Hi guys! Welcome back to my blog, it has been a while since my first post but that is because I have been competing in the Australian University Games in the Gold Coast. I was competing in ultimate frisbee, if you don't remember I mentioned that I played ultimate frisbee in my first blog, I will explain the game in this blog. I also went to the AFL grand final to watch Geelong win their 3rd premiership in 5 years which is a remarkable feat in itself.
The Australian university games are pretty much an event where a lot of Australian universities come together and compete in different sports, similar to the Olympic games. What is not similar is that almost as soon as the last game is played the competitors get drunk, very drunk, or at least I did with my team. I played for Ballarat university ultimate frisbee, our temporary name is Ballarat university frisbee friends due to an ordering malfunction. (BUUF was changed to BUFF.) It was an excellent week where BUFF came 5th in division 2 and shared the spirit award with Flinders Fury in div 2 and overall.
The aim of ultimate frisbee is to score 15 points first, or after a time cap of any where between 80 and 120 minutes to have higher points. To score one must catch the disc in the opposition's end zone. An extra rule is you cannot move with the disc, and you have 10 seconds with it, which is counted by an opposition player who is on the mark. When a point is scored teams switch ends and whoever scored throws the disc to the opposition. That's just the jist of the game, I won't go into any other details about it.
I was thinking the other day, just how sports effect most people, I will use Australian rules football as an example. Australian rules has clubs all over Australia but the main 17 play in the Australian football league. These teams often provide stimulus in the local economy when they are winning and if the team you support wins you are generally happier during the week. I have no scientific evidence but, I'm sure that if the team you follow in whatever sport wins you will be a lot happier than if it lost. This comes after my team Geelong cats football club won the grand final of the Australian football league, and to say the least I'M VERY HAPPY! Maybe those of you who read this blog could leave a comment about what team you follow and how your team effects you, although I don't really want people spraying on other sports... :S
Anyway, thanks for reading! I'm happy to get this second one out of the way, and have some ideas on what to write about next. Maybe if you want my views on anything you could leave a comment?
My witty comment of the week
All
of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
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