SAN DIEGO -- Flash Sportswers successfully defended their title Sunday as men's open champions at the 55th annual Over-The-Line tournament at Fiesta Island, organizers announced.

Over The Line is a San Diego tradition, a form of softball where three-person teams compete by having one member loft a softball to a teammate, who then tries to hit it to a place in the sand where the other team's three members can't catch it.

Some might argue the real tradition is to drink as much beer as possible, ogle members of the opposite sex as they drink as much beer as possible, and laugh at frequently-obscene team names and other shenanigans, although tighter restrictions on drinking were in place this year.

Teams competed in 10 divisions organized by sex and age over the past two weekends. Players ages 18 to 80 signed up from as far away as Germany, Japan and Iceland.

It was the first OTL tournament since the city of San Diego banned the consumption of alcohol on local beaches. OMBAC obtained a waiver that permitted drinking only on the playing fields on Fiesta Island, in the OMBAC recreational vehicle parking lot and in the OMBAC reserved parking lot.

Authorities reported no major problems.

Below is a list of the winners:

Men's Open: 1st Place, Flash Sportswers ( Defending 2007 Champions)

2nd Place, King Stahlman Bail Bonds; 3rd Place, Tiewraps.com

Men's Century: 1st Place, Berkshire, Enright, Stillman; 2nd Place, Shenanigan's Irish Pub; 3rd Place - Sunkist

Men's Cannardley: 1st Place, Winchester Falconery; 2nd Place, Marine St. Codgers; 3rd Place, Beach Potatoes

Men's Cannever: 1st Place, Pennant (15th championship for team Pennant); 2nd Place, A Buc, A Colt and A Caver; 3rd Palce, Silver Snakes

Men's Cadaver: 1st Place, Silver Rhyno; 2nd Place, Take It To The Limit; 3rd Place, Slippery When Wet

Men's Camummy (for men over 70 years old): 1st Place, Fairway Ford; 2nd Place, Big Dicks

Women's Open: 1st Place, Flash Your Sanjo; 2nd Place, Sky Box Sports Grill; 3rd Place, We Swing With Sanjo

Women's Century: 1st Place, Clairemont Surf Shop Wahines; 2nd Place, I'm Just Sayin-4th Ave. Gym; 3rd Place, BP Sports Best Bats

Women's Canallways: 1st Place, Bahama Mamas; 2nd Place, Wood `n' Hooters; 3rd Place, Twats Up Doc

Women's Caneasy (for women over 50): 1st Place, Titless Wonders; 2nd Place, Mammogram And A Half; 3rd Place, One Eyed Beauties