Re: Research Project

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (xvector5) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> If ultimate were a great spectator sport, wouldn't you think that
> EVERYONE participating at nationals would show up to watch the finals?
>  In my experience (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) this is not the case.
>  Whatever the participants at nationals are doing on Sunday, the
> majority of them are not watching the finals of their own sport. 
> Ultimate players generally come to tournaments to play.  Some spectate
> once their run is over, many more just consider the contest over and
> find something else to do.

Its hard to compare spectators to players sticking around to watch
finals at Nationals. In my 10+ trips to nationals I've watched maybe 6
finals. It's not that I don't enjoy watching the sport. By Sunday your
tired. You've spent the better part of the last 6 months training. If
your tournaments done you start to think about the trip home and the
dread associated with going to work the next day. Watching a game you
had hoped to be playing just isn't that much fun. Had I not just
played 6 or 7 high caliber games I would not miss finals.