you are a sad boy or girl. all your friends have their favorite basketball teams to imitate and root for. they are highly televised and now, in march, everyone is going - crazy - about their college teams. there are upsets, cinderella stories, holding seed and buzzer beating shots.
but yet you are sad. why, poor boy or girl, are you sad?
"because basketball is exciting and all, but i just really want to root for my favorite college ultimate teams. everyone else is filling out brackets, and playing in their fantasy leagues on yahoo, and im all alone"
fear not despondent child! the beautiful gift of the internet is here to save the day.
through the magic of UltiVillage and UltiCentral, you too can now enjoy activities formerly reserved for the "mainstream" sport minded.
ok, so enough wierd psuedo story telling. heres the deal, the most talked about, prestigious college ultimate tournament in the country is about to happen this weekend - Centex. put on by the Cultimate corporation, held in austin, tx the tournament is exclusively invite only.
that is, the top 24 teams (as decided by the tournament directors) are selected and invited to attend.... and then they do.
so basically every one of the top teams in the country will be in Austin, TX over the weekend for some of perhaps the most hotly contested games in the country.
exciting eh? well there is MORE!!!
since its such a big deal and all, UltiVillage will be there filming, and as they do with many of the premier tournaments in the country, they offer fantasy ultimate - you choose 7 players (out of about 40ish) and based on their stats in the finals game (assists, goals, turnovers etc) you get a certain number of points. the winners of the fantasy (highest points overall) will win ultimate DVDs, and several random entrants (this is all free) will receive a free download of the finals game. (UV also has 10ish clips online of some of the possible fantasy pick options so you can get a look at em before selecting)
well thats pretty swell.
but what about brackets you ask?
cue UltiCentral. register yourself as a player, then click on the link on the main page to fill out who you think will win what games and then the brackets after that. they offer this for both the mens and womens half of the tournament.
so there you have it - march madness for ultimate. be sad no longer.
... consider this an open thread to talk about your selections for fantasy or the brackets.
need help picking teams/players? http://www.collegeulti.com is a good place to start
Friday, March 24, 2006
cheer up little one...
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alrighty, ill throw my pics out there -
click here
ive got florida winning over wisconsin in the finals. my logic - florida is undefeated at the moment. which is rediculous.
ive personally played against wisonsin... well, mostly their second teir players in the fall, but even then - they are very very good, and considered by many to be the team to beat.
this is not to say what i want to happen, you can be sure as hell i am rooting for Pittsburgh all the way (and after them - Arizona - Jeph B, Dartmouth and other "underdog" teams)
so yeah, florida taking it all, over wisc. if you wanna see the rest of my pics you can click on that link above.
who did you guys pick?
Florida over Wisconson to win it all.
but the important thing is that I see (or at least picked) Western Washington pulling upsets over Stanford, Brown and Michigan.
Come on Ben Wiggins, bring me some glory.
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