Vegas BABY! the norhtern lights just back from one of the biggest tournaments of our collegiate careers. Holy Shit did this tournament take it's toll on the team, and the weather did nothing to help the team moral when we were down. Rain, in the fucking desert, REALLY!?!?
Most of the team arrived in Vegas thursday morning ready for the debauchery that Vegas had to offer. We managed to boot fake our way to Circus Circus, and luckily we didn't find any coke fags in our rooms. The team quickly decides to hit up the black jack tables. Some people quickly found lady luck in Sin City, others lost money right away. However, there were a few of us on the team who had no real interest in gambling and only wanted to get free drinks. Well since I am now aware of the easiest way to do this I will educate all of you so you don't repeat my same mistake. See I originally thought the easiest way to get drinks was to sit at slot machiences and wait for a cocktail waitress to come and bring you a drink. Little did I know that the easiest and most cost effective way to get drinks was to sit at the bar and play video poker...I had no idea, it was fucking fantastic. Well since we are in vegas for a frisbee tournament most of us try to go to bed not to drunk and at a decent hour..let's just say thank God Vegas is 2 hours behind MN time.
Friday morning: The team ends up arriving at the fields later than we expected/liked. Luckily for us we were playing Western Washington B first. This game was good for us as it let us warm up and keep lines open as well as let us get back into the grove of playing outdoors. The game went for the most part as we planned. we are able to work out the kinks..and trust me there were a lot, but UMD comes out victorious with a 13-9, or 13-8 win.
Utah State was up next, this too proved to be a fairly easy win with Duluth having it's way the their defense, and Utah State was unable to figure out our zone. by this point in the day the wind had really come out, it was drizzling on and off, and we were beginning to wonder if we really were in a desert.
We go into our next game with the hopes and expectations that we would go 3-0 on the day, however the tournament got a lot harder when we finally played a team that new how to play zone defense. due to a lot of mental errors on our part as well as better play on the part of Humbolt State, UMD gets their asses kicked 13-5. Most of the team sticks around to watch the final round of pool play We watch UBC vs. Cal santa Barbra, and realized that we need to tone down our mistakes and we will be able to play with the best teams in the nation.
We make it back to our hotel to shower and eat at the circus magercus buffet. This was a terrible idea. The food sucked so much and after having paid 15 bucks most of us were pretty upset. Those of us that are able to went out and gambled and drank and got way to little sleep. We all knew that Saturday morning would be coming way too soon.
Utah State was up next, this too proved to be a fairly easy win with Duluth having it's way the their defense, and Utah State was unable to figure out our zone. by this point in the day the wind had really come out, it was drizzling on and off, and we were beginning to wonder if we really were in a desert.
We go into our next game with the hopes and expectations that we would go 3-0 on the day, however the tournament got a lot harder when we finally played a team that new how to play zone defense. due to a lot of mental errors on our part as well as better play on the part of Humbolt State, UMD gets their asses kicked 13-5. Most of the team sticks around to watch the final round of pool play We watch UBC vs. Cal santa Barbra, and realized that we need to tone down our mistakes and we will be able to play with the best teams in the nation.
We make it back to our hotel to shower and eat at the circus magercus buffet. This was a terrible idea. The food sucked so much and after having paid 15 bucks most of us were pretty upset. Those of us that are able to went out and gambled and drank and got way to little sleep. We all knew that Saturday morning would be coming way too soon.
Saturday morning we opened with Colorado Mines. We quickly realized that these guys were pretty shitty and we take advantage of their shittyness as quickly as possible, we beat them 13-9. The highlight for me in this game was a lay out D in the endzone and a huge OI flick huck for a goal to Josh. As a whole at this point the team is starting to find our groove or so we thought. We did not get any byes today, and had the opportunity to play 7 straight games. but next up was UC Davis.
UC Davis. these guys were tallented and were able to capitalize on our mistakes early and often. we got down on ourselves pretty early and were never really able to bounce back from the hole we were in. There are a number of reasons for this a big one being that it was a straight down pour in the middle of the fucking desert!! it was some bull shit, this made playing extremley difficult. Jake attempted to get the team fired up by spiking the disk after he scored a goal. Well the UC Davis Player took offense and spiked it back and said "Fuck your spike!" This ended up being comical and really did not fire us up. We end up having to do some soul searching after this game as we are informed that we are done playing for the day.
We all got back into the vans headed back to Circus Circus showered up and decided what do do with half a day still in Vegas. Some people decide to go gamble and drink, some of us head back to the fields to watch some more ultimate. We saw some sloppy ultimate, as it was still a down pour, and the fields were quickly turning into a marsh. It gets dark so we head to the Rio for bomb ass seafood buffet. Then we head to the strip club, I won't go into details on the strip club but it sucked!
Sunday, was a rough day, we were informed that we were in a 4 team pool meaning we were going to be 1 game short playing our 9 guaranteed games. early on in our first game on Sunday I pulled my hamstring and was done playing for the tournament. By the time we finished playing we had finally started gel and figure out our zone offense. All in all it was a successful tournament. We have Terminus, High Tide, and Chicago Invite up next. these will most likely be our last tournaments before the series. it should be an interesting spring, especially with Spring break only 2 weeks away.
~Fro
We all got back into the vans headed back to Circus Circus showered up and decided what do do with half a day still in Vegas. Some people decide to go gamble and drink, some of us head back to the fields to watch some more ultimate. We saw some sloppy ultimate, as it was still a down pour, and the fields were quickly turning into a marsh. It gets dark so we head to the Rio for bomb ass seafood buffet. Then we head to the strip club, I won't go into details on the strip club but it sucked!
Sunday, was a rough day, we were informed that we were in a 4 team pool meaning we were going to be 1 game short playing our 9 guaranteed games. early on in our first game on Sunday I pulled my hamstring and was done playing for the tournament. By the time we finished playing we had finally started gel and figure out our zone offense. All in all it was a successful tournament. We have Terminus, High Tide, and Chicago Invite up next. these will most likely be our last tournaments before the series. it should be an interesting spring, especially with Spring break only 2 weeks away.
~Fro
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