Yesterday, I went with the Goldfingers (or Fast Switchers, I am not sure) to Leipzig to play in a 1-day beach tournament. The tournament consisted of 24 teams from all over Germany. The team consisted of a few people with multiple years experience and a few more people with only a year or so experience. We were definitely an inbetween-er team – too experienced to play in the junior division (which we did) and not good enough to be really competitive in the more competitive division. I went in with very low expectations – just wanting to throw, swim, and run a bit for a day – and I was not disappointed in the least. A very good and fun day.
The day started out pretty cool and cloudy (I started out with a jacket on in the morning). I was not in the least prepared the sun and heat that came about noon. I ended up getting pretty baked – my face, arms, and legs are quite lobster red looking now – not as bad was my sunburn in Florida – but still pretty bad.
Our team did pretty well. I don’t think we lost any games, although we tied a few. Our first few games were pretty competitive, our last few were not very competitive at all. A few things I liked that were a bit different – the score was kept by hanging socks (white and black) on a clothes line (see image at the top of the post) and games ended on a whistle. The whistle signaled three passes remaining – play stopped afterward. No hard or soft caps, no adding points, just three passes and finished. Done. Clean and simple. I guess you have to have it that way when you are running a 24 team tournament in 1 day on 4 fields.
The girl haning socks in the top picture is Jenny from Leipzig. I have played with her with the Mother Tongue team before. She is much different condition than the last time I saw her.
