The ShowGame Podcast

In this episode Sean speaks to Becky Thompson about the mixed division at UK nationals! They discuss the teams making up the draw, talk about how they are all looking heading into the tournament and discuss what might happen over the course of the weekend. Sean also speaks to the captains of SMOG 1 (Emily McCabe and Tom Lees) and SMOG 2 (Katie Ackerley and Tiffany Anderson) about their season and their ambitions for nats, as well as to his own captain Alexandra Weinberg about the season with Herd.

RUNDOWN

Pool B (1:44)

The strength of the division as a whole (10:19)

Pool A (11:26)

The SMOG 1 and 2 captains (17:23)

Alex Weinberg from Thundering Herd (31:01)

The schedule

Becky on seeing her sister and looking forward to playing with Iceni (51:32)

In this episode Sean speaks to Harry Mason to preview the open division of UK nationals! They talk about each of the eight teams and how they got here, potential storylines to watch and Sean speaks to James Selley from Lemmings and Seb Allen from Chevron about their seasons and aims for nats.

RUNDOWN

Pool E (1:29)

Pool F (17:20)

The schedule

This week Sean speaks to three people about the way the season worked, what worked and what didn’t and what we might be able to learn from it. First up is Conor ‘Hogi’ Hogan about the system as a whole, as well as two ideas on how things might work in future. Next is Hannah Pendlebury with her thoughts on the system and also on including teams like SMOG women and Might Hucks, and finally Ben Bruin from Mighty Hucks on their season.

RUNDOWN

Hogi Hogan

How was the league system for him and Deep Space? (3:45)

How was the travelling? (5:46)

The challenge league, and keeping it around (8:20)

Should we keep any element of the league and cup? (12:20)

Division two Nationals? (16:57)

Does Nationals need to move? (21:01)

Quick look ahead to what’s coming up on Send It (23:55)

Hannah Pendlebury

What are your thoughts on the overall structure? (25:47)

Positives about the league and cup (28:43)

Do we need to talk again about locking the divisions? Can we go back to Tour as it used to be? How do you give clubs something meaningful to play for, whatever the system? (31:16)

SMOG and Mighty Hucks were in the leagues this year but were not going for Nationals. Was that helpful for them, for the other teams, for the divisions they were in? (36:43)

Could the teams have been picked differently? (45:07)

Can we keep some elements of this system, in particular divisions? (50:09)

Ben Bruin

How has the season been for Hucks, with a new roster for most games? (55:22)

How do you think the structure worked, was it a good solution? (58:52)

Should you have been in the league? Do you understand that perspective? (61:10)

Would you enter Hucks again if this happened next season? (65:27)

Sean rounds up the end of the UK regular season, with the cup finals and the final qualification games now all but done, and speaks to Liam Grant from PELT and Kate Boylan from Flame about the EUCF qualifiers in Ireland last weekend as well! We’ll be looking back at the season so far next week and then doing in-depth previews for each division the week before Nationals so check back then for even more frisbee chat!

RUNDOWN

Cup vs league qualifier results (1:23)

Cup finals

Euros qualifiers in Ireland (12:28)

Liam Grant on PELT (13:54)

Kate Boylan on Flame (30:56)

A thank you from Sean! (45:13)

In this episode Sean previews the final qualifiers for nationals between league and cup teams, as well as the cup finals in each division. As part of that preview he speaks to Spice player Amy van Zyl about their first season and about playing the cup final against London Masters. Then he speaks to Ranelagh player Aidan Kelly about the EUCF qualifiers coming up this weekend in Ireland, what they might tell us about All-Irelands later in the year and what it's like getting ready to play again after so long.

RUNDOWN

The mixed division preview (1:19)

The women’s division preview (4:51)

Amy van Zyl from Spice about the cup final, playing against a team they know so well and how their first season has gone for the squad (6:32)

The open division preview (14:57)

Irish qualifiers preview with Aidan Kelly (21:31)

In this episode Sean reviews the action from the last weekend of the leagues and talks to the winners of each division about their season so far, how the leagues have been and what they’re looking towards in the future. Preview of the games coming up in the final regular season weekend coming up later today!

RUNDOWN

The last round of games in open (0:55)

The climax of the mixed league (2:10)

SMOG player Lucy Hyde on their win in the women’s league and what the rest of this season might hold (and whether they’ll play women’s next season) (4:55)

Reading captain Ryan Coones talks about their successful mixed campaign and their focus on carrying this through to Nationals (11:56)

Clapham captain Josh Briggs talks about Clapham’s season, being pushed by people despite one-sided scorelines and the way this season could inform future structures in UK ultimate (16:21)

In this episode Sean speaks to Becky Thompson about the open and women’s games last weekend and they preview the mixed and open games coming up this weekend. They also discuss the league and cup so far, the build up to nationals and Becky’s view on each division given she’s played in all three this year! Sean also speaks to Phil Robinson from Devon and to Max Larkinson from Smash’D about their respective seasons.

RUNDOWN

The women’s cup (1:30)

The women’s league (5:23)

The open cup (8:34)

Max Larkinson from Smash’D (10:30)

Finishing off the open cup and Lemmings’ strength in depth (19:15)

Phil Robinson from Devon (23:32)

The open league, otherwise known as ‘is this really news?’ (32:43)

The mixed league, featuring a (hopefully) barnstorming finale (36:15)

Excitement building for nats (39:23)

In the second part of this week’s pod, Sean and Harry discuss the women’s division and the open division. There’s some brief chat about the women’s cup, discussion about where the league sits and then with the open division the games of interest in the league this weekend and previewing the potential chaos in the cup after the upsets in round one. Chesca Tyler Weddell also joins Sean to talk about London Masters Ultimate and what they’re aiming for this season.

RUNDOWN

The two top seeds in the women’s cup - LMU and Spice - and who else to look for (1:02)

Chesca from LMU talks about the team, the reason it was established and what they’re hoping for from this season and in the future (5:01)

The women’s league this weekend (19:56)

The open league and the two games we’re interested in (24:59)

The open cup, and potential chaos (30:01)

In this episode Sean speaks to Harry Mason about the happenings in the mixed division last weekend. That includes a look at the league as we approach the end of the fixture list, a discussion about the cup and where we stand now that we know the finalists, and what the crossover qualification games might look like. Then Sean speaks to Nathan and Megan from Leamington Lemmings about their fantastic season so far.

RUNDOWN

SMOG, Mighty Hucks and Deep Space (2:00)

Glasgow, Reading and Birmingham (3:16)

The northern bracket of the cup (5:39)

The southern bracket (9:22)

Potential crossovers and qualification discussion (15:17)

Lemmings slander and cup final chat (18:52)

Nathan Sanders and Megan Daly from Lemmings (live from a menagerie, featuring birds and Bertie the dog with the occasional crash) (20:38)

In this episode Sean talks about the games we saw last week in the open and women’s Leagues and then previews the mixed competition this weekend. Rhona Gordon comes on the show to talk about SCRAM, while Conor ‘Hogi’ Hogan comes on to discuss Deep Space and the general structure of this season.

RUNDOWN

News from Ireland on EUCF qualification (0:42)

Open division recap (3:41)

Women’s division recap (7:07)

Rhona Gordon from SCRAM (9:10)

The mixed League (21:15)

Conor ‘Hogi’ Hogan from Deep Space and Send It (26:21)

The mixed Cup (44:08)