GPL Event #4

My team and I played in GPL event number 4 yesterday, but we didn’t do all that well. The previous three events we finished 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, but this time we came in 22nd.

Yep, 22nd.

I might be able to attribute the drop-off to a shifting roster (we were missing a guy, and were rotating in two new people) or the blazing heat (95 degrees, with 80% humidity) but that’s a heck of a decline.

The heat was oppressive…one kid was hauled from the field on a stretcher by an ambulance crew after succumbing to heat exhaustion. One of my teammates vomited on the field prior to the start of the game. I drank so much water it hurt. The intervals between games grew longer and longer and drew the event out to the point that they called off the finals about halfway through due to darkness.

Fortunately we get to drop the lowest score at the end of the tournament season, so this one shouldn’t effect us too much. We just need to get our act together before the next event in October.