Henrik in Seattle

Sundodger’s Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

November 14th, 2005

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This weekend I have been at an Ultimate Frisbee tournament. It was the first one for me, and also one which we arrange. There were roughly 30 teams there during the weekend, divided into the classes Open (99% men), Women and High-school. Since we in our teams were so many (at least 40), we could participate with two (roughly equal) teams, both the open class.

We all went to the tournament in cars, I went together with two other rookies (players who are new in the team) in a car driven by Sundodger veteran Dru Orthman. We left Seattle about 7 am and was at the fields (in Burlington, see map link at bottom of post) about an hour later. There were a total of 14 fields, each roughly the size of a soccer field, on a huge grassy area. We were fortunate enough to play all of our games the first day at the field closest to the tents which provided food and snacks (might it have something to do with the fact that we were the ones who organized the tournament? ). We met a total of four other teams the first day, some of them not too good and some of them very good. We won two games and lost two. I got to play quite often, perhaps 4-8 points per game (which means 1/4 of the time), and I think I performed quite well.

Saturday afternoon when our games were over and it was starting to get dark, it was time to think about finding a place to stay. Most people drove back to Seattle and slept there. I, however, had managed to find a place to live in Burlington. Sara, one of the girls in the women’s UF team lived there (or more precisely, her parents did). We had been talking at practices before, and she invited me to stay their house during the weekend. And I [said yes->http:// http://blog.nogo.se/2005/09/25/dare-or-not-dare-that-is-the-question/].

When we got to the house, we parked the car (each family member has their own, by the way) I met her mother, father and sister. After taking a very much longed-for shower (it had been a very cold day), we had an all-American dinner; hamburgers. I was given some tasks to do to help preparing the dinner, such as putting plates and silverware on the table. According to my travel guide, the greatest honor in the USA is not to be waited upon, but to be included and told to “help yourself�? and “make yourself at home�?. During dinner we chatted about Sweden, Seattle and a bunch of other things. I must say that the whole family was very friendly and easy to talk to, or as Sara described it: "easy going".

After chatting some more, I and her sister went to the movie rental store to find a movie to watch while Sara stayed at home doing some homework she had to do; we chose the movie [The Motorcycle Diaries->http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/]. They had a *very* big wide screen TV, although it was surprisingly enough not connected to an TV antenna or cable TV outlet. Apparently the parents didn't think [TV was something worth spending time on->Texas Cowboys Cheerleaders].

Although Sara's games on Sunday didn't start until about two hours later, she promised to drive me back to the field at 7 am. I arrived there, and helped assemble tents, prepare the breakfast and some other small things. There was one very obvious difference between this day and the day before; everything was wet. Really wet. And it continued raining most of the day. That ment everything was wet, and if it is wet it becomes cold. Nevertheless, games needed to be played. So after the preparations, it was time to warm up for our first game that day; we were playing the Rum Runners from Montana. It turned out to be a rather easy win. The next game was a completely different thing, however. The second team we played was the UW alumnae team. That means that the team consisted of people who had previously attended the UW, but who had now graduated. All of them played Ultimate Frisbee during their college time and most of them had continued to play after college. Some of them had even won the nationals togeather with the Seattle-based team Sockeye. Basically they were very, very good. Although they were pretty lazy (since they knew they were good), we didn't have a real chance of winning. We provided pretty good resistance, though.

After the loss against the alumnae, the tournament was over for our part. That ment we could get out of our wet sports clothes and change to (reasonably) dry normal clothes. Then we went back to Seattle with our respective cars tired but rather satisfied. That was all for this tournament, but the next tournament is next weekend, down in Oregon. Until then, over and out from your Ultimate Frisbee reporter.

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