Finally, after much waiting and considerable fields wrangling, Spring League has started in the ACT. Both divisions fired off tonight at Dickson on a slightly chilly but otherwise lovely Spring evening. I only caught the very end of Div 3 but there seemed to be positively hordes of players and a bunch of new teams and faces. I hear that Factory (the ACT women's team) has entered a team into Div 3 and notched up their first win tonight, scraping home by a point in a close scrap. A nice start to the season following their first beginner's clinic last week, which was apparently a raging success.
In Div 2 it was great to see a bunch of club level ultimate players return to the fields for local competition. These guys and girls have been tied up in serious training for national and international tournaments over the last two years and haven't been able to play so it's great to see them back mixing it up at league. One of the great things about ultimate that doesn't happen in most sports is that you can play with some of the world's best players on your league team. I saw Anunaki beat Discotheque (the one with JJ), The Punters beat the other Discotheque (with all the other Matthews-Hunters), Soma (who have some other name but they're all wearing Soma shirts) took down The Devolutionaries, the Dam Beavers lost by a point to Kick Ass (where James OReilly laid out on D - seriously!), and Revelation played The Muppets and someone won.
The season's looking great. I'll see if we can get some updates from some kind of organiser-types in the know, because it's all too big for me to keep track of. Have fun out there.
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