Ultiworld Interview: Seattle Sockeye
The Seattle Sockeye discuss their team's performance at home tournaments and how it affects their overall strategy. They highlight the importance of a supportive crowd in generating publicity for their city, particularly after California left the Northwest region. The team's approach to every game being crucial is also emphasized. When asked about regional rivals, they mention Furious as a strong competitor, while acknowledging Rhino as a potential wildcard with new additions. Seattle Sockeye's current lineup and injury status are also discussed, with the team looking solid despite some absences. Ultimately, their goal for the weekend is to unify their om lines, having practiced aggressively and feeling prepared for action.
Hear from Seattle Sockeye players as they share insights and stories from competing in top-level disc golf tournaments.
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let's talk about first of all how is it playing at a home tournament like this and being able to play in front of a crowd last night in showcase great I mean we have an incredibly supportive group of people who uh who come to our games and and the fact that they're only a couple really generates a lot of publicity for our city um in terms of altim it's been great huge crowds the last couple times and uh super supportive so it's always always a benefit and one big thing for the northwest W region is the new the the regional changes obviously with California leaving and the new Strength bid system how does that since you guys missed out on Nationals last year barely how does that affect the way that you approach this uh you know I think every game is is a little bit more important it was last season in general even every Point that's really kind of one of our our focuses is to take every point for its own unit and really focus on on doing what we came that point because it means so much more uh earning BS fin Nationals is right who do you guys see as your biggest competitor in the region um you know that's a great question I mean obviously Furious is we have a nice strong rivalry and and for the most part we battle them really strongly uh Rhino is looking very unique this year uh possible a couple big additions Chase might be playing with them so you know I think that they're maybe the bigger question mark to us but uh in general you know Furious is always a battle for us and Personnel wise are you at 100% I mean you didn't have to travel so that helps but yeah um we are missing probably our best defensive player reed KAS he's uh coaching ycc women girls right yeah so other than that uh we have two people out with injury but other than that we're looking solid what are you hoping to get out of the weekend uh you know really unifying our om lines we've been um practicing really aggressively I mean practice has been pretty vicious and uh it's really prepared us I think we we've had some really long grinding games so far but the...
