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Weekend went pretty well. We had 9 players from SUNYA (3 rookies with no High School experience, 2 ladies playing Open), and had 3 pickups for the first two games -- Siege (quite nice), Dasky (a loose-cannon cop on the edge who doesn't play by the rules) and some rando from Buffalo, but Siege left after the first and the rando + dasky left after the second.

We played 4 games without byes. The fields were pretty bad -- not as bad as the field that we did $50,000 worth of damage to at Sectionals, but worse than the upper field. God dammit I just dropped a goldfish. Every time the disc hit the ground it got coated in mud, and by the end of the first game my clothes were so dirty that they couldn't wipe the disc clean anymore. More than anything, it made running very hard.

I played the first two games straight through, and took the first couple of points off in the third game. In retrospect, I probably should have taken my subs while we had them, because after the third game Alexis ran off to play with some other team, leaving us with 8 players.

Since it was Danse, it was a costume tournament. Since we are SUNY Albany, we did something offensive. Our theme was Gay Superheroes. Boy was it funny. I was Gay Batman, sporting a children's small Batman t-shirt (it did not cover any of my belly) with glitter, Jorts with the bat-signal on the butt (also glittered), a cape with the batman signal (again with glitter), and a cartoon batman mask (which made playing very difficult). Our other superheroes were (all gay), Green Lantern, Spiderman, Superman, Robin, Captain America, Ambiguously Gay Duo, and Flash. We easily had the best costumes out of anyone I saw.


Games pretty much all played out the same, with the rookie-heavy lines struggling on both sides of the ball and our veteran-heavy lines dominating. Our zone-offense was super duper, and opposing teams did not use it much. I got the other handlers to learn a bit about clearing out and spacing, and feel much better about it after this weekend. My forehand hucks looked much better than they have been this weekend, but still not good. The through-forehand break definitely tighened up a lot though, and I made a few kids cry with it, throwing an especially tasty one to Bron Bron for a point. Man defense was pretty much impossible all day because I was either in mud, or making sure some freshman didn't get roasted deep. It was fun when we played zone when our ringers were around, cause I got to play either short-deep or center of the cup and just make the opposing team's weak handlers force ridiculous throws right into the teeth of Siege.

Day 2 for the chumpionship ended up cancelled because half of the fields were deemed unusable. No one told us, and even the kid on the team we were staying with had no idea. Quite annoying.

When Alexis left us during the first day, she didn't really tell us and just left all of her stuff on the sidelines. When we moved fields, Sarah picked up one of her bags, but no one recognized the other one. The other one happened to have her keys in them. On day 2 we tried to ask the TD if they found anything, but they said no one did, and it cost the other car ~5 hours so Alexis could get new keys made. Glad I was not in that car.

The team ended up staying at a deaf kid's dorm on RIT campus. I thought this was weird, but apparently RIT is known for their deaf kids. Regardless, we showed up at his apartment and he told us to go to a different dorm and have someone let us in to use their showers. We were told to call 'Skittles' and have him let us in. We tried to no avail, and just broke in ourselves. We wandered around, and eventually me, Alexis, and Prancer took an elevator to the top floor and asked some kids if there were showers here. He responded yes, we told everyone else, and we spread out over the dorm using most of their showers.

Saturday night me, Bron Bron, and Whipdick chilled out instead of going to the tourny party with the rest of the team. We watched some TV, got food, and durdled around. Everyone got back, and I was passing out as they ordered Wings over Rochester (or whatever its called, its a wings place).

The weekend definitely made me feel closer to the team, and I certainly took more of a leadership role a today's practice. A lot more teaching, encouragement during conditioning, and some talking during the huddle.

Just because I am not a captain doesn't mean I can't act like one.

P.S. I made vegetables with dinner tonight!