBirds from Eastern Connecticut State University. Although our team name is long, we are a newly established team that has only bee around for a year and a half. We are a diverse team of ex-sport players from track, to soccer, who have come together for the love of a disc. We play hard, endure the pressure, and most of all have fun. We love Frisbee. To our school, Ultimate Frisbee isn't taken as serious and if we win that 1,000 dollars, we are going to put it towards new jerseys and equipments and show the school that we go all out just like any other sport.

19. Norwich University

20. SOS

SOS are the Spawn of Spawn! They are a crew of athletic young players that are continuous being molded and trained within the Spawn Club. They are the future Spawn players! A good looking bunch that will give any team a run for it’s money… or the money J