Showing posts with label roofball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roofball. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
The 2011 Roofball World Championship preview
Tomorrow, February 20th, the 13th annual Roofball World Championships will be played, and if you pay attention to our show, blog, facebook page or twitter feed, you know that Loren and I love us some roofball.
The WCs should see a full 24 player field with many of the usual suspects. Adam Willis, Casey Campbell and Buddy Emmons have 4 Roofball titles each. Steve Stupey has played in 5 tournaments and has finished in the top 3 all but once. There will also be a some players such as Travis Demers and Matt Azar who've come close to winning before but just can't make it over the hump...yet.
But this is a PMS blog so I wanted to concentrate on Loren and I.
Loren has played in 3 tournaments making it to the second round twice. With one more game he'll have the minimum number of games played to be listed on the record page. Loren hasn't gone deep in a tournament but he does have 3 Roofball Games Gold medals.
I've had the pleasure of winning two tournaments and finishing in the semifinals 3 times. I really have two goals entering this tournament.
1. To win, of course, is one of them, but this tournament means something more. Ask any long standing roofballer and they'll tell you this is the big one. It's also the one tournament I haven't won. A win here and I'll be the first roofball player to win all three tournaments.
2. I'm also looking to become the 7th roofball player to score 1000 career points. I sit 78 points away.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
2010 Roofball games
This past Sunday, 9.12.10 the 2010 Roofball Games were held. The Roofball Games are a smaller Roofball event held every other year. There are three events, Time trial, Team competition and the Head-to-head time trial.
Time Trial:
Each player gets 1 minute to score as many points as possible. The record for the most ponits was 56 entering the day. The first competitor Ruben Schug put up a 62, a great beginning to a great day. Later on in the competition Matt Azar also posted a 62. Ruben was able to best Matt in a 30 second throw off to win the gold. New comer Cliff Pfenning took the bronze medal with a 39. As far as the Portland Men on Sports crew I (Derek) scored a 35, Loren 21, and Ryan -14.
Team competition:
The team competition is a bracketed format where three people join up to throw 10 innings. Two players throw three times while an anchor throws 4. Our Portland Men on Sports team comprised of Loren, Ryan and myself were the defending champions and had a lot of confidence going into it. However they only scored a 24 in the opening round but made it through to the finals with the wild card. In the championship round team PMS needed a ping to win on their last throw. I stepped up and threw a ping and caught the ball for good measure. It was nice to win another Roofball Games Gold medal.
Head-to-head Time trial:
The Head-to-head time trial is a tournament style event. Roofballers are matched up and play at the same time with 1:00 minute to score as many points as possible. I received a bye in the first round due to my score in the regular time trial event. Ryan won his first round match up while Loren fell just short. Ryan an I were matched up in the second round. I pulled down the victory but I have to say there was a lot more contact than you'd normally see. I moved on to the semi finals but lost and had to play in the Bronze medal game. I had my best game of the day throwing a 48 and took home the Bronze.
In 2008 Team PMS took home 6 out 9 possible medals in 2010 we had 4. While it wasn't a great day medal count wise it was pretty dang good. The 2010 US Open will be held on 9.26. For more info leave a comment or email president@roofball.org.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Blast from Roofball past.
Here's a quick video of Loren and I after our terrible play in the second round of the Roofball World Championships last January.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
2010 RFA Cup
Two Sundays ago, the 2010 RFA Cup was held. The middle event on the Roofball calendar. This is also the newest tournament. The World Championships and US Open have been played since 1999 while the RFA Cup started in 2007. Check out the write up here.
Loren had a decent round 1 and advanced to the 2nd round before falling just short of a wild card to the semi's. I had a much better day not only did I make it to the semi's, or the medal round I got to the championship game. I played a former Roofball champion Steve Stupey. We battled until the end, I even threw an around that started to go over the house and came back, Adam Willis later named the throw the "Hand of God around." It came down to Steve needing an around to take the lead with his last throw, he went over and I went on to win. Check the pic.
The next Roofball event is held this September. The 2010 US Open. This is my favorite event since the day before the tournament there are the Roofball games. The Roofball games are open to anyone, you don't need an invite to play. There are three events a time trial, a team competition and the head to head time trial. Team PMS will be there to defend our team title. If you think you can take us down be there.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
2010 Roofball World Championships
This past Sunday, 1.31.10, both Loren and I played in the 2010 Roofball World Championships. This marked the 11th World Championship. With a write up posted on at http://www.roofball.org/ I'll concentrate on Loren and I.
I started the day throwing last in the second game. I started off well throwing back to back pings and taking an early lead. I let the score get within 2 before hitting an around to get a double digit lead again. I won my first game, only scoring 30 points a personal all time low for a first game.
Loren came rushing out of the gate in his first game throwing an around and two pings. He finished his game with a career best 46. However he had to settle for a wild card spot since Casey Campbell threw a 50 to win the game.
All of this ended in Loren and I playing in the same game in round 2, along with Roofball creator Adam Willis. Loren started out the game by throwing an over, good for Adam and I terrible for Loren. However only Loren could hit a ping before the 5th inning. After 7 innings the score was tied between Loren and I at 10 while Adam had 8. That's when Adam decided enough was enough and hit pings in his last 3 throws. Loren hit one and I could only yell at the ball each time it hit inches below the pole.
With that Loren and I were out of the tournament. We were interviewed together after the game. Besides giving up a bevy of reasons why we failed, we did get to promote the show, blog, website, and twitter account before they turned the mic away from us.
Despite the monumental fail. We did had a good time, heck it's roofball it's hard not to have a good time. But I'll tell you this, I have a plan...
Derek
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Celebrating Roofball
Last night I was able to attend two Roofball events. First KPTV came to RFA headquarters to film a feature on the game that will air Sunday 9.13 at 11:00 during the sports segment.
After the camera crew left we headed inside for the RFA decade awards to celebrate the first 10 years of Roofball history. In all 17 awards were bestowed on a few select individuals who over the years have had a great influence on the game. The biggest winner of the night was Dan O’Reilly, who recently appeared on Portland Men on Sports, who not only took home a Builder award but also received the Roofball Player of the Decade Award.
All in all it was another great event for Roofball.
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