for once, this tournament was more frisbee than food. i think 60-70% of the stuff i ate this weekend was bought from a convenience store (yum! chinese yogurt and tea leave eggs!).
i had one of my better defensive tournaments and one of my crappier offensive tournaments. in our first game against beijing, i got 2 d's on boys cutting deep. one of them i just managed to get in the way and fluster him, the other one, i actually jumped and knocked the disc away (yay!). on offense, i got run thru d'd twice (one might've been a foul/strip, but i didn't call it)--my excuse on the clean one is that i thought i had successfully bodied her out, but she has really really long arms (weak excuse, i know).
in our second game against ringers (of fire), i got a point block on my girl (who is a handler), but it was caught anyways (not by the intended reciever, so i think my point block counts since it significantly changed the path of the disc).
and then in the game against korea, i dropped a pull in our own endzone. otherwise, i don't think i did too much in this game, but jon had a standout lay out d on a poach.
in prequarters, we played gaizabang, who played a trapping zone going both ways (despite the lack of wind). i'm pretty proud of myself for figuring out that they played man d on the middle handler (usually me), so if i stood upfield, behind one of the cup ppl, the far handler could pinch in for an easy dump. i also managed to "catch" the game winning goal...i was looking for a loopy flick to the back cone (my girl was standing on the front cone even tho i was in the middle of the endzone), the throw goes up, hangs a bit, i see some guy coming to poach it, so i jump for it. i'm touching the disc on both hands (so arms raised) when the guy hits me hard in the ribs (shoudler? body? i have no idea), and the disc spins out of my hands. i'm somewhat winded and call the foul. the guy doesn't contest. apparently, by the 11th edition, this is a goal?! i wish the guy had contested...it wasn't a close game, but still, that's a crappy way to win. oh, and then they gave me the mvp award, one of their jerseys, despite the fact that i got beaten deep twice...i had a bid on one, but i didn't take it, b/c i'm bad at bidding on d...i'm also not so good at the running and jumping thing...i can either run or jump, but if i have to do both, i'm screwed. (they might've chosen me b/c i'm roughly the same size as the average japanese man--the shirt is a medium and it fits me perfectly).
in the quarters, we got thoroughly schooled by the phillippines allstar team. unlike all the other country teams, the phillippino team is actually local kids (not expats), so it's AWESOME that they are SO GOOD. they had us at 7-0 before we posted our first point, which i will boldly take credit for. i called a 3 female handler set, with 3 guys standing really deep in the endzone, and 1 guy as the german. the german's job was to stay out of the way. the three of us worked it to about midfield, when someone passed it to the german, who promptly threw it away to one of the deep guys (BOO MEN!). we got the turn near our own endzone, and we worked it up again, and this time it worked (YAY LADIES!). anyways, really fun, really intense game. the phillippines went on to lose in the finals to shanghai, after beating them the day before in pool play and being up 9-7 after half (i hear the game was tied 12-12 but shanghai took the next 3 points to win. i'm very impressed with shanghai's mental fortitude as a team. time and again, they play really close games and manage to come from behind to win in the finals/semis/whatever, which is even more impressive given they don't ever sub their men on sunday).
we won our consolation match handily against singapore. they played a fm zone d. during one point, i was winging, and half heartedly cutting for a pass (b/c a 200 lb guy was covering me), but i guess my handler had a lot of confidence in my abilities, b/c she threw it, and i caught it, and then the 200 lb guy barreled into me (not making any effort to stop/change directions/soften my landing). he managed to wrench my knee and knock me all the way out of bounds. i held onto the disc, but called an injury sub. i'm having some trouble bending my knee today (i've got an appointment with the physio tomorrow). BOO MEN!
between semi's and finals, we had the first ever women's exhibition game. it was sloppy, sloppy ultimate, but at least it happened. and i played it with my iffy knee, and it felt ok (running feels better than walking, incidentally, but i don't get why b/c stairs are AWFUL).
all in all, a very fun time (probably my favorite tournament that i've played with junk). props to dara, jesse, and eileen for being solid pickups, props to terry for making the upgrade. oh, and guess who else was there? TIM TUTTLE!
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6 comments:
Lily, I don't think it's a goal under 11th edition. It is only a goal if you had possession and it sounds like you were just touching it (it's similar to "strip" being a goal, except strip involves the person touching the disc during contact and a foul would be if you had caught it and then there was contact with no touching of the disc). So, then what should have happened is that you touch the disc to the ground at the spot where foul happened and then walk it to the endzone line and put it into play. Incidentally this was the one question I got wrong on the observer rules test, b/c I said that you should walk it to the line and I forgot the whole touching to the ground thing first to make it live disc.
never disappointed when i read your blog; you never fail to crack me up :)
if you're going to new zealand...it's winter, so brace yourself for the cold (kiwis don't do central heating or big winter jackets!)
i know the South Island better than the North. i love the south island. the South has amazing scenery if you go hiking (Mt Aspiring National Park, Fiordland, Stewart Island), but might be cold now to do long hikes. but check at the DOC centers (every major town has one) to see what they recommend. Gertrude Saddle in Fiordland is a wow. Mt.Cook National Park and Lake Tekapo (go up to the observatory) are also great. Queenstown is overrated, but Wanaka and Glenorchy are nice.
Marlborough Sounds is one of my favorites. I worked at Queen Charlotte Wilderness Park for 1 month, and they take guests.i love this family! also gorgeous paradise. http://www.truenz.co.nz/wilderness/
Golden Bay, Takaka, Kahurangi National Park, Whariki Beach very nice, mild weather, nice secluded forest&beaches.
North Island. Tongariro National Park (Mordor + Mount Doom), really cool volcanoes,thermal hot pools.
i hear Northland (Cape Reinga), the Coromandel Peninsula, and Southern East coast are nice, but never been there.
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thanks minwah and yelena!
yelena, that's what i thought too, but dara (who played with ucla last year) said that in the 11th edition, there's no such thing as a strip call anymore, so then i got confused. when you say "put it into play", does that mean i need to check it in again, or is the ground check all i need?
minwah, if i only have 2 weeks, i should just choose 1 place right? or could i do a couple of these awesome places you've been to?
I copied and pasted some relevant rules. Strip was always a subset of a foul, b/c a disc was always considered an extension of a person who has possession, but in 11th edition they made it blatantly obvious for everyone (see XVI.3.d).
There was inconsistency in the 10th about a "strip" type of foul being a goal in the endzone and a foul w/o disc contact but after the person already caught the disc not being a goal. So that is corrected in the 11th in XI.2.
As for putting the disc into play, you do need to touch a live disc to the ground (see R.2). Also, before I was not entirely correct about touching the disc to the ground at the spot of the foul, you could offer it to the D for a check (touching it to the ground would be self-check). So when you have a dead disc, it has to be "checked-in" twice, first to make it live and you can do that by offering it to an opponent or by self-checking by touching it to the ground (or the D can check it by touching the disc) and second you have to put it into play by touching it to the ground at the spot where you have established your pivot.
XI.2 When an in-bounds player in possession of the disc whose first ground contact will be completely within the end zone loses possession of the disc due to an uncontested foul, or lands out of the end zone due to an uncontested force-out foul (XVI.H.3.b.4), that player is awarded a goal.
XVI.3.d Strip: If a defensive player initiates contact with the disc after an offensive player has gained possession of the disc, and the offensive player loses possession as a result, it is a strip. A strip is a subset of fouls and is treated the same way.
X.B If a team gains or retains possession in the end zone that they are attacking other than by scoring a goal in accordance with rule XI, the player in possession must carry the disc directly to, and put it into play at, the spot on the goal line closest to where possession was gained.
R.2 A disc is live when players are allowed to move and the disc is subject to a turnover, but the thrower cannot make a legal pass (e.g., walking the disc to the spot where it is to be put into play). For a live disc to be put into play, the thrower must establish a pivot at the appropriate spot on the field, touch the disc to the ground, and put it into play.
My right knee does the same thing... going up stairs is okay, but I always feel like I'm falling down the stairs as much as walking down. I've tried shuffling down sideways, but it doesn't help much and make me look like an idiot >.<
Hope it gets better.
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