Halibut Preview: Mexican Holiday

Just as Hercules took on his famous twelve labours, over the coming three weeks, I will attempt to preview each of the 14 teamsregistered for 'Halibut 2007: It was THIS Big!'. Today: To lift the stakes, three teams at once! The mexican invasion of Your Mum, Da Frizz and Spare Room.

Tales of the wonder of Halibut seem to have spread further afield than ever before, with two teams from South Australia and a big mob from Victoria heading to Brisbane. Perhaps the pilgrims who came last year in preparation for WUCC2006 went home and gained some converts. Either that or it must be frickin' cold this year.

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Let's start with the imaginatively named Your Mum.


FORM: I honestly don't know much about this lot, except that Viru is a Prince Among Men, and anyone named Palmer is worth keeping an eye on (especially if they are near your drinks). My spies report that Your Mum will struggle with only a few girls, but they're used to being savage. Brutal even. This is what hanging with a bunch of Discheads is all about, what with all their science bureaucracy and such.

PARTY: Apparently pretty strong on LAN parties. Real life with clothes on could be difficult. Although I understand Messers Appleby and Llewellyn are wild men who are coming north to take our women or something.

TIP: 13th but won't care a bit.

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Now onto the other Adelaide gang, Da Frizz.


FORM: I hear that Da Frizz will be shacking up at the 'local' caravan park about 10kms from the fields. These are the only places left in Qld that will accept this team as the neighbours are used to strange noises all throughout the night. Expect Da Frizz to come to the fields (a) in their pj's, (b) with a hang over, and (c) with less than 2hours sleep. There will be a lot of emotion to grind out.

Tactics that have worked well against Da Frizz before by other teams:
- If you're playing DaFriz in the morning, speak loudly to them to take full advantage of their hangovers.
- If you're playing them around midday, be sure to offer them a comfy bed to 'rest up in' before their match, most will fall asleep and miss the match.
- If you've got a match against Da Frizz in the afternoon, then just don't drop the disc as they employ a ramshackle "one man D" to conserve the whole teams energy for the partying that night.

Da Frizz most notable tactics are:
- warm up, errr what's that, we'll just clap and cheer the opposition as they warm up expecting us to take this frisbee holiday thing seriously, very off-putting,
- on O, huck it long and hope somebody is there to catch it,
- on D, 'one man D'.

PARTY: If Mr Tickle appears, please slap him.

WEBSITE: Oh, and check out their fancy website! http://www.northadelaideultimate.com/

TIP: 10th if Oldman makes it into day 2 and Westy remains conscious.

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Finally for today, lets check out the sterile emptiness that is Spare Room.


FORM: Realised early that they'd be in trouble, so have kidnapped some key Adelaidians in Huy 'Dramatic Lead' Vu and Kaz 'See Note Above' Palmer, but not even they can fill the vaccuum. But looking through the rest of the roster, one word comes to mind. Serious. Very serious. Every drop will be dealt with by an extended bout of screaming from the rest of the squad, and the player being led off to the 'correction room'. Every throwaway will see players before the disciplinary committee. It will be interesting to play these guys, especially when 'the weak' collapse in blubbering heaps, like that Private Pyle guy from Full Metal Jacket.

PARTY: All this on-field restriction will of course lead Spare Room to want to seriously let their hair and underpants down under cover of darkness. It'll be like the entire US Navy has hit town, after 37 months in the Gulf. Will be amongst the top three finishers, mostly on the back of Huy.

TIP: Top 6. I'll say 4th to motivate Drule.