Australian Mixed Ultimate Championships

On Friday Oct. 7th, Zach (my friend from summer league frisbee in the U.S.) and I flew down to Melbourne to participate in the AMUC. We were playing for a Townsville team--we had met some of their players at the Gold Coast Halibut tournament earlier this semester. Though our team didn't do very well, the overall experience was amazing and something I might not ever get to do in the states because it is much harder to go to Nationals back at home. Our team name was the Villains and our uniforms were awesome! 

The whole weekend was pretty expensive, but we turned it into a long weekend and were able to explore some of Melbourne after the tourney ended. We were able to watch the championship game, which had some of the most talented players I've ever seen. Some of these players have played in Worlds! (As in the best players from each country play against each other) The people on my team were really great too and we all had a blast. The tournament party was on Sunday night and each team was assigned a letter of the alphabet to figure out a costume for. Our letter was "e" and we came up with the idea of the "Elements of Ultimate". Basically, we each chose an ultimate frisbee term and made shirts that looked like the periodic table elements. My element was "Double Happiness", which is when you get the D and then score a point right after. We also drew mustaches on our faces to keep with the Villains theme. 

The party was a normal DJ and bar downstairs, but upstairs was something I've never even heard of before... a silent disco. Basically that means everyone has their own set of headphones and there are 3 "stations" to choose from by clicking a button on the headphones and each one has a different color so you know what other people are listening to. So you can choose what song you want to listen to by 

switching between them and its just so funny because you could be next to someone and jamming out to completely different songs but everyone is dancing and singing out loud as if they are in a regular club it was hilarious.