Playing Premiere

So here’s the deal, since my team has KICKED ASS at the past couple of tournaments, we moved up into a different type of game called Premiere for a tournament at Aces Athletics this weekend. This in case you weren’t aware, means that the teams are more challenging and the games are harder to win. Unfortunately, this means that we have to really push in order to make it to the Medal Rounds, let alone to win them… We didn’t do that last time. After a long, eight hour day, we get to the Medal Round game, won the first game and I’ll be honest, we had an awesome start…. But that wasn’t the case for the next games.

After this, we proceeded to lose a few sets, however, winning the matches and making it to the Medal Round! Where we had a great time getting a ten to two lead on the other team in the first game. To add to that victory, this lead was made purely off of ace serves. Which while, it means I had a lot of quick switches and three-second plays. Eventually though, my team and I were able to finish with an eight point lead with an end score of twenty-five to seventeen for the first game.

A time out during the game, I'm still not sure what Anna was doing on the ground

Unfortunately, this team of giants, (I’m not even kidding, these girls were several inches taller than us), came back in the second set of the match, pushing us into a tie breaker game. This is where the real fun happened, we had to receive very difficult serves and attempt to set up plays from floats, and balls with weird spins, (hella hard to do). The goal would be to just get the ball up, and hopefully in a way that could be set so we could attack it, doing our best to hit the ball as hard as we could DIRECTLY BACK INTO THEIR FACES!! I don’t know if you’ve ever had the chance to do that, but it is incredibly satisfying. I’m looking forward to playing Premiere for the rest of this season.