WUGC 2008 - Day 4
Today brought up our most recent most important game of the tournament. Australia was also 5-0 and had beaten Japan worse than we did. Fortunately it was another 10:30 game, so another leisurely morning, breakfast, watched the US-Sweden and Japan-Canada games.
The J-C game was reasonably exciting with Canada taking half before we had to go to the stadium for our 10:30 match against Australia. Shockingly enough, a whole bunch of our team was actually there arond 9:45. We warmed up with an endzone scoring drill, O versus D. Come gametime, we were ready. We started on O and scored reasonably easily. The D went out and scored 2 in a row. 3-1, 4-1, blah blah blah, the O played well, the D played well, and we took half 9-4. Game over? Not quite. The O reverted back to norm in the second half and starting frittering away the lead. The D also reverted to norm by not getting ANY turnovers for their first five points of the second half. Australia brought the score to 14-12 at one point. The D finally scored a few more to take the game 17-14, effectively giving us the first seed going into semifinals.
After a short break finally (maybe an hour) we went over to the main fields to get ready for our Germany game. This was a very relaxing preparation, as Germany hadn't done very well at all this week. The post game celebration was far better than the game. The Germans had a genius gift which was the NO BRAIN shirt. To be given to the person who most recently had done the stupidest thing, usually on the frisbee field. They gave it to me as captain to hand out to someone else. Um, I claimed it because my body of work to that point. I wore it the rest of the day and night (took it off for sleep) and into warmup the next day.
Tomorrow morning we have Great Britain then Venezuela. The GB game is at the Jericho fields, about 25 minutes away by car and at 9AM. This will involve the first really early game of the week, which will be an interesting change.
Quick burrito lunch at the same place although this time I got the kids burrito because the regular was too much food. Fascinating stuff, I know. Back to the fields to watch the Jr women beat someone or other. Our first short bye of the week, and then it's time to play the German team. The team was very flat for this game. We had a number of people sit out because of tweaks, injuries, or mental breaks. Despite the hot temperatures, we won 17-4. Then the games began. Off to the 'spirit enclosure' to start the drinking. We were setting up to watch the US play Australia in the Open division. Both teams undefeated. We grabbed a set of stands and made our nest. 5 ciders later (yes I know I'm lame), we're watching an exciting game. No turnovers until 5-5. Jim and Dugan are playing a points game, predicting things every point and making in point bets on number of passes per possession, who will turn the disc over. Jim had a HUGE lead and then tied on the over under at the end. Oh well.
Back to the rooms for dinner, and because all the people coming back from the fields were clogging the entry, Jim and I snuck in the exit. We get in and then a woman comes up to us asking if we just came in from the exit. I pretend to reach into my bag as I explain that we had just eaten but that we were meeting friends who were going to eat and she let us by. Phew!
I met JB back at the room and he said he was heading out to Rec Beach which was near us. It included a LONG descent to the beach over 400 stair steps. We got down there and ran into the Tufts/Vermont boys. I took a quick plunge into the ocean which was GLORIOUS. This was also a nude beach, so as I was taking my photos of the area, at one point I had to curve the camera to catch one woman from behind...
So, I'm blogging in our room, and all of a sudden a guts frisbee flew into the room sent by the mixed team. Ah, worlds. Right now it is JB, Jeff, Brian (who showed up this morning finally), Jim, Paul G, Hollywood. They are now making fun of me for blogging during our conversation.
Hollywood making fun of us for not warming up. We are talking about tomorrows 9AM game, and why we are trying to take a bus to get there by 8:30AM. He was saying that if we aren't going to warm up, then commit to not warming up.
So, JB went to room 227 and grabbed a 12 pack of bottles. Hollywood showed us how to do twistoffs using your forearm only. Just now, Jim grabbed a beer and is trying to do the same thing. After much amusement and attempts, JB just grabbed the beer and opened it quickly with his forearm.
At this point, I'm just listening for more stories to recount from the room recap. Brian said to say notice that I'm typing slower because I just opened a twistoff beer bottle using my forearm.
The J-C game was reasonably exciting with Canada taking half before we had to go to the stadium for our 10:30 match against Australia. Shockingly enough, a whole bunch of our team was actually there arond 9:45. We warmed up with an endzone scoring drill, O versus D. Come gametime, we were ready. We started on O and scored reasonably easily. The D went out and scored 2 in a row. 3-1, 4-1, blah blah blah, the O played well, the D played well, and we took half 9-4. Game over? Not quite. The O reverted back to norm in the second half and starting frittering away the lead. The D also reverted to norm by not getting ANY turnovers for their first five points of the second half. Australia brought the score to 14-12 at one point. The D finally scored a few more to take the game 17-14, effectively giving us the first seed going into semifinals.
After a short break finally (maybe an hour) we went over to the main fields to get ready for our Germany game. This was a very relaxing preparation, as Germany hadn't done very well at all this week. The post game celebration was far better than the game. The Germans had a genius gift which was the NO BRAIN shirt. To be given to the person who most recently had done the stupidest thing, usually on the frisbee field. They gave it to me as captain to hand out to someone else. Um, I claimed it because my body of work to that point. I wore it the rest of the day and night (took it off for sleep) and into warmup the next day.
Tomorrow morning we have Great Britain then Venezuela. The GB game is at the Jericho fields, about 25 minutes away by car and at 9AM. This will involve the first really early game of the week, which will be an interesting change.
Quick burrito lunch at the same place although this time I got the kids burrito because the regular was too much food. Fascinating stuff, I know. Back to the fields to watch the Jr women beat someone or other. Our first short bye of the week, and then it's time to play the German team. The team was very flat for this game. We had a number of people sit out because of tweaks, injuries, or mental breaks. Despite the hot temperatures, we won 17-4. Then the games began. Off to the 'spirit enclosure' to start the drinking. We were setting up to watch the US play Australia in the Open division. Both teams undefeated. We grabbed a set of stands and made our nest. 5 ciders later (yes I know I'm lame), we're watching an exciting game. No turnovers until 5-5. Jim and Dugan are playing a points game, predicting things every point and making in point bets on number of passes per possession, who will turn the disc over. Jim had a HUGE lead and then tied on the over under at the end. Oh well.
Back to the rooms for dinner, and because all the people coming back from the fields were clogging the entry, Jim and I snuck in the exit. We get in and then a woman comes up to us asking if we just came in from the exit. I pretend to reach into my bag as I explain that we had just eaten but that we were meeting friends who were going to eat and she let us by. Phew!
I met JB back at the room and he said he was heading out to Rec Beach which was near us. It included a LONG descent to the beach over 400 stair steps. We got down there and ran into the Tufts/Vermont boys. I took a quick plunge into the ocean which was GLORIOUS. This was also a nude beach, so as I was taking my photos of the area, at one point I had to curve the camera to catch one woman from behind...
So, I'm blogging in our room, and all of a sudden a guts frisbee flew into the room sent by the mixed team. Ah, worlds. Right now it is JB, Jeff, Brian (who showed up this morning finally), Jim, Paul G, Hollywood. They are now making fun of me for blogging during our conversation.
Hollywood making fun of us for not warming up. We are talking about tomorrows 9AM game, and why we are trying to take a bus to get there by 8:30AM. He was saying that if we aren't going to warm up, then commit to not warming up.
So, JB went to room 227 and grabbed a 12 pack of bottles. Hollywood showed us how to do twistoffs using your forearm only. Just now, Jim grabbed a beer and is trying to do the same thing. After much amusement and attempts, JB just grabbed the beer and opened it quickly with his forearm.
At this point, I'm just listening for more stories to recount from the room recap. Brian said to say notice that I'm typing slower because I just opened a twistoff beer bottle using my forearm.
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