The European Championships and the FPA Worlds created some big changes on both the Open and Women's rankings lists. Congratulations to Matteo Gaddoni and Judith Haas for being our new #1 ranked players!

Open Rankings
1. Gaddoni, Matteo (ITA) 1618 pts
2. Silvey, Randy (USA) 1554.75 pts
3. Collerà, Clay (ITA) 1515.25 pts
4. Leitner, Tom (USA) 1514.25 pts
5. Kenny, Paul (USA) 1410.75 pts
6. Cigna, Claudio (ITA) 1398.5 pts
7. Coddington, Arthur (USA) 1369 pts
8. Sanna, Fabio (ITA) 1352.4 pts
9. Lamred, Christian (GER) 1266.5 pts
10. Hess, Florian (GER) 1254 pts

Women's Rankings
1. Haas, Judith (GER) 1095 pts
2. Imazio, Eleonora (ITA) 1063 pts
3. Hunrichs, Lisa (USA) 993 pts
4. Daniels, Lori (USA) 901 pts
5. Caruso, Silvia (ITA) 794.5 pts
6. Kruger, Cindy (USA) 791.4 pts
7. Simon, Ilka (GER) 720 pts
8. Alessandrini, Gloria (ITA) 698.4 pts
9. Kulisanova, Irena (CZE) 659.75 pts
10. Sanchez, Bethany (USA) 655 pts

  
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Most Recent Post: 09/07 08:12PM by Paul Kenny
  

The FPA Worlds team is publishing updates via Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/fpaworlds. Start following @fpaworlds for pre-event announcements and (hopefully) on-the-field updates once the tournament starts.

  
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Howdy all, Leak here. Don't know that this is the best place for this. I'm saying HI, and hoping to catch the eye of any of my old pards from Santa Barbara in the late 70's, early 80s

I was looking thru my old Andy Tate calender that showed Chip Bell, Jeff Soto, & myself pulling off the "TRIPLE GITUS", on the lawn across from the Mission Santa Barbara.

That got me thinking about Joey & Ritchie, all our great jams at PALM PARK. As they can tell ya', I could pop the zzzz's, clock or counter....

Main thing is, I want to hook up with any and all freestylers, whether, you remember my obnoxius self or not I'd luv to yak.. my email is rieck55@gmail.com

  
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Claudio Cigna and Silvia Caruso recently filmed this Cornetto ice cream commercial. Claudio is the male lead. Silvia did the stunt freestyle for Claudio's love interest. Well done Claudio & Silvia!

  
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Since its beginning two years ago, Tita Ugalde's Freestyle Jam Camp has aimed not only to facilitate the sharing of jam wisdom but also to demonstrate the possibilities of local freestyle classes/camps. One of the larger goals is to build a roadmap so others can host their own camps easily.

This year, she's also reaching out to the jam community to invite us to support Jam Camp. Previous camps have been funded from generous donations, some registration fees, and Tita's bank account. She's set up a Kickstarter project so we can all participate, get some cool schwag as thank you's for our support, and help her cover some of the increased costs (field rentals are expensive!) this year.

Check out her project, and if you can spare $5 or more, help make this great event happen. Even better - the FPA has pledged to match the funds raised through Kickstarter in order to help Tita get to the point where that Jam Camp Recipe is ready to be shared with us all

Oh, and if you can make it to the Los Angeles area January 2-3 and think it would be cool to be tutored by world champions for a weekend, sign up for camp!

  
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This week, Claudio Cigna and Clay Collera have appeared each night on Scalo 76, a talent show where acts battle for a week and the in studio audience votes on the winners. On Monday, they placed 2nd of 6 acts in the voting behind only a bicycle stunt guy, who promptly chose to battle them the next day in an elimination round. Surprise surprise, Clay and Claudio defeated the biker on Tuesday. The biker somehow won his way back into the Wednesday show, which was another seeding round. This time Clay and Claudio were in the lead until the last two acts, then ended up 3rd behind the biker (again!) and another act. The entire show is available here (Clay and Claudio perform about 21 minutes into the show).

The biker is either mentally challenged or is playing a risky strategy of battling on a popular act because he chose to go up against Clay and Claudio again today - and lost again, giving Claudio and Clay a spot in the 4 team final tomorrow. The biker - again - somehow backdoored his way into the 4th final spot when they measured the popularity of the losing performers.

Best of luck to our freestyle heroes tomorrow in the finals as they go up against a rap group, masochistic biker boy, and (I think) a card trick performer.

UPDATE: In the final show, there were two head-to-head matchups. The winners of those matchups competed for first place. Clay and Claudio battled a musical group, and unfortunately they did not win that first match.

  
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The pre-world championships rankings are posted. These points will be used for world championships seeding next week. If you notice any glaring errors for players who will be competing at worlds, please let me know immediately:

Open Rankings
Women's Rankings

  
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The FPAW2009 crew has updated the worlds website to include listings of known teams. Apparently these are teams who signed up through the online choose-your-partner feature, so some teams are missing.

If you're one of the nearly 100 players registered for worlds and haven't chosen your partners, make sure to do so by August 9 on the website or by contacting the tournament planning crew.

Open Pairs Teams

Open Co-op Teams

Mixed Pairs Teams

Women's Pairs Teams

  
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The FPA just expanded its clothing line with a design by Bob Boulware. This tag cloud was submitted as a possible 2009 FPA disc design and not chosen. I think it looks great on clothing - and maybe someday on a disc too.

Vocabulary (2009) Hoodie, Brown Design

  
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