After three days of running around a field I am pretty much exhausted. The tournament was really fun and it was a great chance to meet piles of people and play some fun games. Our team didn’t place very well but on a whole did well for a team that didn’t get to practice much together, every game the team got better. We managed to get five points on the team that eventually went on to win nationals (it counts even if it was the first game and they went a little easy on us). 
We got to play three of the teams from Brisbane that I have been practicing with so that was really fun to play against people that I knew. Even though I have only been in Brisbane for a month I am really going to miss that group of people.
Overall I thought I would learn a lot from this tournament but didn’t really see anything amazing (I think Mutiny would have held their own in the tournament.) There were some spectacular individual plays and players but on a whole there weren’t any new or interesting strategies. The most popular zone, which we don’t use much at home, is a puppy/fence zone. It seems to be the most effective zone with no wind. I get the overall impression that Australia is quite a bit behind North America when it comes to the popularity of Ultimate. As well, it seems like the men’s and women’s nationals that are held in April are the really competitive competitions. I would like to seem them have a competition where there is only one team from each state (right now there are several from most states), there are some amazing players here. On an interesting note, most of the players on the winning team were 30+.
I had a fabulous weekend and was super luck to get to play. The Tassie team was great to play with and get to know. Now I just need to figure out what state I will be in so I can try out for a women’s national team.
We got to play three of the teams from Brisbane that I have been practicing with so that was really fun to play against people that I knew. Even though I have only been in Brisbane for a month I am really going to miss that group of people.
Overall I thought I would learn a lot from this tournament but didn’t really see anything amazing (I think Mutiny would have held their own in the tournament.) There were some spectacular individual plays and players but on a whole there weren’t any new or interesting strategies. The most popular zone, which we don’t use much at home, is a puppy/fence zone. It seems to be the most effective zone with no wind. I get the overall impression that Australia is quite a bit behind North America when it comes to the popularity of Ultimate. As well, it seems like the men’s and women’s nationals that are held in April are the really competitive competitions. I would like to seem them have a competition where there is only one team from each state (right now there are several from most states), there are some amazing players here. On an interesting note, most of the players on the winning team were 30+.
I had a fabulous weekend and was super luck to get to play. The Tassie team was great to play with and get to know. Now I just need to figure out what state I will be in so I can try out for a women’s national team.
BrisVegas was also good fun, sadly this is the most Vegas like outfit I had with me.
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