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ultimatejournal: Quick Nationals Sunday Morning Post (please excuse formatting.. running out of time)
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Sunday, October 19. Quick Nationals Sunday Morning Post (please excuse formatting. running out of time). Well, at least my intent is to make it quick. To start with, the ultimate has been rather strong in the games I have seen. This may be selection bias (Follow Scandal around and you'll see some good ultimating) in part, but the games have been compelling for the most. Comebacks, teams playing unafraid and the like. On to the numbers:. 4 points under 2 minutes. 3 points btw 2 and 3 min. 1 This game, whi...
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ultimatejournal: Mid Atlantic Regionals 2014 Sunday
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Monday, September 29. Mid Atlantic Regionals 2014 Sunday. So now these teams should all collude, right? I mean that, in the long run, it is now better if Scandal and Green Means Go to both finish as high as possible at Nationals, right? If Both finish in the pro flight, then the region gets two automatic bids for next year, if my reading of the TCT guidelines is correct. So then. should they pool resources to do as well as possible? Should they share scouting reports and tips? Same for Amp and Amp? As fo...
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ultimatejournal: October 2013
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Thursday, October 10. The Beginning Begets the End. I didn't make it to regionals this year. I never made it to regionals in college either. We were in a 2-bid section w/ 8 to 12 teams (or more? Point was, you gotta earn it. I'm cool with that. I don't look back a those years and wish the UPA had done something different. I look back and know I could have done more. You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes.". Check behind door #2 for your prize: A 15-7 loss! And the men's division?
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ultimatejournal: May 2015
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Thursday, May 7. More than a feeling,. But the knowing. the knowing that it is time to burn out or fade away. I think it would have been different if I had been paid a ton of money to play ultimate. Then again, it is unclear if that would've been a good thing. It certainly wouldn't have led me here. Was I ever Tim Duncan? Not a chance. But I was that me. That positive avatar of my self. Then these words from afar. But preparing to play — that’s the culprit. I just crossed over Randall's Island on Amtrak.
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ultimatejournal: The More I Look...
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Thursday, April 16. The More I Look. The more I see:. This is my favorite clip from MLU's 2014 season. It starts with the PHL's Dave Brandolph splitting of the double. It continues with the comical reaction from the Boston defender who seems to be asking for spurious travel calls to save him. Then the nicely angled slicing pass between two unprepared Boston defenders released in slightly modified stride. The little IO backhand he throws has a short flight path which forces Brandolph to catch it at a spec...
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ultimatejournal: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 22. So, at some point between my writing this post for Major League Ultimate. And it getting properly posted, I failed at some part of the connecting process or somesuch. I think it was the outbox of my gmail. Point is, through all fault of my own, it was not published and was never really finished being polished. Nonetheless, here it is unedited in mostly plain text form including my prediction and some observations about VAN. My page on MLUltimate.com. That said, D.C. is far from ...While...
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ultimatejournal: April 2015
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Thursday, April 16. The More I Look. The more I see:. This is my favorite clip from MLU's 2014 season. It starts with the PHL's Dave Brandolph splitting of the double. It continues with the comical reaction from the Boston defender who seems to be asking for spurious travel calls to save him. Then the nicely angled slicing pass between two unprepared Boston defenders released in slightly modified stride. The little IO backhand he throws has a short flight path which forces Brandolph to catch it at a spec...
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ultimatejournal: September 2014
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Monday, September 29. Mid Atlantic Regionals 2014 Sunday. So now these teams should all collude, right? I mean that, in the long run, it is now better if Scandal and Green Means Go to both finish as high as possible at Nationals, right? If Both finish in the pro flight, then the region gets two automatic bids for next year, if my reading of the TCT guidelines is correct. So then. should they pool resources to do as well as possible? Should they share scouting reports and tips? Same for Amp and Amp? As fo...
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ultimatejournal: Burn Out or Fade Away?
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Saturday, November 13. Burn Out or Fade Away? And I have the same problem. No, not hilarious yet awesome yet embarrassing yet captivating videos on the web. More that the things we promised never to do when we were younger, we did precisely. Promises take work to keep. Dreams take time to build. I faded out of ultimate, like I never thought I could. And turn into fuel. Or sustenance. Or something. I wasn't ready to accept this at all, so I tried out with PoNY. CUT, Boston Invite, Chesapeake Open. Followe...
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ultimatejournal: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 27. MOSH 13 totally unformatted or linked. Every time I get a chance to advance it's backwards. No thanks to my very own actions. Get a couple good drinks in the kid. I can flip on a friend, take a drug, fuck a chick that I shouldn't. Oh god, I am one of those mad men". El-P, Sea Legs. Update at 1:14pm, 11/27/13: Basic links added back in). I was the Least Effecient Player (per/) Point (LePPr? In PADA MOSH finals. Possibly in MOSH finals history. 2 points, 2 goals stopped for my team.