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I’m delighted to report that our Summer Season Ultimate team, The Buddha Bellies, has finished playoffs as champions of our division. We’re the champs of the bottom pool! Booyah!!

The weekend has been a whirlwind of Ultimate. With a game on Friday, two on Saturday, and two more on Sunday, I’m definitely happy to have a chance to have a breather.

Friday’s game with the Buddha Bellies was a win against last place “Super Troopers”. Unfortunately the game wasn’t the most enjoyable as they were nasty to play with. Every called foul was contested aggressively, and they didn’t hold a great deal of sportsmanship. At least we beat them 12-6. We eventually discovered that this bottom tier team was stacked with ringers!

Saturday’s games were played with Rainbow Trout (I’ll be playing with them full time this fall). I was asked to sub in for them for finals, and I had an amazing time out on the field. Our first game was against, surprise, the same ringers that were brought in to face the Buddhaa Bellies on Friday’s game. For clarification, Trout plays at a much higher tier than the Buddha Bellies, so it was a bewildering to see how they stacked their team so badly. The “Killer Cods” were too much for us Trout, and we lost a closely contested game.

The next game followed up against a bunch of beer loving tye dyed hippies. We beat them fairly easily as they were short of spares and eventually gassed after 3 hours of Ultimate.

Saturday night was a blast as our team mate Bart had the entire Buddha Bellies team over his place for BBQ and foosball! Yes, it was like I peaked that summer day with a nice sunny day of back to back Ultimate, followed by foosball, burgers, beer, and some fun company. Amanda brought a funky game called catch-phrase that was a blast too.

Sunday was the semi-finals and finals for the Buddha Bellies. We were able to absolutely crush “Flick Fever” in the semis. We reached half with the score at 8-1, but then slacked off and they managed to pull up a few points. It ended with a win for us at 15-6, with plenty of time to spare for the final game.

We played for the division championship against the “Ultimate Virgins” in a rubber match from the regular season. We beat them and they’ve beaten us in the regular season, so we were anticipating a hard fought battle.

The first half was a tough game, going back and forth, and we were able to break away for 2 point lead reaching the half. We quickly grew wise to their defense, and shut them down offensively in the second half, and it was smooth sailing in the second half. We took the championship game with the score 11-7.

Free beer and food followed for the champs, and it tasted like sweet victory. Okay, maybe it tasted more like shitty beer and stale hot dogs… but who I am to complain. Anywho, we invited the team over to our place afterwards for pizza and beer, and a jolly time was had.

I’ve had a wicked fun season with the team, in that we played hard on the field, had fun off of it, and really made good friends from it. I’m sad to see that the season has ended, and that the team won’t ever be the same. But C’est La Vie. There is always next year, and maybe we’ll be able to pull together a team for the fall.

The Buddha Bellies… all in gangster pose:

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