Tournament Time

It's Tournament Season!  What do Ultimate Frisbee players look forward to in tournaments......well there's the Ultimate part of it for sure.  Ultimate Frisbee matches usually resides in the form of tournaments with schools of clubs around the country.  The most local tournaments are called sectionals.  A bigger area is regional   And than the all illusive national tournament.  Why havn't we reached that yet? I have no idea, we have the spunk but maybe we don't have the drive haha, we'll roll the dice this year.

What's the point of a tournament? Ultimate teams are flashy, they want to show off what they got.
Maybe it's those sweet almost blinding neon green jerseys or perfectly coordinated team cleats making up the color of the rainbow.  Each team brings their own sass and culture to the table and the mish mosh of Ultimate communities is an interesting dynamic kinda like when you blop red paint in blue paint the colors intertwine but don't mix completely.

But what's the real reason you want to be there? You want to use that new zone defense your team has been working on for weeks to research and implement to crush teams' potent offensive strategies.  Does it not work as well on real life teams? What adjustments need to be made? Personnel problems?  Strategy in Ultimate Frisbee really interests me.  There are a lot of options.  Love it.  Each strategy works for different groups of players.  Tournaments are where you can finally release that autonomous robot you've been coding for months and months, see how it does in the real world with real world problems, but Frisbee so nothing is truly real world.  You get my point, we just wanna see how our work has progressed.  Good/bad/horrible/great? and how the hell do we fix that gaping whole in our defensive 3 man cup??? These are the questions that we will try to answer this coming weekend at our tournament.

My keys for the weekend are:
1-introduce the rookies to tournament environment-don't be intimidated by anyone, this is frisbee afterall
2-test our our zone defense-this defense will be quite useful in the future where we need to switch up the defensive look that we give to the opposing team
3-score some glorious points-you gotta fuel that frisbee ego
4-learn how to coach/captain/play at the same time without messing everything up
5-enjoy my time
6-throw an awesome pass for a score

So those are my goals as a captain and I think they are all pretty attainable considering the time we've spent on practicing.  I'll have an update for you in the next couple weeks on our tournament results and how I feel about the progress of the team.