Solstice
In 1980, DarkStar hosted a large, competitive tournament in Eugene: the 'Great Northwest Ultimate Classic' that later became known as Solstice, one of the longest-running tournaments still attended. On the agenda in 1980 was experimentation with games played to a certain number of points, instead of strictly a time cap as per the original rules. DarkStar lost in the finals of the 1980 tournament to the Flying Circus, who they would later beat in the Regional semifinal. To this day, the Northwest's premiere teams compete at Eugene's Summer Solstice every June.
Among the competition at the 2006 tourney, to be held June 17–18, are the national champions of the last six years: Vancouver's Furious George (2002, 2003, 2005), Seattle Sockeye (2004), and the Santa Barbara Condors (2000, 2001).
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Famous quotes containing the word solstice:
“Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves’ birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!”
—D.H. (David Herbert)