Three D.C. Club Ultimate Teams to Compete for National Championships

Three club ultimate teams from Washington, D.C., have qualified for 2016 USA Ultimate Nationals Championships.  Each team will compete in their respective division.  The 4-day tournament starts on September 29 in Rockford, Illinois.

Truck Stop  (Men's Division)

Regular Season Record: (16-4)
Postseason Record: (6-0)
Regionals Result: #1
End of Season Ranking: 2nd
Seeding at Nationals: 3rd
Prize Money Won: $1250
Website . @TruckStopUlti

DAY 1 (Pool Play) RESULTS:
Win 14-12 (8-6 half) vs High Five
Win 12-6 (8-5 half) vs Dig

Win 12-11 (6-8 half) vs Madison Club

>Advance to Quarters

DAY 2 RESULTS:
Loss 8-13 (6-8 half) vs Ring of Fire
Win 15-11 (8-6 half) vs Furious George
>In Pro Flight Fivals vs Sockeye

DAY 3 RESULTS:
FINISH: Tied for 5th place

Scandal (Women's Division)

Regular Season Record: (13-7)
Postseason Record: (5-0)
Regionals Result: #1
End of Season Ranking: 5th
Seeding at Nationals: 5th
Website . Merch . @ScandalUltimate

DAY 1  (Pool Play) RESULTS:
Win 13-6 (8-4 half) vs Schwa
Win 15-7 (8-5 half) vs Ozone

Loss 10-14 (6-8 half) vs Fury

>Advance to PreQuarters

DAY 2 RESULTS:
Win 14-11 (7-8 half) vs Heist
Loss 10-15 (5-8 half) vs Molly Brown
Win 15-8 (8-5 half) vs Showdown
> In Pro Flight Fivals vs Traffic

DAY 3 RESULTS:
Win 16-15 (8-7 half) vs Traffic

FINISH: Tied for 5th place

Ambiguous Grey  (Mixed Division)

Regular Season Record: (10-10)
Postseason Record: (5-2)
Regionals Result: #2
End of Season Ranking: 17th
Seeding at Nationals: 12th
@ambiguouslygrey

DAY 1  (Pool Play) RESULTS:
Loss 9-11 (5-8 half) vs AMP
Loss 6-11 (4-8 half) vs Metro North
Win 14-10 (8-5 half) vs Blackbird

>Advance to PreQuarters

DAY 2 RESULTS:
Loss 12-15 (6-8 half) vs Mixtape
Win 15-6 (8-3 half) vs G-Unit
Win 13-11 (8-5 half) vs Public Enemy
> In Pro Flight Sevenals vs Mixtape

DAY 3 RESULTS:
Loss 12-15 (3-8 half vs Mixtape)

FINISH: Tied for 9th place

Updated Logo for DC Ambiguous Grey

Ambiguous Grey - Washington DC's elite mixed ultimate team - has an updated logo.

The new logo barely has any resemblance to their old identities. At the bottom, the familiar 'A-G'  in the row of 3 stars is saved from the D.C. flag motif, minus the 2 horizontal bars. The red, white and blue United States Military star and stripes aircraft crest is replaced with a blue-ish purple-y stone-faced bear atop stripes related to the military rank of a Petty Officer, second class.

The 2 D.C. flag "bars" may have been repurposed as a bent perch for the the bear mount. Unintentionally, the bear's face leaves the negative space for the letters D and C.

I am blanking on any DC references for bears.  Panda bears? Yes. Beards? Yep. Bears? nope. Perhaps the bear is AG's spirit animal. For what it's worth, an anagram of their team name is: "Yogi bear mug us."


See how the AG's new logo will look on their lucid 2016 jerseys:

Our white jerseys for the 2016 Club Season! The jerseys will be complimented with black @patagonia field shorts! pic.twitter.com/Ee9bcRBLqH

— Ambiguously Grey (@ambiguouslygrey) June 17, 2016

Our new jerseys for the 2016 Club Season - Making their debut at the @usopenultimate! pic.twitter.com/Oo1glzUf6F

— Ambiguously Grey (@ambiguouslygrey) June 17, 2016

Just in time before the team starts defending their Pro Flight status in the Triple Crown Tour's mixed division.

DC Club Ultimate Teams in Pro Flight

Congratulations to D.C. club ultimate teams for a strong finish to the 2015 Triple Crown Tour Season. All D.C. teams competing at the final tournament of the season finished in the Pro Flight - the top tier of club ultimate of the TCT. USA Ultimate's 2015 Nationals tournament concluded on Sunday where the top-16 club ultimate teams from 3 divisions competed for the championships.

Men

DC Truck Stop were (3-4) at the tournament, losing by 1 goal in the Quarterfinals to the eventual champion - Revolver. Just like last year, Truck finished in 7th place.

Mixed
DC Ambiguous Grey posted a (4-3) record over the long weekend and broke seed by 8 places with a 6th place finish.

Women
DC Scandal went (4-3) with wins over Phoenix, Schwa, BENT, and Ozone. They finished in 6th place.

RELATED: T-shirt fundraiser. Mid-Atlantic DC Sweep.

T-shirt Fundraiser for D.C. Club Ultimate Teams

For a limited-time, a T-shirt is for sale as a fundraiser for the three Washington, DC-based club ultimate teams competing at USA Ultimate National Championships. The shirt design is inspired by a SLUDGE image (that borrowed heavily from a pre-2014 Ambiguous Grey's logo) for a published post commemorating the achievements of local D.C. ultimate teams at Regionals of the 2015 Triple Crown Tour postseason.

Info: A limited-edition t-shirt to raise funds for D.C. club ultimate teams to go to Nationals. White shirt featuring the logos of Ambiguous Grey (Mixed), Truck Stop (Men), & Scandal (Women) in place of the 3 stars of the DC flag above 2 red bars of the flag.

Price: $19.89

Buy: DiscStore.com

D.C. Ultimate Teams Sweep Regional Titles

Congratulations to Washington, D.C. club ultimate teams Truck Stop, Ambiguous Grey, and Scandal for winning their divisions at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament over September 12-13.

Truck Stop posted a (9-10) record during the regular season and entered as the #1 seed in the Men's Division. Truck won their first 3 games on Saturday, and then beat the #3-seed Pittsburgh Temper by the score of 11-8. The 4 consecutive wins is Truck's longest winning streak of the season.

Ambiguous Grey entered the Mixed Division tournament as the 4-seed and went (3-0) during Saturday's pool play.  In Sunday's semifinals, AG upset AMP (the  #1 seed) and went on to win the finals 13-7 over Love Bomb from Ben Avon, Pennsylvania. Since August 2nd, AG has won 14 consecutive games.

Scandal posted a record of (10-9) during the regular season was the top-seed in the Women's Division tournament. Outscoring their opponents 39-10 during Saturday's pool play, Scandal went (3-0). Scandal continued their domination with a 9-point quarters win and a 13-point semifinals. The division finals was Scandal's closest game where they beat Philadelphia Green Means Go, 12-8.


By winning the Mid-Atlantic region, all three teams earn a bid to USA Ultimate's National Championships in October 2015.


[DC flag image of AG logo updated by SLUDGE]

Breakdown of Nationals Qualifying Teams by Seeds at Regionals

Forty-eight teams qualified at Triple Crown Tour postseason Regionals weekend for the 2015 National Championships. Most top-seeded teams qualified for Nationals, while many other lower-seeded teams also earned bids.

Metro North (Northeast region, Mixed) was the lowest seeded team (5th) to qualify for Nationals. Ambiguous Grey (Mid-Atlantic region, Mixed) was the lowest seeded team (4th) to win a region.

#1 seeds (43.8%); #2 seeds (33.3%); #3 seeds (16.7%); #4 seeds (4.2%); #5 seeds (2.1%)

List of all qualifying club ultimate teams with their seed at Regionals and their Regionals finish.

2014 Mid-Atlantic Regionals

The penultimate weekend of USA Ultimate's 2014 Triple Crown Tour happens on Saturday and Sunday in Poolesville, Maryland. All three divisions - Men, Mixed and Women - will play at the Polo Fields.  At the end of the weekend, five club ultimate teams from the MA Region will earn a bid to USA Ultimate's 2014 National Championships October 16-19, in Frisco, Texas.

Men's Division (2 bids)
Seeding:
1. Truck Stop
2. Temper
3. Patrol
4. Dire Wolf
5. Medicine Men
6. Town Hall Stars
7. Garden State Ultimate
8. John Doe
9. Possum Stompers
10. Citywide Special
11. Floodwall
12. Drago
13. RUNTIME
14. Supernova
15. Colorblind
16. DMV

Mixed Division (1 bid)
Seeding:
1. AMP
2. Ambiguous Grey
3. Ant Madness
4. Tyrannis
5. The Muff 'n Men
6. Hooray for Coed Hooray!
7. Bang!
8. Jughandle
9. American Hyperbole
10. Sparkle Ponies
11. Jagged Ice
12. Death By Jubilee
13. Throws of Passion
14. Blowin Heat
15. Clue
16. BITMAP

Women's Division (2 bids)
Seeding:
1. Scandal
2. Hot Metal
3. Green Means Go
4. Virginia Rebellion
5. Backhanded
6. Breakfast Club
7. VETO

The Mid-Atlantic region is broken down into the seven states and Washington, DC for the 2014 TCT season: (Capital Section) District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, & West Virginia, plus (Founders Section) Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia.

West Virginia is the only state not represented at 2014 Regionals.

[SOURCE: State data via team profile at USAU.]