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Zodiac Tournament

This weekend was the Zodiac Tournament in Rahchestah. Being born on the same day as HAL 9000 was first booted, I was put on the Capricorn team. We played pretty well.

We played 3 games each day. On day one (Saturday), we beat Aries and Gemini, but lost to Aquarius (headed up by Ian, who is an awesome player from Syracuse). Day one ended in slight frustration for me, as I couldn't find the tournament party that night. The league had rented out part of the Water Street Music Hall club, but the directions I got to the place were pretty bad. After spending some time driving in the rain and not finding it, I gave up and headed back to the apartment of Emily(my cousin). Part of my inability to find it was probably my brain's inability to separate signal from noise in the rain. Yet another reason I hate living in and around cities is the light pollution that causes excessive vision problems when the roads are wet (street lights, headlights, taillights, and traffic lights are all causing reflections on the road, making driving a chore).

Day two began with higher spirits as we were challenged by Leo. We put down the mighty tiger...

Our second game against the Scorpios stung us in the afternoon, though. We went down 17-5 I believe. They were a phenomonal team.

After that quick game, we played Libra for 3rd/4th place in the tournie. It was an incredibly goofy game, with such rounds as walking-only (no-one allowed to run, jumps must be straight vertical, and dives involved dropping to your knees and then bidding). The Libras also played suicide squad (everyone on their team dropped to the ground except the mark and the receiver when a pass was made), and the Capricorn defensive strategy of pulling, and then joining hands and blocking the end zone. We also had quite a bit of beer during the last game...

We lost it, not that we cared, so we made 4th place in the tournament. Not bad...not bad at all for a team of people who didn't know each other at the beginning.

Posted by reid at September 28, 2003 10:40 PM | TrackBack