Tempe - Guest Author Scoop
Since Will Deaver already did an awesome write up of my team's events from this past weekend, I got his permission to post it here. I'm traveling on business this week, it's easier to do this and it's probabaly better writing than mine too.
Will wrote:
Zippo scoop - Upon arrival at the hotel Friday evening, started partying like stars. Much beer consumed. Funny jerseys made (nice work Rouisse,Kyle, Richter, Andrew). Kyle loses sleep after "modifying" a new teammates jersey with some, what really can only be described as "nippleart", b/c the guy (Stephen Poulos from Tampa) made a bad travel call at a pick-up tournament like 3 years ago. So, if you made Kyle mad withinthe last several years, don't think you've gotten away with it just yet. Saturday morning and day were spent alternately drinking and digging huge holes to teams made up of 8-12 guys ranging from club players from the Desert to the Midwest to Cali and then digging back out of them by the skin of our 20 sets of teeth. Maximizing points played and wearing our opponents down were clearly effective strategies this year, and it worked perfectly as we took our pool and all 20 of us were tired enough to truly enjoy all three combacks. This was followed by continued drinking, hottub, lasagna and s'mores at Sammy's, hours waiting at the bar for a drink at the party (unless you were near Alden, who spent last month's paycheck feeding shots to anyone within arm's length), and cramming 16 people into 2 cars for the ride back to the hotel b/c Kyle left earlywith the van with only 3 people in it without telling anyone. (Note, Kyle and 7 other people claim there were actually 8 people in the van and that they told us they were leaving. However, that would have negated our right to bitch all the way home piled on each other's laps,so we're sticking to the 3 people and no notice story. Sunday we continued to maximize our points in the quarters, then actually played some Ultimate against MamaBird. Hit the finals in stride ready to bring one home for Sammy after 23 years of playing NYF. However it was not to be. I follow up my 2-drop Saturday with the first part of my 2-getting handblocked Sunday to set the tone for a nice, team-wide series of individual gacks. We just couldn't muster another comeback, although there were some nice moments. Richter with the two handed, layout point-block on a Steets backhand huck that you could just feel from 30 yards away. The crowd cheering crazily after a towering hammer is hauled in by Sammy for a goal, only to have the cheering turn to even louder booing after Dugan calls a pretty weak travel on the throw. Chance to take it back and minimize reputation damage is not taken. Corey proceeds to call a travel on Dugan every time he throws for the rest of the game. Classic. Also of note from the weekend, CSU Mickey's sick Callahan catch block on the dump to start one of our rallies, afore-mentioned Stephen Poulos making plenty of plays while also making Parker and Rouisse and Curtis and all the other notoriously far-sighted CU/Bravo huckers look likeMother Theresa protecting the goods, same Poulos doing pushups on the sideline after the day while the rest of us were "hydrating" after a long day, Kyle rallying us against theMonster guys with his very own clutch travel call (oh the irony), andWill dominating on the sidelines, where apparently decreased skill in catching Frisbees is mitigated somewhat by increased skill in wiffle-ball. Also, it is apparently very difficult to catch perfect hammers from me... so I will work to start floating them and try to getat least one if not more helixes in before they drift into the waitingcrowd of players. Hector's commentary on the finals is probably worth hearing, so hopefully Brask can score us the tape. Sammy wistfully states afterwards that we would have killed either half of that team, but since the CA boys don't have enough friends to bring to a fun tournament, they wrangled their way from two 10-person squads (Jam and Condors), into a single, loaded 20-person team at the captain's meeting (Condams...soundsabout right). Chalk up another moral victory for Zippo, who really maximized the fun factor up until the bitter end. Hope that was worth reading. I take no responsibility for the factual accuracy of any of the above statements. As always, Zippo and Tempe continue to be the place to ring in the Ultimate New Year. Looking forward to getting back off my ass and playing some disc.
Great write up Will, thanks!!!
Will wrote:
Zippo scoop - Upon arrival at the hotel Friday evening, started partying like stars. Much beer consumed. Funny jerseys made (nice work Rouisse,Kyle, Richter, Andrew). Kyle loses sleep after "modifying" a new teammates jersey with some, what really can only be described as "nippleart", b/c the guy (Stephen Poulos from Tampa) made a bad travel call at a pick-up tournament like 3 years ago. So, if you made Kyle mad withinthe last several years, don't think you've gotten away with it just yet. Saturday morning and day were spent alternately drinking and digging huge holes to teams made up of 8-12 guys ranging from club players from the Desert to the Midwest to Cali and then digging back out of them by the skin of our 20 sets of teeth. Maximizing points played and wearing our opponents down were clearly effective strategies this year, and it worked perfectly as we took our pool and all 20 of us were tired enough to truly enjoy all three combacks. This was followed by continued drinking, hottub, lasagna and s'mores at Sammy's, hours waiting at the bar for a drink at the party (unless you were near Alden, who spent last month's paycheck feeding shots to anyone within arm's length), and cramming 16 people into 2 cars for the ride back to the hotel b/c Kyle left earlywith the van with only 3 people in it without telling anyone. (Note, Kyle and 7 other people claim there were actually 8 people in the van and that they told us they were leaving. However, that would have negated our right to bitch all the way home piled on each other's laps,so we're sticking to the 3 people and no notice story. Sunday we continued to maximize our points in the quarters, then actually played some Ultimate against MamaBird. Hit the finals in stride ready to bring one home for Sammy after 23 years of playing NYF. However it was not to be. I follow up my 2-drop Saturday with the first part of my 2-getting handblocked Sunday to set the tone for a nice, team-wide series of individual gacks. We just couldn't muster another comeback, although there were some nice moments. Richter with the two handed, layout point-block on a Steets backhand huck that you could just feel from 30 yards away. The crowd cheering crazily after a towering hammer is hauled in by Sammy for a goal, only to have the cheering turn to even louder booing after Dugan calls a pretty weak travel on the throw. Chance to take it back and minimize reputation damage is not taken. Corey proceeds to call a travel on Dugan every time he throws for the rest of the game. Classic. Also of note from the weekend, CSU Mickey's sick Callahan catch block on the dump to start one of our rallies, afore-mentioned Stephen Poulos making plenty of plays while also making Parker and Rouisse and Curtis and all the other notoriously far-sighted CU/Bravo huckers look likeMother Theresa protecting the goods, same Poulos doing pushups on the sideline after the day while the rest of us were "hydrating" after a long day, Kyle rallying us against theMonster guys with his very own clutch travel call (oh the irony), andWill dominating on the sidelines, where apparently decreased skill in catching Frisbees is mitigated somewhat by increased skill in wiffle-ball. Also, it is apparently very difficult to catch perfect hammers from me... so I will work to start floating them and try to getat least one if not more helixes in before they drift into the waitingcrowd of players. Hector's commentary on the finals is probably worth hearing, so hopefully Brask can score us the tape. Sammy wistfully states afterwards that we would have killed either half of that team, but since the CA boys don't have enough friends to bring to a fun tournament, they wrangled their way from two 10-person squads (Jam and Condors), into a single, loaded 20-person team at the captain's meeting (Condams...soundsabout right). Chalk up another moral victory for Zippo, who really maximized the fun factor up until the bitter end. Hope that was worth reading. I take no responsibility for the factual accuracy of any of the above statements. As always, Zippo and Tempe continue to be the place to ring in the Ultimate New Year. Looking forward to getting back off my ass and playing some disc.
Great write up Will, thanks!!!
posted by Corey at
4:14 PM
3 Comments:
You're welcome Corey. Just have to state here officially that none of what I wrote is official in any capacity. UPA hat was off at the tournament, when I spewed all this to my teammates via email, and now.
Hopefully any deprecating remarks will be taken in the good humor they were intended, and that it will be noted that I didn't let myself go unscathed either.
Love to all my ZippO teammates and to everyone who we played, including the CA boys who kicked our asses. Some are friends, some just dudes you see on the field, but all apparently share the same feeling that Tempe in late January is sweet. Gotta respect that.
Oh yeah, and Dugan did say he called that travel well before the throw (although I didn't hear it). Still, interesting discussion ensued where the booing crowd was definitely a consideration. Kinda surprised that up by 7 or so it didn't get let go...but then maybe that just shows he thought it was the right call. All I can say is he better not let Kyle get hold of any of his jerseys... ;-)
WD
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Anonymous, at 1/31/2006 9:19 PM
I don't understand why they combined 2 10-person squads...there are always teams that are short on players and they play with that small squad anyway and tough it out...why screw up the format just becuase you couldn't rally enough poeple to come play? I don't get it. Didn't Monster have a small squad but they did what they could (and made it to 1/4s)...?
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Anonymous, at 2/01/2006 10:45 AM
They were too soft to play with the small teams. When you play on a team like JAM or Condors, you get used to having a lot of subs. And also, they hate losing, and if you have that few players, you are probably going to lose no matter how skilled you are when you play 125 points in a weekend.
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Corey, at 2/03/2006 2:53 PM
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