Toto

We went 0-3 for the day, playing the range of really bad ultimate to some of the best ultimate we've ever played, and everything in between. It's hard to watch us fold so completely, knowing just an hour ago we were rockin'.

Our first game was against Drive Thru Liquor, the second place team from the Southwest Region, and the first place team from the Rocky Section (Denver specifically). We came out flat. As in dead. As in, as flat as the cornfields of Kansas.

We went down very quickly 1-6. As if... as if... as if, we had no heart. As we didn't. Just as the score went 1-6, Mark showed up. He had taken the red-eye in, and had just arrived at the fields, as Megan had driven the hour to Tampa and the hour back to bring him to the fields.

And we woke up.

We matched DTL point for point until the end of the game, 10-15. During the game, Kevin went down with an injury. It wasn't a tournament ender, but it was a game stopper. It foretold the next game in an unfortunate way.

Our next game was against Hang Time, the first in our pool, from Texas and Arkansas. HT has been in the finals at least twice in the last five years, though not in the last two. We had our full complement of Smiths: Kevin (all taped up from the previous game's injury), Kyle, Mark, Chucky and Heidi, and we were ready to play.

We went up 2-0, kept it close and tied at 5-5, lost half at 7-8, and brought it back 10-9. We hung with this team. And they were not a pleasant team to play against. At one point, one player fouled Adam, then called him "a fucking jew" when he made the call. The entire field was dumbfounded.

Kevin went out in the middle of the game with an ankle injury. It was devastating to our offense, because, as much as we complain, it's Kevin that opens up the field with his hucks.

We ended up losing the heartbreaker 13-15.

We needed to win our last game in order to be in control of our own destiny tomorrow. If we win, we head into tomorrow 1-0. If we lose, the head into tomorrow 0-1 and even if we win the first two rounds tomorrow, going 2-1, we may still be out of the running for the top 12, based on point differential.

We lost.

We were running with them no problem to 5-5, but lost our momentum. Kris was frustrated and it showed. He didn't want his season to be over today. Maybe Saturday, but not today.

So, three more games tomorrow.