Team Profiles
LEARNING TO FLY
(BANGALORE)
LTF, from Bangalore, is probably the oldest “Frisbee” team in India. This group started off primarily as a bunch of college kids who
used to fling around Frisbee back in 2000. Four players started swinging around "Leo" frisbees back in their engineering days in
Cubbon Park on Sunday evenings. Within a few months of a chain reaction, they had 20 people showing up for games, which were noisy more
than anything else. Lot of faffing, and even more of sugarcane juice used to characterize this social event. They played a version of
Ultimate with goal posts called Goaltimate. To attract more players, they kludged together a website, and even left their contact
numbers at the sports shops from where they bought the discs, hoping some disc buyers might call them for a game.
All this effort paid off 5 years later in April 2008 when the DOD team found them online and contacted them to have a practice game
for preparation for the Kodai “Flybaba” 2008 tournament. They decided to learn the rules of Ultimate and try their hand at Flybaba. And what
happened later was history. LTF finished in one of the top spots in the tournament.
LTF’s players are between the age of 22 and 32 and many years of playing together gives them the deadliest team coordination in the
country! LTF is also known to have some the fieriest women players in the country in their team. LTF has come a long way from flinging
Leo Frisbees around, to become the winners of the Chennai Heat 2008 tournament. Playing thrice a week at various grounds across the breadth
of Bangalore, they have honed their skills from being a curious pastime to a serious sport.
STRAY DOGS IN SWEATERS
(DELHI)
Stray Dogs in Sweaters is the traveling team of Delhi Ultimate players. The unusual name comes from the fact that you will find a lot
of stray dogs that randomly walk around in sweaters during winters in Delhi.
The team has been around in various forms for over 2 years now. This team comprises of expats from US, Canada and Europe living in
Delhi. The composition has changed multiple times in the last 2 years because of people moving in and out of Delhi. The team meets every
Saturday at Nehru Park to play pickup games, and has a mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/delhi-ultimate?hl=en) where information
on scheduled plays and other relevant exchange of information happens. Players at all levels play with the group and new members join
almost every week. In spite of the changing composition of the team, the Stray Dogs from Delhi are a formidable team because of their
players having played Ultimate for many years in their home countries.
Go Dogs!
STORM CHASERS
(MUMBAI)
It all began when a group of working professionals in Mumbai, in search of an interesting sport, chanced upon Ultimate Frisbee. They
realized there was no team representing Mumbai and decided to form a Mumbai team. The fledgling team represented Mumbai in Chennai Heat
2008 where teams from all over India and Sri Lanka participated. Six players from Mumbai participated in the tournament supported by
players joining in from other cities.
Mumbai Ultimate and the Storm Chasers have come a long way since. At the Kodaikanal ”Fly Baba” Ultimate Frisbee tournament, held in
March 2009, the Storm Chasers came of age by beating the LiveWires in a nail-biting 11-10 finish game.
Today, they practice diligently thrice a week at either of the venues - Juhu beach, Goregaon Sports Club (GSC) or the Manish Nagar
grounds. Watch out for this young team with members of ages 20 to 25 storming into the Indian Ultimate scene and chasing the disc down to
the last breath.
Chaser! Chaser! Storm Chaser!!!!!!
DISC-O-DEEWANE
(BANGALORE)
DOD came into life in February 2008. The team comprises a group of sports enthusiasts who were primarily into adventure sports like rock climbing, mountaineering and water sports. Having a culture of being sports and fitness conscious, playing Ultimate came naturally to this team. From the first Kodai tournament they attended in April, DOD has come a long way and has become a formidable team combining their ever growing Ultimate skills with the unique advantages of having the tallest players (avg. height 5ft 10”) and highest fitness levels in the circuit. DOD has now become a pioneer group of men and women in the age range of 18-30 who love playing and promoting the sport of Ultimate in Bangalore. They practice 3 days a week. Their vision is to become the best group of ultimate players in India and have been working very hard towards it.
CHAKRAA
(CHENNAI)
Chakraa consists of the most experienced Ultimate players from the Chennai Ultimate Frisbee club. Most of the players have been playing
together from when the club was started 2.5 years ago in July 2007 by a few ISB Alumni. The Chakraa team picks up its name from drawing a
parallel to Lord Vishnu (a Hindu God), the Protector who wielded his flying disc(Chakraa) with devastating effect. The Chakraa team is
known for competing with a lot of tenacity and grit.
Most of the players’ first tournament was the one in Ahmedabad, but since then they have learnt and grown stronger with every tournament.
The bookies have pegged Chakraa as one of the favourites to win this tournament. Playing 4 days a week on the beach has made them the
masters of this beach terrain. Beach Ultimate and regular Ultimate on grass/hard grounds are two entirely different ball-games.
Chakraa players are all between the age of 22 and 40.
LIVEWIRES
(CHENNAI)
The Chennai LiveWires are the new life-line of Chennai Ultimate Frisbee. They came into existence at the Chennai Heat 2008 tournament. This team has been the launch pad for quite a few seasoned players. The team identifies itself as the developmental team to all Ultimate Frisbee lovers in Chennai. Quite a few players who currently play with Chakraa and with Stall 7 started as Livewires during incubation. The LiveWires team is mentoredby a few senior players and they are always open to newbies and look for new crop of players to escalate their skill sets to the next level. The current LiveWires players have grown up on the sands of the Beasant Nagar beach and are known for their fleeting speed and the pace with which they move the Frisbee across the field. The LiveWires are a varied bunch of people from the age of 20 to 39. They hail from various walks of life like the auto-industry, hi-tech industry, education, entrepreneurs, etc. But all of them have one common bond, they all believe that their life is only as heavy as the 175gram frisbee!
STALL 7
(CHENNAI)
STALL 7 is the first all college team from Chennai. Stall 7 was born when in March 2009 as 3 enthusiastic college students and has since
grown into a full fledged team. Stall 7 is known for it's athletic ability, whacky set-plays and it's high regards for the spirit of the game.
Be it college hours or leisure time, you’ll always find them with a Frisbee. The team first ventured into the competitive world of Ultimate
at the Auroville 2009 games. At the Mysore tournament 2009, they were noted as the team to lookout for in future. Ever since, STALL 7’s
spirit and fire for Ultimate has grown leaps and bounds. This united set of youngsters have their intensely fun game sessions during the
weekends at the Elliots Beach, Besant Nagar. They hopes to spread the ultimate fever at college level and their aim is to one day beat
Chakraa, who they look up to as their Gurus.
Most people assume that the team name is attributed to the "stall count" in the game. But, little do people know that the team was named
as a pun on a founding memeber's outstanding college arrears which he hoped to clean up in one shot! The most famous statement from the 3
founding members is: "We couldn't score with the girls.. so we decided to score with a frisbee!"
STALL 7 enters Chennai Heat 2009 with a fierce determination to prove its mettle, on the sands of Chennai’s Elliots Beach – their birth
place!!
BLITZKRIEG
(CHENNAI)
Having started as a team of five players trying their hand at a totally different sport, in November 2008, Blitzkrieg blazed its way
into the world of Ultimate Frisbee by winning the Agninakshtra 2009 Newbie tourney organized by Chennai Ultimate Frisbee in June 2009.
The team comprising mostly of students from Kumararani Meena Muthiah College of Arts and Science, Adyar, practise every weekend at
their college ground. The members of Blitzkrieg, living upto its name, are extremely swift and fleet-footed on the Ultimate Frisbee field.
Blitzkrieg is aspiring to become the best in the Ultimate Frisbee circuit.
FLYING DUTCHMEN
(AHMEDABAD)
When the clock strikes the hour every midnight, the lush lawns of the Louis Khan Plaza (LKP) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad,
are bathed in pristine floodlights overlooking the legendary Vikram Sarabhai Library and the gladiators take the field by storm. In the most
legendary of IIMA rituals, a proud heirloom that has passed down from the oldest batches, WIMWI comes to life in a flurry of enthusiasm,
athleticism, sportsmanship and daredevilry that lasts on long into the night, way after mere mortals have called it a day.
Yes, the game is ultimate frisbee and they call themselves the Flying Dutchmen. Flying, since that's what they literally do for those
frantic, action packed couple of hours. Dutchmen, since they go Dutch on refreshments post game time :-)
Frisbee for them is more than a sport; it’s a religion the students practice daily, it’s a bond which ties them together and across
batches, it’s the way of life at the IIMA.
They are the Flying Dutchmen
AV ULTIMATE
(AUROVILLE)
Ultimate was first introduced in Auroville (atleast in recent history) in the year 2003-04, in a school called Deepanam, however as the two oldest classes moved out, the game disappeared from Auroville; until early in 2009 year it was revived by Mark Scott who joined Auroville in 2009 and started passing the disc around. Since then, a varied team has been slowly forming itself, age 14 at times 10) to 35+. Chennai Heat 2009 will be their first tournament as a team though several of their players have already played in other teams in India or elsewhere