This is the annual summary of the awards and stats of our Ultimate "Frizzbee" season for 2004.

Thanks again to Bill for organizing everything, and thanks to Tim and Nancy for again hosting the season-ending game at the "Sinking Horse Field" and party after.

Here are the 2004 Frizzbee awards, presented at the party by Bill. As per tradition, you should be present to win, as several awards went unclaimed. Too bad. You can guess who the would-be recipients were.

2004 TROPHIES UNCLAIMED:

     BURP - Best Ultimate Rookie Player
     MVP  - Most Valuable Player
     Timeliness - For arriving during the game-to-5, with the score 4-to-4.
     Superhero - Climbing to great heights to avoid the Bozo award
     Old Timer - For once, It's not Tom M.
     Web - For finding us via a web search
     Fashion - Love those purple shorts!
     Hero - For finding us the Tewksbury field
     No Show Loser Award - we had a tie for this!
     

2004 TROPHIES AWARDED:

     Best supporting spouse
        Janet received a mosquito repelling armband for not
        only bringing the kids, but playing 'bee too!  Yeah,
        I know she's always played, but, there's a subtle
        connection since Jessica always wants to play "mosquito".

     Bozo of the Year
        Roger received a rubber chicken due to an email he
        sent at 3:00 pm one frizzbee day.  Yes, at 3:00 pm
        he floated the question "Due to the questionable weather,
        should we switch from the beach to the field?"  The
        resulting confusion put 4 players in Tewksbury, 3
        players in Seabrook, and, not enough for a game in either.

     FART Envy
        Dale received a can of beans.  Throughout the first 80% of
        the season, Dale had near perfect attendance.  Clearly, he
        was anxious to waltz through the rest of the season, go to
        the Finale Party, and bring the trophy back home!  Then,
        poor Dale got a job, ..sat at a desk, ..ate airline food, 
        and, ended up pulling a muscle.  There's some lesson here.

     FART 
        Bob earned the coveted Frequent Attendance Record Trophy.
        Bob's always one of the top contenders.  For the next year,
        his mantle can show off our equivalent of the Stanley Cup.

It's hard to break attendance records after 20+ years of playing. But we did manage to tie one interesting record: the "streak". We define a streak as someone who plays in 10 consecutive games. Five people did that this year: Bob, Bill, John C, Dale, and Erick R. This ties the record set back in 1999. Only Bob is a member of both record-setting years.

Honorable mention: Roger played the last 9 games of the season. So close! Five years ago you did it (literally!)

Even closer was Scott M's streak of 9; if he had played the last game at Sinking Horse Field, he would have finished 10/10 and we'd have set a new record. Where were you, Scott? :-(

Here are the final attendance stats for 2004:

Bob 22 (the new FART champion!)
Bill 21
John 19
Dale 19
Roger 19
Erick 18
Jon 17
Jeff 16
David 16
Barb 16
Ted 15
Scott 13
Gene 12
Curt 9
Eric 9
Tim 8
Janet 7
Ron 6
Jay 4
Melissa 4
Jack 4
Toby 4
Patty 4
Ben 3
Scott 3
Zachary 3
Eric 3
Arnie 2
Joe 2
Jim 2
Pete 2
Brian 1
Laura 1
Wendy 1
Mike 1
Peter 1
Marc 1
George 1
Meg 1
Jen 1
Bernard 1
Skip 1
Brian 1
Andrew 1
Ken 1
Mike 1
Karl 1