Below is a great post by Eric Zaslow...but it requires a bit of explanation to fully understand it:
My Ultimate team, Red Fish Blue Fish, competed in the Ultimate Players Association "Fall Series", culminating in a victory to win the first-ever coed National Championships.
The series consists of three rounds of tournaments: each team competes at one of the dozens of Sectional tournaments around the country. The top competitors from each Section advance to the Regional tournament, and the top Regionals teams advance to Nationals.
Rules require that the team rosters be set at Sectionals. Unfortunately, through an oversight I was left off my team's Sectionals roster (I was in Europe, and missed Sectionals). This wasn't discovered until after I had played at Regionals. Fortunately, we could document that this was indeed just a clerical error---I had already bought my plane ticket to Regionals before the Sectional tournament, we had oodles of team emails about who would be staying in which hotel room, etc. Also, there was a precedent from a previous year, involving a player named Josh Faust,from a team called Sockeye, who had been in the same situation and had been allowed to play. Unfortunately the UPA decided not to follow the precedent, and to bar me from playing at Nationals (later reduced on appeal to a one-day suspension).
Anyway, before the final decision was handed down, I got lots and lots of support from all quarters. And Eric Zaslow posted the following gem to rec.sport.disc:
One Fish, Two-Face,
Josh Faust, Phil Price
The flight was reserved,
the plane had been taken.
His aim was sincere,
there can be no mistaken.
But the naggary-cap,
with his peepific brain,
made a rostery gaffe
and left off a name!
So the muckity-mucks,
with their wickity-wicks,
were called to adjure
on this nastity fix.
They ruled it was yes.
They ruled it was no.
They then ruled in favor --
of what, I don't know.
They looked high and low,
all over the house,
and lo! they did find
a precedent -- Faust.
His fate had been sealed,
he was not to have played,
But the Sockeye didn't yield.
He bucked and he brayed.
The muckity-mucks
hoggled big in a huddle.
They unvoted their vote
and demuddled their muddle.
So we clack and muckrake,
we sit and await
as the muckities flake
on poor Philfilly's fate
And the UPA board,
with its doggledy doo,
has a sloppity mess
of a bilballyhoo.
-zaz