And so it begins

One year they are going to get it right. One year... just not this year. We got half of our team uniform yesterday. Why only half? Because the other half is still somewhere in India. Gaia is doing our uniforms. We have our white jerseys and our shorts but the reds aren't quite done yet. We better not lose the flip for colours. Gaia did sort of make it up to us by giving us free burgundy shirts with our logo and numbers on it in case we have to go dark. At least the burgundy is closer to red then the blue that the Furious guys have as a backup colour. All should be okay on Wednesday when our reds are supposed to arrive.

Yesterday were the opening ceremonies and I can't get over how many players are here. The stands at Thunderbird Stadium were filled with players. I don't know how big the stadium is but it was a lot of people. I haven't really bumped into to many people that I know from other countries yet but I haven't really spent any time looking to say hello yet. The actual opening ceremonies were a bit weird but whatever, I'm sure the budget wasn't enormous. I have a pretty good picture of Shaggy and the rest of the stadium doing Indian (from India, not American-Indian) dancing. When I have some more time I'll upload the pictures from my camera and post them on here.

I left halfway through the showcase game (mixed: Canada vs. GB). It was some of the sloppiest ultimate I've seen in a long time but I'm sure both teams were very nervous. I hear that Canada won but they made it closer than it should have been.

So we start the tournament this morning against New Zealand and then Italy. Come to think of it I guess I could have played for Italy as well since somewhere I think I still hold Italian citizenship. Hopefully it will be an easy start to the tournament; a loss against one of these teams will be unexpected and possibly devastating to our chances of doing well. Strangely enough it isn't raining here so it might be a decent day of frizzer.

Time to go crush some kiwis. I hope to be able to update you on our day but for live scores you can go to www.wugc2008.com. Somewhere on that site they have scores.

DF