Doin' Work

Check back in later for the report. It'll be at least mediocre, I promise.

Edit: Slept 19 hours ish. Time to do actual work. Blag'll happen later.

So. I fall asleep at around 9 the night before to be a responsible frisbee player and get a good amount of sleep before a tournament the next day. Plus, I was supposed to go drop my car off at the mechanic before the tournament, so I had to wake up extra special early. Of course, one of my friends also playing in the league called me at 1am to see if he could get a ride, and I couldn't fall asleep until 5. Thanks to some creative scheduling I got my sister to take my car to the mechanic for me, so I got an extra hour out of that.

Breakfast was a chocolate chip muffin and some diet pepsi, because fake sugar is how champions are made. After trolling the SCG forums and stealing my sister's socks, we were good to go.

Game 1 was the social league semis against Powder, the 2 seed (by 1 point in the point differential). We were a bit short staffed, especially on men. We started about fifteen minutes late. I started off alright with a early layout grab to save possession (I don't layout for points obv.) and solid play. Unfortunately after taking the first point of the game we gave up three straight to go down 1-3, and the game ended up going to hard cap with us losing 9 - 6. Our big studs (B-Ri, Ercan, Will) didn't really put up a fight against Dasky, and it showed. I think if we were allowed to play the game out until 15 we would have made our comeback, but we have to play by the tournament rules and my social league team was knocked out. On the opposite side of the bracket Green knocked off White, meaning that Edson was the only player left that could get the fabled double win.

I had about fifteen minutes between games and decided to spend it sitting on bench under an umbrella drinking water. No, it wasn't raining. It was completely clear and about 90 degrees, and it was only noon, meaning it would get hotter.

Not much to talk about in Game 2. We took half 8-2 and won 14-8 after getting soft-capped. I didn't play much -- I really only came in on D-points to keep our studs fresh for offense. I got torched one or two times but other than that played alright. Pete started getting really pissed around point 3 and that was really the end of that game. Once than man learns to control his anger he'll be a far better player. Regardless, we advance to the finals and keep Edson's dream alive.

Both leagues got a bye to eat pizza and hear league awards. On my team Sonny got best handler for the men, Caitlin got MVP for women, Liv got best cutter for men. Can't disagree too much, although Ercan put it best when he said that Sonny wasn't even the best handler on his team.

I got recruited to play some pickup in between games and decided I would play as a Standler in order to keep my throws fresh but not get too tired before the finals. My pickup team ended up crushing the other one, but they weren't really fair teams.

Finals. Orange vs. Green. On paper Orange definitely has the advantage. Squeege, Q, Flash and Will match up favorably against Sonny, CG, Ercan and Liv, although not by much. We had the MVP for women so we had the advantage there. We had one or two more subs than them.

The first half was definitely Orange's, and if you only watched that, it'd be easy to think that the game went as the first half did and they won. Squeege had his way with Liv in the first half and made some very impressive skies and deep runs. We stayed in the game with CG taking Q deep when Squeege was out a few times and Caitlin doing the same on their women. Half ended at 6-8 them but it felt worse.

Ercan said that the only way we are going to beat them is to start putting a body on Squeege because if he gets a clean jump off there is no way we can beat him, or them for that matter. We received on half and it was all Green from there. We won the game to three with an amazing layout D by Liv against Squeege and we rode that momentum the rest of the game. Our 1-2 subs normally would not have mattered, but Will, after playing two games earlier but needing to play more points than I did, started getting calf cramps. He played through them the best he could but almost every other point was stopped by him needing to come out. Their lack of depth showed, as they had to put 2% in for way too many points (imagine a slower, worse version of me) and me, Edson, and Chip had our way with him. Liv made an impressive layout grab on a huck by Ercan and later skied Squeege on the penultimate point. The game was tied at 9's and we ended up running off 6 straight to take the game and the championship, 15-9. Edson lives the dream of being a double champ. Sonny survived the best handler heckles all game, as did Will, who won the spirit award (every time he caught it it was a "spirit catch", every time he threw it it was a "spirit throw", and he used the power of Heart). For winning we got a bottle of champagne and a trophy to drink it out of. Pictures, handshaking, etc. There was also way too much pizza so I got to take one home. We don't get to keep it because they are going to get the team color and year of every winner etched into it.

I'm excited to try to repeat next year, and to outperform my draft position. Hopefully I did enough work this year to earn some respect -- its tough to break into this crowd.

Let me tell you, it sure feels nice to win. Quite honestly, I'm hooked. There won't be any question next season if I want it, trust me.