Even if I'm not playing ultimate, I'm still keeping track, or at least
trying to. Currently in 3 tabs, Mixed,
Women's,
Open,
pretty much in order of importance for me. I might try and keep a running
commentary going, in honor of the Sports Guy's running diary of things sometimes.
So the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. I guess that's a Chill Scene, right?
Yeah. Some of the writeup gets a little emotional at times. Besides that,
didn't see the lunar eclipse, but the moon did look nice last night. Windows
are in, waiting for plaster and painting and putting the treatments back up.
I decided to go with the EyeTV 500, which I should get today, I think.
Other World Computing, besides being
run by a high school classmate of my brother and based in my hometown of Woodstock,
rocks because something I ordered yesterday is getting delivered today via
free UPS shipping. Now that rocks. It's only Thursday, in what feels like
a really really long week.
Here's my first day diary write up from reloading the UPA scores page. Not too interesting
Oct 28 10:25:29 CDT 2004 (Thu) Nemesis got killed by Riot. 15-3. First game done. Ouch. Mixed looks like some upsets possible, at least by half. Chad Larson over B+ 8-7 at half, kinda like Kaze over Donner at half last year. Let's hope their captain catches the goal to let them score the first point after half. Also Hot Action over Drive Thru Liquor at half, 8-6. Go Central region! except for Carleton of course, but they lost to Brass Monkey.
Oct 28 10:28:32 CDT 2004 (Thu) Machine lost already too, the Condors. Possible upsets, Pike over Sockeye 8-6, GOAT over DOG 8-6, and Sub-Zero of Johnny Bravo 8-4. Love those upsets. Forgot to mention that Adam Goff, cut by machine earlier this season, is now playing for 6 Trained Monkeys out of Boston in the Mixed division with his brother, Marshall.
Oct 28 10:40:40 CDT 2004 (Thu) Wow. Pike pulled off the upset. 15-12 over sockeye. Crazy. Johnny Bravo pulled it out over Sub-Zero though. But sockeye losing? #1 seed? I'm rooting for them since it's mostly Carleton kids, and I still have that brother connection there somewhere. Just noticed that No upsets at all in Mixed. B+ pulled it out over CLE 17-16. Hot Action fell to DTL 12-15. Boring. Also no upsets in Women's either. Underdogs are great, that's for sure. Wonder what the weather's like?
Oct 28 11:02:25 CDT 2004 (Thu) Okay, no upsets in Mixed and Women's. DOG pulled out over GOAT by 1 to prevent another upset in Open. The closest score in Women's was 15-10, Godiva over BNOGO. Wow. Not a lot of parity in that division. 1 upset, 2 1 point games, a bunch of 15-12 games in Open. A lot of parity in that division. I'd say mixed is inbetween the two. But no one scored less points than Nemesis and Electric Mayhem. (3). Machine scored the least in open at 8.
Oct 28 13:22:34 CDT 2004 (Thu) Ugh. Getting bored. No commentary makes this uninteresting. Also checking roughly every 1-2 hours for updates makes it difficult to hold my interest. No surprises in the women's division, with a bunch of 15-x scores, where x <= 4. Men's side, Chain wins a squeaker over upset specialist Pike 17-16, and Furious and Sub-Zero are locked at 10's. Otherwise, no upsets. Machine did break into double digits against Jam, which I'm thinking reunited Northwestern teammates Chucktown and Mike Zalisk as well as Machine former teammate and ultimate whore Ron Kublanza on Jam. As for mixed, looks like B+ is getting tuckered out, losing half to Puppet Regime 3-8. Otherwise, everything else held seed. Checking weather.com, looks like 80 and sunny, 10mph winds. Not too shabby. Funny to go 60-0 in 12 months. I was awefully excited to be going last year, and this year? not so much.
Oct 28 13:43:50 CDT 2004 (Thu) Wow. Chad Larsen gets a win in, upsetting Bad Larry and Mike Sheil. That's awesome. CLE and Pike are the 2 upsets so far in 96 games? Wow. Good job seeding so far. Furious wins by 1 over Zero. And women's? Ho hum. Looks like Pool B in Mixed is the pool of death, with B+ winning by 1 after coming back after a huge halftime deficit. No other pool looks as close among all 4 teams as that pool. I don't think CLE will be able to keep it up, I mean, the lose one 16-17, win the next one 17-16, and it's only the first day.
Oct 28 14:17:20 CDT 2004 (Thu) Nemesis loses as well, by 2, into the cap to Ozone. ugh. Chicago teams winless. Granted, Kaze went winless first 2 games too, didn't we? We might have one our second game against Persuader though.
Oct 28 14:51:42 CDT 2004 (Thu) More ugh. Nemesis losing to Electric Mayhem 4-8 at half. What's going on over there?
Oct 28 15:06:51 CDT 2004 (Thu) More upsets, finally, in the women's division. Zanzara going up big over Brute Squad, 8-2 at half. Otherwise, nothing interesting. Some close games, but that's to be expected, as it's 1-2 and 3-4 pool play.
Oct 28 15:19:48 CDT 2004 (Thu) Mixed: Goffs and 6 Trained Monkeys up over Shazam by 2 at half. Brass Monkey losing to Holes & Poles by 2 at half. Womens: Riot's already done. 15-4. Most points scored on them today. Rare Air up on Godiva by 1 at half. Open: Sockeye up by 1 at half over Chain. They need to win by more than 5 I think to get win the pool. Odd. Always one of these pools at Nationals.
Oct 28 15:26:53 CDT 2004 (Thu) 6 Trained monkeys still up, 10-7. Brass Monkey takes the lead 10-9. Open, 4 8-7 (A,B34,D12) games, 1 8-6 (D34), 1 8-5 (B12), 2 8-3 (C)
Oct 28 16:18:17 CDT 2004 (Thu) Nemesis didn't win a game. Highest they can finish is 9th, again. Machine didn't either. Sockeye won though, which is good, almost good enough to win the pool, but coming in 2nd. Sends Pike down to the lower pool. Brass Monkey and Holes & Poles knotted up at 14's. I'm pulling for BM because I played with Pat Hard at Poultry Days. I'm pulling for 6 Trained Monkeys because of Adam Goff. I'm pulling for Sockeye because of the aforementioned tenuous connection with Carleton. And Chad Larson because of the central region and I think they play like Kaze did. I'm looking forward to the writeups though. Wow. A quick refresh and we see that Bad Larry pulled off the upset and beat B+ leading to a 3 way tie. If I can read it right, Bad Larry takes 1st, CLE takes 2nd, and B+ drops. Wow. BM pulled off the upset, 17-15, as did 6 Trained Monkeys. Universe (Central Region) pulled off an upset 15-13 over Duff. So Central Winless teams are: Hot Action, Machine, Zero, Nemesis, Clutch, and Collide. Best team out of the Central Region? CLE, 2-1, 2nd in their pool. Wow. Love it. And Pool D in Open? Killer. Everyone held seed, but close games every round. Very much like Pool B in Mixed. Just plain killer.
Oct 28 16:59:10 CDT 2004 (Thu) I thought I was done, but last check, DTL pulls off the upset at the buzzer, 16-15 over Red Fish Blue Fish. So in Mixed, no #1 Pool Seed held. That's just crazy. Women's everyone except Brute Squad and Nemesis held seed, both of those teams going 0'fer. And Open pools B,C and D all held seed and A was all fucked up. Now I really can't wait for the writeups. RSD checking throughout the day yielded only comments about the Pike-Sockeye upset, nothing else.
Oct 28 10:25:29 CDT 2004 (Thu) Nemesis got killed by Riot. 15-3. First game done. Ouch. Mixed looks like some upsets possible, at least by half. Chad Larson over B+ 8-7 at half, kinda like Kaze over Donner at half last year. Let's hope their captain catches the goal to let them score the first point after half. Also Hot Action over Drive Thru Liquor at half, 8-6. Go Central region! except for Carleton of course, but they lost to Brass Monkey.
Oct 28 10:28:32 CDT 2004 (Thu) Machine lost already too, the Condors. Possible upsets, Pike over Sockeye 8-6, GOAT over DOG 8-6, and Sub-Zero of Johnny Bravo 8-4. Love those upsets. Forgot to mention that Adam Goff, cut by machine earlier this season, is now playing for 6 Trained Monkeys out of Boston in the Mixed division with his brother, Marshall.
Oct 28 10:40:40 CDT 2004 (Thu) Wow. Pike pulled off the upset. 15-12 over sockeye. Crazy. Johnny Bravo pulled it out over Sub-Zero though. But sockeye losing? #1 seed? I'm rooting for them since it's mostly Carleton kids, and I still have that brother connection there somewhere. Just noticed that No upsets at all in Mixed. B+ pulled it out over CLE 17-16. Hot Action fell to DTL 12-15. Boring. Also no upsets in Women's either. Underdogs are great, that's for sure. Wonder what the weather's like?
Oct 28 11:02:25 CDT 2004 (Thu) Okay, no upsets in Mixed and Women's. DOG pulled out over GOAT by 1 to prevent another upset in Open. The closest score in Women's was 15-10, Godiva over BNOGO. Wow. Not a lot of parity in that division. 1 upset, 2 1 point games, a bunch of 15-12 games in Open. A lot of parity in that division. I'd say mixed is inbetween the two. But no one scored less points than Nemesis and Electric Mayhem. (3). Machine scored the least in open at 8.
Oct 28 13:22:34 CDT 2004 (Thu) Ugh. Getting bored. No commentary makes this uninteresting. Also checking roughly every 1-2 hours for updates makes it difficult to hold my interest. No surprises in the women's division, with a bunch of 15-x scores, where x <= 4. Men's side, Chain wins a squeaker over upset specialist Pike 17-16, and Furious and Sub-Zero are locked at 10's. Otherwise, no upsets. Machine did break into double digits against Jam, which I'm thinking reunited Northwestern teammates Chucktown and Mike Zalisk as well as Machine former teammate and ultimate whore Ron Kublanza on Jam. As for mixed, looks like B+ is getting tuckered out, losing half to Puppet Regime 3-8. Otherwise, everything else held seed. Checking weather.com, looks like 80 and sunny, 10mph winds. Not too shabby. Funny to go 60-0 in 12 months. I was awefully excited to be going last year, and this year? not so much.
Oct 28 13:43:50 CDT 2004 (Thu) Wow. Chad Larsen gets a win in, upsetting Bad Larry and Mike Sheil. That's awesome. CLE and Pike are the 2 upsets so far in 96 games? Wow. Good job seeding so far. Furious wins by 1 over Zero. And women's? Ho hum. Looks like Pool B in Mixed is the pool of death, with B+ winning by 1 after coming back after a huge halftime deficit. No other pool looks as close among all 4 teams as that pool. I don't think CLE will be able to keep it up, I mean, the lose one 16-17, win the next one 17-16, and it's only the first day.
Oct 28 14:17:20 CDT 2004 (Thu) Nemesis loses as well, by 2, into the cap to Ozone. ugh. Chicago teams winless. Granted, Kaze went winless first 2 games too, didn't we? We might have one our second game against Persuader though.
Oct 28 14:51:42 CDT 2004 (Thu) More ugh. Nemesis losing to Electric Mayhem 4-8 at half. What's going on over there?
Oct 28 15:06:51 CDT 2004 (Thu) More upsets, finally, in the women's division. Zanzara going up big over Brute Squad, 8-2 at half. Otherwise, nothing interesting. Some close games, but that's to be expected, as it's 1-2 and 3-4 pool play.
Oct 28 15:19:48 CDT 2004 (Thu) Mixed: Goffs and 6 Trained Monkeys up over Shazam by 2 at half. Brass Monkey losing to Holes & Poles by 2 at half. Womens: Riot's already done. 15-4. Most points scored on them today. Rare Air up on Godiva by 1 at half. Open: Sockeye up by 1 at half over Chain. They need to win by more than 5 I think to get win the pool. Odd. Always one of these pools at Nationals.
Oct 28 15:26:53 CDT 2004 (Thu) 6 Trained monkeys still up, 10-7. Brass Monkey takes the lead 10-9. Open, 4 8-7 (A,B34,D12) games, 1 8-6 (D34), 1 8-5 (B12), 2 8-3 (C)
Oct 28 16:18:17 CDT 2004 (Thu) Nemesis didn't win a game. Highest they can finish is 9th, again. Machine didn't either. Sockeye won though, which is good, almost good enough to win the pool, but coming in 2nd. Sends Pike down to the lower pool. Brass Monkey and Holes & Poles knotted up at 14's. I'm pulling for BM because I played with Pat Hard at Poultry Days. I'm pulling for 6 Trained Monkeys because of Adam Goff. I'm pulling for Sockeye because of the aforementioned tenuous connection with Carleton. And Chad Larson because of the central region and I think they play like Kaze did. I'm looking forward to the writeups though. Wow. A quick refresh and we see that Bad Larry pulled off the upset and beat B+ leading to a 3 way tie. If I can read it right, Bad Larry takes 1st, CLE takes 2nd, and B+ drops. Wow. BM pulled off the upset, 17-15, as did 6 Trained Monkeys. Universe (Central Region) pulled off an upset 15-13 over Duff. So Central Winless teams are: Hot Action, Machine, Zero, Nemesis, Clutch, and Collide. Best team out of the Central Region? CLE, 2-1, 2nd in their pool. Wow. Love it. And Pool D in Open? Killer. Everyone held seed, but close games every round. Very much like Pool B in Mixed. Just plain killer.
Oct 28 16:59:10 CDT 2004 (Thu) I thought I was done, but last check, DTL pulls off the upset at the buzzer, 16-15 over Red Fish Blue Fish. So in Mixed, no #1 Pool Seed held. That's just crazy. Women's everyone except Brute Squad and Nemesis held seed, both of those teams going 0'fer. And Open pools B,C and D all held seed and A was all fucked up. Now I really can't wait for the writeups. RSD checking throughout the day yielded only comments about the Pike-Sockeye upset, nothing else.
