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So, went to Darwin over the (extended) weekend for the indoor beach volleyball national championships.
Flew out on thursday morning, eventually - flight was delayed for an hour by someone who had apparently taken 3 valium before the flight and was currently out of their head space. Eventually organised a room at the hotel since it had been underbooked, Anita and I ended up with a room to ourselves instead of a dorm room for not too much more so it worked out okay.
Went to Crocidylus Park, or however it's spelt, on friday - was pretty cool, not just crocs but also lions, tigers, wombats, monkeys and stuff. Like a mini zoo.
Started playing games friday night and didn't do much else until sunday night - volleyball interspersed with lazing by the pool and drinking, was lots of fun.
And my team and I emerged as NATIONAL FUCKING CHAMPIONS.
Seriously, we just played unbelievably well as a team. I don't think any one of us had an off game, or even an average game. Scotty did his normal amazing pickups but even better, Marie set us up really well, Abby's backing up was great, Toggs was mixing things up nicely and Ness just owned. She played her first year of superleague (the state comp) this year in ladies division 3, and here she is at nationals showing the guys how to hit from the back court.
We won all our pool games (mixed comp was split into 2 pools of 10), most of them were reasonably easy except for 2 against darwin teams that we only won by 2 points each. Finals came around and all the teams seemed to pick up their game a bit, we played against the 8th placed team from the other pool first up and they were going right with us for a while when we were expecting an easy game. Second final was another darwin team I think? I don't remember much. 3rd final we played against Hobart, who were going really well after a dodgy start to the weekend, but we outran them in the end because we were their second game straight, and it was HOT. In the grand final we came up against a Kalgoorlie team who had looked really good, but we attacked them from the start and were up 9-1 in the first few minutes and they just never got their shit together after that.
We win!
Anita's team didn't do as well as they could have, they lost a few games in their pool and finished 5th in there, then lost their first final by 1 point :( If they'd made it through I think they were just coming into their game, could have done really well. (Finals were all elimination too, so even though my team finished first if we'd dropped one game we were out.)
So anyway, next year the national championships will be in brisbane, looking like the weekend between bathurst and indy, so might need to make a few weeks of it when we go defend our title :)
National Champions, booyah!
Gotta run to the chiro now, might upload some photos when I get back.
Oh yeah, Graeme did a nude run around the hotel for cash!
Flew out on thursday morning, eventually - flight was delayed for an hour by someone who had apparently taken 3 valium before the flight and was currently out of their head space. Eventually organised a room at the hotel since it had been underbooked, Anita and I ended up with a room to ourselves instead of a dorm room for not too much more so it worked out okay.
Went to Crocidylus Park, or however it's spelt, on friday - was pretty cool, not just crocs but also lions, tigers, wombats, monkeys and stuff. Like a mini zoo.
Started playing games friday night and didn't do much else until sunday night - volleyball interspersed with lazing by the pool and drinking, was lots of fun.
And my team and I emerged as NATIONAL FUCKING CHAMPIONS.
Seriously, we just played unbelievably well as a team. I don't think any one of us had an off game, or even an average game. Scotty did his normal amazing pickups but even better, Marie set us up really well, Abby's backing up was great, Toggs was mixing things up nicely and Ness just owned. She played her first year of superleague (the state comp) this year in ladies division 3, and here she is at nationals showing the guys how to hit from the back court.
We won all our pool games (mixed comp was split into 2 pools of 10), most of them were reasonably easy except for 2 against darwin teams that we only won by 2 points each. Finals came around and all the teams seemed to pick up their game a bit, we played against the 8th placed team from the other pool first up and they were going right with us for a while when we were expecting an easy game. Second final was another darwin team I think? I don't remember much. 3rd final we played against Hobart, who were going really well after a dodgy start to the weekend, but we outran them in the end because we were their second game straight, and it was HOT. In the grand final we came up against a Kalgoorlie team who had looked really good, but we attacked them from the start and were up 9-1 in the first few minutes and they just never got their shit together after that.
We win!
Anita's team didn't do as well as they could have, they lost a few games in their pool and finished 5th in there, then lost their first final by 1 point :( If they'd made it through I think they were just coming into their game, could have done really well. (Finals were all elimination too, so even though my team finished first if we'd dropped one game we were out.)
So anyway, next year the national championships will be in brisbane, looking like the weekend between bathurst and indy, so might need to make a few weeks of it when we go defend our title :)
National Champions, booyah!
Gotta run to the chiro now, might upload some photos when I get back.
Oh yeah, Graeme did a nude run around the hotel for cash!