It’s getting to be the holidays again, and that means two things: overeating, and ultimate on the beach at a Free Beach Hat tourney to work off all that pie. To celebrate the one year anniversary of our first Free Beach Hat, Thanksthrowing, we’re putting on the 2nd Annual Thankthrowing on Sunday Dec 1 on Venice Beach.

As usual, we’ll have lined fields, scoreboards, water and ice, an orange juice press and oranges, a massage table where you can work your friends’ kinks out for them, some pizza or other food after the finals, and prizes for the winners, all on us (LA Throwback).

We are still deciding on whether it’ll be 4×4 or 5×5…let us know which you prefer when you sign up. We are planning for each team to play 3 games to 11 and one game to 13 (last game of the day, the playoffs!).

Registration is free if you sign up here by Friday Nov 29 (Black Friday).  If you don’t register by then, it’ll be $10, with the money going toward the pizza (or other food) we’ll be serving late in the day. (If you pre-register and then can’t make it, please let us know).

This will be a TRUE random draw tourney. All the names will go into two hats (one for men, one for women). No segregation by skill or experience, and no baggage…a literal free-for-all, with one exception: total newbies will be distributed evenly among the teams.  For mixed games there will be a fixed genzone on each field and the woman captain of the team starting the point in the genzone will select the number of women playing that point.

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 3-4 pm.

Look forward to seeing you out there!