Czech it out!

Prague's beauty was no lie. It was an amazing city to just walk or paddle boat around in. Cara and I arrived a couple days before the tournament began to get in a few sites. On our first day, we couldn't pass up taking an evening paddle boat in the Vltava River.

Day two, we took a walking tour of the city to learn some Czech history and about the historic buildings. We learned about the "Velvet Revolution", the Czech Republic's non-violent separation from Communism in 1989. That night we met our frisbee friends for dinner.

The next day we checked into our accomodations for the week-long tournament, WUCC 2010. Frisbee for a week!




Pre-Worlds paddle boating in the Vltava River



We really liked this sign!



Prague from the river



Prague castle on the hill, which overlooks the city



View from Charles Bridge



the infamous astronomical clock of Prague. Every hour it does a little underwhelming song and dance that attracks a huge mass of tourists.



posing in front of the Church of our Lady Before Tyn, a dominating gothic church in the Old Town Square



Cara straddling the 50th parallel. The lattitude line that covers the most landmass on Earth, mostly because it runs through all of Eurasia and North America.



Clock on the Jewish Town Hall with hands that run backwards because Hebrew is read from right to left.







Prague skyline



Showdown team dinner



Hanna, Nat, Fran, and Tina throwing "Ps" on the shuttle bus



World Ultimate Club Championships (WUCC 2010)
Doublewide Recap:
DW entered the tournament ranked #6. In our initial pool play games we beat Cotarica (Italy), CUUP (China), and Euforia (Columbia) as we tried to find our rhythm. Next we were seeded into a "Powerpool" of 6 teams in which the top 2 would advance to the quarterfinals. Our first loss came against #1 seeded Chain Lightning (USA), our South Region rival. Our next game against Skogs (Sweden) was rained out. On day 4, we won on ultimate point against Skogs and then beat Freespeed (Switzerland) and Mephisto (Canada). This set us up to play Viksjöfors (Sweden) in the game to decide who advances to the quarterfinals. Although we were heavily favored in this game, we lost a heartbreaking ultimate point game to ViF who played well. Our run to break seed was over. After a night of celebrating AmandaB's upcoming birthday and drowning our sorrows a bit with plenty of Czech beer we still had two games to play the next day. We won our first game in the morning against Karhukopla (Finland) and then beat Clapham (England) in a brutally hot game on the turf to finish the weekend 8 - 2, in 9th place. Although different from Perth, WUCC 2010 was still an amazing experience. I hope DW can put the work in to qualify for the next worlds in 2014.

Showdown Recap:
Showdown entered the tournament as the 7th seed. After a strong start to the weekend, Showdown lost in the pre-quarters to the Woodchicas (Germany) and finished the weekend 6 - 4, in 15th place. Not the result they were hoping for, but the fall season is right around the corner!