Bloggers gonna Blog

While the rest of the state was busily sandbagging their homes and all other sports in Cairns were cancelled due to extreme sissyness, last Tuesday saw the launch of the sophomore season of Cairns Ultimate Disc.

How do you follow up Dark Side of the Moon? with Wish You were Here (look it up Gen Yers) and we followed up perhaps the greatest season of Ultimate disc ever played with 4 exciting new teams and some new faces.

On field 1 'I am Number Four' met the as yet unnamed Team #2. Possibly distracted by the plethora of rad names to choose from Team #2 started a bit shaky. While discussing what would be better than Team #2...Obstruction workers, Shrivel engineering or Yellow Discharge...'I am Number four' took an early lead easily taking the half 8 to 2. However like a poorly scripted adolescent novel, the rights for which have been sold before the book has even been finished so the hollywood refuse machine can churn out some trite garbage to cash in on the trite garbage that is Twilight, 'The Obstruction Workers' made a comeback. Switching to something resembling a horizontal stack, or maybe Feldrunner 'Shrivel Engineering' got to within 3 points of 'IAN4'. Unfortunately Yellow Discharge lost two of their most experienced players to wardrobe malfunction and oldman injury. One feels, however, that this was just the first installment, where the battlers have lost the first round but will come back and knock out Apollo Creed, get married to the vampire and kill He who shall not be named.

On field 2 we had the upset of the season. The mighty undefeated 'f-bomb' met those disease ridden 'Osama Disc Laden's'. Word is 'Osama' upset 'f-bomb's' game plan with the use of some rain and a clever little puppy/fence dealio. It will be interesting to see these two teams meet again as both will have undergone some major 'plastic' surgery (get it Plastic! like a frisbee!!!) Whatever the case, don't be surprised if Obstruction Discharge aren't busily working out their puppy/fence right now in anticipation of their next game against f-bomb. Osama's honorary females, William, Bailey and Liam did their adopted gender proud, with Bailey and Liam contributing plenty of layouts and William wearing his sister's shirt.

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With all the new faces it is time to talk about something referred to as 'Spirit of the Game' There are a bunch of descriptions one can find on the internet and this happy blogger would suggest you go do that. However, I am going to take this opportunity to give my take on it.

Spirit is not something one can place rules on. As soon as rules are added then it will exclude a vital aspect.

For me, being perhaps the most experienced player this season, it means not exploiting rules to my advantage...at the same time, having one of the most inexperienced teams, it also means other teams not exploiting my team mates.

Spirit will mean remembering that we are playing in a beginner's league, that the result means little in the grand scheme of things and the most important thing is that everyone on the field enjoys themselves.

It will be keeping in mind that it is very difficult to watch things objectively and you may need to defer to a team mates view of things as they may be less invested than yourself.

You see what looks like really good spirit in games where one team is much better than the other...it is easy to be nice and not argue things when you are destroying the other team. To judge a team's spirit is when the points are close.

Most issues and arguments happen, especially at our level, when people don't know the rules. It will behoove everyone to keep up to date on the rules and read them as often as they can.

http://www.wfdf.org/

(you can also read about the anti-doping rules, Gene Pool)