Team JMS: Halloween Hat (Ultimate Frisbee Tournament)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!! While Koreans don't celebrate Halloween the way we do back home, Jean-Marc and I got our costume on last weekend. Back in September, we'd signed up to play in an Ultimate Frisbee tournament the weekend of October 27th in Daejeon. This was the 9th annual Halloween Hat tournament and it was so much fun!!

The tournament disc. We all got one!

A hat tournament means that everyone's names get put into a hat and then pulled out to make teams. This way all the abilities and people are spread out to make relatively even teams. And you get to know lots of new people because you don't usually know too many people on your team.

The tournament started Saturday morning at 10am and went until about 5:30pm that night. Then continued all day Sunday for playoffs. Needless to say, getting out of bed on Monday morning was rough.

The fields in Daejeon. Day 2 - the rain had stopped! JM is in the blue and red shirt.

Saturday morning was pouring rain and the fields quickly became mud/swamp pits. No one was dry or clean by the end of the day. There was an on field costume contest, which was hilarious. Lots of people running around wearing ridiculous outfits. Jean-Marc was on pod 'K' and I was on pod 'M'. Twice we beat JM's team to put us in the finals of the playoffs. Sadly, we didn't win the championship. JM's team placed 3rd and mine came 2nd. Not bad though for our first tournament ever!

My third pair of socks on Saturday.

Uncle Sam

Batman! Yes .. that is his chest hair.

Pods AM .. 2nd place!

Saturday night there was a costume party at a local bar. Jean-Marc and I decided to do a pairs costume. He dressed up as a cute little piglet ... and I was a dirty French butcher who wanted to turn him into bacon. It was disturbing and amazing at the same time. We got so many compliments on our duo and even won a prize! Even after talking to me, some people didn't know who I was. I looked that disgusting. he he.