Birth of Young Guns

Now that the team has finally come together, a full roster of players, and now even more people wanting to tryout and play for A.S.K. it has been decided to start a young guns 5 man team. Things have been going pretty well, everyone on the team is starting to gel, everyone is also starting to really step up their game. Things in fact, having been going so well that we started a young guns team for everyone who is under the age of 18 and wants to be part of the All Star family. There are currently about 8 or 9 players on the kids team, and all are very talented. However only the future will tell about how talented they really are.

Impact

O.K. so as you already know, our first scrimmage ever with the Blunt Riders didn't go as we had hoped, infact it went so bad that w eonly won 2 out of 25 games. But also as you know we took our beatings and worked on our mistakes. Taking our new found knowledge we scrimmed a new team called Impact, they are a local team looking to compete at the same level as A.S.K. So the line up was me, vinny, tom, marty, and joe. An dour 5 rolled over Impact win all of our games and almost every game we won with every one still alive. So the team is starting to look better and growing stronger, but only time will tell how good we actually are.

Scrim

The team finally had its first scrimmage against a very talented GPL team called Blunt Riders, we practiced 5 man with an X-ball style, making it very fast and intense. The scrimmage turned out to be difficult, it turned out that alot of people were not comfortable with there assignments and our communication needed alot of work. So by the end of the night after playing for about 4 hours, and playing atleast 25 games, we only won 2 matches against Blunt Riders.
However, although we didn't do as well as we had hoped, what doesn't kill only makes you stronger...and smarter. We took our beatings and discussed what we felt needed to be changed. We took all of our mistakes and used them as a drive to get better and then hopefully winour next scrimmage.

Practice

O.K. so it is Sunday the 17th....practice was all about the drills....good turn out of the team players...almost everyone showed up. We had decided that for practice drill would be the best choice. I took a few of the players to do front drills and walking the feild. Bobby and Joe took everyone else to do back drills. The practice went well, alot was accomplished. The team is still growing and its definately harder than we all thought to build this team, however we all have faith and are raying for the best. And a final decision had been made then we are going to play the GXBL for our first season and then hopefully work our way into the World Cup....so hopefully A.S.K. will go on and do big things.

Assignments

O.K. so now that the team finally has some what of a roster and finally a grip on what we want to do....decisions have been made. The roster had been cut down because some people were not making practices and others just couldn't devote themselves fully to the team. However we still have some excellent players remaining. The captain Joe and myself had decided to take the players we had and make assignments. Assignments are basically where you will be playing on the feild. Joe is going to play the backcenter, Bobby plays snake corner, Matt plays dorito corner, I play the center fifty, Tom plays snake, Little Matty also plays snake/fifties, Vinny plays, doritos, Chris plays corners, Shaun plays center bunkers, and Dave is going to play where ever he wants because he is the owener of the team.
Hopefully with these assignments we will see how good we are and if things are going to work. Our next practice is sunday and I will post up and let everyone know what went down.

What To Do?

Mondays practice on February 4, 2008 didn't go as well as hoped. There is alot of controversy with this idea of the team playing the first event of the season, Phoenix Open. The captain and owner of the team both feel that the team is still to new and young to just jump into d2 or d3 xball. However the problem is that the team was promised to play all 5 events, and now some people are left out of playing the first national event of the 2008 season.
The rest of the team and myself feel that enetering Phoenix Open as a d3 team is not a bad idea, also we all want to play it because we were promised and looking forward to playing 5 events not 4. But that call is not up to me or the rest of the team. So for now the team is just going to continue practicing and will hopefully become good enough to play Phoenix Open.

How bout a lil 5 man

With the team finally starting to come together and building up some great talent, it was decided to have our first 5 man practice.
A.S.K. practiced at home, All Star Arena, the team had an inner squad 5 man scrimage. The starting line playing the second line, third line, and etc. X-ball teams usually have a 13-15 man roster, All Star kidz has a 13 person roster, the team is made up of 3 lines each consisting of 5 players, the starting line up consists of Joe, Dave, Bobby, Matt, and myself. The other 2 lines still have not been officially set yet becuase we are still trying to find the best combination for those lines. However, even though the other 2 lines are not officially set, practice was still not easy. The team in general is made up of extremely talented players, so during practice each line was playing awesome.
Practice lasted about 8 hours, leaving everyone exhausted and drained. Despite the fact we all went out to eat at Applebee's. And during dinner, Joe, Dave, and myself had all agreed that if the team continues on the road it is now. All Star Kidz definatly has the potential to be an extremely good X-Ball team.