f! Archivo blog para julio 2009

Summer time is Frisbee time! And since Ultimate players are wise and sporty people, they seem to spend their free time outdoor instead of sitting in front of computer screens. This was at least my theory for the slight drop of visitors for ffindr in June. But then I got an e-mail from David pointing out a bug that led me to the explanation: a missing semi-colon in a JavaScript file uploaded beginning of June...

Next week the World Games 2009 start, unequivocally THE top competition of this year's Ultimate calendar. The 8th World Games will take place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from 16-26 July. Never heard of World Games? Under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and organised by the International World Games Association (IWGA), this event features sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games. Among for example Skydiving, Bowling, Beach handball or Karate, is for the...

Work on the implementation of a new clustering technique for the map on ffindr's welcome page carried a little to excess, in a positive sense. The map features now all upcoming tournaments (in blue) plus all links (in yellow). The latter, until now, never made it on the map. The result of this probably biggest Frisbee geo mapping shows nicely the geographical distribution of Frisbee. Tournaments and ultilinks are grouped together at higher zoom levels (i.e....

Time for another ffindr featured tournament, this time the choice fell on a sexy Beach Ultimate tournament in an exotic place: the Kyiv Hat in Ukraine. Patrick from BULA beat me to the draw by revealing this gem to a wider public. No problem, the following in-depth interview with tournament director Dmitry Strelchin will reveal even more information about this down-town event played on Dovbychka beach on Trukhaniv Island in the Dnieper river. Kiev is...