What is Big Sky 10?

G'day everyone…

The Big Sky 10s Tournament will be held on Saturday 30th October this year.
There will be some small changes to the format this year, but the need for your support and involvement remains just the same.

What is Big Sky 10s?

Big Sky 10s is a tournament run to raise funds to help Mike and Stacy Neild in their ongoing battle with Motor Neurone Disease.

For those of you who don’t know Mike and Stacy:

Mike is one of the best frisbee players to have played Ultimate in Queensland and Australia. He's a champion at league, state and international level. He's a champion guy.

Stacy is Mike's wife and soulmate. They were married in 2008.

In July last year Stacy Neild was diagnosed with MND.

MND is a degenerative condition where nerves gradually lose the ability to communicate with muscles.

Some people with MND may experience a slow degeneration with limited functional disruption, whilst others exeprience rapid loss of motor control, becoming bed ridden in a short period of time.

MND is typically fatal within 3 to 5 years.

In 2009 the Big Sky 9s tournament raised $20,000 through the support and generosity of the National and International Frisbee community.

In the last year, Mike and Stacy used those funds to travel to the US to visit Stacy's family, and to put Stacy through an intensive 8 week treatment program in Nevada.

This year, their needs have changed but are no less urgent and just as costly.

They will need to relocate to a new residence that allows easier access and specialised facilities and they will need to utilise more qualified care.

The continued support of the Frisbee community will help Mike and Stacy to continue their fight.

The funding is vital, but the knowledge that they have a community of loving friends behind them is priceless.

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More information will be released in due course, but the initial thing is to note that Team registrations are now Open and teams are encouraged to register.
http://www.afda.com/rego/showcompetition.php?competitionid=881

Note: Due to field constraints, we can only field a maximum of 12 teams.
So get your team registered ASAP and don’t miss out!!

Tournament Details:
What:…………. Big Sky 10s
When:………… Saturday 30th October
Where:………...The Gap Soccer Club
How Much:…….$50 (To be confirmed - all profits to Mike and Stacy)
Includes:……….All games, gorgeous venue, great people, lunch, dinner, post-games social function

Who:……………Everyone (elite, intermediate or beginner players alike). This is a great fun and competitive tournament being run for a great cause.

Competition Format:
Mixed 4:3 Offense decides
Short format games: 5 x 40min games + Final
Nb: Team numbers will not be limited as they were last year, but given the short format we recommend the optimum team size might be 10-12 players.

Social Function:
This year we will run at post-game social function in the clubhouse including dinner, dancing, beers and cheers.
Change rooms and showers are available at the fields, so bring a towel and change of clothes.
To encourage maximum participation at this we will arrange billeting for any teams or players who travel any distance to this tournament (this means you Byron, Gold Coast, Townsville, or anyone from interstate…)
(Contact us to let us know and we'll sort this out).

Other Fundraising Activities:
We will be running another bunch of parallel fundraising activities again this year.
This will include a donation fund (direct debit into the fund) and a number of raffles.
There is also talk of longest huck and/or vertical leap competitions run on the side.
More on this to come….
OK folks.
We're asking you to dig deep for your mates again this year.
Register your teams ASAP.
And see you in October….

TDs
Mat, Sandra, Gen and Tony.