And They're Out of the Gate...

The weather in Perth is beautiful today. It must be in the mid twenties, dry and sunny right now. It's a perfect day to start the tournament. I guess officially the tournament started yesterday with the opening ceremonies and the first game. For anyone who cares Team Fisher Price from Vancouver barely beat the home team Sublime by a score of 16-14. We didn't watch most of that game as we were off practicing...

...and a lot of help that did us today in our first game. We are off to a flying... no make that a running... no, a stumbling start. Don't fret too much because we won. We beat the New Zealand team Magon by a score of 15-14.

They took the first 3 points of the game as we were showing a lot of rust with our decisions. After being behind 5-2 we tied it up at 5 only to let them pull away again. They took half 9-8 after we crawled back a bit. They took the first point after half to go up 10-8 but then we went on a bit of run to go up 12-11. We traded points the rest of the way and won 15-14.

We did everything in our power to try to hand the game to them. We had no trouble getting open but we kept throwing to their poaches, overthrowing hucks, and just plain playing like poo. We cleaned it up just long enough to win the game.

On the plus side we did work through a lot of issues that we needed to work through and I attribute a lot of the rust to us not having an opportunity to play real ultimate for a few months. Time to go play the Redbacks. Hopefully this will be easier.

How Shaggy won MVP and took the All-Blacks scarf that Magon gave away as a prize is beyond me as I was clearly the best player out there and deserved that prize...

DF

This is now Courtney posting - I think that it's significant to note that when the girls showed up to the game, the score was 5-2, which is right when they started to turn things around. Coincidence? unlikely...