I just back from my first tournament. My team didn't get to the finals (more on this), but I had a lot of fun. The staff was great, reffing was excellent, and the prices weren't bad. It was a tournament inteneded for just first time tournament players (many infact weren't though, some had quite some experience). Me and my teammates though had a great time.
In all, we played 5 games. Even though we didn't make it through to the finals, I strongly believe we truly were the best from our group but we just got bad breaks at the most unpleasant times. For example, our second game, we're playing the team that went through to the finals from our group. We eliminated 2 of their 3 within a minute. So it's 3 on 1, you can all guess what should have happened. What happened though was I went for the crush, I'm about 8-10 feet away from the guy and I shoot 3 balls, all bounce (don't know how they did from that close). He gets me, gets my teammate in the center, then gets my other teamate. They get the pull and hang. As for my other teammates and what happened to them that game, my back's gun broke and he didn't feel the need to let us know (it was broken before the game even started, because if we known this he'd have been going for the flag). But that's not the real kick, at least 10 balls bounced on the guy who my shots bounced on in the bunker attempt (he told us this, and we saw it too). Now I don't know if this is just dumb luck, the balls or maybe the fact he had one of those new Dye jerseys with padding, but it happened. I think this kind of discouraged us some and the fact that are next game was nearly two hours later, we didn't play great after that (we maxxed the other team our first game). Skill wise, I could tell we were just better, but thats why they play the game.
Overall though it was great playing my first tourney. Had a great time and look forward to playing more.
In all, we played 5 games. Even though we didn't make it through to the finals, I strongly believe we truly were the best from our group but we just got bad breaks at the most unpleasant times. For example, our second game, we're playing the team that went through to the finals from our group. We eliminated 2 of their 3 within a minute. So it's 3 on 1, you can all guess what should have happened. What happened though was I went for the crush, I'm about 8-10 feet away from the guy and I shoot 3 balls, all bounce (don't know how they did from that close). He gets me, gets my teammate in the center, then gets my other teamate. They get the pull and hang. As for my other teammates and what happened to them that game, my back's gun broke and he didn't feel the need to let us know (it was broken before the game even started, because if we known this he'd have been going for the flag). But that's not the real kick, at least 10 balls bounced on the guy who my shots bounced on in the bunker attempt (he told us this, and we saw it too). Now I don't know if this is just dumb luck, the balls or maybe the fact he had one of those new Dye jerseys with padding, but it happened. I think this kind of discouraged us some and the fact that are next game was nearly two hours later, we didn't play great after that (we maxxed the other team our first game). Skill wise, I could tell we were just better, but thats why they play the game.
Overall though it was great playing my first tourney. Had a great time and look forward to playing more.
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