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Tyro is a Salt Lake City-based coed ultimate team. We're moderately competitive and have a whole lotta fun. The team was founded in 2002, from a team of friends frustrated after their “pickup” team was outclassed at Bozofest. In the van on the way home, a core group resolved to find a way to play decent coordinated ultimate without losing good spirit or good humor, and Tyro was hatched.

TYRO: The best team that one practice a week can buy

Drillbook

Our collection of drills is here in html or PowerPoint

Playbook

Tyro has a playbook. We do not post it on the web. Contact the captains if you are on Tyro and don’t have the playbook for some reason.

Contact

keith _dot_ alleman _at_sign_ ieminc _dot_ com

2004 Tournaments

May 1-2	Salt Lake City Daweena: Men Women
May 29-30	Bozeman Bozofest
July 3-5	Seattle Potlatch (slutting with TMK)
July 17-18	Breckenridge Lungbuster
Aug. 14-15	Park City Ski Town Classic
Sept. 4-5	Boise Scorcher
Sept. 25-26	Big Sky Sectionals
Oct. 23-24	Las Vegas Lucky 7s

Results from Past Years

2002 Infancy

2003 Adolescence

2004 Tournament Journal

Daweena

SHORT ANSWER: The men went 2-2 in pool play, 0-2 Sunday. The women went 2-2 in pool play, 0-2 Sunday.

The men and women of Tyro split into teams for Daweena.

DisCeption

The women, DisCeption, had a good time and Petros was hoarse for a week. Here’s the details, written by Petros. The Tyro women joined up with TMK’s women and whoever else we could pick up to form Disception. With missing some of Tyro’s women handlers (Denise playing on the Salt Lake reunion team, and Cat and Stacey only playing some games on Sat) and picking up some players who’ve never played a tournament, I was concerned about how this team would fair, but my concerns were to be proven wrong. We were seeded 10^th out of 11 teams, and were 5^th in a pool of 6. A pool of 6 meant we had 5 games in a row and no byes, another big concern for an early season tournament.

Our first game was against the one seed, Box Lunch, which actually had quite a few Salt Lake players on it. We used this game to warm up and get used to playing as a team. We did well, though were not playing at 100% yet. I think we lost 11-2. Our shining moment was when we decided to huck and zone them, something we’d never practiced. I don’t remember the exact details, but we put up the huck, threw our cup on them, they turned it over and we scored!

We luckily finished that game before the time cap and had some time to rest and check out our competition for the next game. We were to play Starry Eye Surprise (Boise), the 6^th seed who was just coming off a very close win over the 4^th seed. It was a well matched game. We played great and pulled off a close win, 9-8 I think.

We then turned our sights on the 3^rd seed. This was Doodle Queen, a reunion team from Montana celebrating the life of a fellow teammate who died due to complications in giving birth to beautiful baby girl. They were older and slower than us, but dressed in tight fitting sparkly costumes they had a lot of heart. There were many long points, and we dropped the disc many times in our end zone, causing us to lose 0-11 (a big bagel). It was a tough loss to a very fun team, and despite us not scoring I think we played well that game.

Our fourth game was against Flo, the 2^nd seed from Calgary. Their men may not be evil (though they wouldn’t buy our koozies), but the women played in typical Canadian style. Stacey especially had issues with them. Our team refused to sink to their level, and played with good spirit. We lost this game scoring a handful of points.

Luck was on our side again (unlike Tyro’s co-ed experience the pool was set up to our advantage). We had finished before time cap against Flo, giving us time to rest. We had a big final game against the 4^th seed Disc O’Inferno (BYU). They were coming off a tough 1 or 2 point lost to Doodle Queen. We needed to win this game to move up a seed, a loss meant a 3 way tie for last place and our point differential wasn’t going to help us here. We started out evenly matched and managed to take the half 6-5. We then dug down deep, came out from the half with an amazing zone, out scoring them 5-1. An 11-6 win to move up a seed (ending up 4^th in our pool), with amazing play by all, was a great way to end the day.

Unfortunately all our efforts on Saturday put us up against Rare Air on Sunday morning. They are fast, experienced, and with a squad of about 30, they weren’t tired from Sat. We lost badly to them, but it was to be expected. Rare Air went on to win the tournament. We then played Hot Pants in the loser bracket, a team that was playing savage. They were tired, but so were we. It wasn’t our best game, but we did score a few points and picked up our play a little from the Rare Air game. So like the men, we followed in Tyro tradition of bringing our best on Saturday and running out of steam for Sunday.

Denise, our sole Tyro woman playing with the reunion team, lost in the semi-finals to Box Lunch. Remember Box Lunch also contained many Salt Lake women players. They lost in the finals, but I have to say all-in-all Salt Lake made a respectable showing.

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Metrosexuals

The men, Metrosexuals, greeted the day with a traditional first-round bye, and ran around setting up cones and port-a-fields.

Our first game was against Sprawl (Phoenix), the 4^th seed. We came out sharp and caught a lot of lucky breaks (layout catches of MACs, catching overthrows, that kind of thing). In a single point, Chris Pickett had two consecutive throws where he overthrew his target and someone else swooped in to catch it. Anyway, we won pulling away, 13-4.

Our second game was against the #2 seed, KAVU, which had a lot of Salt Lake guys pick up on it. They were taller and threw farther, but we played well. We lost 13-4. The highlight point of the game happened while I [Keith] was watching on the sideline. They pinned the pull against the back of our end zone and were zoning. Paul swung it a little off-course to Cedar, who had to layout right at the back corner to catch it. Some KAVU boys on the sideline were saying he might’ve been out. I said “What difference does it make? We’re pinned in literally the back worst square yard of the field!” They agreed. Then Cedar swung it back to Paul, who put it forward to John (a spreader getting the disc still in our own end zone!!). We kept moving it up, just ahead of the cup catching up, and ten throws later we had scored an upwinder. It was an amazing turn of fortunes.

Third game, top seed, Sack Lunch (the men of DTL). Tyro has extensive experience with losing to DTL, and we applied it well, losing 13-4.

Last game, against the #3 12-guage from Calgary. It turns out that though these guys are Canadian, they were not evil. We got along well, and this was the most intense game we played. It was exchanging goals to 3-2 all slightly upwind, and you could sense that as soon as one team broke through for consecutive scores, it would be a backbreaker. And it was. Tyro scored again, and again, and before we knew it the score was 6-2. From then on we essentially traded scores to win roughly 11-7.

So from #5 seed we pulled a 2-2 record. And had done it by playing smart quality Frisbee. We were most pleased.

Sunday we were in pre-Quarters and came out flat against Old ‘n In The Way. Nothing was clicking, and no breaks were going our way. We were paying our karmic debt for the Sprawl game. Old took half 7-3. They started fronting us hard, and a couple of surprise hucks got us back to 8-6, but we wilted from there and lost something like 13-8.

In the Consolation bracket, we met Sprawl again, who had advanced with a stirring (and we had thought, tiring) 11-10 win over Jackson. But they kept their momentum going and were a much more “together” team than they were Saturday. They beat us 12-9.

So the pattern was fulfilled….. good play Saturday; lack of sharpness Sunday.

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Bozeman Bozofest

SHORT ANSWER: Great results in craptactular weather. 6-2 overall; Beer Pool Champs.

When Tyro reached disc central Saturday morning under gray, rainy skies and with temperatures dropping- we found we’d been put in the B pool and passed off to play at some elementary school far away from disc central- with no water or food. After having to set up our own fields, we proceeded to pretty handily beat MSU Ultimate from Bozeman 11-3. This game started with some of the best weather we see all weekend and ended with some of the worst – rain, wind, and driving hail on upwind points! Fortunately lightning never appeared.

The weather continued to be a factor in the following game, as Tyro was pitted against Troy R. Project (Midwest Slut). This team figured out how to play in the wind early on—huck’n zone everything! It took Tyro till the next game before we figured out this crucial game plan. This game ended as a 9-11 loss, but taught us that the huck’n zone was the only way to win in this horrible weather.

Next, Tyro played our favorite hometown rival, TMK. In this game Tyro finally mastered the huck and zone and used it to successfully beat TMK 8-4. The highlight play for this game was the consecutive Callahans from Michael O’Connor and (?).

Game 4 continued in the huck’n zone tradition that would become the mantra for the weekend with a 13-6 win over Donkey Show (Missoula). This was a relaxed game against a novice team. We went 4-3 while they ran 5-2. Their captain was our old pal Trevor who used to play in SLC.

Tyro had by far the coolest accommodations of any team at the tournament—90 foot water slide! Does any more need to be said? Also throw in the Pac Man game that brought back all the arcade glory days for some members of the team. Oh and there was the party, but Tyro gave up the party championship this year to Sari & Scott of TMK.

With the 3-1 record that Tyro had racked up Saturday, we qualified for the prequarter game for the A pool. This game against Bozos (Bozeman) taught us that even though we’d figured out the huck’n zone, we’d not yet mastered the upwind handling of Bozo. Their throws and organization were at another level entirely (they went on to win the whole tourny).

Beer Quarters vs. Free Range: won this game handily, but no one seems to recall the score.

Beer Semis was a hard-fought game against Hot Action from Minnesota. It was very windy crosswind still and we kept sticking with huck-and-zone (both directions) until we got possession on a turnover past midfield. They used this strategy some as well, but simply weren’t as committed to it as we were, which gave us more easy goals. Still we were down 7-6 in a capped game to 8. Somehow we stole an upwinder to tie the game, then used an unforced turnover and a pair of swirly long throws to grab the win.

Beer Finals was anti-climactic after that. We played someone. We jumped out to a 4 or 5 goal lead before they scored, then coasted to an 11-5 Beer Pool Championship.

Bozofest gave us plenty of zone practice. I don’t think we played more than two or three points of man all weekend. We got a traveling trophy, which is nice because you can drink out of it. The other nice thing is that since Bozeman beat Persuader in the Quarters, we were the last Salt Lake team still playing on Sunday. Has a nice ring to it….

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Breckenridge Lungbuster

SHORT ANSWER: Winless in a hard pool on Saturday. 1-0 Sunday in ultraconsolation game.

Tyro was fired up for this tournament, since we had good results in Bozeman and we had a promising scrimmage the week before (handling TMK well and losing to Persuader 5-4).

Unfortunately, we were in a pool of death. Our first game was against a new team from Fort Collins, young and full of long throws, who beat us about 13-9. They were the 5^th seed.

Next was the 2^nd seed, Duff. They beat us easily, like 13-3 or 13-4.

Our third game was Strangelove, a Denver area team that we’d never heard of, but they were good (they later played Persuader at Park City and lost 15-13 in pool play). They were up about 7-3 or so when we stopped for the lightning storm. It washed out the rest of that round.

Fourth game was DTL. The skies cleared and the wind wasn’t too bad but there were big puddles everywhere. We played them better than we ever had before, but lost 13-5. The highlight point was a long ugly one (for both teams) that featured three overthrows to John Prudden in the end zone, forcing him to lay out into the slop repeatedly. It looked neat from the sidelines, anyway.

So we did not win any Saturday games. In fact, on point-diff, we were now 20^th out of 20 teams. We played a little worse than we did at Bozeman, but mostly it was just that the other teams in our pool were really good. We resolved to win our little consolation bracket (seeds 17-20) on Sunday.

Sunday we played Crested Butte. They were solid individually, but not quite as coordinated as Tyro. We got an early lead and then held on through a lot of nervous back-and-forth scoring. We won 11-9. The highlight was a perfectly executed CSTV play late in the game. The A-Quarterfinalists had shown up by now and were watching. After the play, one of them asked where we got that play from and we explained how we’d gotten it from TV. He said that it was his college team that we’d been watching (Wisconsin) and gotten the play from. Said that back home they called it “Unstoppable Endzone Play.” We agreed.

Neither of the teams from the other consolation semi wanted to play a second game, since we would’ve had to wait hours for a field to open up. So we went home. In conclusion, it really wasn’t too bad a tournament for our play, but a little humbling to see the depth in the Colorado ultimate scene. The highlights of the tournament were probably the South Park marathon in the condo (since the hot tub sucked) and watching Bad Larry lose to some dude named Hector in the quarterfinal that followed our Crested Butte game. Also, we held our own nicely in the raffle…. I think Kate R. won twice, in fact.

We also noticed that our fun rival, Breckenridge, seemed to upgrade over the winter. They added some tall fast skilled dudes, and went 3-1 in their pool.

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Park City Ski Town Classic

SHORT ANSWER: 2-2 Saturday with win over Breck and loss to Suader; played really well. Lost Quarters to Bozo; beat Logan in consolation game.

Tyro came into Park City hoping to do well. We’ve always had a good showing at Park City (even going back to the tourny’s first year, when Tyro hadn’t formed yet but some of their players played together on a pickup team). And we wanted to get the bad taste of Lungbuster out of our mouths. Plus, we were looking forward to a rematch with Ripe, whom we had an epic Beer Pool Final with the year before, losing 15-14 (when they were called Pile) and we’d played in ’01 or ’02 in a really good pool game (when they were Swilly Rabbit).

Unfortunately, Ripe didn’t show up. There were twelve teams there, and we were third-seed in one of the three pools of four teams each.

Our first game was against presumably the top seed of the whole tournament, “Flycoons” from Missoula. They had a run midway through the game to pull ahead, but otherwise we played them pretty even. Even though we lost 14-7 [shoulda been 13-6 but they lost track of the score… we did try to correct them but they insisted they only had 12], we played solidly. Particularly, it finally looked like the spread offense was clicking under tournament pressure.

The next game was against the 2^nd seed. This was our favorite fun rival, Breckenridge, except they were calling themselves Sweet Release. Turns out the name change was because only half of regular Breck made the trip, and the other half were pickups. It showed, too. They repeatedly had one or two players way out of position to guard our spread O, and as long as we were patient we were getting high percentage scores. A mini-rally by them had pulled them back to 8-6. At that point, Pink Hat Jim commented that it was a good time to see what kind of team Tyro was. Would be tighten up and lose, or execute and win? We clamped down and pulled away, winning 13-8. We gave them a lovely cheer set to “Sweet Caroline.”

In the third game, we crushed BYU, which also got really confused covering spread. That was surprising for a college team. A lot of their top players may have been missing on summer break. We won 13-2.

The last game was a crossover game. We played Persuader. Despite us not feeling intimidated or worried (having done well in scrimmages this year, having some of our players attending their practices, and knowing it was just the crossover game) we made a lot of early silly throwaways and drops, and were down 7-1 at half. From there we played a little better and they relaxed a lot, and Suader coasted to a 13-7 win.

So we finished Saturday 2-2 and sixth seed for tomorrow’s Quarters.

Our Quarterfinal was against a team that was half Bozeman and half old Salt Lakers (Cory, YV, Chuck, Chase, Johnny Utah) and other Big Sky folks. Bozeman had beaten us at Bozeman and really outclassed us while doing so, so we knew we were up for a challenge. We played solidly early on, leading 3-2. Then we fell asleep for a spell and ended up losing 15-7. The highlight was a suspected crafty move by Bozeman on endzone D, who came out of a timeout and loudly announced the force, which turned out to be a lie. Clever.

To the Beer Bracket we went. Our opponent was Logan. We had played an epic beer bracket semi against them in 2001, winning by two in a heavy wind. I remembered one gangly freshman guy (Tina) who was a raw thrower but full of speed and chest-high layouts. He was there on this day, too. So I told our team not to throw anywhere near him. On D, we noticed that they had two or three really good players and were making progress by throwing among them. So we went to zone when those top dudes were on the field, to neutralize that. In the second half the wind picked up and we went to a regular zone upwind / man downwind strategy. All of these moves paid off, as we earned an intense 12-10 win (winning the game on a patient, poach-exploiting upwind flow).

No one was up for playing the Beer Pool final, so that ended our day. We went 3-3 overall and sort-of Beer Pool Champs.

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Boise Scorcher

SHORT ANSWER: 2-3 in pool play; 3^rd place on point differential. Beat Troy R. Project to avenge Bozofest loss. Smiles. Lost in quarters to Ketchum.

This was a 12-team tournament organized into two pools of six.

Our first game was against the top seed, Gun Show. They had won Sectionals last year, and were seeded ahead of Persuader, so we knew they’d be a big challenge. But a couple of miscues on their part got us a quick 2-0 lead, and we played them really even. Aside from the fact that they had a little more range on their throws, there wasn’t such a gap between us. Gun Show took the half 7-6, and pulled away to win 13-7. But we still felt good. Even though second-half points hadn’t gone our way we had played really well…. the points had been close. We cheered them to “Paradise City” (cuz it’s by Guns ‘n Roses… I don’t know if they got that or not). “Take me down to Boise City where our first half’s hot and our second half’s shitty.” They laughed.

Second game was against the #6 seed Bengals, who had just assembled the day before to fill out the bracket. Unfortunately they only had 3-4 women and asked to play some 5-2, which we refused. So they were kinda mad at us, but we had to be fair to ourselves for bringing a properly balanced roster. We beat them 13-4. We cheered them to “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor.

The third game was with Persuader, the #2 seed. We told ourselves to be focused and within ourselves, and not dig an early hole with silly mistakes the way we did at Park City. And we didn’t. Persuader took half 7-3, but the points were long and closely contested. We clawed back to 9-6 before losing 12-7 at time cap. We cheered them to “Baby Got Back,” by Sir Mix-A-Lot. “My Amanda-conda don’t want none unless it’s got guns, hon!”

The last Saturday game was against the #3 seed, the host team Mayor’s Secret. They featured reasonable depth and a guy who was eleventy-seven feet tall. This game was tight all the way… really good game. We led 7-6 at half but faded to a 13-9 loss. Unfortunately Jeremy rolled his ankle badly on a play and was out the rest of the tournament.

So it was back to the hotel for quick hot-tubbing and hurricane updates before zooming to the party. The party, sadly, was not zoomworthy. It was lame. Even the amply-available Jello shots didn’t seem to make it festive. Tyro left early. When the highlight of a party is watching a horny dog try to mount an oblivious four-year-old boy (“Wow the doggy is playful!”) then it’s not a good sign…

The last pool-play game was Sunday morning. This was the game I was waiting for --- a chance to play the Troy R. Project. They had beaten us in the insane wind of Bozofest, and I just knew in my gut all summer that they were a team we could match up against and beat if we played sharp. The game started close, with us trading upwinder scores more than once. Neil from Logan picked up with TRP, and he and Jank got into some ‘discussions’ about marking that got a little heated, adding to the competitive intensity. Tyro took the half 7-5, but TRP jumped back to tie it at 7s. Both teams were trying to zone even though the wind wasn’t too too strong. TRP was breaking our zone but it was taking a long time and a lot of throws. Tyro was running through their zone a little more quickly. We made some adjustments in our cup positioning (tighter cup) to take away direct punches to the far-side handler, and that helped. We put on a run to reach 12-7. They put a run of their own to get within one upwinder of back ‘on-serve’ but we got an upwinder of our own to win the game 13-10. This game featured some brutal running by the cup, a couple of amazing end zone catches by Evil (of blady off-target throws she managed to dive and stab-catch with one hand) and one point where TRP played man and during the entire march up the field, Denise was unguarded. The girl defender just got lost and never, the whole time, figured out where Denise was. And we never threw it to her. She’d yell “poach,” a nearby guy defender to react to her, and we’d throw to the Tyro player that the guy had left. Just how it worked out, I guess…

TRP had beaten Mayor’s Secret, so three teams were at 2-3. We quickly calculated that if they did a tiebreaker just with the point-diff when the three teams played each other, we might be last. But lucky for us they used all pool-play games. Our solid play against the top two seeds, combined with our strong win over the #6, gave us the best point-diff and third place in the pool.

Our quarterfinal matchup was Ketchum, who finished second in the other pool. We played them very close, but the breaks didn’t go our way early. For example, in each of the first two points we got a stall count to 9 before they completed a long throw to keep it alive. We trailed 6-1 but felt we were close. Then things started to break our way a little bit, but we ran out of points and our energy probably couldn’t have sustained anyway. We lost 13-8.

Big Sky Mixed Sectionals

SHORT ANSWER: We finished 1-2 in pool play and went L-W-L in the double elimination portion. We were knocked out by Gun Show 13-8 in a game closer than the final score would indicate.

There were eight teams at Sectionals in Missoula. Going in, it seemed like most of the teams were in pairs as far as skill, with one wild card. Two top teams (Flycoons, Persuader) two teams a step below (Bozeman, Gun Show), two teams a step below that (Tyro, Troy R. Project), and one bottom team (Kalispell). The wild card was Missoula-B. Tyro had played a Missoula-B team back at Bozofest and crushed them. But Faris sent out an e-mail touting them as having a bunch of good players and how they’d be a threat to Gun Show, Bozeman, or Tyro. So we didn’t know what to expect.

We were seeded third in our pool. We lost to Flycoons (13-3), lost to Gun Show (13-8), and beat Kalispell (13-7). Our quarterfinal late Saturday was against Bozeman. They were missing a lot of their better players from when we played them reasonably close at Park City, so we were hopeful. But they were playing really well and beat us 13-7 despite losing Julie Keck to a twisted ankle early in the game.

Day One ended with the most intense game of the day… the Salt Lake versus Missoula Flutter Championship Game. The two Missoula teams lined up against the two Salt Lake teams with four discs being fluttered simultaneously. Despite huge plays by Phil and Eichner, Missoula managed to keep it close. They jumped ahead 14-13 (in a game to 15) by catching 3 of 4 in one turn. But with the pressure on, Salt Lake came through --- catching 2 of 4 on the next turn to snare a 15-14 win! The game was more than a little bit cocktail-enhanced.

It was double-elimination, so our first game Sunday was an elimination game against another quarterfinal loser, who turned out to be Missoula-B (aka Mud Throwers). We knew that TRP had beaten them in pool play, so we were only a little worried about Faris’ warnings. And it turned out that they were not much different than the team we’d played at Bozofest. Our good pal Trevor was running things and he and a couple of others played well, but they didn’t have the depth to avoid unforced turnovers if we took away the huck and forced them to move in small chunks. Dunno what Faris was talking about. We won 13-3.

This set up a rematch with Gun Show. We started very crisply, beating their clam defense. But after jumping out to a 4-0 lead, they roared back and took half 7-6 I think. We kept fighting but lost 13-8, in a game where the flow of play was closer than the score would indicate. Basically we needed to avoid unforced errors and be more conscious of not letting their two best male defenders be in position to make D-plays.

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Las Vegas Lucky 7s

Pretty disappointing compared to last year. 2-2 in pool play; lost a close one to the 1-seed in quarters.

We were psyched even to be _in_ this tournament. Due to a misunderstanding with the TD, we didn’t get a bid before it filled. When one team cancelled, eight teams had a last chance to grab the slot. Thanks to a beggar’s bid assembled with a lot of work by Lo, Denise, and Keith, Tyro got that last bid despite heavy trash talking and spying from TMK. Lo was foaming at the mouth for a chance to play our nemesis The Good The Plaid and The Ugly for a third straight year.

There were fifteen teams in 3 pools of 5. Our first game was hindered by the fact that, frankly, Vegas is not well-organized in terms of providing information. Lorin and Keith sat around 20 minutes waiting for a captain’s meeting that never happened. So the team warmup was late. Also contributing was that we were in costume (as rejected superheroes) and people were assembling costumes up to the last moment. So we weren’t really warmed up or in the right frame of mind. We lost a close game to UCLA, 10-7. They had one excellent deep male player, wicked fast and good at reading the huck. Our inability to shut him down is what cost us.

Our second game was a very easy win against Onesimus, who were playing their first tournament ever, 13-3.

Our third game was a close loss to Slots o’Fun, 11-8. This is a team we certainly had the tools to beat and it was a frustrating loss.

In addition to our two losses, we were also losing players. At one time we had 13 men asking to go. But Paul and Jank dropped due to injuries, Domino couldn’t arrange a flight, and Al dropped at the last minute. Then Chris tweaked his knee in the first game (but kept playing), Rob broke his hand in the second game (and was done), and Evil badly twisted her ankle late Saturday. So we were pretty thin, especially on the men’s side. Despite that, knowing that we had to get a win to be in the A-bracket the next day, we gutted out a victory over James & the Giants by a score of 10-5. So we were 2-2 with a strong point differential (+9) and felt we’d probably be in quarters. But again, we didn’t know, because all the results weren’t posted anywhere to let us figure it out.

Saturday night people skipped the party and mostly wandered in the old downtown, losing money.

Sunday morning we got to the fields and it looked like we had our wish: Good/Plaid as our quarterfinal opponent. Unfortunately in the middle of warm-ups someone came up and said they’d screwed up. We had to move to another field and play Double Deuce, the #1 seed out of pool play. Despite the confusion and having to play in our reds, we came out very crisp. I think we jumped out to a 4-0 lead. But again we had a let down as the opponent went to more quick hucks, and they took half 8-6. We stayed right with them but couldn’t get over the hump. Just like the UCLA game, Double Deuce had one super fast dude who could read the huck and it kept working for them (well, Pink Hat beat him once [ed - twice ;^) jim], but most of the time it was working). The hard cap horn sounded with the score 11-9, meaning even if we scored we would lose 11-10. Game ended 12-9. So it was a shame to lose, but we had a lot of positives. We were playing the 1v8 game and it was the only quarterfinal to go all the way to the time cap. Even though we lost, we played really solidly. GPU was upset in their quarterfinal, so we were a little annoyed it didn’t work out that we played them (cuz we thought we probably could’ve beaten them).

Keith tried to arrange an extra game against GPU since we were both knocked out, but they were not enthusiastic. So he arranged a game against Free Range, who’d finished third in one of the other pools. Playing 4-3 against their 5-2, we still won handily (11-3) without having any stress and despite Petros giving up a humorous Callahan off the pull.

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last modified September 6, 2004.