Avoid this drink at all costs. Although it looks harmless, it packs the worst punch I've ever felt. I drink a lot of energy drinks so my mentality was that I could handle it, but there was nothing that could have described what I was going to experience.After I had it, I did some reading online and found out that this energy drink induces fat burn but involuntarily stimulating muscle contraction (shivering). I took my resting heart rate and it was elevated up to 90... up from my normal resting of about 60 or 65. On top of that, I felt cold, then hot, then cold again and all the while, could feel my heart beating faster and my blood flowing.
AVOID THIS DRINK
It's not worth it. I can handle 2 Red bulls at one time... but one small 8 fl. oz bottle of this stuff and it almost sent me to the hospital. Please avoid this drink. It's dangerous. I mean it
After 2 days of hard fought ultimate, we reached the finals pitting Florida UFUCT vs. the Hodags of Wisconsin-Madison. It was hyped up to be a good game with a lot of big plays and great all around Ultimate. However; things changed as the game went on.
I guess Florida forgot to show up. During the game however, it was ridiculously windy and we saw the teams adjusting to the wind during warmups. However, as the game wore on, hucks were no longer good throws as the wind would snatch them up so we saw a lot of short game and zone... which turned out to be pretty boring.
In the end, Florida had some huge key drops and the game turned out to be a blowout with Wisconsin taking the championship 15-9, capitalizing on a Florida drop on their own end line. Highlights included the crowd boo-ing muffin of Wisco everytime he touched the disc, and the sheer amount of calls that were made (travels, picks, fouls, etc.)
Steve and I drove back to the airport after watching UBC go on a 10-1 run against UCSB in the Women's final to take the Women's championship 15-9 (after being down 5-8). Ridiculous
Anyhoo, here are some pictures and a sweet Video that I just uploaded from Pool play.
CBS College Sports (used to be CSTV) was there to cover the action Pre-game huddles Timeout-called Wisconsin Hodags. 2008 Open Champions zippy and hammie= unstoppable
Pre-Quarters + Quarterfinals We arrived at the fields after the pre-quarters games had been played and settled in for what would be several exciting games. First game we watched was the quarter between Carelton and Georgia as well as Wisconsin and Harvard. The games were close but the favorites advanced. Carleton over Georgia, Wisconsin over Harvard, Florida over Arizona (BIG), and Colorado over Illinois in a semi-close game
This set up some really narly Semi-finals of CUT vs. Florida, and Wisconsin vs. Colorado. The decision was now ours of which semi-final to watch. We watched BLU tear it up against Carleton first and then decided to watch the Wisco vs. mambird game.
The game itself was very close in the beginning. Colorado broke Wisconsin right away and on the next pull, Wisconsin DROPPED the pull in the end zone but Colorado was unable to convert. The game was close with Wisconsin eventually breaking back to take half 8-7. Colorado began to play very sloppily and it resulted in Wisconsin taking 3 straight points and eventually winning 15-10.
It was difficult to watch as the majority of the capacity crowd was pulling for Colorado to win. On the other semi-final, Florida was absolutely demolishing CUT, taking half 8-1. They eventually won 15-6, but it was very one-sided and not many people were over at the field watching.
This set up the final of Wisconsin vs. Florida for Tomorrow @ noon.
Should be good =)
Here's some pictures from today's action
Semifinal #2 (Hodags vs. Colorado) Hodags vs. Colorado (Big crowd to watch this one) Joseph Kershner of Arizona wins the UPA Open Callahan Award for 2008 (Here pictured with 2007 winner, Dan Heijman of Wisconsin) Me and my buddy steve at the fields before the Wisconsin, Colorado semifinal
So Day 1 of the UPA College Nationals began at 8:30am. We left our hotel around 7:45 to beat the traffic and arrived at the site at around 8:15. The site was awesome. It was quite a site as we walked in from the gate. Pool play began around 8:30 so when we got there, all we saw were teams warming up, pumping themselves up, getting themselves ready for the game. We started off the day at the booths that were selling Nationals merchandise. I picked up a couple discs for some friends and then we wandered onto the field, looking for a good game to watch.
We decided to watch Wisconsin vs. Stanford, and I'm glad we did since it turned out to be a good game. Stanford was up 2 breaks before the defending champs clawed their way back (mostly because of their ridiculous deep game) and won 15-13. We then made our way over to watch the women's side, with BLU playing against Maryland. BLU played well with great handling from Taz and D from gizmo, along with overall solid play from KIX and Cozmo.
During the next round, we watched Colorado play Santa Cruz, as well as Florida play Delaware. Both games were pretty lop-sided so I walked over to watch Stanford play Arizona. That turned out to be a good game as both teams were pretty evenly matched, with Arizona pulling out the win eventually.
The 3rd and 4th rounds started 1/2 an hour apart (4:00 and 4:30) and it was really difficult to watch since there were so many great games on. How do you choose between watching Carlton vs. Colorado or watching Wisconsin vs. Arizona. So what we did was watch the first half of the latter, and then RUN our butts over to field 1 to watch Carlton vs. Colorado. I was hoping that the games would be closer, but they both turned out to be one-sided with Colorado and Wisconsin winning by 6 and 9 respectively.
Although these games were about over, our attention switched over to watching our fellow UC team, Santa Cruz play against Dartmouth. They were up 3 or 4 but we saw Dartmouth mount a huge comeback and beat Santa Cruz. That meant that BOTH Northwest teams (Stanford and SC) were 0-3 and had no shot at quarters. =/
The attention of the tournament then went over to the Michigan vs. Texas game of Pool D. This pool already had 2 upsets and in this game, Texas was 0-2 and fighting for a chance to really stay in the tournament. When i got there, it was 13's. The teams traded points and it was an overall intense last couple points. Imagine the ENTIRE sideline and back end lines filled with other teams, spectators, cheering on Texas. That's what it was like. Texas eventually lost Universe point, and that left Texas at 0-3 and without a chance for the title.
We left the tournament satisfied, and look forward to the quarterfinal games for tomorrow.
Highlights
-Wisconsin vs. Stanford Bloodthirsty went up 2 breaks on the defending champs and played very well. However; Wisconsin established the deep game and took the game 15-13.
- Michigan vs. Georgia First upset of the day as Georgia upset Michigan in Pool D.
- Wisconsin vs. Arizona The rematch of the TiV final proved to be a lopsided victory for the Hodags as they won 15-6
- Colorado vs. Carleton Colorado goes up 8-2 at half on Carleton en route to a 15-9 win.
- Stanford and Santa Cruz Both Northwest regional teams go 0-3 in pool-play, both losing their 3rd seed in their pools and dropping out of contention of the National Title.
Some pictures from the day:
Wisconsin vs. Stanford (15-13)
Texas vs. Michigan (16-17) *universe point) UCLA vs. Maryland
Arizona breaks the huddle, before lining up against Wisconsin Former Callahan winners were out for the action (Tim Gehret, Callahan Winner 2006) Colorado on the line vs. Carlton Boulder is Gorgeous
Our flight got into Denver International Airport at around 8:15pm local time, the weather was cloudy, and about 50 degrees. We spent the first hour and a half or so riding the airport tram to the Avis car rental center and finally got our rental, a 2008 Ford Escape with only 300 miles on it., seriously. Instead of driving straight to the airport, we drove an extra 25 minutes south from Denver to Littleton, where we met up with Zip and Maddog (BLU alumni), and had breakfast for lunch. It was a nice time just to unwind after a long day of traveling and to relax and eat some late night food. We dropped the two ladies back at their house and drove back to Aurora, where we checked in and where I am currently writing this blog for all of you guys to read. It's 11:30 local time, I'm pretty tired, but glad we got here on time.
Upcoming for tomorrow...
7:30am wakeup call and the 30 or 40 minute drive to Boulder where we will watch Pool Play action. Notable Games that I will try my best to watch/ film/ comment on:
BLU vs. North Carolina Wisconsin vs. Arizona- a rematch of the Trouble in Vegas final Colorado vs. Carleton Colorado vs. UC Santa Cruz
I will try to watch other games, but I'll be running around the fields watching games all day. So until tomorrow's post...
Still doing work on the plane
California has Earthquakes, Colorado has tornadoes. You hide from them in men's bathrooms.
Temporary home for 3 nights
Car Rental companies "are stupid." Two keys that you can't remove?
