WUCC2006

The coed ultimate team that I play on, The Chad Larson Experience, qualified for 2006 worlds to be held in Perth, Australia. There was initial concern over the cost of the tournament, but it now seems that 90% of the team will make the trip. I was reading about the teams today that have been accepted in the mixed division and it looked like this:

USA (9 teams), Australia (7 teams), Canada (6 teams), Great Britian (5 teams), Japan (3 teams), Germany, Phillipines, and Singapore (2 teams), Italy, Netherlands, China, Finland, Thailand, New Zealand, India, and Korea (1 team).

To me, this is really exciting, to have the chance to play against teams from China, Japan, Thailand, India, Phillipines, Singapore, and Korea. Even though most of the players will probably speak English (which will be the "official language" of worlds), it would be cool to play a team where "ultimate" becomes the language that unites us together. Well, that and some shared "beer on the beach" after the game.

Another reason I'm so excited to play at worlds is the chance to win a world title. Even though CLX has now enjoyed continued success (2nd and 3rd place finishes at US Nationals), it still seems like were a bunch of misfit Iowa State alumni and friends who somehow keep living out the dream we were never supposed to have in the first place. It is really cool to not only have made it that far to play on a world stage, but to have made it there with all the friends that I've always been playing with.

Well, I'll keep dreaming. Shawn, I'm visualizing some sort of triple greatest at double game point in the gold medal game.