WEEK IN REVIEW: Faces of summer league

God we're all still hung over. Wait, what day is it? Not Sunday? Okay, nevermind. I'm okay. Alex is okay. Ginny is (maybe) okay. We're all okay.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:

Can you guess which of the following people is hung over? (From summer league finals on Saturday.)

A year ago, if I told you Matt Mueller would not be one of the answers to the above question, would you believe me?

And what if I told you Ivan, making a special Beijing appearance, would be, having nearly died the day before drinking baijiu with Alex and Ginny?

Change is a strange beast.

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Tao, 8/19: Subj: Fantasy football:

Who's in?

Gonna start a standard-setting yahoo league with a live online draft, for fun. Let me know ...

p.s. Only join if you enjoy fantasy sports and don't mind losing to me.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Duanwujie hat tournament

The Dragon Boat Festival being this Wednesday, China's new "weekend" for the week is Monday and Tuesday, which means everyone had Monday off (while working Saturday and Sunday). Beijing Ultimate spent this time playing in a hat tournament -- the fourth straight year we've done this to kick off summer league -- results of which are below.





The captains were Tao, Mike Shyu, Ivan Xu and Jim. The results (captain names as synecdoches for the team):

Rd. 1: Ivan def. Jim 9-6; Mike def. Tao 13-6
Rd. 2: Mike def. Jim 11-5; Tao def. Ivan 11-9
Rd. 3: Jim def. Tao 8-6; Mike def. Ivan 8-7

If in round 3 Tao and Ivan's teams would have won, three teams would have been 2-1 and point-diff would have decided the champion. (Mike's team would still have won.) If only Ivan's team would have won (Tao's team losing), then Ivan's team, by dint of head-to-head, would have been the champs.

Here were the final two points of the Mike vs. Ivan game:


Team list:

Tao:

Adam Nowak
Chaitkin
Chirona
Dong Xiaoming
Grace
Jehan
Joel Rosen
Juan
Lao Zhao
Li Hao

Mike Shyu:

Alicia
Carissa
Daniel
Gu An
Iyake (Rob's friend)
Kevin
Pat Li
Rob Adams
Xiangke
Russell

Ivan:

Amanda
Andrea
Andy
Brian
Derek
Evan
Gareth
HHH
Jeff Orcutt
Xiaofei
Xiaoxiao
Zhou

Jim:

Baby Girl
C-dice
Doc
Guy
Men 3
Jeff L
Ting
Yan
Yaoyao
Yu Xiangtian
Zhang Yuepan

POSTSCRIPT: It was Baby Girl's birthday! He's 23 and still legal... but unavailable. His girlfriend, Leigh, bought him a cake:


And others at dinner at our go-to post-game Shanxi restaurant -- the name of which we still don't know despite two and a half years of patronage there:



Yes, that's Chirona, Return Of.