Thanksthrowing Community Beach Hat Tourney and Potluck
Help us celebrate this coming Thanksgiving weekend with some great food and beach ultimate at the 2024 Thanksthrowing Community Beach Hat tournament and potluck!
When & Where: Sunday, December 1st, 9:30 am ~ 3:30 pm, between lifeguard stations 28 & 29 in Venice/Santa Monica. The event will be 4×4 or 5×5 mixed (depending on the final # of registrants). Registration is free up until Thursday, November 28th but please do not sign up unless you’re fairly certain you’ll make it.
This event is also a potluck! We strongly encourage everyone to bring something, whether its food or drinks. Please bring something that will be outdoor-friendly, since it might be hot and sunny all day (we can hope, right?).
As usual, we’ll have lined fields, scoreboards, shade tents, water, and some other goodies. Please note, we will *NOT* have cups for water, even though we will have 5-gallon jugs of water out there. We ask that you bring your own container for water. Additionally, you may want to bring some sand socks to protect your feet (we’ll have some available for a suggested donation at the event).
Other Notes
Again, registration is free if you sign up by Thursday, Nov. 28th. If you don’t register by then, it’ll be $10. Registration closes on Friday, Nov. 29th, at 7pm. If you pre-register and then can’t make it, please let us know. Additionally, we will be making very limited exceptions for late-adds after the registration deadline, which will have to pay a late fee of $25. We want to encourage as many players as possible to register beforehand, to make the work a lot easier on the organizers. With that said, please do not register unless you are serious about coming and playing.
This will be a random draw tourney but we will distribute players based on survey responses so overall team strength is as similar as possible. We do not offer the option for baggaging as we want to encourage players to play with and make connections with other players in the community they may not see as often. It also makes the process of making teams a lot easier on the organizers. Players will get an email the day before the event telling them which team they are on and letting them know their team’s color.
The event will be at the same location as our prior free beach hats, on the beach just south of lifeguard station 28 and the Ashland Ave. bathrooms (i.e. at “South Beach Park”) in Venice (technically Santa Monica, but most people think of it as Venice). Please be there by 9:30 am so first games can start at 10:00 am. We’ll finish up around 3-4pm.
If you feel like donating to LA Throwback, please do…we will use the funds to produce more free events like this one, and our Nighttime Beach Ultimate.
Look forward to seeing you out there!