Yes, this is going to be an entire blog post dedicated to Pandemic. If you haven’t played Pandemic, its a cooperative board game with the goal of curing four diseases that have broken out in different regions of the world. Each player gets a different role (Scientist, Medic, etc) and everyone works together to prevent […]
I don’t think I’d have ever gone to Dubai if it weren’t for this tournament, and I don’t think I’ll go back for leisure; I’m just not into modern cities, though to be fair to the UAE, I didn’t explore outside of the square mile we stayed. It was still absolutely unreal; as the dust (and […]
That week was the first time we’d all been together since Sunday afternoon of Lei Out. I’d spend Sunday groggily going through the motions, running on 3 hours of sleep and an iHop latte*. We were split into three separate condos: Murjan 1, Rimal 3 and Al Fattan Towers, affectionately renamed MurMur, RiRi and FaFa. I […]
Saving the World the morning of finals The entire teams caffeine addiction and our coffee runners, especially the Quintuple-Shot Iced Americano before semifinals. Feet-Feet! Feet-Feet! A made up game where you float in the water and touch feet with someone else. Balcony Beers every night after games. Jessi and Cree’s general dynamic.
Spirit was taken more seriously here than any tournament I’ve been to; there was a Spirit Director and each team had a designated Spirit Captain, ours was Qxhna. I don’t remember having either for U23’s and certainly not at any US tournaments so I’m guessing this is new or something BULA instated. I didn’t quite […]
