VOILA Ultra Modified

We love this kind of teaser videos!
Voila (Volleyball Organization of Los Angeles) lead by Godo posted this on their fb page just recently and we are loving it!
VOILA Ultra Modified is basically just like playing a NAGVA Modified A/AA tournament so it should be good volleyball. VOILA has been running a lot of tournaments in SoCal per request of members and of course the dedication of its Board Members to be able to provide quality volleyball to their community.
I've only been to one of their tournaments but its definitely worth attending and playing for. 
This time, the TOP TEAM (sorry vers bottoms lol) will win $1,000 and bragging rights. Cash prizes and volleyball? Why not?
VOILA Ultra Modified is scheduled on December 2nd and 3rd so SAVE THE DATE!!!
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Happy Birthday Vinnie!!!

I met Vinnie couple of years ago when a bunch of Seattle players decided to participate in a Denver tournament. One thing I noticed is that he can sleep anywhere he is.

Last week, Vinnie was one of the favorites amongst the gays. He is hilarious, such a character, do I need to mention the very fierce hair to pair with some short shorts. Haha!

We caught Vinnie sleeping (again) and we thought it would be fun to do a lil photoshoot with him sleeping.

Here is your birthday present Vinnie!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY and I hope to see you and party with you again soon. Love yah!

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Chacha

How bad do you want a Yellow Card?

SUPERBAD!!!

actual picture when the yellow card
courtesy of my trusted ChaCharazzi iPhone

And the Emerald City Cat Fight Yellow and Red card continues its tradition.

If you remember last year's Cat fight... Weaver from Madman received a RED CARD and since then the word "WEAVERED" has been used if somebody gets a Red Card in a match.

History continues as 1 A/AA player received a yellow card and 1 A/AA player received a Red card. Derek from Seattle SuperBad was the proud recipient of this years yellow card. The current king of Penalty cards shared this story...

"Great match between Superbad and Namaste. 3rd game had just switched at 7-8 in favor of Namaste. A very tough call on the next play as Chris took a ball that looked like it was in front of his shoulder and made a hard dump through the middle. Up-ref called a throw on the play, debatable call but it is his interpretation I guess. Derek is understandably upset and "suggests" that the call was not a good one in a voice loud enough for folks, including the ref to hear. Out comes the yellow card. I would say this was a fair re-creation of my incident last year, even in the same playoff round I think, just without my extra flair with the net. ;-) A tough game overall that finished 16-14 for Namaste on another really tough "no-call" on what might have been a touch. Just adding to the drama of another hard-fought ECCF."

Now, how does Weaver know about this? Of course he was still involved!
MadMan was the officiating team for that match and Weaver was doing the score sheets. Way to still be involved Weaver!

Weaver also shared saying...

"I am more then willing to give full, detailed instructions and or personal training sessions on how to get red carded at any NAGVA event. Just ask the OH from the Liquid Explosion team, I gave him some pointers prior to bracket play! Also tried with Derek but he only managed a yellow. The funny thing is that when the card came out I thought for a second it was for me, then I realized I was only scoring, not playing!! ;-)"

And the list keeps growing! I wonder who gets another one next year! Haha!

We are still trying to get the details of the red card that was given to Paul of Vancouver Liquid Explosion, so stay tuned!!!

Emerald City Cat Fight 2011 is gonna get HOT HOT HOT!!!

This is probably a first in a while in Seattle NAGVA tournament.

Seattle is known for rain rain rain but this years Emerald City Cat Fight is gonna get HOT HOT HOT (not jinxing it hopefully). 

Check what The Weather Channel shows for the Cat Fight weekend ...

AMAZING!!! Can't wait to get HOT HOT HOT with y'all. LOL!

Sacramento Capital City Classic ... We're Back!!!

After 6 years of hiatus, Sacramento Capital City Classic is making a come back in the NAGVA circuit. They recently released a video teaser to promote their tournament.




I've never been to a Sacramento tourney but heard a lot of good things about it from people who participated before and I'm pretty sure this come back tournament will be bigger.
Visit their website here for more info. And we will update this post when we get more info as it gets closer toto 11.11.11
Watch the teaser video below ...


Tournament Update as of 9/19: 

Faces, Badlands Sacramento, and Hamburger Patties have expressed interest in sponsoring our tournament. We just need to finalize some minor details and we should be set. 

We have some exciting events planned for the seeding party and registration party on Nov. 11 and 12 as well as a pre-tournament Drag Queen bingo fundraiser at Patties in October 20 (tentative date). More info to come.

We're excited that we have the support of our local businesses. Thanks Jason Hanan and Josh Klein for hooking us up with the contacts!

This is going to be an fun tournament.

Non-rated players WARNING!!!

 

ATTENTION Captains, Members & Sandbaggers Non-Rated players

This info was recently posted on the NAGVA Facebook page and thought we would share.

 

The NAGVA Membership votes on proposed rule changes each season at Championships (May). Please be specifically aware of a new rule that impacts non-rated players and their team.
Section 2.04.B.1 of the NAGVA Rules & Regulations was amended to allow for modification of a player's initial rating during a tournament weekend based on observed play. The intent of this rule was to garner fair and even play throughout the entirety of each tournament. As such, if an unrated player is rated to a division higher than the one he/she is competing in at ANY time during a tournament (including during elimination rounds/day 2), that player will be immediately ineligible to compete any further with their team in that tournament (following the conclusion of the match they are currently playing in). As a team representative, please understand that it is your responsibility to know the level of any unrated players on your team, and to ensure that your teammates are competing at their full potential. We are always available and willing to help explain the difference between skills required in each division/rating. We are putting together resources for team captains to help them gather information from non-rated players and to estimate the player's NAGVA rating. Please let us know if you have any questions (in person, or email secretary@nagva.org) and good luck in future tournaments this season!

So, that explains what happened in Aloha Ball? (no direct source...just stalking people's Facebook page. Lol) according to the story, a non-rated was rated BB on pool play (team was playing BB) and thought that was it. On tournament play, the player was re-rated to A and to everyone's surprise she wasn't able to play the final match with his team. SUCKS! I think their team ended up getting 2nd place and struggled since she was the only setter in the team.

Do you think what happened was fair? Does this eliminate "sandbagging" which we know is very popular in NAGVA?

U B D Judge!

Itchy hands? OC Police will be on your A**!!!

These past weekend was the NAGVA sanctioned Irvine Aloha Ball (Long Beach tourney last season) held at Saddleback Valley Volleyball Club.

If you are friends with Drew Lee from SoCal then you've heard about his wallet missing that was inside his gym bag. Drew updated his status on facebook about the incident and OC Police has been called.

Little did this "itchy hands" know, the facility is surrounded by cameras and OC Police will be pulling a picture and will do further investigations.

Sure enough, OC Police works quick according to Drew's update today saying that they already requested surveillance cameras of all 3 locations. Transactions were made at Sports Chalet (located across the street from the facility) and Macy's by whoever stole Drew's wallet which makes it easier for OC Police to track down the suspect.

We hope they "GET HER!!!" From the looks of it, it's pretty obvious that a volleyball player would be the suspect ... ok ok ok "maybe". And hopefully this won't happen on future tournaments. It's sad that people would do this and it would suck if we know the person who did it! Blah!

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UPDATE (as of 8/23): Drew: The person that did it didn't waste anytime.. went straight to SPORTS CHALET across the street as their start up.. then got their game on with over $2,500 within a 20 minute span at South Coast Plaza!.. can you say bye gurl bye? I love security cameras. :)

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UPDATE (as of 9/6):does anybody remember an Asian male (early 20's) black t-shirt, long black board shorts & ESP wearing a bright blue high tops Nike's two weeks ago at the Aloka Tournament? Please let me know!

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ChaCha