the dreaming tree

yesterday was the 2006 ummer leagu memorial summer league tournament (ultimate). we started out as the 6th seed out of six teams and ended up making it to the championship game, where we lost, ironically, to the only team we beat all season; we had actually beaten them twice, their only losses and our only wins during the regular season. we kept up with them for the first half, but then we just couldn’t keep up our level of play as we all started cramping up and feeling the effects of the brutal brutal heat, so that was a little disappointing, knowing we could have beaten them if we weren’t so wiped out. oh well, that’s part of the game.

the most interesting thing, though, was that a guy actually wanted to fight me. i was basically dominating them (hey, it’s true), and i had spiked the frisbee after catching a touchdown, which is considered bad sportsmanship by a lot of ultimate players. me, i’m just into the game and excited, so…whatever. on the second score i caught on this guy, i basically leaped up behind him and caught the disc, with a little incidental contact, which he didn’t think too highly of. pretty much all i said was, i don’t think so, and turned around. next thing i know he’s being held back by his captain…i just kinda looked at him like, are you kidding me? and walked away. so that was weird. at least i didn’t get head-butted. i guess he ended up with the last word since they won. plus it was kind of annoying because for whatever reason the sideline didn’t like me and decided they’d heckle me, which doesn’t really bother me that much during the game, but i’d certainly prefer to be cheered than jeered. but still, it was a fun day of about 5 hours worth of playing ultimate in the hot hot heat.