Winner Catherine Hwee

Edward Lee

We had an excellent turnout, many dodgeballers chose to visit the clinic on their own and turn in their snaps to the Community Service Initiative here at VDL in order to win a VDL T-Shirt.

Congratulations to Ben Drake of Wednesday’s Guardians of Gymnasia and Catherine Hwee of Tuesday’s Stop Nailing our Chicks! Both donors picked up their choice of a t-shirt this past weekend at playoffs!

Contest winner Ben Drake!

Thanks again to all of our participants and we look forward delving into many great endeavors with our dodgeball community and beyond.

Stay tuned for Season 11′s good deeds and get involved!

UPDATE (5/03):
Click HERE for Pics

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate Season 9 together!

Some Highlights:

- Over too many beers and burgers, we enjoyed the Canucks rocking the Blackhawks
- Random dancing, including surprise booty shakers to “Baby Got Back”
- Great congo line to “I Got A Feeling”
- Lots of  prizes
- Happy Birthday song to May 1st babies
- Our biggest turn out ever!!!

We hope that you had a blast for the 5 year Anniversary.

On that note, thanks for being a part of the Vancouver Dodgeball League.

Go Canucks Go!!!

UPDATE (4/26):
Are YOU ready to PARTY?! We are so excited to see all of you lovely dodgeball players at the VDL Pub Night/5th Anniversary this Saturday at BCIT Pub: Professor Mugs!

Hopefully by now you’ve:

• reserved your spots and your $10 burger/fries/deal online
• convinced all of your teammates and friends to attend with you
• figured out how to get home from pub night – carpool, call a cab, ride a camel…(remember, VDL discourages drinking and driving!)
• successfully given your palms a workout with all those high-fives you’ve been giving and receiving
• and gotten completely hyped up about the insanity that will be VDL Pub Night!

If you haven’t registered yet, it’s not too late to do so! Please note that there is a capacity of 300 people at Professor Mugs, and although signing up online gives us a better idea of how many people and burgers to expect, there is no guarantee that if you come late we won’t run out of room and kitchen supplies. Please aim to arrive before 7pm to secure your spot, since everyone will be wanting in on the action!

You definitely do not want to miss out on the free appies and beer, fantastic entertainment, and fabulous prizes! You could end up winning a BBQ worth $400 home (just in time for summer!) with our raffle draw, or some special limited-edition anniversary t-shirts!

Oh, did we mention we’ll be selling new VDL swag? Bring some extra cash and get your new gear on!

• VDL Black Hoodie – $38
• VDL Black Sweat Pants – $38
• VDL T-Shirt – $15
• VDL Toque – $15
• VDL Towel – $12

Don’t go home cold that night! We can’t wait to see everyone there! Hope you’re as excited as we are!

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Happy Birthday to VDL!
It’s the league’s 5th year anniversary, and we are combining this great occasion with our biggest and best social event of the season: VDL Pub Night! Munch on free beer and appetizers, mingle with the people you’ve so far only thrown balls at, and marvel at the entertainment and surprises in store!

When: Saturday, May 1st, 2010 – 6pm to close (1am)
Where: BCIT’s Pub: Professor Mugs (4200 Willingdon Ave., Burnaby, BC)

Please note that we will not be selling tickets in advance this year; instead, we ask that you reserve a spot online here. So hurry and secure your spot in the fun and excitement! Professor Mugs has a capacity of 300, and there is no limit to the number of spots you can reserve, but to make sure you can get in please aim to arrive before 7pm!

VDL has arranged to keep you people happily fed with the burger, fries, and beer deal for $10, to be purchased directly at the pub. As we will not be selling tickets during gym nights this year, please indicate when you sign up online whether you will be purchasing this deal as supplies are limited!

We like our players safe and healthy and strongly discourage drinking and driving. Please take public transit, arrange carpools and rides with a designated driver, or call a cab home!

VDL would not be what it is today without your spirit, enthusiasm, and support. To celebrate the anniversary and remind ourselves what dodgeball is all about, we are implementing something called High-5-for-5-Years-with-VDL: For the next few weeks leading up to Pub Night, after each game when you congratulate your opponents, reach up for a high-five. Jump if you want, but no low-fives allowed…please! What’s more, just because the Olympics are over doesn’t mean random high-fives can’t happen! High-five your teammates, your opponents, the execs, random person on the other side of the gym whom you see make a fantastic catch…encourage each other, make new friends, display your fantastic sportsmanship! Keep the spirit alive; show it with your high-five!

Throughout the next few weeks, we’ll be tweeting out random VDL Fun Facts, so follow us on Twitter to find out what they are!

Now, you wouldn’t let a 5-year old down by missing out on its birthday party, right? See you all at Pub Night, partying it up like only dodgeballers know how!

Also, a big THANK YOU to our pub night Sponsors:

VDL is proud to announce it’s 2nd t-shirt design contest!!!

THE CHALLENGE

Have an eye for design? Think you have what it takes to create the new VDL t-shirt?
It’s Project Runway VDL-style…here’s your chance to show the VDL community what you’ve got!

THE DETAILS

Submit your design entry in jpeg format to supply (at) vdldodgeball.ca no later than Friday, April 10th at 11:59p.m.

We’ll post all the entries on our site so they can be put under the scrutiny of your peers…
Everyone votes online for their favourite submission and the winner will be announced at Extravaganza and Pub Night on Saturday, April 25th!

THE PRIZE

The creator of the winning design will win $100 cash and a free t-shirt! Not to mention having their design rocked by all of our ridiculously good-looking VDL players and the glory of being the winner of VDL’s 2009 T-shirt Design Contest!

Keep an ear out on our league nights for more details from your favourite exec, and get designing!

Previous winner of VDL’s T-shirt Contest!

We will be taking pre-orders for t-shirts during the weeks of March 23rd and March 30th for anyone who would like to purchase a VDL shirt.

HOW IT WORKS:

Each team will receive a t-shirt order form on which to mark down their orders (only ONE form per team, please) — once this is filled out, it can be handed in to any VDL exec before Thursday, April 2nd.

WHAT CAN I ORDER?

T-shirts come in black, dark grey, navy blue, sweat grey, white, or 3-D and cost $15.
Long sleeve shirts come in black, navy, or sweat grey and cost $20 each.

HOW DO I PAY AND WHEN DO I GET MY SHIRTS?

Payment is not necessary until the order is picked up.
Each team’s order will be available for pick up and purchase at Extravaganza on Saturday, April 25th.

VDL’s featured dazzling T-shirt models!