More random thoughts of later rounds.

• Quickest game to half in the secound was Riot vs Electric Mayhem, in 19 minutes.
• Quickest division to half was womens, by far.
• Quickest game to end was Riot vs Electric Mayhem, 15-2, finishing in less than 40 minutes

I lasted until 1:20 before I had to take my jacket off.

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Heh. Once again, my name has spoofed another person. I introduced myself to Joe Seidler, who stopped by to talk to Shiella. We chatted a bit, and he admitted that he thought I was a guy until someone told him, "She". Heh. We chuckled.

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Many close games (DoG vs GOAT ended 16-15 well over the time cap), and a couple upsets (Pike beat the number one seed Sockeye 15-12), and many, many games holding seed. Some games were blow outs, soe appeared to be close the whole way. I managed to watch only the first few points of a couple interesting games, dashing back to the nest to enter half time scores.

A few notes of interest:

• The quickest game was Riot vs Nemesis (15-3), over at 10:42
• The quickest injury was in the B+ vs Chad Larson (17-16) game. The UPA's lawyer had a "I can't look at this injury it's so gross" broken ankle injury on the fourth point of the game. He ended up leaving the tournament in an ambulance.
• SubZero took half 8-4 on Johnny Bravo, but still lost to Bravo 15-12, for the biggest come-back of the first round.
• The last game to end was the DoG vs GOAT game, ending at 11:54, with DoG winning 16-15
• White shorts are big this year, with at least five Open teams wearing white or whitish shorts
• Most common scores were 15-{3-5} in womens games, 15-{8-10} in mixed games, 15-12 in open games and 15-{5-6} in masters games.

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Good lord, stop the fucking harmonica.

Some random guy is up in the crow's nest playing the harmonica while we're trying to get the games going. Elizabeth turns to the guy and says, "I love it, but please stop it."

Yeah, Elizabeth!

Next time, I'm going to kick the guy out. No badge, no crow's nest. Out! Out!

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When the tournaments were created, they were saved with the scores locked. The feature is to prevent people from editing scores before/after the tournament. Having not actually used score reporter before, I didn't know how to unlock the tournament so that I could enter scores. Michael didn't recall the process either. Whoops.

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My first morning of my first nationals. Here I am at the fields, in the crow's nest, thinking, "Wow. This is amazing." For people who have been here many times, who think this is just another tournament, who expect to come here every year, I say, "Go home. Let the rest of us, for whom this is a wonder, an experience, a moment, have a chance at this experience." It's more than just a tournament. It's the opportunity to see the sport we love at its finest.

My first thought here is that it's cold. No one told me it was going to be cold. Sure, at the end of the day I'll probably be thrilled with that gentle breeze coming through the crow's nest, the 10° cooler temperature, the shade. But right now, at 9:10 am (it's only 6:10 am at home! Crazy talk!), it's freaking cold. As I'm wont to say, "Cold, tired, hungry. Pick two."

I went to get a bagel for breakfast. Sans cream cheese, not my favorite breakfast, but I'll manage. On my way over, a woman noticed my "Official UPA staff" shirt, and asked, "Hey, do you know when they'll start the beer?"

Blink.

Blink, blink.

It's 8:45.

A.M.

I guess some people, well, have different priorities.

So far today, I've seen and said hello to Brokaw, Drea, Patrick Hard, Becky, Asako, Jane, Kate. I've met a bunch more people that I'm sure I'll never remember their names. And there are many others are here that I recognize: Billy Rodriquez, Mooney, Scottie. This is cool.

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