Potlatch 2008

Oops, another big gap in posting. I haven't been flaky, I've been away. I'm hoping to get a little more sanity time (and some clean socks) in the next couple of days.

In the meantime, he's a very quick version of what happened at Potlatch. The 4th of July fell on the Friday this year, which means Potlatch was a three day tourney. I was playing with a team called Summer Camp, from Texas. It was a bunch of Double Wide guys, some girls from the Texas co-ed team (or a Texas co-ed team - I didn't catch the name), Steve Finn from Seattle (who played Booyakasha last year and plays for Shazam, aka Team USA co-ed this year), plus Janice from Edmonton and me.

We did really well the first two days, winning all our games to go 6-0. We were ranked 6th in A pool going into the Sunday pre-quarter. It was a tough, hard-running, really fun game, but closer than we would have liked. Just when we would start to get a little gap or get a break, we'd make an uncharacteristic mistake or huck away. We very very nearly scored a point near the end of the game, and ended up f'ing it up and getting scored on instead. In hind sight, had we scored that one, we would have been up 12-10 when the hard can horn went off. Instead it was 11-11, universe point. It was an exciting one, and we had a huck off that might have one the game, but it got d'ed, and they hucked the other way to end our run. Boo urns.

We played one more game, losing to Downtown Brown 15-13. They were a good team and we played hard when on the field, but the team had definitely lost it's fire. I think we would have won if we were playing like it really mean something. On a happy note, Janice got a sweet D on Awesome that game. (Awesome, thus dubbed at Flowerbowl, is a girl who plays for Fury who wears glasses, looks like an astrophysicist, and can layout at head level. She's AWESOME.)

More on Potlatch to come, including who we playing, the games, plus the other teams that were there - two Calgary teams, LP and Oui UC, plus TFP from Van.