Survivors Semhar Tadesse: Redemption Island Was My Biggest Fear

Semhar Tadesse Between her spitfire attitude and spontaneous poetic outbursts, it seemed as though Survivor's Semhar Tadesse never stood a chance. And then, she volunteered herself to be the "coconut shooter" in the immunity challenge - which she tanked - sealing her fate as the first castoff to head to Redemption Island. After a few days of shelter-less solitude she was joined by Christine, the second Survivor casualty, and the two sat beside a non-existent fire and moped. As the ladies geared up for their balancing totem pole challenge, Semhar gave us another taste of her "spoken word performance art" which included such verses as "there is not one thing that I would not do, for my lover, my best friend, my honey, my boo," and "I would give birth to 10 of his children without using any drugs to help ease the pain and then I would give him one more." Ultimately, Semhar lost and was sent packing for good. The 24-year-old LA-native spoke with TVGuide.com about her biggest fear, who she's rooting for, and which contestant gave her bad vibes from day one.TVGuide.com: What was the thing that surprised you most when you first got to the island?Semhar Tadesse: One thing I didn't expect to be so harsh was the mosquitos. That was the toughest thing for me. I was covered with over 100 mosquito bites, and I'm allergic, so I had these huge welts all over my body that you could see on camera. You have no idea exactly what you're going to go through, or what this country's climate is like. It is extremely humid. You felt like you were breathing in water... But definitely the mosquitos bites are what got me the worst.TVGuide.com: In the first episode, it seemed like you were Ozzy's island crush. If you had stayed longer, do you think something would have happened between the two of you?Tadesse: I can't predict the future, so I have no idea what would have happened between us. Some people start out liking each other, but later they end up hating each other for whatever reason. Survivor obviously has a lot of twists. I have no idea where that would have went, but he's a really sweet guy.Social TV: How Survivor's Jeff Probst Bridged the Gap Between CBS and Its AudienceTVGuide.com: So are you rooting for him to win?Tadesse: I'm hoping that Ozzy wins. I feel like he plays with integrity. It's his third time and obviously he was on my tribe, so he's the person that I was closest to.TVGuide.com: There was obviously a little tension between you and Jim. When you found out that he was not a "teacher" like he claimed, and actually in the medical marijuana dispensary business, what was your reaction? Tadesse: Literally my mouth dropped open when I saw that. It was a huge surprise. Huge. I had no idea that Jim was such a schemer. We thought he was like, a pervert teacher. He was always talking about girls and that was disgusting to us. We were like "God, does he, like, date his students? Should they be taking him to jail right now?"TVGuide.com: So what do you think about the "lying about your profession" strategy?Tadesse: As the first person voted off, I can't exactly say what is stupid, but I will say that I think we all would have been a lot closer and cooler with him had we known what he really did. I knew something was off about Jim the second that I met him. I got bad vibes from him. He has an extremely fake smile and the things that come out of his mouth...you look at him and you're like, "Are you serious right now?" He totally loves attention.Check out: Fall TV Eye CandyTVGuide.com: Did you have any big fears going in, like being scared you'd be the first person eliminated? Tadesse: No, that wasn't a huge fear of mine. I almost preferred that, rather than making it to the very end and then getting eliminated. That wasn't my biggest fear. Redemption Island was my biggest fear.TVGuide.com: What is it like there?Tadesse: There's barely even camera men around you, honestly. You're pretty alone. And this season's Redemption Island is in the rainforest, so it's hard for any light to get through. It was literally pouring down rain. Not only did I not have a shelter, but I could see to the other side of the island where my tribe was and it was just beaming sun over there! Every time I had a fire started it would just go out because of the rain. It was tough.TVGuide.com: What is your opinion about Brandon, Russell Hantz's nephew?Tadesse: I think Brandon is going through the whole "I want to be a good Christian and I want to represent for my religion the right way" thing. And it's coming off wrong to everyone else. But I understand how he feels. I understand the struggle, and I understand the pressure of being viewed by millions of people. And that pressure just got to him.TVGuide.com: Why did you go on Survivor in the first place?Tadesse: I mean...who passes up a chance at a million dollars?

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Jason Statham's 'Killer Elite' Cast: 'It Doesn't Get Any Better'

Pretty much any time we see Jason Statham in anything, we know he'll be some sort of likable bad-ass and will kick the crap out of some people in doing so. This week's "Killer Elite" is no exception, and even better than Statham lighting up the screen solo, he's joined by serious A-listers Robert De Niro and Clive Owen. MTV News caught up with the man of action recently to discuss how his Oscar winning and Oscar nominated co-stars raised the bar on set. "Its like boxing with Muhammad Ali, its like winning a Formula One race," Statham said of working with De Niro. "Its the top of the mountain, it doesnt get any better." The seasoned action pro went on to say that his intense fight sequences with Owen - specifically the heated battle at the center of the film - proved to be some of the most enjoyable he's ever done. "[Our fight scenes] are only that good because of the intensity of Clive. Theres so much at stake. He plays the spy character to a degree that you never could - most of the people I have fight sequences with are stuntmen who can barely string a sentence together sometimes," he joked. "This is an A-list Academy nominated actor that is coming up toe-to-toe. Hes a big guy, hes ferociously intense. We wanted it to feel real. We didnt want some overly choreographed routine," he explained. "We wanted to be like two guys, one guy trying to get out of this confined space, the other trying to kill him." "It went really well," Statham continued. "Its the first time I have had somebody of that caliber to be able to do two, three, four days of beating the crap out of each other. Its a great scene because no one wins, there isnt a victory to be had. Its just a real clashing of missiles." And who doesn't want to see two missiles, in the form of Statham and Owen, clashing? Will you go see "Killer Elite?" Tell us in the comments or on Twitter!

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'Human Centipede II' Director Doesn't Mind Torture Porn Label

The already questionable 'Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)' debuts at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on Thursday before striking theaters via IFC on March. 7, and director Tom Six is ready for your coming barbs about his disgusting horror follow-up being the newest in the extended kind of much-belittled torture porn. "I've not any problem with this, because I truly like the term," Six told Dork Itzkoff in the new interview while using NY Occasions blog ArtsBeat. "I see porno films, clearly, which i love them, I have no problem with this particular whatsoever. And there's been lots of horror films, which is torture and misery. This is actually the genre. I kind of such as this they mix it. In my opinion my film can be a torture porn with European art sauce or something like that like this.Inch Tasty? [NYT/ArtsBeat]

Kutcher's 2 . 5 Males Debut Will get Idol-Like Amounts Sheen Set Record

2 . 5 Males How curious were people about Ashton Kutcher changing Charlie Sheen on 2 . 5 Males? Some 27.76 million people updated in - amounts that rival The American Idol Show. On cable, Sheen set a rankings record of their own. VIDEO: The 6 best jokes from Charlie Sheen's Roast Around the first official Monday from the 2011-12 TV season, the sitcom's Season 9 premiere snared a ten.3 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds - the greatest ever for that program, and most double those of Season 8's first episode. It is also probably the most-viewed scripted debut since Desperate Housewives' second season start (which came 28.36 million in September 2005). Photo timeline: The emasculation of males on television Comedy Central reported later Tuesday that some 6.4 million viewed its Roast of Sheen, featuring Seth MacFarlane, William Shatner and Kate Walsh. It had been the cable network's greatest-ranked roast within the good reputation for the franchise - and 2nd overall simply to Shaun Dunham's holiday special 3 years ago.. What have you think about Ashton Kutcher's 2 . 5 Males debut? Drafting behind Males at 9:30/8:30 on Monday, the series debut of two Broke Women was seen by 19.15 million (7. demo rating). Not just was this way a lot more than time-slot predecessor Mike & Molly, it is the greatest fall start for any sitcom since Inside Schwartz about ten years ago (though that NBC show ended up bombing midway through one season). Read our Dwts recaps The 2-hour, thirteenth season premiere from the irrepressible Dwts entertained 18.57 million (3.9 demo rating, lower 24 percent from last fall and it is cheapest-ranked start ever) - far outpacing the return of surprise spring hit The Sing-Off, which handled to average just 5.20 million (1.9). As well as in exactly the same 8-10 p.m. time slot, the championship finale of Hell's Kitchen attracted 5.87 million (2.6). The Growing Season 9 Hell's Kitchen champion is ... Within the first hour of prime time, the rear-to-back episodes that began Season 7 of Generate An Income Met Your Mother drawn in 11.75 million fans (4.9 demo rating - a rise of 30-plus percent in comparison with last year). Fall Preview: Get scoop in your favorite coming back shows In prime time's final hour, the debut of NBC's The Playboy Club unsuccessful to draw in many potential people - just 5 million along with a 1.7 demo rating. With amounts like this (worse than last year's Chase) the Club will probably be shuttered. ABC's surging Castle won the slot with 13.60 million audiences - a large jump from last year's 11.two million - and three.3 demo rating (up about 15 %) over CBS' sophomore reboot of Hawaii Five- with 11.99 million and three.4 (lower about 10 %).

Emmy Guest Actor Champion Paul McCrane Signs with UTA

Veteran character actor Paul McCrane, fresh off an Emmy win for his guest-star role round the NBC legal drama"Harry's Law," has signed with UTA.McCrane features a recurring roleas eccentric attorney Josh "Puck" Peyton round the Kathy Bates-starring "Law." McCrane, the first nominee, outshine Love Bridges, Jeremy Davies, Bruce Dern, Michael J. Fox and Robert Morse to find the Emmy.McCrane's other credits add a extended stint on "ER," additionally to "24," "Ugly Betty" and "The X-Files," among others. He's also directed cases of "CSI," "Detroit 1-8-7" and"Law & Order: SVU." McCrane can also be represented by manager Steve Himber of Himber Entertainment. The Hollywood Reporter

Watch Jonah Hill Throw First Pitch to Former Concord Star Scott Hatteberg Before A's-Tigers Game

Jonah Hill stars inside the approaching movie 'Moneyball,' so that it only agreed to be fitting the 'Superbad' star got the opportunity to exhibit off his baseball capabilities as you're watching Concord Athletics faithful. On Sunday, Hill place the opening pitch for the A's-Tigers game. A lot more special for Concord fans? Hill offer former player Scott Hatteberg (Hatteberg is carried out by Chris Pratt in inside the film), who got a rousing ovation within the hometown crowd. Go back to Moviefone inside a couple of days for further from Hill and Hatteberg around the 'Moneyball' encounters. Watch video in the pitch, along with Hill meeting some passionate fans, below. [via Movieline] Image because of Getty

Fox Sports Chief Talks Dodgers TV Deal, NFL Coverage (Q&A)

David Hill was living in the U.K. in 1994 after launching a satellite TV sports service partly owned by News Corp. when Rupert Murdoch asked him to help Fox swipe NFL games from CBS.our editor recommends10 Hollywood Players Who Could Buy the Los Angeles Dodgers50 years of the Los Angeles DodgersDodgers-Fox TV Deal Key to McCourts' Divorce SettlementFox Sports Speaks Out Against Plan to Auction Off L.A. Dodgers Broadcast Rights "To be honest, what I knew about the [NFL] you could write on the back of a stamp," he jokes. Still, the Australia native became founding chairman of Fox Sports Media Group, where he is CEO and oversees a staff of more than 1,000. Hill has been an innovator in sports technology: He introduced the "Fox Box," which perpetually shows a game's score and time left (which he says should be called "the Hill Box"); baseball's catcher cam; and enhanced audio from the field and crowd. Now, with the league having settled its contentious labor situation, Hill, 65, a married father of four, is presiding over his 18th season of the NFL on Fox, which pays $720 million a year to televise America's No. 1 sport. This is an expanded version of an interview with Hill that appears in The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Hill was interviewed on the Fox lot in West Los Angeles. The Hollywood Reporter: Will Fox Sports do anything different with its NFL coverage this year? David Hill: One of the things that came through in the labor deal is that we can have up to six players wearing microphones. How that's going to work, I don't know. What I do know is that the key area where I'd like to see us get better is in audio. I believe close-up audio is effective in transmitting emotion and feeling. THR: It gets the TV viewer more into the game. Hill: I would love to have every player have a mic. Of course, the players and everyone else are going to worry about bad language. Occasionally, you could get a cuss word going to air. THR: Would there have to be a delay? Hill: You can't have a delay. It's something we really haven't done that much experimentation with. It's kind of like, if you could possibly take George Carlin's seven banned words and program those into the computer, then if ever a computer heard them, it just eradicated them - that would be a perfect thing. THR: You can't do a delay is because it's a live football game? Hill: Yes, it is live. It's not the case that it wouldn't be allowed, it's just not right. It would take away the immediacy. THR: Do you think the labor stuff has affected the game? Hill: If there'd been a strike, if games had been canceled, I think that it would've had a negative impact. I don't think it's going to have an impact at all. THR: Fox pays $416 million a year for rights to Major League Baseball, including weekly regular-season games, the All-Star Game and the World Series. Baseball ratings are down; what's the reason? Hill: There's been the rise of the regionalization of the sport, and the decision to play interleague games each year has taken away the luster of the All-Star Game. And if you look at the truly national teams, you quickly start to run out after the Phillies, the Red Sox, the Yankees and, to a certain extent, the Rangers, and you pray the Cubs will show some life. So the ratings are dependent on who we get into the pennant race. Are baseball ratings the same as they were 15 years ago? No. But [the World Series] is still a huge event and is going to dominate the night it's on. So in terms of importance to the network, for prestige and relevance, it's important and will remain that way. THR: Does Fox lose money on baseball? Hill: We're not that altruistic. Sure, we're going to come up short [some years]. A contract is a contract. You can only look at the totality of it on a straightforward P&L basis. We might have had a couple of bad years, but we've had a couple of remarkably good years. THR: What's the status of a new TV deal between Fox and the Dodgers, especially given the chaos surrounding the McCourts? Hill: We had a real slap in the face when the Lakers went to Time Warner Cable to start a new network [in 2012]. The Dodgers rights are very important to us. Your guess is as good as mine as to how the team's bankruptcy plays out. THR: When Fox announced Aug. 18 a seven-year deal to carry Ultimate Fighting Championship matches, you said, "Television is all about the next big thing." Is UFC the next big thing? Hill: What boxing was to my generation, the UFC is to today's generation. Pay-per-view killed boxing. The [promoters] realized that they could get 200,000 people paying $50 each, so they got out of broadcast and went for PPV. The potential audience went like this (gesturing downward). Is it any surprise that the boxing fan is now tottering along toward senility? THR: What about NASCAR? Some people think the momentum has stalled. Do you agree? Hill: There was a serious problem about three or four years ago with the "car of tomorrow,"which everyone was talking about. They were talking about safer barriers. They were talking about hands devices. They were talking about cars, and should it have a wing and what have you. People don't follow auto racing to hear about widgets. The role of the driver as driver hero is why people follow the sport. No one goes out to buy a T-shirt with a photo of the crew chief on the front. And the focus, all of us are guilty: NASCAR and the broadcasters moved the focus away from the driver as hero and moved it to an inanimate object. The car. And the tires. And the veevlefitzers and the dingleflappers and, you know, straight through copper ashtrays and the ignition key and all that stuff. What we did this year, we made a conscious effort to totally back down about the car - we didn't talk about the car. We talked about the driver. What it takes: the courage, the reflexes, the fact that they lose 12 pounds during a race through the exertion they have to put themselves through. And guess what, the ratings started to come back. There's another deeply psychological reason. You may never get up and throw a tight spiral. You will never drive a golf ball dead straight for 360 yards. You know you won't be able to slam-dunk like Michael Jordan. But that instant when the light turns green, you're just as good as Jeff Gordon. So when you think about it, everyone can drive - or 99.9 percent can drive - and so, if it's all about driving, you think: "What could I do? Do I have the guts to do that? God, look at what he's doing. No, I would've backed off."It's a game you're playing in your mind all the time. I'm not educated well enough to explain what it is, but I know that that's what I'd do, and I guarantee that that's what a bunch of people do. THR: So it's really about the storytelling. Hill: Sport is a microcosm of life. It always has been. And at any given sports event, you're going to have cowardice and heroism, you're going to have luck, and you're going to have bad luck, and you're going to have stupidity, and you're going to have great insight, and you're going to have incredible skills, and you're going to have people who forget what the basics are and fall on their butts as a result. Any sporting event has all those, the various conflicts of life, which has always made sport so compelling. THR: With Comcast's acquisition of NBC and plans for an NBC Sports Channel, and with Disney/ABC with ESPN, you have huge corporations competing on multiple platforms. What does that mean for TV sports? Hill: It's fabulous for sports. When you start a channel, you've got to put stuff on it, so that opens the opportunity for minor sports you never thought you'd see. Secondly, sports rights are the classic example of supply and demand. The more players in the market that want your stuff, the more bidders, and the more they are going to bid it up. I think if you look at what's happened to college football rights over the last five, six years, you see a classic example of supply and demand in practice. We have to place our bids very carefully. THR: And you have to be smart about what you're going to get from it. Hill: Certainly. I can remember in 1977, I was in Australia at the time, and I read that a long-forgotten CBS Sports executive stated at some conference that sports rights have gone as high as they ever could. That was it; it's all over. Bang, they were done. There's never been a time where there's been the "good old days,"where you bid on an event or rights knowing ratings were going to increase, your CPMs were going to hit your target, that your revenue was going to go up. It's always been, just breathe deeply, and when you wake up the next morning, how bad is the buyer's remorse that you have? But what it does, it makes you work like hell to fulfill it. I hate using a cliché, but you have to leave no stone unturned to make sure that the way you produce it and market it is the best you can and that everyone involved is world-class. So that's what you end up with. So it will continue. And there will be a reporter talking to somebody in 20 or 30 years' time asking them exactly the same question. THR: What do you think is the future of soccer on TV in America? Hill: It will always be a niche sport until the American team develops heroes. It's all about heroes and emotional attachment, and until that happens, it will be a strong niche. It's going to take some time for MLS. The growth, the strength has got to come from MLS. And they've got to get the people who love watching [soccer played in other countries] to say, "I've got to go home and watch the Galaxy play."And, you know, I can't see that happening. It's happening in a couple of areas. It's happening in Seattle, but it's not happening enough. The trouble is, the American sports fan is totally spoiled for choice. You take all the professional sports, and then you add on the strength of collegiate sports. And if you're a fencing aficionado, you can go home and watch the UCLA fencing team. It's a crowded marketplace. THR: The UFC deal is multiplatform. Some will air on FX, and there's stuff on your digital platforms and others. Going back to 1994, none of those platforms existed. How is today different, and what does it mean for a sports broadcaster? Hill: You obviously need to have your marquee events where the most eyeballs can get it, and that's on the networks. And the bet that you're making, by spreading it across as many platforms as you can, is that you're increasing the fan base. The whole aim is to take someone who has never sat and watched a NASCAR race or a UFC bout or a baseball game or a football game and have them come across it, fall in love with it and become a fan. So our business, in sports television, is to increase the fan base. Right now, there is more for us human beings to do to entertain ourselves and to inform ourselves and to educate ourselves than at any other time in man's history. [With video games,] I could disembowel an Orc (from The Lord of the Rings) in the privacy of my own bedroom if I'd like. Or I can take on hordes of the undead ... and very satisfactorily blast them to kingdom come. For the next 20 years, sports is going to go through a very serious period of self-examination. Not the least of which, are our games too long? Because there are still only 24 hours in the day, and one of the most interesting things I've seen is that in an ancient sport like cricket, it's totally remade itself around the world by inventing a short form called Twenty20, which now, in India and other cricket-playing nations of the world, is unbelievably popular. It takes about as long as a baseball game. The only things you can complain about with baseball games are in terms of time - batters spending too long fiddling with their gloves and whatever. I think the umpires should just tap them on the shoulder and tell them, "You're going to get a strike called if you don't get on with it." So I think that's the endgame. It's not so much the platform; it's the sports themselves. Just think of the term that you surround baseball with - pastime - and sports were created when people weren't working 6½ days a week. They had a little bit of leisure; they had some spare time. And so I don't think it's about that word, pastime - what baseball did was pass the time. People don't have that these days. THR: It is also why fans get turned off when it becomes about the business and money. Which brings me to the NBA: You carry games on Fox regional networks but not the national TV package. Is there going to be a season? What does the NBA have to do to maintain its popularity? Hill: The NBA has got a secret weapon, a guy called David Stern ... who, in my mind, is absolutely brilliant. Look what the NBA has done under his leadership. They went from zero to hero, then they had a little blip, and ... while the ratings are diving in the United States, all David's talking about is the development of the league in China and Europe. And then the ratings get better, and all of a sudden he has a dream season with L.A. and Boston and Miami, so he's got it triangulated. And then he's got everything going, and then the labor dispute. It's unfortunate. I don't know if it's unnecessary or necessary - I left industrial relations years ago when I stopped being a journalist. It's whether or not every franchise is going to make money. Anything can happen. It's way outside of my purview. THR: Fox was outbid for upcoming Olympics. Are they still worth the money paid for them as a TV show? Hill: The Olympics is wonderful. We bid for a bunch of stuff that we don't get. But we sit down and say, "Well, what do we think it's worth, where do we think we can grow it, and where's it going to be in 10 or 12 years?" A one-off is a one-off, and that, in and of itself, is a problem for the Olympics. The Olympic sports, unless they're wrapped in the flag, don't move the needle. So you'll have this wonderful event every two years, then you go dark. It's not like you have the Winter Olympics, then you have a season of downhill skiing. When the flame dies, wherever the venue, the interest in the sport dies as well. THR: What about women's sports? Can they ever equal men's sports? Hill: Well, I think they will. One of the bravest entrepreneurial moves I ever saw was to establish a professional women's soccer league. THR: But it didn't work. Hill: It didn't work. But 51 or 52 percent of attendees at colleges are women. By the end of this generation, you could have a sizable audience of women who've experienced sports in college who want to go and watch them and take their kids to them. So maybe in the next generation, women's professional sports will really take off. THR: What about 3D TV for sports? Hill: I think 3D in sports is going to be fantastic, but until we fully experiment with camera placement and cutting, I'm not sure. I've had long conversations about this with James Cameron, who's a great 3D proponent. One of these days, when it becomes economically viable for us, we will get a truck and get my producers and directors and spend a month to figure this out. It might be moving a camera six inches or tilting down or tilting up and doing it again. We know that high shots don't work. We know that it needs foreground, and we know that lateral movement improves 3D quality. And then we need to figure out, why are we using 3D? Are we using it to enhance the storytelling? Does 3D, when we start talking about NASCAR, really boost the sport by putting the camera six feet above the track, so you've got the cars coming straight at you? Is that going to move the needle? We don't know. But I believe that there has to be a lot of legwork to find the optimum of where the camera should be. I would love to have the luxury of time and money to fiddle around and come up with optimum camera placements for baseball. We know baseball looks thrilling - we've done an All-Star Game in 3D, and shots of the pitcher looked terrific. But we need to do a bit more, and whether or not the demand is there is unclear. All I do know is, I'm not going to do it on my dime. 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Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Hollywood remembers the late, great John Calley… God Bless America gets the deal we promised you… Nathan Lane gets close to The English Teacher… and more. · While everyone pretty much anticipated today’s news that Samuel L. Jackson has officially joined Django Unchained, good luck finding anybody who would have predicted Gerald McRaney making an appearance. Director Quentin Tarantino has the former Simon & Simon and Major Dad star in mind for a role as yet undisclosed; as long as he doesn’t take over for Kevin Costner I’m allll for it. [Variety] · The remembrances of John Calley, the well-respected producer and former studio chief who passed away Tuesday at age 81, are pouring in. And they’re good: “[T]he best tribute anyone who runs a movie studio today could pay Calley would be to actually run their business the way Calley ran his.” [LAT] · And not to be outdone: “To leave this world beloved is a wonderful thing. To leave this business beloved is a fucking miracle. John Calley was that kind of miracle man.” [MCN] · A week ago Movieline included Bobcat Goldthwait’s scathing, violent satire God Bless America among its five films likeliest to ignite a bidding war at the Toronto International Film Festival. A prospective buyer was Magnolia Pictures; the prospective deal was under a million. Bam! [Deadline] · Nathan Lane is in talks to join Julianne Moore and Greg Kinnear in the indie comedy The English Teacher. [Variety] · “Yesterday, in what had to have been one of the most surreal professional experience I’ve ever had, I got to interview Madonna.” The ensuing 12 minutes and 20 seconds are worth a listen! [The Lost Boy] · What’s shakin’ in North Korea? Oh, not much, just the country’s first-ever Ultimate Frisbee contest. This really might be my favorite story ever. [38 North]