12e Open de France de Footbag - Paris 24-27 February 2011

[Grischa]

Greetings footbag players,

You thought the 12e Open de France de Footbag would not happen … well we thought so too !!! But now I’m happy to announce that the ODF will be hosted for the 7th time in a row in Paris.

Because of very limited support from local authorities we were not able to book one of the two state-owned gyms which are big enough to host the ODF during ANY weekend until summer 2011. Therefore we had to dispatch the tournament over 4 days.

Thursday/Friday we will be at La Halle Carpentier – 75013 Paris and Saturday/Sunday we will be just across the street at the gyms Bourneville and 4bis Choisy (the gym we practice every Monday since 1999).

http://www.footbag.org/events/show/1294262550

Once again the ODF will be the largest footbag indoor competition this season in the World. Last year over 100 footbag players and aficionados came to Paris. IFPA sanctioning should be received shortly.

In the next couple of weeks the ODF web site (www.footbag.fr/open) will be launched and online registration will be available on footbag.org.

Once again it will be one of the top footbag events this winter season in Europe. Make sure that you don’t miss it !

Recap:
What: 12e Open de France de Footbag
When: 24-27 February 2011
Where: Paris, France
http://www.footbag.org/events/show/1294262550

Keep on kicking,

Grischa Tellenbach
Tournament director
12e Open de France

[jay7]

I'm pretty likely to try and book tickets for this tonight, but for now I have to get to school.

First time in Paris

*edit*

Going to Paris. I arrive Thursday morning, super early (6:45 am), so I figured I'd see the city. If anyone else is interested, we should plan something!

Leaving mid-day Monday.

Woo!

-- Oh, and yes...What are sleeping accommodations?

[LinoSphere]

flights booked.

[Anz]

I'm coming on Thursday and leaving on Sunday.

What about accomodation? Who has crash space?

[Air]

I booked my flights yesterday, Thursday evening to Monday afternoon!

[Grischa]

Nice - already 4 people who booked their tickets in the first week after the announcement of the 12e ODF.

Like+1

G*

[tammockel]

booked, yeah baby yeah!

[Grischa]

nice - pixie shtataff Alta !

G*

[Grischa]

12e Open de France de Footbag

Paris 24-27 February, 2011

The Open de France de Footbag will be hosted for the 7th year in a row in Paris. This IFPA sanctioned event is the biggest indoor footbag competition in the World. Last year over 100 players from all over the world came to Paris.

Pre-registration is open on the event page on Footbag Worldwide at http://www.footbag.org/events/show/1294262550

Please register NOW.

The registration fee is 40 €, which includes 1 free tournament t-shirt, free breakfast on all 4 tournament days and dinner on Saturday evening at the legendary Club House !
Please note that a 10 € extra fee will be charged on all players who do not pre-register online on http://www.footbag.org/events/show/1294262550

The 12e ODF will be one of the top footbag events this season. Top freestylers from Canada, Czech Republic, Finland and Poland have already confirmed their attendance. And 4 of the top 5 IFPA Open Singles Net players are also already confirmed. Make sure that you don’t miss this unique event!

If you plan to attend the 12e Open de France de Footbag and you have any question please write to open@footbag.fr or put a message on the French footbag forum at http://footbag.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=1842

See you soon in Paris,

Grischa Tellenbach
Tournament Director
12e Open de France

[Air]

Thanks to the French crew for a great event!

[Zeb Jackson]

will someone please post the results to the french open to footbag.org?

[Grischa]

http://www.footbag.org/events/show/1294262550

Cheers,

G*

[C-Fan]

Whoa! Karim won singles net? That's crazy/awesome!

[Zeb Jackson]

cool i will add this event to the rankings today thanks

[Grischa]

The 12e Open de France de Footbag ( http://www.footbag.org/events/show/1294262550 ) was once again a huge success. More than 100 players and aficionados from 14 countries came to Paris to participate at this great footbag gathering.

Thanks to the hospitality of our local players and Arthur « Chicken Tut » Ledain’s efforts to coordinate/dispatch people, a lot of footbaggers and aficionados were put up at players’ homes.

This year the Association Française de Footbag and the local club RNH Footbag were once again able to host the Open de France in one of Paris’ first class venues La Halle Carpentier and 2 other gyms. The event was run over 4 days and players benefitted from 11 net courts and a shred area.

Europe’s finest freestyle was represented in Paris by players from Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany and Switzerland.

Once again Milan Benda from the Czech crew performed at his best and won Open Routines and Shred 30 (265.7 points). Milan is the first male freestyler to defend his title at the ODF since Vasek Klouda in 2004. The up-coming Czech youngster Jindra Smola performed a great dropless routine in finals which offered him the Silver medal. Jay Boyckuk from Canada came third in routines on his first ever participation at the ODF.

The Czech crew also ruled the Circle Contest with Milan taking gold and Jindra bronze. Aleksi Airinen from Finland took silver. Rafal Kaleta from Poland completed the circle finals.

In Shred 30 only Milan managed to beat the Fins. Aleksi Airinen got his 2nd silver medal with 242 points and Mikko Lepisto took bronze with 236 points.

The turn out and quality of net players competing at the 12e ODF was also just unbelievable with over 60 players.

Gilles “The Blade” Demers and François “Franck the Tank” Pelletier from Montreal successfully defend their title over Matti Pohjola and Janne Uusitalo from Finland in 3 games. The bronze medal was eventually taken by Arthur Ledain and Karim Daouk in an epic 3 games battle over JF Lemieux and Greg Lima.

Shirin Daouk and Helena Schlichting won Women’s Doubles Net over Lena Mlakar and Sophie Andrey. Katharina Probst and Lisa Amengual took bronz.

On Saturday evening we had another terrific Club House party, with Mini-Net, Dancing 4-Square, cool socialising and part 1 of the award ceremony was presented by the one and only Eric “Rico Del Rico” Dargent our infamous event speaker.

Sunday was Karim Daouk day. At first Karim and his sister Shirin beat Arthur Ledain and Helena Schlichting in semi-finals of Mixed Doubles Net. Then he beat Matti Pohjola in 2 games in semi-finals of Open Singles, before beating JF Lemieux in 2 close games (21-18, 21-19) in finals. That makes Lino Landau (RNH Footbag) the only player to win a game of Karim in the entire singles net tournament (schön Digga). The last match of the day was Mixed Doubles Net finals were the Daouk’s beat Tammo Rockel and Katharina Probst in 2 games. Unfortunately the number 1 seeds Ales Pelko and Lena Mlakar had to return to Slovenia on Sunday morning and therefore couldn’t compete in the semi-finals.

Jay Boyckuk ruled the Request Contest on Sunday. He was well way above all other participants, hitting all combos with the mic in one hand and the clipboard with all tricks in the other. Eventually Rafal Kaleta took silver. Seb “Hurricane” Duchesne stepped-off the net court and took the bronze medal. At his 4th consecutive participation at the ODF, he also reached quarter-finals in Open Doubles Net. Nice performance Seb !

For the sixth year Prokicker was the official footbag net provider of the tournament. Thanks again Yevez.

Thanks a lot to all volunteers who made this event possible and to all players who travelled to Paris !


Milan Benda’s Shred 30 (video Wiktor Debski): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5cJgulEeoU
Open Doubles Net Gold Medal Match (video Olivier Baillon): http://dl.free.fr/dCnGTrhOd
Open Doubles Net Bronze Medal Match (video Olivier Baillon): http://dl.free.fr/psDvh1Br1
Pictures by Etienne Ruggeri (http://etienne-ruggeri.redbubble.com/): https://picasaweb.google.com/olivierbai ... directlink#
Pictures by Quentin Isackson: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-de-F ... ?sk=photos

All results of the 12e Open de France de Footbag (sorry this is a pretty long list):

Results 12e ODF

Open Routines

1. Milan Benda (CZE)
2. Jindra Smola (CZE)
3. Jay Boychuk (CAN)
4. Aleksi Airinen (FIN)
5. Mikko Lepisto (FIN)
6. Michal Ostrowski (POL)

8. Rene Rühr (GER)
8. Rafal Kaleta (POL)
10. Tomas Ostrowski (POL)
10. Jeremy Masselis (FRA)
12. Silwan Daouk (SUI)
12. Sebastien Lefay (FRA)


Cirlce Contest

1. Milan Benda (CZE)
2. Aleksi Airinen (FIN)
3. Jindra Smola (CZE)
4. Rafal Kaleta (POL)


Shred 30

1. Milan Benda (CZE) – 265.7
2. Aleksi Airinen (FIN) – 242
3. Mikko Lepisto (FIN) – 236

Request Contest

1. Jay Boychuk (CAN)
2. Rafal Kaleta (POL)
3. Sebastien Duchesne (CAN)


Open Doubles Net

Initial seeding

1. Gilles Demers / Francois Pelletier
2. JF Lemieux / Greg Lima
3. Matti Pohjola / Janne Uusitalo
4. Arthur Ledain / Karim Daouk
5. Ulli Haase / Eurik Lindner
6. Grischa Tellenbach / Lino Landau
7. Yves Kreil / Antonio Fritsch
8. Ales Pelko / Jaka Stare
9. Manuel Kruse / Simon Voss
10. Alexander Smirnov / Evgeni Shiryaev
11. Sebastien Duchesne / Guillaume Degat
12. Amaya Straeten / Yannik Rockel
13. Sebastien Maillet / Mouss Kabbal
14. Vincent Rousseau / Marc Brunet
15. Justin Sexton / Juha-Matti Rytilathi
16. Wociech Jamski / Piotrek Koscielny
17. Rafa Andryka / Maciej Samborowski
18. Victor Lezama / Yves Mingard
19. Johannes Korff / Wiktor Debski
20. Olivier Baillon / Thomas Sustrac
21. Tammo Rockel / Jyri Ilama
22. Miquel Clemente / Lena Mlakar
23. Helena Schlichting / Shirin Daouk
24. Sebastien Lefay / Silwan Daouk
25. Christian Bock / Robin Püchel
26. Sven Depoilly / Emilien Groussin
27. David Rambaud / Mael Le Gall
28. Rosen Kyrta / Radoslav Rusev
29. Lisa Amengual / Katharina Probst
30. Quentin Isackson / Julien Coblence

Final results

1. Gilles Demers / Francois Pelletier (CAN)
2. Matti Pohjola / Janne Uusitalo (FIN)
3. Arthur Ledain / Karim Daouk (FRA – RNH /SWI)
4. JF Lemieux / Greg Lima (FRA – RNH)
5. Grischa Tellenbach / Lino Landau (FRA – RNH)
6. Ales Pelko / Jaka Stare (SLO)
7. Sebastien Duchesne / Guillaume Degat (CAN/FRA)
8. Amaya Straeten / Yannik Rockel (GER)
9. Sebastien Maillet / Mouss Kabbal (FRA – RNH)
10. Vincent Rousseau / Marc Brunet (FRA – RNH)
11. Wociech Jamski / Piotrek Koscielny (POL)
12. Justin Sexton / Juha-Matti Rytilathi (FIN)
13. Alexander Smirnov / Evgeni Shiryaev (RUS)
14. Ulli Haase / Eurik Lindner (GER) (scratch)
15. Yves Kreil / Antonio Fritsch (GER) (scratch)
16. Manuel Kruse / Simon Voss (GER) (scratch)
17. Tammo Rockel / Jyri Ilama (GER/FIN)
18. Victor Lezama / Yves Mingard (VEN/SWI)
19. Johannes Korff / Wiktor Debski (GER/ POL)
20. Rafa Andryka / Maciej Samborowski (POL)
21. Miquel Clemente / Lena Mlakar (FRA/SLO)
22. Sebastien Lefay / Silwan Daouk (FRA – RNH /SWI)
23. Rosen Kyrta / Radoslav Rusev (BUL)
24. Helena Schlichting / Shirin Daouk (GER/SWI)
25. Olivier Baillon / Thomas Sustrac (FRA – RNH)
26. Quentin Isackson / Julien Coblence (FRA – RNH)
27. Christian Bock / Robin Püchel (GER) (scratch)
28. Sven Depoilly / Emilien Groussin FRA (scratch)
29. Lisa Amengual / Katharina Probst (FRA – RNH /SWI)
30. David Rambaud / Mael Le Gall FRA


Mixed Doubles Net

Initial seeding

1. Ales Pelko / Lena Mlakar
2. Karim Daouk / Shirin Daouk
3. Arthur Ledain / Helena Schlichting
4. Tammo Rockel / Katharina Probst
5. Grischa Tellenbach / Lisa Amengual
6. Sebastien Duchesne / Myriam Carrier
7. Yves Mingard / Sophie Andrey

Final results

1. Karim Daouk / Shirin Daouk (SWI)
2. Tammo Rockel / Katharina Probst (GER/SWI)
3. Arthur Ledain / Helena Schlichting (FRA – RNH/GER)
4. Ales Pelko / Lena Mlakar (SLO) (scratch)
5. Grischa Tellenbach / Lisa Amengual (FRA – RNH)
6. Sebastien Duchesne / Myriam Carrier (CAN)
7. Yves Mingard / Sophie Andrey (SWI)


Women’s Doubles Net

1. Helena Schlichting / Shirin Daouk (GER/SWI)
2. Lena Mlakar / Sophie Andrey (SLO/SWI)
3. Lisa Amengual / Katharina Probst (FRA – RNH/SWI)


Open Singles Net

Initial seeding

1. Matti Pohjola
2. JF Lemieux
3. Gilles Demers
4. Francois Pelletier
5. Karim Daouk
6. Greg Lima
7. Arthur Ledain
8. Ales Pelko
9. Antonio Fritsch
10. Grischa Tellenbach
11. Janne Uusitalo
12. Amaya Straeten
13. Victor Lezama
14. Lino Landau
15. Alexander Smirnov
16. Tammo Rockel
17. Miquel Clemente
18. Sebastien Duchesne
19. Sebastien Maillet
20. Evgeni Shiryaev
21. Simon Voss
22. Jaka Stare
23. Guillaume Degat
24. Mouss Kabbal
25. Vincent Rousseau
26. Marc Brunet
27. Yves Mingard
28. Sven Depoilly
29. Johannes Korff
30. Olivier Baillon
31. Thomas Sustrac
32. Christian Bock
33. Robin Püchel
34. Rosen Kyrta
35. Yannik Rockel
36. Juha-Matti Rytilathi
37. Lena Mlakar
38. Silwan Daouk
39. Mael Le Gall
40. David Rambaud
41. Emilien Groussin
42. Jyri Ilama
43. Sebastien Lefay
44. Quentin Isackson
45. Julien Coblence
46. Radoslav Rusev
47. Katharina Probst

Final Results

1. Karim Daouk (SWI)
2. JF Lemieux (FRA – RNH)
3. Matti Pohjola (FIN)
4. Gilles Demers (CAN)
5. Greg Lima (FRA – RNH)
6. Ales Pelko (SLO)
7. Francois Pelletier (CAN)
8. Janne Uusitalo (FIN)
9. Arthur Ledain (FRA – RNH)
10. Antonio Fritsch (GER)
11. Sebastien Maillet (FRA – RNH)
12. Lino Landau (FRA – RNH)
13. Tammo Rockel (GER)
14. Simon Voss (GER)
15. Mouss Kabbal (FRA – RNH)
16. Jaka Stare (SLO)
17. Juha-Matti Rytilathi (FIN)
18. Amaya Straeten (GER)
19. Guillaume Degat (FRA)
20. Evgeni Shiryaev (RUS)
21. Grischa Tellenbach (FRA – RNH)
22. Victor Lezama (VEN)
23. Sebastien Duchesne (CAN)
24. Alexander Smirnov (RUS)
25. Sven Depoilly (FRA)
26. Rosen Kyrta (BUL)
27. Marc Brunet (FRA – RNH)
28. Johannes Korff (GER)
29. Olivier Baillon (FRA – RNH)
30. Miquel Clemente (FRA)
31. Yannik Rockel (GER)
32. Vincent Rousseau (FRA – RNH)
33. Lena Mlakar (SLO)
34. Christian Bock (GER)
35. Yves Mingard (SWI)
36. Jyri Ilama (FIN)
37. Thomas Sustrac (FRA – RNH)
38. Robin Püchel (GER)
39. Silwan Daouk (SWI)
40. Katharina Probst (SWI)
41. Radoslav Rusev (BUL)
42. Sebastien Lefay (FRA – RNH)
43. Emilien Groussin (FRA)
44. Quentin Isackson (FRA – RNH)
45. Mael Le Gall (FRA)
46. David Rambaud (FRA)
47. Julien Coblence (FRA – RNH)


Intermediate Singles Net

1. Sebastien Lefay (RNH Footbag)
2. Emilien Groussin
3. Quentin Isackson (RNH Footbag)
4. Mael Le Gall
5. David Rambaud
6. Julien Coblence (RNH Footbag)


Keep on kicking,

For and on behalf of
The hosting club
RNH Footbag

[sen]

Great write-up! Thanks.