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| UNICON XV Newsletter: 4wks and counting! |
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Nov 25, 2009 - 7:05 PM - by GizmoDuck
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Dear Unicyclist,
Here’s more updates from us as we countdown to the start of Unicon XV!
Registration cut-offs reminder
The next registration payment cut-off is November 30 at 11:59pm New Zealand Time. The registration price is currently NZ$350, but increases to NZ$500 on December 1. Pay for your registration early to get the lower entry price.
***You CANNOT edit your entry after 1 Dec 2009 unless you pay the full NZ$500 registration fee***
Please make sure you are registered for the correct events.
Registration for the following events has closed:
· Individual Freestyle, Pairs Freestyle, Group Freestyle, Standard Skill, Street, and Flatland;
· Basketball and Hockey teams;
· Points Racing (100m, 400m, 800m, 50m one-foot, 10m.30m Wheel Walk, Obstacle Course) and Relay Race.
Workshops
We’re in the midst of adding workshops, day rides and games to the non-competition schedule.
Here’s some workshops you can look forward to at Unicon XV:
· Best Trick Contest
· Unitouring
· Hutchinson One Wheelers Trials Levels
· The Art of Street Performing
· Beersketball
Trips
· Muni at Makara Peak
· Disc Golf
· Museum to museum kids ride
We are looking for more volunteers to lead a workshop and share your unicycling or non-unicycling skills.
If you like to organise something but do not know what to do, let us know. We have plenty of ideas but still looking for people to take them up. Like teaching crazy tricks and wheelbuilding, bringing people on muni practice or night ride around the city.
Email us at unicon15@gmail.com and help make workshops a blast for all participants.
MUni
The Cross-Country Muni course is and elevation profile is now up on the website:
http://www.uniconxv.co.nz/programme/competition/
Downhill and Hillclimb courses are being finalised and will be up on the website shortly.
Hockey and Basketball
Registration for Hockey and Basketball teams is now closed.
There are 18 Basketball teams (Aussie Youth, Australia, Berkeley Revolution9, Berkeley Revolution, Blau Weiss Bavaria, BoDo Germany, Currywurst mit Pommes, CYCL'HOP, Deserteure, NT Cyclones, NZUni Black, OnewheeleRS, RSD United, Swiss Team, Team GB, UCTD, Wild Cats, WOOM) and 22 Hockey Teams (Asian Dragons, Aussie Youth, Australia A, Australia B, Blau Weiss Bavaria, Cycl'Hop, Deserteure, Frederiksberg Unicykel Klub, Fuc-Denmark, Korea, NT Cyclones, NZUni Black, NZUni White, OnewheeleRS, RSD United, Swiss Team, Team GB, Team USA, The Old, the Fat, and the Ugly, UCTD, USA B, Scratch-Radlos).
Video Competition
The competition will be held on 4 Jan (Monday) at 8.30pm at the TSB Arena. Get your best unicycling video together and showcase it to unicyclists from around the world.
Rules for the video competition can be found at Unicon XV website. The deadline for submission of the video clips is 21 Dec Midnight NZT. Please email a low res version to Joe Dyson for approval prior to the deadline. email: joe.dyson@gmail.com
Judges for Freestyle Events at UNICON XV
(Individual, Pairs, Group, Street, Flatland)
All countries with competitors in freestyle events at UNICON XV will be receiving an email in the next few days with the policies for submitting judges. Failure to follow the highlighted rules could result in the removal of competitors from these events. Please note that ALL JUDGES must also attend a judging workshop specific to each discipline at UNICON XV led by the Chief Judge, Ryan Woessner. Each judge will be required to sign a statement indicating they have read the rules, attended the workshop, agree to follow the rules and will accept being removed from the list of available judges if deemed necessary by the Chief Judge.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Chief Judge, Ryan Woessner, via email: ryan.woessner@gmail.com
See you at Unicon in a month!
UNICON XV
Organising Committee
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| Uni - The Unicycle Magazine News Thread |
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Nov 19, 2009 - 10:52 AM - by mikepenton
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Firstly, Issue 11 has been out for a while 
New Website is up!
Finally www.unicyclemagazine.com is up and running with much more features.
# Searchable events calendar - constantly kept up to date and you can also submit your own. Events RSS feed so you can know as soon as events are posted.
# Detailed information of what's in every single issue
# Submit your photos - WIN A DVD. Simple form to submit your own photos for inclusion in the magazine and possibly win a unicycling DVD.
# Photo Galleries - from events we've covered
# News feeds
# and of course you'll be able to subscribe, buy back issues and merchandise!
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| Unicon XV workshops! |
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Nov 05, 2009 - 2:32 AM - by GizmoDuck
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We're just putting together a list of workshops for Unicon. This is the 'CON' or convention side of Unicon. It's a way to share skills, interests or just have fun with other unicyclists.
Workshops can be run by anyone, and it doesn't have to be Unicycling related. For instance, you may want to organise a trip to one of the local attractions and get a few unicyclists along. So the workshop would basically involve having a meeting place/time and taking responsibility for knowing where to go, how much it costs, maps to get there etc.
Or you might want to show off some skills that are non-unicycling related. For instance, Nathan and Beau Hoover are organising a Disc Golf workshop, and Jamey is doing a Beer Pong workshop.
Let us know if you are interested, and if so, fill in the questionaire on the Unicon website:
http://www.uniconxv.co.nz/programme/workshops/
Cheers,
Ken Looi
UNICON XV
Organising Committee
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| Unicon XV Video Competition |
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Nov 04, 2009 - 12:47 AM - by GizmoDuck
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Get your best unicycle video clips and send it in to us for the Unicon Video Competition! We will be showing Unicycle Videos on the 4th January at the TSB Arena
More information on the Unicon Website:
General Rules
- Maximum of 10 videos that make it past the board.
- Length: maximum of 6 minutes
- To compete, one member of the team which produced the
video must participate at UNICON XV. The person submitting
the video must be at Unicon XV (For example, 3 people created the video – only 2 attend.
One of the 2 must be at Unicon and the name of the person responsible for the video).
- The video should be new material and should not be released until after Unicon XV.
- It must be about unicycling, not a commercial video.
- Offensive movies will not be shown.
- The candidates guarantee free rights (image) for public projection.
- There will be a jury doing the rating, NOT the public.
Judging Criteria – for actual comp
- Popular vote
Judging Criteria – for board selecting the 10 or fewer vids
- No offensive movies
- Original
- Either really good unicycling or really good theme/plot. Does NOT have to be both, but bonus
if both good unicycling and good theme/plot.
- Entertaining
Because it is necessary to restrict the number of movies, a jury will preselect 10 videos among the
candidates. The jury will make the final decision with the selection of the 10 videos to be shown at
Unicon XV. The candidates will have to upload their video with smaller resolution on a website (we
will give you the website address then) but only the jury will be able to watch the videos. For Unicon,
the selected candidates will have to come with a CD or a DVD of their movie in high resolution and
give it to the organisers before the competition. The showing sequence will be a random draw.
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| UNICON XV Update: Only 2 months to go! |
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Nov 04, 2009 - 12:29 AM - by GizmoDuck
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Dear Unicyclist,
Greetings from the Aotearoa, Land of the Long White Cloud!
We’re just two months away from Unicon! You’ll hear from us more often now as we bring you up-to-date with the biggest event on the unicycling calendar, and the first Unicon ever held in the Southern Hemisphere.
Registration update
We have 602 registered unicyclists from 21 countries. Our biggest teams are from Germany and Denmark with 103 and 81 registrations respectively. Coming close behind is Japan, with 75 participants.
Registration cut-offs
The next registration payment cut-off is 30 November 2009. The registration price is currently NZ$350, but increases to NZ$500 on 1 Dec 2009. Pay for your registration early to get the lower entry price. You can register and edit your entry until 1 Dec 2009 (whether or not you have paid).
Other registration cut-offs
The deadline for registration for the following events is 14 November at 11:59p New Zealand Time:
· Individual Freestyle, Pairs Freestyle, Group Freestyle, Standard Skill, Street, and Flatland;
· Basketball and Hockey teams;
· Points Racing (100m, 400m, 800m, 50m one-foot, 10m.30m Wheel Walk, Obstacle Course) and Relay Race.
For Basketball and Hockey, to officially register, the team captain needs to send UniconXV an email with the team name and all players.
The other events do not have a deadline but you will assist in our planning if you are signed up for the events where you want to compete.
Opening Ceremony
The parade of unicyclists will take place along the scenic waterfront with panoramic views across the Wellington Harbour. As you enter the Civic Square, you will be greeted with a Powhiri (traditional Maori welcome). Don’t forget to wear your team t-shirts for the opening ceremony.
Competition Updates
Competition venue photos are now up on the Unicon website. Most of the events will be held in the heart of the city. Muni and marathon competitors can also find photos showing part of the course for their race.
Similarly, we have put up course info sheet for 10 km race and marathon on the website. You will be able to check out the course map, route description, and for marathon, the elevation profile of course.
Video Competition
Have you got an awesome, new, original unicycling video to share? Showcase your other talent and take part in the Unicycling Video Competition!
Unicon Workshops
Have a workshop idea? Want to organise an informal rides or day trips? Any wacky unicycling games you like to share other unicyclists? If you would like to host one, or if there’s any particular type of workshop that you really like to take part in, email us at unicon15@gmail.com and we’ll take it from there.
See you in Windy Welly in two months.
Unicon XV organising Committee
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