compete internationally because everyone else develop more talent to grow with the existing really improve our level as a team and that
is getting better. The US teams get better, the base that they have. when the tournament came, we had to play
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Japanese, the Australians, etc. For me, it’s been The top two Montreal teams surprised me our best to win. Additionally, we had to find a :
NEIL
exciting to see GOAT have such a successful with the number of talented individuals that way to play as a team while adding 10 faces
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year. They’ve been building over the last few they both have. If they could get on the same from out of town. As opposed to the past few
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years and this year is a result of all of that work. page and get behind some strong leadership World’s where Furious players were 90% of the
P
HO
They’re a young team that should continue to then I think you would see a team that could Canadian team and played almost all of the key
get better over the next few years. The other become really good over the next two years. roles and key points, we had a number of non-
two cities that caught my attention at the How would you describe your experience at Furious guys play in our starting group and play
2007 Nationals were Winnipeg and Montreal. the 2008 Worlds? huge roles.
Winnipeg has a bunch of young players that The 2008 Worlds was my best experience By the time the tournament arrived, they
play so well fundamentally. Rarely do you see ever as an Ultimate player and that was despite were able to seamlessly integrate with the
a young team that is so clearly pointed in the having some personal challenges as a player team and all made huge contributions.
right direction, usually there’s a lot more chaos due to some injuries. Everyone fully committed themselves to our
going on. Their challenge will be to continue to We knew throughout the season we had to goal of winning, they made sacrifices for the
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