AmsterJAM 2007 - the F.P.A. World Championships day 1 by R. Hoegger
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Freestyle Frisbee World Championship
The Frisbee had a remarkable start. Originally, the Frisbee was no more than a pie tin in which the Frisbie Baking Company baked and sold its pies. Throwing the Frisbee, since 1957 by purpose-manufactured plastic discs, was one thing. Soon, genius and athletic folks invented all sorts of tricks one could do with a Frisbee. Freestyle Frisbee was born.
Now, blossomed into a full-blown sport, Freestyle Frisbee provides joy and fun to both players and those watching with amazement. Healthy competition made sure that it was only a matter of time before the first championship was held.

Since 1979, the Freestyle Players Association has set its goals to promote the sport and the standardization of international tournaments. AmsterJAM has embraced these very goals to further develop the sport in the Netherlands.

AmsterJam 2007
Event director Iwan de Moor from Amsterdam is the inspiring force for most Dutch freestyle frisbee players. He is not just defending the Dutch honour on international tournaments, but he is also the founder of the annual freestyle tournament AmsterJAM. AmsterJAM was born in 2003. In 2005 this yearly open tournament has successfully hosted the F.P.A. Freestyle Frisbee European Championship.
In 2007, while celebrating a 5th edition, AmsterJAM welcomed the biggest event in so far:
F.P.A. World Championships with 115 competing athletes and THEY made history!
3. Amount of competitors/nationalities was higher than ever
2. Rankings have not been shaken like this in over a decade!
1. For the first time EVER an all European team WINS. In 2 divisions!


The F.P.A. 2007 world champions are:
Open Pairs : Jake Gauthier/Matt Gauthier
Open Co-op : Piccio Cusmá/Andrea Meola/Fabio Sanna
Women's Pairs : Sylvia Caruso/Eleonora Imazio
Mixed Pairs : Lisa Hunrichs/Matt Gauthier

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AmsterJAM 2007 - Freestyle Players Association World Championships

Schedule

Wednesday, June 20 15:00 to 17:00 (3:00 to 5:00 pm)
Final Registration/ Membership Deadline and Team Sign up Opportunity at the field / Bloomingdale
(Teams that sign up or change partners after the Wednesday, June 20th 5:00 pm deadline will be seeded into the qualifying round and play first in the qualifier or preliminary rounds.)

Thursday, June 21
13:00 - 19:30
11:00 Mandatory Players Meeting
This will be an opportunity to ask questions and understand expectations about the, judging, schedule, format pools, and timing of the event. If for some reason you cannot be present at this meeting, you are responsible to learn of the discussion from your partners, friends, teammates.
12-13:00 Event Preparation/ Judging Assignments
13:00 Qualifier Open Pairs
(Top seeded 16 teams do not compete in the qualifier (but may be asked to judge). All other teams play off for Preliminary Round. A total of 32 teams compete in the preliminary round)
16:00 Preliminary Open Co-op
(A qualifying round for co-op will not be played unless 32 or more teams enter the tournament)

Please note alternate schedule for Thursday
If there are more than 32 co-op teams:
12-13:00 Event Preparation/ Judging Assignments
13:00 Qualifier Open Pairs
15:30 Qualifier Open Co-op
18:00 Prelim Open Pairs

Friday, June 22 14:00 - 20:00
12 – 13:00 Event Preparation/ Judging Assignments
14:00 Preliminary Open Pairs (32 teams)
16:30 Semifinal Mixed Pairs (2 teams from each pool advance to Final)
18:00 Semifinal Women Pairs

If alternate schedule is played (Thursday) 19:00 Prelim Co-op

Saturday, June 23 14:00 - 19:00
12– 13:00 Event Preparation/ Judging Assignments
14:00 Semifinal Open Pairs (16 teams)
16:30 Mixed Pairs B Pool Playoff (4 teams advance to Final)
17:30 Semifinal Open Co-op (16 teams)

Sunday, June 24 15:00 - 20:00
13:00 Player's Meeting
15:00 Open Pairs Final (8 teams)
16:00 Mixed Pairs Final (6 teams)
17:00 Women Pairs Final (4 teams)
18:00 Open Co-op Final (8 teams)
19:30 Awards Ceremony (All teams!)

The 2007 AmsterJam discs 

It used to be normal that 

All competing jammers got an original Discratft Skystyler with custom AmsterJAM print from Iwan
On top of that, in 2007, the F.P.A. provided discs with a beautiful tulip design for the athletes.