casual ultimate » Schmectionals

My team-mate Coco likes to say that the most meaningless stat in sports is the halftime score. The second most meaningless stat is who won Northern California Mixed Sectionals (unless you count last year when that team went on to win Nationals). I’ve lost my point.

Reset button.

Brass played great. The sun shone. The children laughed and danced. That one kid shouted angrily and just gritted his teeth for 8 bars when I gave him one of my solos. There was singing and laughing and guitar-playing and fiddling. There were beers to be drank and teams to be heckled. There was a full beer can to be thrown at my chest by a girl named Molly who thought that would be funny. You’re not funny, Molly. Go away and give me back any beer that you have on your person.

Mischief was missing Tyler and it was windy. Both of those things played to our strenths. I am still very happy about a decisive win over Mischief. Of course, Sectionals means nothing, and the score is officially 0-0 again. Nothing that happened counted. The Flycoons are really frickin good (even with Tim Murray on the roster), Mischief is really frickin good (’06 champs), Shazam is really frickin good (’04 champs reloaded with 1 loss on the season), and then there’s Family Style (SC studs with awesome women), CTR (deep and good), Horde (formerly Whore$hack), Golden Spike (punked us at Labor Day on Sunday morning), and at least two more teams that could play big at any time and beat damn near anyone. I hate our region sometimes. Other times I really love it. Regionals should be fun. If we get out of our region, then there’s a bunch more teams, not the least of which is Slow White who is the only team that has beaten us at Nationals since 2004 (2005 in pool play, 2006 in semis). My captain, Nate, always responds to news of really good teams or great players being picked up by our rivals/opponents with “Great, I wouldn’t want to win any other way.” Or something like that. I like that attitude. I want to beat all these teams at their best. I want us to be our best and to just be better than their best. That would be fun.

Oh, details? Yeah, I don’t know many details really. Our deep game was clicking against Mischief, even in the high winds, and we took half by a lot and never let them back in. Final score: 15-8? Not really sure. This was not Mischief’s best effort by any stretch.

I somehow missed Revolver beating Jam at Sectionals. That is pretty cool. Idris blogged that Revolver would pretty much have to be the 2 seed at NW Regionals with Furious as a 4 seed or else there would be some flawed logic. Idris is always right.