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  Ultimate (sport) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc into the opposing endzone, similar to football.
The game was invented in 1968 as an evening pastime.
While the rules governing movement and scoring of the disc have not changed, the early Columbia High games had sidelines that were defined by the parking lot of the school and team sizes based on the number of players that showed up.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ultimate_frisbee   (3261 words)

  
 Flying Discs - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Disc golf discs are usually smaller in diameter but are more dense and are tailored for particular flight profiles such as stability or distance.
When it was discovered that dogs enjoyed chasing and retrieving the slow-moving discs, special frisbees were eventually designed with more pliable material that would more resist damage when the dog caught one in its mouth.
Disc dog competitions, in which dogs' frisbee-catching skills are judged, have become quite popular as well.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /flying_discs.htm   (567 words)

  
 SchtickDisc.org- home of the world's fastest growing disc sport
So when a player has a disc and is in enemy territory, she can safely toss or roll the disc such that it ends up on the ground in her territory.
Discs in motion which have touched the ground are said to be rolling or skipping.
Schtick inherits the concept of "spirit of the game" (SOTG) from Ultimate (Frisbee).
schtickdisc.org /schtickdisc/index.cfm?fa=rules   (1011 words)

  
 Schtick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Two (2) discs are in play at all times.  More discs may be added to accommodate more players.
Games are often (but not always) played to 11 points
- If the disc is in the air when a Social is called, the receiver may continue their attempt to catch the in-flight disc.  Also, the defender making a play on that throw may continue their pursuit until the disc is either catch, dropped, or lands incomplete.
his_n_hers.homestead.com /Schtick.html   (607 words)

  
 dave's image gallery :: Around Christchurch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Poll retrieving her golf discs from the pole hole after some putting practice from the deck.
Schtick, for the uninitiated, is a game of obscure (but probably Aussie) origins that's a little bit like capture the flag, a bit like touch rugby, a bit like ultimate (it is, of course, played with at least one disc), and (on soft sand anyway) a bit like work.
Schtick play is traditionally followed by a skinny dip en masse, and songs around a camp fire.
davelane.name /gallery/album08?&page=1   (491 words)

  
 Other Flying Disc Sports
There are two frisbees in action in the game, and two players on each team, and the main aim is for your team not to be holding both discs at once.
The aim of the game is to throw the disc so that it lands in and stays completely within the box when it comes to rest.
Once a disc has landed in the box no-one is allowed to touch it before it comes to rest or rolls outside the box.
www.afda.com /print_content.php?page=other_disc_sports   (1614 words)

  
 Flying Discs Sports Links - RealSportsNetwork.com
Disc Jam - London, England event comprised of competitions in disc golf, ultimate frisbee, goaltimate, double disc court and freestyle.
SchtickDisc.org - Promotes Schtick which is played like hotbox but where players can use more than one disc (or other object) at the same time and can even run with it.
WFDF Official Rules of Flying Disc Sports - Official rules of guts, double disc court, discathon, ultimate frisbee, freestyle and disc golf in an outline form.
www.realsportsnetwork.com /Flying_Discs.html   (1971 words)

  
 Hidden DVD - Easter Eggs
Disc 2: 5 25 79, Disc 4: 7 18 86, Disc 6: 5 22 92, Disc 8: 11 26 97.
On disc one, press "Special Features." Move the cursor to "Love Comes And Goes." Press the UP button, a picture is highlighted, Press ENTER to see an outtake of Kate Hudson mispronouncing the name Leslie.
On the disc’s Main Menu, press "Audio Selection." On the new screen, move the cursor to the "Play" icon, press the LEFT button and a lightning bolt appears.
americanindian.net /dvd/a.html   (1822 words)

  
 All Game Guide: Style Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Writers should refrain from using "X Game, developed by A company, and published by B company, is a first-person shooter on System C." All of this information is clearly available within each game entry, so this is redundant.
{@Nintendo} released a trio of great games in the mid-‘80s: {*Super Mario Bros.}, which had two main characters; {*The Legend of Zelda}, which was highly challenging; and {*Duck Hunt}, which allowed players to practice their hunting skills.
When the two words are used as a noun, no hyphen is used (ex: In the early ‘80s, the Los Angeles company released their debut game).
www.allgame.com /writers/amgstyle.html   (2208 words)

  
 The 32 Year In Review: 2004 - Beyond the D-Pad Review
However, they have almost no game support, are burning through money and doing their best Nero imitation all the while, and they want to imitate cable television to market games.
But given that Spike TV’s entire schtick is to be as ungentlemanly as possible, I feel no shame in saying that this, without a doubt, was the biggest travesty in video gaming this year.
But it was a year that gave us some classic games, and it was a year in which more people found their voices to talk about those horrifying events with intelligence and clarity.
www.netjak.com /review.php/782   (3957 words)

  
 Phosphor Dot Fossils: Pac-Man
Finally, a scrolling run-and-jump game called Pac-Land, based on ABC's short-lived Pac-Man Saturday morning cartoon broke completely with the structure of the previous Pac games, though the payoff came in the form of some stunning graphics and music which were very faithful to the cartoon's animation.
Surprisingly for such a simple game, licensees seemed to have a hell of a time trying to capture the essence of Pac-Man. By now, the story of the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man has all but entered the realm of legend.
Instead of the jaunty signature tune at the beginning of the game, players were treated to a series of tones not unlike a touch-tone telephone.
www.thelogbook.com /phosphor/pac.html   (1586 words)

  
 Legends Alliance Forums - Game Boy Evolution?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Just like the gamecube replaced the n64, and the gameboy advance replaced gameboy color which replaced gameboy...the game boy evolution is suppose to replace the gameboy advance, and stand side by side with the ds.
True, but those two games are simply a fraction of what the GBA used to be.
To the various parents who do not know or understand the games industry, the little two-screened wonder is already defined as such.
forums.legendsalliance.com /printthread.php?t=3665   (1606 words)

  
 FlorinaFabian.com - AD-FEST Web Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Official rules of guts, double disc court, discathon, ultimate frisbee, freestyle and disc golf in an outline form.
The unofficial rules of a sport also known as "cups" which is played by two teams of one or two people taking alternating attempts to knock cups off the other team's two bamboo stakes with a frisbee.
Promotes Schtick which is played like hotbox but where players can use more than one disc (or other object) at the same time and can even run with it.
florinafabian.com /cgi-bin/directory/directory.cgi/Sports/Flying_Discs   (437 words)

  
 Notherby's :: AJ Golf "AJ Reveals The Truth About Golf" DVD Set
I am a high handicapper, and have been playing the game for about 6 years, IMHO the instruction is somewhat inconsistent, some is good, some is not so good.
This same disc then proceeds to instruct on how to put the theory into real time application on the driving range and then the golf course with the goal of eliminating those troublesome slices and hooks.
However, as good as the discs are on hitting the driver and irons, it is,The Short Game disc that is the real gem in this whole golf instruction package.
www.northerbys.com /store/B0002JB0C6/AJ_Golf__AJ_Reveals_The_Truth_About_Golf__DVD_Set.html   (1058 words)

  
 eye - On Disc - 12.31.98
But in case you're still not convinced, she's also included a compact disc with 12 songs, though naturally the ones that actually received airplay are printed in larger typeface ("Black Velvet" scores highest with a 24-point font).
I realized recently that what I liked about Missy Elliott's music was probably more her co-producer Timbaland's doing: the cavernous sound of the mix, the clipped snares and staccato kick drums, the snaky basslines.
All over her records, and hits by Nicole, Jay-Z, Ginuwine and Aaliyah, is Timbaland's schtick, the most distinctive and commercially viable non-Puff, non-RZA style in hip-hop.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.31.98/music/ondisc31.html   (1374 words)

  
 DVDFILE.COM: Zoolander review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Although he claims to have many, the schtick is that in spite of the different titles they're all the same face.
While this is amusing, and sure to elicit a chuckle, someone (i.e., director and co-writer Ben Stiller) should have wondered if maybe that single schtick, along with playing Zoolander as a numbskull could hold up for the length of an entire movie (even an 89-minute movie).
This is some of the funniest stuff on the disc.
www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_4/zoolander.html   (1257 words)

  
 Bowlers Journal International - Media Beat, July 1999
I have a very high regard for a game that's given me my professional life the last 25 years.
"It got to the point where I would just hope I had a good game at the end of the block, so when someone came up to me for an autograph, I would be in a better frame of mind," says Holman, who had no problems signing with CBS last year.
He was involved in radio and hosted a TV show in southern Oregon called 'Phil's Films.' He had really, really bad movies, zany commercials and did a lot of schtick.
www.bowlersjournal.com /currentissue/archive/MB-jul99.htm   (856 words)

  
 DVD of the Week: (8/9/2004): Azumi
Yes, this is the sort of movie where excess and overkill are the name of the game, but if they had pared it down, they might have found a better movie inside this one.
Azumi’s gang have the usual assortment of colorful enemies—like Saru (“Monkey”) (Minoru Matsumoto), an enemy ninja whose schtick is that he dresses and acts like a primate, complete with howls and hoots.
The newest crop of such films seem to owe a debt to comics and video games, but are also being slyly targeted at younger audiences: other than Azumi, Samurai Fiction and The Princess Blade come to mind, but the other thing they all seem to have in common is that they’re just not very good.
www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2004/08-09-2004.htm   (1224 words)

  
 DVD & Video Guide - Columbo - The Complete Second Season - Movie Zone - DVD Reviews, News, Pictures & More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
And while you still get the who, what, where, and why schtick, the plots themselves prove to be quite entertaining as Columbo gets himself out of the jams week in and week out.
Disc 2 includes: The Most Crucial Game and Dagger of the Mind.
Disc 3 includes: Requiem for a Falling Star and A Stitch in Crime.
www.atnzone.com /moviezone/video/guides/reviews.php?id=164   (427 words)

  
 Tokyopia Forums -> Questions for PSP developers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
If any game already used MP3s for it's own music it would have no problem playing user supplied ones assuming they fit in memory and assuming they used options compatible with the game's MP3 decoder.
There would also be the problem of people hacking the game by changing what's in the cache files.
As for reading and writing while doing other things yes that's possible, play any of the games that are out now, most of them have something going on while they are loading/saving.
www.tokyopia.com /tk/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=1687   (1525 words)

  
 Open Directory Project > Sports> Flying Discs
British Columbia Disc Sports Society - - Governing body of disc sports in the Canadian province.
SchtickDisc.org - - Promotes Schtick which is played like hotbox but where players can use more than one disc (or other object) at the same time and can even run with it.
WFDF Official Rules of Flying Disc Sports - - Official rules of guts, double disc court, discathon, ultimate frisbee, freestyle and disc golf in an outline form.
www.bie.no /products/phpodp/odp?browse=/Sports/Flying_Discs   (436 words)

  
 The Howard Stern Show DVD Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The show is fair and balanced and will equally offend both extremes on the political left and right.
And while some of Artie's schtick here has already been on the Stern show, there are some great moments including his discussion of a street basketball game and his analysis of a classic Warner Bros. cartoon character.
They are back - Check out the second season on this 2 disc set containing the second season with more stuff never seen before.
www.howardsternshowweb.com /DVD-store.html   (613 words)

  
 RPGamer - Letters for February 12, 2003
Well, if you were promised preorder stuff when you ordered your game, you have the right to gripe at the manager bigtime.
Generally speaking, all the copies of a game that will ever be made are run off all at once, and then shipped off as requested.
Anyway, last I checked Square's SNES "ports" are for the most part emulated SNES games, but they did at least fiddle with the code enough to change which button is yes, and cue up movies.
www.rpgamer.com /ask/googleshng5/ag021203.html   (1385 words)

  
 Console war to take center stage at E3 - Games - MSNBC.com
When video gaming's annual event opens in Los Angeles on Wednesday, only dogs and dedicated video game fan-boys will be able to distinguish the high-pitched hype.
Every year hundreds of game publishers announce thousands of new games and gadgets through ever-larger exhibits and after-hours bacchanalia.
Nintendo will show off the next "Legend of Zelda." And with no single game dominating the E3 expo floor as in years past, it's a total guess as to which title or titles are worthy of praise.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7723664   (727 words)

  
 Cat Sidh: Wonderfalls, New Journal Part Deux, and another Big Brother Rant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The first disc sat here for nearly a month before I got around to watching it.
Mike was a jerk, there's no doubt about that, but using the umbrella of sexual harassment as part of your strategy for winning a game is, I think, pretty craptacular.
I also thought Eric's ubermanly "I'm going to protect these poor, defenseless girls from the big, bad, kissy monster" schtick was far more degrading to the women in the house than Mike could ever have dreamt of being.
cat-sidh.blogspot.com /2005/07/wonderfalls-new-journal-part-deux-and.html   (504 words)

  
 MessageTalk Directory Sports : Flying Discs :
» SchtickDisc.org - Promotes Schtick which is played like hotbox but where players can use more than one disc (or other object) at the same time and can even run with it.
» WFDF Official Rules of Flying Disc Sports - Official rules of guts, double disc court, discathon, ultimate frisbee, freestyle and disc golf in an outline form.
The content of this directory is based on the Open Directory and may have been modified.
www.messagetalk.com /directory/Top/Sports/Flying_Discs   (426 words)

  
 S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land directly under a car, just beyond reach.
The greatest single aid to distance is for the disc to be going in a direction you did not want.
Some people who consider their main disc sport as ultimate also have a decent golf game, but few accomplished golfers can consider themselves decent ultimate players.
students.syr.edu /student_orgs/sports-rec/frisbee/oldsite/schtick.html   (1449 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - E3 2002 Coverage
Of course, games also need to have an active component, and fighting is an easy win for giving the player something to do.
First, your in-game avatar has to be someone you can relate to and care about -- such as the wanna-be hero Dirk.
Bluth described how characters do "schtick" in movies, how a character (particularly in animated features) will scratch his head or wrinkle his face when presented with a problem.
archive.gamespy.com /e32002/special/donbluth   (885 words)

  
 [No title]
Like the board game Cluedo (that this story reminds of a great deal) it has 8 key players, 1 of which is definitely the house itself.
It is only when the game starts to turn against them that he grows concerned, as they start to discover the truth the killer starts to draw Charley away from him and he has to really fight to win her back.
When he realizes that it is the house that has been running the game he demands a face to face confrontation which leads to one of the best ever scenes of its kind as he questions its existence as worthwhile and pleads for it to commit suicide.
www.pagefillers.com /dwrg/chimes.htm   (8212 words)

  
 Super Mario Yoshi Island Original Sound Version : SoundtrackCentral.com
The music here has a typical Mario-esque feeling (although the classic theme is not used), but in a youthful, innocent schtick to keep the Mario universe afloat, while inviting us to join in with the whimsical world of the Yoshis.
The score occasionally screams treacliness (in tracks like "Story Music Box"), but it is not completely overdone, unlike its semi-disappointing N64 sequel, "Yoshi's Story".  It keeps the saccharine feeling to a mild level, which allows this score to be more enjoyable than its sequel was.
Of course, it should not come as a surprise that the music is rather synthy, as this soundtrack was created, in my opinion, right around the peak the synthesized game music era.
www.soundtrackcentral.com /stc/reviews/yoshiislandosv.htm   (918 words)

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