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Serious Ultimate

I like playing Ultimate [frisbee]*. In fact, I list it among my top pastimes (whenever I am asked to list pastimes, which isn't very often). But this weekend, I realized that I am not nearly as serious about ultimate as some people. Oy!

On an invitation from a friend, I cruised over to join in the fun at the Sundodger Ultimate tournament. Though I should have known better, I was not expecting what I saw. Ultimate players as far as the eye could see. There were 24 fields packed with players. (Quick math: ((24 fields x 2 teams per field)+4 or so bye teams) x 11-17 players per team = about 700 ultimate players in one place!) The place was so vast, in fact, that after roaming around and not finding my original adopted team, I was recruited by another team to get a couple games in. Then, during their bye, I went and found the original team, and played a round with them. Three all out competitive, high quality games is enough to point out that I'm not hardcore like so many of the folks there.

But worth noting: the fact that I could just show up at a tournament and find not 1 but 2 teams (on which, I only knew 1 player on each team) to join up with goes to show you the prevailing attitude of the sport: acceptance, camaraderie, and easy-goingness(?). It is why I ditched the high stress world of Div III track back in college and took up with those hippies throwing a frisbee around. Yep, good times.

Sunday November 9 2008

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on Sun 09th Nov, 2008 08:12 pm PST Go! Turtle said:
Thanks for playing with us on Saturday. We went 1-2 on Sunday losing to the Sockeye farm team then coming back big against the Dirty Nerds. For the last game we only had 1 sub and almost came back from 5 down to win. I know I speak for everyone on the Central Washington Alumni-Ghetto Birds when I say that we couldn't have done it without you.
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on Sun 09th Nov, 2008 08:13 pm PST Joe said:
awesome. i miss ultimate. don't have time to try and find anything down here.
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on Sun 09th Nov, 2008 09:10 pm PST whuppinstick said:
I hope that Go!Turtle is referring to a team made up of people who work at a sockeye fish farming operation.
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