Wildwood 2010

Over 400 Ultimate teams competed this weekend in various 2-2 and 3-1 division for a shot at a Wildwood Cup. Last year "Stillerman's Beach Blokes" went 5-2 to win the Merlot Division and come away with a 3rd tier trophy only losing to eventual 1st and 2nd tier finalists. Our most recent incarnation of the team, "Assume the Wurst," prepared for a similar run at a cup and had high expectations for the weekend.

In case you're interested our past Wildwood team names and outfits were:
2007 - Red Delicious (Red shirts, Rad mustaches)
2008 - Donk-a-phant Dance Party (All plaid)
2009 - Stillerman's Beach Blokes (Union Jack)
2010 - Assume the Wurst (liederhosen/suspenders)

Normally there isn't much to talk about before the tournament begins on Saturday, but this year was an exception. I won't go into too many details, but I will point out that camping turned out to be a terrible idea this year. We had 10 people trying to fit into an 8-person tent in 85-90 degree nighttime temperatures. I would be very surprised if anyone managed more than an hour of good sleep that night. Around 4 in the morning a group of 4 (me included) decided it would be best to get to a WaWa and rehydrate for the morning's games. We ended up picking up an extra hour of sleep in the car's A/C out in the parking lot. A hotel was booked first thing Saturday morning.

Our pool for Saturday looked particularly nasty. We had last years champs (Rabs), a team of DC players we knew were very good (Hennessey, they ended up in the 2-2 finals this year), and an unknown to play. We finished the pool 1-2 with losses to the bigger teams and a solid performance over the 3rd. There were huge layout scores and d's during all three games and we came out of the pool knowing we had something to prove (and knowing that this had to be one of the harder pools in the tournament).

Our crossover on Saturday was probably one of our best games all weekend. We were all fired up and ready to get a convincing win moving into Sunday's play. That's exactly what we did as Broaddus, Dave, Huldah, and Jim all played out of their minds and led us to a huge victory.

Saturday night was a welcome change from Friday. Air conditioned hotel rooms and cold showers were much needed after one of the hottest Wildwood's I've been to. Although I know we all wanted to get out to the shore and hit the clubs for some fist pumping, the sleep came pretty quickly for all of us.

Sunday morning was great. We didn't have a game until 11, and we really acted like it when we rolled out of bed in the morning. Everyone seemed refreshed from actually getting a full night's worth of sleep, and we were happy to have the time for breakfast and pre-game shopping for Gatorades (because the tourney provides Powerade which tastes like swamp water...). Anyway, just to finish this post (since I started it 6 days ago and got too busy to finish), I'm going to pass along a short video from the tourney. We ended up 3-3 on the weekend with a 1-1 day on Sunday. Overall I think we had a bunch of fun! Enjoy the clip!