Ullllltimmmate!!

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

In case you can't tell I'm really excited, a little scared, but excited ROK-U is beginning yet another season. I will be playing for one of the four Busan teams!! The season is comprised of 16 games, most of ours are in Busan. Hopefully a team blog will be passed on to me since the current writer is leaving the team I am joining. EXCITEMENT, possibly!! Hopefully I can cap my anticipated swan song in this Korean Pro-Am ultimate league with a bang of some kind.

This season the teams have been divided into three divisions, we call them kingdoms, (with seven teams a piece). Unlike the NFL, and a lot like Game of Thrones, we protect our kingdoms and play all the other teams outside the kingdom until the Civil War Weekend teams play two games within their kingdoms. I hope these are loud, well-fought, spirited games. On paper all these Busan teams look very good and I hope someone in the Bu can take the tiger this year, as always.

After having received my signs from above that playing to win with unneeded grit ends with with a broken collarbone I will be a support-player. I don't intend on calling on myself to make the big play, just catch everything that I knowingly can, and make the smart play, not the one waving and hollering down-field against the wind. My other goal is to keep my cool and not to leave any games upset or angry. It shouldn't be a problem there are lots of calm and collected people to reach for on this roster. Parts of me loves how the league tabulates stats for honoring milestones and determining awards. Although there should be some other way to record stuff, like a beginning to end report card! That sounds like waaaay too much work though.

All in all, I'm excited for the new season which will more than likely be my last here in Korea. We won't discount that I can return another day but for now I'm leaning towards leaving come August. I plan to make the best of this experience as a whole on and off the field surrounded by teammates of new and old, and all the other friendly ulti-enthusiasts of Korea. I happily look forward to all the drinking, ultimate, drinking games, drinking ultimate games, and all the craziness that comes with the league and it's members.