A message from the SF Tourney Director

San Francisco tournament opened the NAGVA Season with the BANG! And all these was made possible by the one and only Jonny Sloan aka Sheona Traylor. I am really sad that I missed this tournament since i LOVE the Bay Area so much and the people living there but had to make a choice of staying in Seattle for 2 of my dearest friends.

Jonny posted a BIG THANK YOU note on his Facebook page tonight and here's what she had to say...

Booze, Boys and Balls: Patriotism at Its Best- San Francisco NAGVA Tournament Recap

Ladies and Ladyboys...


I can’t believe it is all over. And it all started with a simple thought of “what if” and the dream of “what if” turned into a possibility, albeit an extremely exhausting possibility… As I returned from the New York NAGVA tournament earlier this year, my “what if” was “What if I could bring a volleyball tournament back to San Francisco…?” and with a simple phone call to Saga Vae, we got the ball rolling and the dream soon became a reality.


Things started falling into place instantly. Truth be told, I never expected it to happen. Secretly, I never wanted it to happen. I knew the plan to hold a San Francisco tournament would be, at a very minimum, quite ambitious, tiring and stressful, so I was hoping when I made the inquiry into a gym space (in my opinion the most difficult item to secure for a new tournament), I would be declined. After a few days, the verdict was returned and, unlike the Casey Anthony case, the news was good: The gym was available on a 3-day weekend and we could book it right away. Realistically, I was expecting the same answer I’ve gotten for possible gym space for the past few years at other venues when trying to start a league here in SF- unavailable, too expensive, or lost in a vortex of bureaucratic paperwork through the City of San Francisco. So when I did receive the good news, I wasn’t quite prepared to take the next steps. But here went nothing: the initial seeds of San Francisco Red, White and Blue Ball were planted and I had to take on the task to nurture this to full bloom.


As a former student at CCSF in addition to a member of the men’s club team, I knew full well exactly what kind of budget the school has to work with to fund the sports programs- little to nothing. It became instantly obvious to me who our beneficiary would be. The women’s club team at CCSF would be chosen as they were the more established program. With little to no budget, all fundraising is usually done by the girls themselves or by the head coach. With that in mind, it became my driving force to make this tournament as successful as possible to establish San Francisco as the “go to” destination for the opening of the NAGVA season and to get these girls some money to make their program more successful. It is my hope that with our $3500 donation raised by the tournament participants, we are able to provide these girls with a means to further succeed with their amazing program.


I am especially grateful to all of my volunteers and everyone who provided me with support along the way. Ryan Brady, Neal Franzer, Kevin Yamashiro, and Lonyl Palao to name a few. You guys gave me some great advice to get me started on the journey.


Special thanks to Balta for all the advice and getting the pool play and schedule together for me. The data entry spreadsheet for the pool play results worked out great. Also thank you for staying up so very late on Saturday night to help me adjust the brackets and schedule after that BB team was bumped up. We had some major glitches with scheduling but we made it work for the most part.


Great thanks also goes to Jet and Jonathan Daclison for your support with the referees and making sure their assignments were taken care of. Also to Miran Turner, Jason Wong, and Tim Mcklinsky for the NAGVA duties. Miran you are always so very calm and professional with your RC duties and I would love to have you back year after year. Thanks also to Jay Roby for your work at registration and helping out the guys doing RC stuff.


My thanks also to Sergio Rodriguez for getting those awesome medals from National Trophy taken care of. They looked great and definitely represented San Francisco and the Red, White and Blue Ball!


Saia Reupena, you rock sister. Those last minute t-shirt designs were amazing. You are talented in so many ways I just am in awe of how you do it. Thank you for all your help at registration too. You made that line go by easy breezy style.


Thanks to Shane Armstrong of Lucky 13 Printing for whipping out all those shirts. I know you stayed up till all hours finalizing the product and I am so pleased with your work. You did an awesome job and your t-shirts as always looked fantastic.


Thanks to Bruno Gaborit for getting us hooked up with delicious lunches through Revolution Foods. Your delivery staff were very timely, friendly and professional.


Thanks also to Jessie Torres, Nate Gonzales and Robert Leduc for all the admin type things you did for me at the tournament. I seriously would have gone crazy if you guys didn’t step it up and rock out those items for me. Also to Tim Mcklinsky for staying up REALLY late on Saturday night to help me get those brackets ready even though you had to be up early for your Sunday elimination rounds.


Extreme thanks to my assistant Jarrad. I realize you are completely oblivious to volleyball and what we do, but you caught on super fast and you kept me calm, sane, and less stressed out and for that, I will always be grateful.


If I forgot anyone, thanks to you too of course!


And final thanks to all the participants of the tournament. You guys made this successful. I was very happy to see so many familiar faces and make so many new friends. My friends list pre-tournament was hovering at the 420 mark and is now over 585 just from tournament people and it keeps growing. I am overwhelmed by the positive feedback, but I encourage all feedback so I can bring an even better tournament next year. Please send an email to talljonny@gmail.com and make sure to fill out a tournament evaluation form found at http://www.nagva.org/docs/11.pdf The only way to make sure this tournament goes even better next year is to provide feedback!


As for next year, I will attempt to do one of two things: 1) Expand to another venue to allow better scheduling or, should 1 not work out- 2) reduce the amount of teams per court. I realize the biggest negative aspect to this tournament was an extremely late elimination round, and for this I apologize. But if you can think of anything else, please feel free to include it!


And finally, I am out of t-shirts, but if anyone is interested in a tournament t-shirt, they will be available for $15. (Tournament participants inquire about a discount, verifiable through your team rosters...) I realize not everyone got a t-shirt because we ran out of the desired sizes, so this is my olive branch to those that did not get a shirt. I will have a PayPal link set up some time in the near future for this.


I look forward to bringing you another San Francisco Tournament next year. Stay tuned for a post about final results and your all-star and MVP awards within the next couple of days! Been trying to get some R&R and destress so I'll have your results soon!


Much Love,


Jonny Sloan

Jonny worked so hard for the tournament and made sure that the weekend will be cheap for all the players and made all arrangements with transportation, host hotel, facility an easy access for everyone. As what she said, a lil glitches here and there but its an SF come back so there's definitely room for improvement. Reports say that the weekend was so much fun for everyone and players are definitely looking forward for the growth of the tournament.

And the best part of the tournament was making a donation of of $3500 to the CCSF club team coming from a very cheap tournament. Jonny promises to post results soon and currently trying to recuperate from the weekend! (she definitely deserves it)

Great Job Jonny! You already know how ChaCha feels about missing this tournament so don't give me a hard time anymore, PLEASE? LOL!

Congratulations to the organizers, participants and winners for the fun filled weekend!

not using xoxo,
ChaCha

Sheona Traylor Buzz - San Jose tournament 2011

Our dear friend from the Bay area Sheona Traylor took time to write for ChaCha BUZZ to give us details for the upcoming San Jose NAGVA tournament. I've been going to the San Jose tournament for couple of years now and it never disappoints and certified go to tournament. Check out what Sheona got to say ...

Howdy Y'all...

Well hot damn, looks like another year has already blown past us and another NorCal Vball Classic is here! This is the 24th year San Ho-say is holding its annual President's Day Weekend tourney (although some years we've had to move it due to gym snafoos!).

Here's a couple of highlights and reminders from Sheona Traylor, unofficial spokes whitetrash for the SJ TRANNYment this year. (I'm not affiliated with SBVBC, i'm just a nosey bitch with lots of insider information!)

The AA division has officially been canceled and the spots snatched up faster than my Cousin/Aunt offerin' free Bud Light at the family reunion! Guess them girls don't know how to commit to and pay for a great tournament on time! There are now 7 B teams, 15 BB teams, and 14 A teams.

This year pool play will be split between 2 venues. The BB division plays on Saturday at the Foothill College small gym (our usual venue) and the A and B divisions will be at the brand new Arrillaga Gym in Menlo Park. BOTH DIVISIONS WILL PLAY AT FOOTHILL COLLEGE ON SUNDAY FOR ELIMINATION ROUNDS! Plan accordingly. Lunch will be served at both venues Saturday and also at Foothill College on Sunday. REMEMBER, Parking at Foothill College is $2.00 and is enforced at all times. (Parking at Arrillaga is free)

No t-shirts this year. I've got enough yellow stained wifebeaters to go around for y'all. Instead they're giving out some water bottles. You can use those to fill up on the ice cold water stations around the venues... or if you're like Sheona, you'll be fillin them bitches up with some ice cold bud light! mmmmkurrrrrr?

Like last year, SJ will be givin Green Backs again this year too. If your entire team registers (between 7-10pm at the Motif Club in downtown San Jose on Friday night), you will be entered into a drawing to receive your ENTIRE TEAM FEE BACK! Not a bad idea to get everyone down there and sloppy drunk while registering too!

The host hotel for SJ this year is the Fairmont. It is a beautiful historic hotel right in downtown SJ. Looks like the rate is $99.00/night.  (the Traylor Park is full and there is no room at Sheona's NO-tell HO-tell up in SF, so keep your eyes peeled if you can't swing that hotel cost! There are some more affordable hotels near the venue, but nothing within walking distance to plan for a short cab ride or a rental car)

Finally, and most importantly, get your damn rosters complete and get your individual NAGVA fees paid if you havent done that already. It's cheaper to do it all ahead of time. Also if you add an 8th (or more) players, its cheaper to do it on PayPal ahead of time than it is if you show up and they make Sheona chase you down with her shotgun to pay those extra team fees! Also make sure you have a certified Referee and Scorekeeper on your roster! This is a requirement of all teams!  If you need to get set up with that, email officials@nagva.org and talk to my gurrrrrl Johanthan Daclison the VP of Officials. She'll send you a link to take the test. The study material is available on the NAGVA website under the Documents and Forms link.

If you have any problems with getting your team rosters set up (cuz you a dumb ho like that), email my friend Jonny Sloan and he can help you with that stuff. He's a know-it-all biznatch and lurves helping people with that stuff.

Cya in a month kiddies!

Much Lurve from the Traylor Park,

Sheona

Thanks Sheona! Mwah!

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ChaCha

Video: Houston AMF vs. Seattle Battle Cattle part 1

Watch the first part of the New Orleans NAGVA 2011 A Division Finals.

Enjoy!



Thanks Jonny Sloan aka Sheona Traylor for the video!

Jonny Sloan aka Sheona Traylor - Staying POSITIVE for BEING POSITIVE

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Traylor’s Trailer Trash Tails… What happens in Vegas…

The one and only Elite ChaCharazzi Status Sheona Traylor shares her story about her experience this weekend in Vegas tournament! She skipped some "personal" details that we know of but its a good read! Most especially how the All-Star and MVP Awards were given out. Enjoy!
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My goodness yall. Vegas was a hoot! I had such a great time. So many fond memories to share, and you know this bitch is usually burning a sweet sacrifice to honor mother nature and is a bit dizzy most all of the time. Well thank goodness I got this new ChaCharazzi ELITE STATUS™ smart phone, because now I can remember all the fine details of my adventures! Nobody is safe around Sheona Traylor… You might think you are “safe” surrounded by a crowd while you do nasty bits on the dance floor, but you know she just gets her heels out, elevates above the crowd and takes the aerial view photos (and videos)!

I arrived Thursday night and enjoyed the 3.99 steak & eggs at the host hotel café. Any time I can spend less than $5.00 on food, Sheona is all over it like Grimace’s vomit in the gutter after… well any night really. The best tasting part was the bill though.

Friday afternoon was spent visiting my dad who lives in Vegas… my obligatory once a year visit. I’m glad I had no car this year. Makes it easier for short visits! Lunch ended and I went back to the hotel for a nap. I wish it could have been a breakfast meet up with my dad because that all-you-can-eat buffet with the Seattle/Hawaii crew sounded like a dream come true!

Registration was later, and alcohol was flowing and the marys were feeling NO pain! This is evidenced by all the lovely video and photos involving many scandalous things… like a BYE GIRL tranny grinding up some dirty dance moves with HOMOSEXUALS! (disgusting!) and also some messy marys doing body shots off of a server at the Freezone bar. This may or may not have included the following: Grimace, Auntie Aaron, Sali, JenJen, Lefty Justin, and Shelf Bootay! I’m sure there were more but Sheona can only handle so much camera work. We all waited for midnight to head back to the host hotel where a large group gathered for the midnight to 6:00am $3.99 steak and egg special.

Saturday morning started off with more of a whimper than a bang. The ghetto courts were not ready or available for the participants to begin on time. In fact, the net they tried to set up was held together with Velcro straps in the middle! Yall, I haven’t see anything like this since we used duct tape and a piece of rope as a volleyball net back at the trailer park. They finally fixed the situation and pool play started. I will say that the pool that Sheona’s team was in was definitely the hardest pool in the gym. Hawaii, Chicago Findfred.com, San Francisco Freeball, and Aca Beach… all these teams remained in the winners bracket for most of the tournament play on Sunday, so you know it was the tougher of the pools. Sheona’s twin showed up on Saturday as he has been staying in Vegas for physical therapy. It was great to see him, but I’m sure he was bored with all the down time. I went to dinner with Phil(thy) and my grandma and then back to the hotel. I joined my teammates to head to the Wynn tower suites to join Jim Holt for his 30th birthday celebration. Drinking games began and unfortunately Sheona’s cell phone was out of batteries. Otherwise, she would have been snapping for DAYS with all the tragic kissing and other events going on… One Seattlite was most scandalous in the massage room with a few of the boys!!! The PRICE was RIGHT that night, that’s for damn sure! I do believe Houston’s Mattress also got married that night, but we can leave those details for her to share with us… (or just instant message Sheona on facebook for the deets!)

Sheona had enough of that mess and went back to her hotel for beauty sleep (she needs LOTS AND LOTS of it!). Mattress and KeKe headed over to Freezone for a bit. Mattress came home, KeKe simply showed up to the gym the next day. YOU GO BITCH! Werq!

Sunday started off painful. It was early, we were all tired trannys, but everyone showed up and we started off pool play. We first played Pure Energy, and it was pure easy. I pulled my right calf on this match and just had to keep it moving and stretched out the rest of the day. This was followed by a match with LAPD. The first game had some drama after our win. Apparently LAPD didn’t like a few double calls the ref made at very non-crucial moments in the game (losing by a margin of at least 4-5 points), so they decided to protest the match to determine if the ref was certified. Turns out, he was fully NAGVA certified. The loss was legit. Game 2 started and was over in a blink. ‘Chicago’ said “bye girl!” to the first 2 LA teams we faced. The next match would take place a few hours later against Hawaii. The wait was horrendous, but we had no choice. We finally faced off against what I would call the best defensive team in the gym. They beat us the first game, but we rallied and came back the next two games. The game was OOVA and Hawaii was sent to the losers bracket. This match was super close and the Hawaiians gave us a run for our money. I loved playing against them because they are so friendly and always smiling… well except Cliff. She was probably ritaz and hung over. After this match, we were all sent packing over the UNLV for the remaining rounds of play. Next match up was against yet another team, Aca Beach. We took them down in 2 solid games. Sheona FINALLY clicked with her setter and bashed a couple of middle sets down! Luckily I had my calf wrapped up tight in a compression sleeve so it helped out a lot.

We watched the remaining losers bracket matches to determine who we would face off in the finals. Aca Beach vs. Phoenix for the semi-final, and Phoenix rallied to beat Aca Beach! So, we would face off against Phoenix Thunder in the finals. The match was fun but really, I think Phoenix was either out of gas, or just couldn’t handle the make up of our team… Phoenix was easily defeated in 2 games. Sheona had the dig of her life with a one fist dig nobody thought she’d get shortly followed by the worst mangled set of her LIFE! I felt like the Grimace when my claws came out and tried to shred that ball to pieces. Oh well. I did my thang on the right side, shutting down the outside hitter from Phoenix, who later won tournament MVP for the A Division… Really? I mean… really? How the hell is that determined? Did anybody voting actually watch the finals? She had nothing. One Sheona roof block and she was done. She couldn’t even tip effectively after that. Their best options were their silver fox daddy middle and lefty drunk oppo Ms. Heath and the daddy setter just dumping the ball. Phoenix was dispatched and Chicago Findfred.com found Gold.

Tony from our team received an all star award for his performance… but no one else earned an award. Victoria was amazing with her serving and hitting from the outside… Ricardo was the one of the best “male” passers and liberos by far I have ever played with… Mattress was crackin down balls over and past blocks all day long… KeKe was workin that back slide for days (when the set was above the tape! Lol), Sheona was putting up some aluminum siding WALLS she salvaged from her trailer on the right side block… While I can’t say I’m surprised I didn’t get any award (as my performance this weekend was stifled by a pulled right calf which screwed my timing up), I was rather in shock that our Libero or outside hitters had no mention. I really think in order for any all-star voting system to work, all games need one vote per game per team. How in the world the MVP goes to a person who was almost non-existent in the final is beyond me. But congrats to her for your performance before the finals match. I guess you must have earned it earlier in the day!
The rest of the trip had little to mention. Many of the marys went to Revolution… Sheona got her own room and visited with Saia and Mike who were across the hall, but Sheona is classy and will not be mentioning the rest of the evening/morning. Smooches!

Dish from the double-wide,
Sheona
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Thanks for sharing this Sheona!!! And thanks for being such a legit ChaCharazzi over the weekend! ChaCha was busy drinking over the weekend and didnt get much pictures ... the MUCH needed pictures! Til next time!

not using xoxo,
ChaCha

ps. you would so call out the all-star awards and mvp's its so u... lmao