The Poncol Cup - Day 1

In late July 2006, Ardy came to some members of Discindo with an idea for a tournament. It sounded rather optimistic. A 12 team tournament, 2 months after the kids had thrown their first disc?

Ardy had been able to raise half of the budget from the local neighbourhood association, and with a little help from a few generous Discindo members, the tournament could go ahead.

There were over 70 participants in the tournament, though these things are hard to keep track of as rosters kept changing throughout the day when random passers by thought it didn't look too hard.

Pak Yadi, a local motorcycle taxi driver, decides to try and help out Bad Fresh in their quarter final against Crazy in the second half. Under his leadership Bad Fresh dropped their halftime lead of 6-4 and ended up losing 8-11.

The concrete field - complete with a foot high concrete step marking the front end of one end zone (visible in the first picture above) - did pose some challenges, but thankfully all participants seemed to have a sixth sense for it and serious injuries were avoided.

The tournament was played over two weekends, with the first day's play eliminating Somplak, Menanam, Bulldog, Baut, Bad Fresh, Tukang, Lazy, Batik, Obeng, Dazar and Censeiyar, with Stupid, Crazy, Ketupat and Kancil rising to the top to compete in the semi finals to be held the following weekend on Discindo's regular field in Senayan.

More photos below:

Gary, a Discindo member shows the finers points of the flick.

An exhibition game was held just after lunch with a mix of Discindo members, community members and students from the local school to show them how it's done. This is one of those students showing us how it's done.

Sugi, one of the stars of the Klub Frisbee Jakarta

Ardy Ferdianto, the organising force behind the Poncol Cup, and Klub Frisbee Jakarta

You can just see the step in the bottom right hand corner of this photo.

Photos: Andre Bald