Tossers Ultimate - 3rd at the ultimate tournament

Hey everyone,

This is the team we put together for the 2nd Jeju Ultimate Frisbee Tournament which was held last weekend, April 29-30. We were the Jeju Tossers! It was really amazing and we had a fabulous time! We played at the 1988 Olympics training feild and the 3 feilds we played on were awesome and really flat. The grass was flawless, something pretty uncommon here, we usually play on sand/dead grass feilds.

Our team was full of newbies from all around the world - Canada, US, NZ, OZ and Korea, but we did really well with the help of of the wind. Jeju is known as the wind capital of Korea. It was gusting both days non-stop...we thought that it was only tiny bit windy for the islands standard, but after every teams commented on the storm winds we realized really that the wind was quit torrential. Anyways, it was a brand new team, but as the underdogs we created some havoc on the feild. We won three games and we finished 3rd out of 8.

The whole tournament went off without any big hitches. Christian helped organise the tourney on the island. We had to find two places to party for Friday and Saturday night. We found two great restaurant/bar places - the food, drinks and atmosphere were really great and everyone was impressed!

Our first game was Saturday morning at 9 Am. We lost 11 to 1 against one of the teams in the final. This was our first game against another team. It was hard and there was no wind. Our second game was against the Seoul A team. We won beat them on the last point 7 to 6. The wind was blowing hard and we were playing a good zone. We lost our next game againt the Greater China team. The made three upwind points and we could not break there zone defence up wind. Our last game was against the Seoul B team. We beat them again on the last point and scored an upwind point to win. We finished in 5th for the first round of the tourney. On Saturday, we would play againt the 4th place team to see who would face the 1st place team. We had a great supper and party night at the Club Jeju, our local hangout. Karina made the locals proud by finishing in the finals on the "flippy-cups" games. There were 130 ultimate players seriously enjoying themselves on Saturday night. Anywas, the bar is amazing. Check out their website www.club-jeju.com .

Sunday morning, the team was a little rough from the Saturday night party. We were missing a few players who were in rough shape. We got up and had to play Daejeon, a team from the mainland. The wind was still blowing hard. This team was a lot of fun to play to against. They had a lot of spirit and gave us a run for the game. We did well and scored some up wind points that put us up for the game. We won and then had to play the 1st place team from Shanghai. This team was good and wanted to win the tourney. They were really strong players that could play against the wind. The beat us by 7 but we had a lot of fun. The team was finished and we decided to call it a tie with the Greater China Team. They were happy with 3rd and I think they could have beat us again. It was amazing to do so well in our first tourney.

Our team ended up winning the Spirit award for the tourney. The team learned a lot. It was so much fun. The captain (aka All star Christian!!!) was even on the all star team. It was so much fun. We will not be here next year but I hope Jeju keeps putting a team in. We enjoyed ourselves and passed out with fatigue and sunstroke on Sunday night. It was an amazing experience. This tourney rates in my top five. We hope to play a few more before the year is over.

Talk to you soon,

Christian and Karina