Alberta Regionals

Alberta Regionals were this weekend, and the tournament has never been more exciting. (read: until now, the tournament has never been exciting.) The co-ed division was the one to watch, with 5 teams from Alberta fighting for two spots in Nationals at home. Two teams were from Edmonton - Red Herring and Psychoplastique, and three from Calgary - Bronco, Oui and Crude. I really enjoyed watching lots of hard fought ultimate this weekend! I had to cheer good play, because Red Herring was the only team that I didn't either have good friends on or have some sort of connection with. I've played a bit of Psycho (last year, Vegas, nearly this year - they are a great group and skilled players!), I have lots of friends on Oui, and I've been all but playing Bronco all year (I practice with them, have played two tourneys and even have a uniform!).

Psycho took first place with a win over Bronco this morning by 3 points. This was a great game - so tight the whole way and both teams played so hard. Meanwhile, Oui beat out Crude for the chance to play the loser of the 1-2 game via UPA format.

Bronco took the second place to Nationals with a CRAZY comeback over Oui in a universe point!

Congratulations to Bronco and Psycho!!

I feel really bad for Oui, because they are a great team and definitely deserve a spot at Nationals too. Hopefully the Alberta teams will do really well this year and get lots of spots for next year.

Our game (women's division) was enjoyable, and I felt we played well. We were trying to work our plays and zones, and we were running with a small squad of about 11. I really enjoyed the game, and was really stoked to hit endzone on one of my pulls (little known fact: I practice pulling and throwing on my own a lot, especially early and late season. Even when I'm just practicing in a field by myself, I'd say I can hit endzone about one in 50, maybe 100 pulls, even downwind. It's something I really want to be able to do consistently!). Anyway, we won over Edmonton 17-3, which may have been a tad anticlimactic after the exciting and close co-ed games. Nationals, here we come.