Open and Girl's Division both got 2nd place, and last place in Spirit scores
Open: 3
Girls: 2.86
I take full blame for our low spirit score, but I regret nothing HAHAHA
Notes from this tourney:
Chaos Ultimate is the coolest team ever
The WH '09 line looks mad beastly
Madison should stop hucking and start playing some real ultimate
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
NJHSU
Watchung Hills - After losing a pretty good line from last year, we've gone down a bit in individual skill and also teamwork. Still, individually, we're stronger than most of the teams in New Jersey, but our flow and offense is pretty slow. When I mean individual skill, I mean we'll probably break/sky/layout D you, but our offense is a little stand still.
West Windsor North - A team with somewhat athletic guys. Their throws aren't too great but they know what they're doing. Run a typical stack and offense, but from our game with them in the Fall, their dump cuts are the thing that you can easily capitalize on and shut down.
Westfield - Improved a lot since last year when we beat them 13-2. They've developed a good system of handler motion with lots of dishies and upline cuts, but they still lack receivers and good handlers. Their offense mostly depends on lucky hucks across the field. Put on a strong straight-up defense.
Tenafly - a team that's pretty athletic and isn't bad for a group that's learned offense, defense and throws in a couple of weeks.
Ridgewood - Will update on this later. We played them last year and took them out 13-1. I don't sense much threat.
Kittatiny - Has anyone ever even heard of these guys?
Princeton - A huge drop in level from last year. Our JV took them to universal point, so that's saying something. But I'm impressed that they've still managed to keep a team together. After graduating Kinsey and D-backs, they need to raise up some handlers and receivers.
CHS - No need to talk about these guys. Another win at States again, I predict.
West Windsor North - A team with somewhat athletic guys. Their throws aren't too great but they know what they're doing. Run a typical stack and offense, but from our game with them in the Fall, their dump cuts are the thing that you can easily capitalize on and shut down.
Westfield - Improved a lot since last year when we beat them 13-2. They've developed a good system of handler motion with lots of dishies and upline cuts, but they still lack receivers and good handlers. Their offense mostly depends on lucky hucks across the field. Put on a strong straight-up defense.
Tenafly - a team that's pretty athletic and isn't bad for a group that's learned offense, defense and throws in a couple of weeks.
Ridgewood - Will update on this later. We played them last year and took them out 13-1. I don't sense much threat.
Kittatiny - Has anyone ever even heard of these guys?
Princeton - A huge drop in level from last year. Our JV took them to universal point, so that's saying something. But I'm impressed that they've still managed to keep a team together. After graduating Kinsey and D-backs, they need to raise up some handlers and receivers.
CHS - No need to talk about these guys. Another win at States again, I predict.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Home Tournament
Tournament at school today!
Beat Tenafly, a team that I really enjoyed playing because they're pretty cool, and I know someone on their team. We played pretty lazy for the first half, exchanging three or four points with them, but then pretty much shut them out the second half. Last point, they ISO'd me and I started an in-cut but surprised to see that the huck had gone off. I sprinted to the endzone and got a really lucky layout (caught it with two fingers, miracle that I didn't drop it when I hit the ground) for the win. Then played West Windsor South who was really tired from playing our JV (who lost 6-8) so we went on an easy 11-2 win.
For the rest of the game I spent the time hanging out with the team and some guys from Tenafly and heckling the Westfield vs JV game. I know it may have made me seem like a jerk, but I really don't like Westfield. They probably know my jersey number now and will probably tackle/foul me at states like last year, but I'd just like to let you guys know that you're pretty obnoxious.
Side note: There's something called disc space, respect it.
Enjoyed heckling on the sidelines with a double chocolate frappachino.
This tournament pretty much made my day
Beat Tenafly, a team that I really enjoyed playing because they're pretty cool, and I know someone on their team. We played pretty lazy for the first half, exchanging three or four points with them, but then pretty much shut them out the second half. Last point, they ISO'd me and I started an in-cut but surprised to see that the huck had gone off. I sprinted to the endzone and got a really lucky layout (caught it with two fingers, miracle that I didn't drop it when I hit the ground) for the win. Then played West Windsor South who was really tired from playing our JV (who lost 6-8) so we went on an easy 11-2 win.
For the rest of the game I spent the time hanging out with the team and some guys from Tenafly and heckling the Westfield vs JV game. I know it may have made me seem like a jerk, but I really don't like Westfield. They probably know my jersey number now and will probably tackle/foul me at states like last year, but I'd just like to let you guys know that you're pretty obnoxious.
Side note: There's something called disc space, respect it.
Enjoyed heckling on the sidelines with a double chocolate frappachino.
This tournament pretty much made my day
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Born to Dive
I had the liberty of playing on the JV team this weekend for Pennsbury's Annual Born to Dive. Why? Because we submitted our JV team to the B division, and then some complications turned up and we ended up sending our JV team + me and one more starter over there.
Monday:
1st Game, Princeton. I'm impressed that Princeton has pulled a somewhat decent team together this year. Not too good, but it's a lot more that what I expected. We played some shitty defense and offense, but in the end they beat us on universe point. Ironic how Watchung has never actually beaten Princeton.
2nd Game, CHS B. We traded points for a while, which was due to lazy offense and defense again, and then we took them on universe point and beat them.
3rd Game, Pennsbury B. They don't know what the fuck they're doing. Doing random shit like fouling us and actually grabbing onto our jerseys and then saying "chill out" when we call the fouls. Played lazy again and beat them down. Afterwards, 4-6 of our discs were missing. Alright, whatever suits you, guys.
Tuesday:
1st Game, Wissahickon. What is an A team doing in the B division? Played some shitty offense, let a lot of hucks through our straight up defense, and with the wind we got nothing, losing.
2nd Game, Pennsbury B. Same as last time, some random shit that shouldn't have happened, then putting it in for the win.
3rd Game, CHS B. With the wind helping us, we put on some Zone D and they crashed, making sloppy throws and catches. With the hard cap on, we won this game by a big gap and then headed over to watch the finals with CHS against Pennsbury.
Commentary? CHS is sick. Although I couldnt' stay for the entire game, the number of layout D's that CHS got was ridiculous. Hitting Bryan Walter in the endzone never failed, and eventually CHS won 13-8 or 15-8. Halfway through the game, some CHS kid got four of his teeth knocked out and they spent a good 20 minutes searching for them in the grass, which is about the time when I left.
Would've liked to watch the entire game.
Monday:
1st Game, Princeton. I'm impressed that Princeton has pulled a somewhat decent team together this year. Not too good, but it's a lot more that what I expected. We played some shitty defense and offense, but in the end they beat us on universe point. Ironic how Watchung has never actually beaten Princeton.
2nd Game, CHS B. We traded points for a while, which was due to lazy offense and defense again, and then we took them on universe point and beat them.
3rd Game, Pennsbury B. They don't know what the fuck they're doing. Doing random shit like fouling us and actually grabbing onto our jerseys and then saying "chill out" when we call the fouls. Played lazy again and beat them down. Afterwards, 4-6 of our discs were missing. Alright, whatever suits you, guys.
Tuesday:
1st Game, Wissahickon. What is an A team doing in the B division? Played some shitty offense, let a lot of hucks through our straight up defense, and with the wind we got nothing, losing.
2nd Game, Pennsbury B. Same as last time, some random shit that shouldn't have happened, then putting it in for the win.
3rd Game, CHS B. With the wind helping us, we put on some Zone D and they crashed, making sloppy throws and catches. With the hard cap on, we won this game by a big gap and then headed over to watch the finals with CHS against Pennsbury.
Commentary? CHS is sick. Although I couldnt' stay for the entire game, the number of layout D's that CHS got was ridiculous. Hitting Bryan Walter in the endzone never failed, and eventually CHS won 13-8 or 15-8. Halfway through the game, some CHS kid got four of his teeth knocked out and they spent a good 20 minutes searching for them in the grass, which is about the time when I left.
Would've liked to watch the entire game.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Hip Hop on Pop
I don't really know what to say.
We played like shit this tournament, and went 2 for 2.
We were missing three of our starters, but that shouldn't be an excuse.
I wasn't too disappointed from Haverford beating us, because they are definitely a very good team, but the loss to Lower Merion was complete bullshit. And I still haven't gotten over that last point. I keep replaying it in my head and I just can't believe that shit happened.
When it comes to these kind of tournaments, sometimes I just find it really hard to enjoy Ultimate.
We played like shit this tournament, and went 2 for 2.
We were missing three of our starters, but that shouldn't be an excuse.
I wasn't too disappointed from Haverford beating us, because they are definitely a very good team, but the loss to Lower Merion was complete bullshit. And I still haven't gotten over that last point. I keep replaying it in my head and I just can't believe that shit happened.
When it comes to these kind of tournaments, sometimes I just find it really hard to enjoy Ultimate.
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