Following my adventures in Adelaide - did I mention how great of a time we had? - I had a busy week here in which I attempted to get work done (with mixed success) before heading off to Sydney this past weekend for yet another frisbee tournament. This one was part of the leadup to the World Championships next month; I played with Chilly (read: men's club team here in Melbourne) rather than the Melbourne University team like I did in Adelaide. For those keeping score at home, it was my 5th consecutive weekend away from Melbourne.
We had some stiff competition, but we managed to win all of our games, and so long as we repeat this success over the weekend of Oct 21-22 (back in Sydney, last tournament before Worlds) we will be ranked first among Australian Men's teams. Nothing has been announced yet, but chatting amongst ourselves, we figure that if we get that #1 Aussie ranking, there's a reasonable chance that we will play in the showcase game at Worlds. This is the match that immediately follows the opening ceremonies, represents the official start of the competition...and is played in front of a couple of thousand spectators, both frisbee players and "civilians". I'm (nearly) peeing my pants with excitement at the thought of playing in front of such a crowd.
Oh, and in addition to the pictures I've posted below, you can see a few more of Adelaide (mostly of other teams playing, unfortunately) at my Flickr site. Enjoy!
Team Melbourne, immediately post-medal ceremony. We were pretty stoked, in case you couldn't tell.
Me and Johnny Liddicoat, fellow Melbourne Uni (and Chilly) player, and
one of my closer (frisbee or otherwise) friends over here. He joined
me on the Green and Gold team - or rather I joined him, since he's made
it in years past and I'm just a newbie. Following this photo, we proceeded to drink beer. A lot.
...as can be seen here. It turns out that winning a medal (two is worse) can be a mixed blessing...if your medal is dropped into your drink, which mine was 4 seconds before this photo was taken, "the rules" say that you have to chug ("skull" in Australian) your beer. Being the good citizen that I am, I complied. Repeatedly.
Freise!
In-sanity. I'm going to be in Melbourne Oct 29-Nov 1, are you going to be around at all to hang out?
Posted by: Megan | October 13, 2006 at 12:24 PM