The "Speak in English" Yellow card

We already have a Red Card record from the Seattle tournament and now we got the Yellow Card record from New Orleans.

I posted on ChaCha BUZZ Facebook page last week about a Yellow card incident that happened in New Orleans and now we got the deetz for you guys coming from an not so anonymous "anonymous" sender.

So this is what went down ...

Atlanta Pressure was playing Seattle Battle Cattle. It was the second set of the game about half way through the match. A player from Pressure was disgruntled over the fact he felt that lifts and doubles were not being called. He began making racial comments saying "We call that a lift in America" or "In America we play by these rules" was also quoted using some spanglish. His team called a time out. That is when the same player said under his breathe implying that the upref should learn how to play the way we do in America. He received a yellow card. He inquired as to why he received it. While he was trying to explain it to him, he interrupted the up ref stating "Can you speak english please, how do you expect me to understand you!" Shortly after a member of Pressure was visibly upset with his teammates actions. A younger member of their team began defending the team that was officiating and attacking his teammate over his pour and immature behavior. The argument was very loud and was heard for all to hear. Pressure ended up losing their match against Battle Cattle.

In all fairness this player was spotted apologizing to the officiating team (up ref from the Puerto Rico team and others)that he offended and most especially to his team after the whole thing happened.

Hopefully we keep NAGVA a happy place where we see friends and have friendly competition.

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... the said yellow card holder is a Regional Commisioner. We don't see him running another tournament at least for the rest of the season. Right, Donald Trump?

Video: NOLA Experience

This pretty much explains how fun our NOLA experience was. A lot of walking around the city, a lot of drinking, a lil bit of volleyball (LOL!) and more drinking and partying.

You have to watch upto the very end! Juz sayin! Enjoy!

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RPV gets Rated A

This is a follow up from our posting after RPV signed his re-rating form at Vancouver Queen Vicki tournament.

ChaCha was updating her New Orleans roster and noticed some change from his NAGVA info. It is CONFIRMED now that RPV is rated A and is ready to terrorize (RIGHT? RPV)

Meanwhile...

... after a lot of talks about his re-rate, it looks like Nakamura really escaped the re-rating once again after looking up his NAGVA info. Would they eye on him at New Orleans? Should they?

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Mardi Gras Classic XXVIII is FULL!!!

I dont know about you but the next tournament that im super looking forward to is the Mardi Gras Classic XXVIII. It was so much fun last year even if we didnt start playing pool play (A Division) til 6pm and had to wait for everyone to get done due to some facility maintenance problem with our gym. So basically a lot of us stayed in the gym almost 15 hours or more, from waiting til playing and ending pool play. But oh well!

If you havent checked the NAGVA website lately then you probably dont know that the New Orleans Tournament is already FULL!!! We were hoping that the New Orleans Tournament Director would be opening up some more spots for each division according to the email that was sent dated November 3rd by the Mardi Gras Classic Register.

The tournament director just sent an email (literally!!!) that the confirmed teams that made it are final and registration is CLOSED. See below for the email ...

Due to an unprecedented rush to submit registration fees earlier than for any prior Mardi Gras Classic, we can now announce that all divisions are completely full with 24 B teams, 36 BB Teams, 14 A Teams, and 6 AA Teams.  The following teams have been placed on the wait list for the respective divisions: 

MGC 2011 WAIT LIST

B Division:

1.       Kansas City K-C Men

2.       Chicago Hamburger Mary’s

3.       Houston SMASH

4.       Boston Lucky Aces

5.       New York Ball Hogs

BB Division:

1.       Dallas Twisted

2.       Chicago Blaze

3.       Minneapolis SBT

4.       SL UT Yes You Are

5.       Dallas Unleashed

A Division:

1.       San Antonio Greek Gods

2.       Atlanta Team Lynette

3.       LA R U Serious?

Should a confirmed team drop out of the tournament, the first waitlisted team will be contacted via email and provided the opportunity to accept a confirmed position in the MGC.  Teams will have 72 hours to inform the MGC Registrar of their decision to accept or reject the invitation.

We will hold each teams position on the wait list until November 30, 2010.  On November 30, 2010 we will automatically refund/return payments to all wait listed teams.  We will however keep the priority of the list as it stands on November 30, 2010.  Should teams have the opportunity to enter the tournament after this date, we will make alternative payment arrangements.

REQUESTS FOR IMMEDIATE REFUND & REMOVAL FROM WAITLIST:

Requests to have your registration fees returned immediately and your team removed from the wait list prior to November  30, 2010 must be:

1)      Submitted by the registered NAGVA Team Representative 

2)      E-mailed to Rob Warren at vno@volleyballneworleans.com

We will make every effort to process these requests within two (2) business days. 

We wish we could have accommodated all teams that wanted to participate in our tournament.  We invite you all to join us in New Orleans to cheer on your friends and be part of the fun!

Finally, we thank you all for your enthusiastic support of the Mardi Gras Classic 2011!!

Rob Warren                        Jerry Traigle

MGC Registrar                   MGC Director

WOWza! Its at least 2 months before the tournament and its already FULL! Who didn't see this coming? The tournament filled up right away as soon as MGC was posted in the NAGVA website. Then as the weeks go by (even before Las Vegas Tourney) there was couple of teams confirmed and paid already.

The question is, why did BB get more spots than other Divisions? With all the uprating from the past season, isn't just fair to have at least equal amount of spots in each division? I mean, good for BB but at the same time 14 teams for A division and 6 teams for AA division compared to 36 BB division and 24 for B division? Did they send the money earlier than the other teams from A and AA division? We don't know. All we know is that there are a lot of players most especially in A division looking for a team since their teams didn't make the cut. A lot of teams are probably disappointed as well that they didn't make it but at the same time maybe payments were not sent on time (typical NAGVA players waiting last minute. lol)

I know couple of people who are looking for a team so we have some work to do to help coz we want to see everybody there as much as possible. Most especially its NOLA, it will be so much fun.

Thoughts?

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ChaCha

Mardi Gras Classic XXVIII

If you are signed up as a team coordinator for this season NAGVA Tournaments then you probably got the email about the UPDATE regarding the New Orleans Tournament in January 2011. ChaCha BUZZ is not surprised that the tournament is filling in so fast because this is one of the tournaments that most players look forward to every year. ChaCha was there January 2010and it was a blast, and cant wait to do it again.

via Volleyball New Orleans website

Attached below is the email and B Division is already full ... So if you are planning on putting a team in for the other divisions, you might wanna sign up fast or miss the fun ...

DIVISION UPDATES – We have received an unprecedented registration response with the B Division already full! If your team still plans to attend, please visit the Mardi Gras Classic web site and submit your payment as soon as possible. If you would like to submit payment for a division that is full and have your team placed on the waiting list, please contact me directly via email at vno@volleyballneworleans.com.


B Division – FULL
BB Division – 7 spots open
A Division - 13 spots open
AA Division – 3 spots open


UNKNOWN PAYMENT – We have received payment in the mail with no identifying team information on it. If you team has sent in a payment, PLEASE contact me as soon as possible to identify your payment.
PAYMENTS NOW PROCESSED BY PAYPAL – We are now accepting team and extra player payments exclusively online via PayPal. PLEASE save your receipts from any online transactions. If you experience any issues with the PayPal system, please notify us immediately.


Thanks!!

Rob Warren
MGC Registrar

ChaCha BUZZ highly recommends for you to experience New Orleans Tournament. Hope to see y'all there!!!

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ChaCha