Subtitle: Saturday, October 31, 2015 was our annual Halloween 
Hat Tournament for our ultimate frisbee group (IAUA).  The weather
was decent.  Cool, but sunny-ish.  In the upper 40s/lower 50s.
Warm enough for most once we started running around.  We had 
enough for 4 small teams (30-ish people or so), and lots of 
people cam out in costume.  People seemed to have fun.  
Here are some photo highlighlights.


# photos

000-DSC_8437: I think that kind of sums up the IAUA Halloween Hat Tournament...
001-DSC_8322: Jeff looks serious.  His suit suggests he is a completely
legitimate businessman without any mob connections whatsoever.  You got a
problem with that?  Addendum: I didn't realize he was Donald Trump.  
Mostly because Jeff's such a nice guy, I don't think of him 
and "that guy" in the same sentence.
001-DSC_8323: ♪ The Phantom of the Opera is here, inside ♪, er,
Lauren's mind.  Or maybe ours.  It's actually a repurposed dressage jacket.
002-DSC_8325: Marcia IS: ♪Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na♪ BAT GIRL!
003-DSC_8327: Niki and Taylor are, um, in costume.
004-DSC_8328: Bill is a tomato (though he looked a little apple-ish at times).
005-DSC_8330: Jeff...apparently just woke up.
006-DSC_8332: Dave is ... a rock star?  Jeff Lynne?  Collene is some sort of
Cleveland Cavs, Lebron James sports fan?
007-DSC_8333: Gavin is...here!
008-DSC_8334: Tasha is sort of Ragety-Ann-ish?
009-DSC_8336: Todd is a hippy.  Come to think of it, I suppose he should have paid the no-costume fee...
010-DSC_8337: 
011-DSC_8340: Rob and Garret with <i>amazing</i> costumes that are
dead-ringers for Garret and Rob!
012-DSC_8345: Frank is Rick from Rick and Morty.  I didn't get a picture of Bryan in the background wearing his ape mask.  He took it off early because he couldn't see, and if anyone made eye-contact with him, he considered it a threatening move and attacked them.  And let's not talk about what he flung besides frisbees.
013-DSC_8349: Gavin explains the rules, including having each time use a
distinctive face-paint design.
014-DSC_8350: Marcia paints Rob's face.
015-DSC_8351: And Jeff's face.
016-DSC_8353: 
017-DSC_8355: Gavin puts a peace-sign on Taylor's face.
018-DSC_8356: Lauren puts a peace-sign on Bill's face.
019-DSC_8357: Howie is marked (note that he has a perfect Howie costume), 
and Taylor cat-ifies her nose.
020-DSC_8358: The paint...it <i>burns</i> Emily's face.  
Or maybe she just doesn't like having to take off her sunglasses.
021-DSC_8359: Marcia paints herself.
022-DSC_8361: Taylor is ready to go and leopard up the game.
023-DSC_8362: Emily gets catty too.
024-DSC_8363: 
025-DSC_8364: OK...our team decided that a couple of hard-to-see lines 
under our eyes were lame.  So we then went to adding mustaches. 
026-DSC_8365: Bryan mustached up.
027-DSC_8366: Rob looks a little Mario-esque.
028-DSC_8368: I was happy that Macia didn't give me a Hitler mustache.  Still too soon for that sort of joke...
029-DSC_8372: Frank's ready to open a portal to a universe where he's a better
player.
030-DSC_8373: Ray's the perfect frat-boy.  Get it, brah?
031-DSC_8376: Instead of playing with a beer in one hand, he played with 
a beer in <i>each</i> hand, brah.  He also didn't stop fucking saying 
&quot;brah&quot; all day.
032-DSC_8377: Leopard Taylor pulls.
033-DSC_8380: Colleen catches.
034-DSC_8381: Niki plays D against Taylor.
035-DSC_8382: Phantom Lauren throws, while her friend tutu-Karen covers her.
036-DSC_8383: Tasha makes a great catch.
037-DSC_8384: Gavin dumps the disk while Ben defends him.  Yetter has an
amish-ish? hat and Dave's wig is attached to his foot.
038-DSC_8385: Karen-of-the-tutu makes an endzone catch while Todd looks on.
039-DSC_8387: Garret has the disk, Lili is behind him wearing a hat because
she is cold, with Yetter running in.
040-DSC_8389: Jeff and Dave both try to get the disc.
041-DSC_8390: Todd and Bill take a break on the sideline.
042-DSC_8392: Lili catches the disk near the endzone.
043-DSC_8393: The disk is in the endzone and Bryan and Garret vie for it.
044-DSC_8394: Garret and Bryan fight for the catch; I think Garret came up
with it.
045-DSC_8395: Rob catches one in the endzone.
046-DSC_8397: Eric will not win the prize for best costume.
047-DSC_8400: Eric represents the &quot;Frisbie Pie Co.&quot; and has a pie
tin that can be thrown as a frisbee.  The last point of the 3-team bok-choy
game was played using the pie tin.  It didn't go far, but it did float a good
bit. It was a long point.
048-DSC_8401: Ruth (in her usual wooly-bear caterpillar costume) points out
that I should take a picture of what's going on by the tree.
049-DSC_8402: And that would be Jeff behind the tree, doing...something.  
050-DSC_8403: Ruth catches the pie tin.
051-DSC_8405: Jim is a ...wait for it... one night stand (hypenate is you
wish).
052-DSC_8406: Even though it's the end of October, there is still a lot of
color in the trees.  The Johnson Musuem at Cornell is visible above the trees
on the right.  It really <i>is</i> a very pretty area.
053-DSC_8407: Luke is taking pictures of the game too with a nice camera and
expensive, big-ass lense.  His costume, early on, was Road-Warrior-ish, with a
jacket with an armored shoulder-pad.
054-DSC_8408: People taking a break between games.
055-DSC_8410: Jeff throws the frisbee to me.  I move the camera and catch it.
056-DSC_8412: Note: Taylor now has a tail.  Also, Jeff no longer has 
a way to tie his bathrob closed.
057-DSC_8413: Sippy's costume is a trash bag.  So he's going as some
swill-throws?  Or trash-talking?  Or maybe that was the first object he saw.
Lili has added at least one or two more layers to stay warm.
058-DSC_8414: Jeff describes some of the super-power objects, like the
skeletal hand...
059-DSC_8415: ...which can be used to extend the defense's reach.  Others
include hopping instead of running, walk with the disc until touched by the
defense, get two-points for catching the disc in the endzone sack, use
your off-hand, and the ever popular &quot;hump-D.&quot;
060-DSC_8416: Plotkin gets in the game, with a super-power bow-tie.  He has to
throw left-handed.  He is left-handed.
061-DSC_8418: The disk comes to Emily...
062-DSC_8419: ...and she catches it.
063-DSC_8420: Emily is either chastising her team or suggesting a group hug.
064-DSC_8421: Jeff makes a head-catch in the endzone (the throw probably was a
hammer).
065-DSC_8422: Lauren is by no means a small person&mdash;except when covering Will.
066-DSC_8423: Dave gets the disk and...
067-DSC_8424: ...throws a backhand, while Apples is looking to D
it.
068-DSC_8425: Taylor winds up a forehand.
069-DSC_8426: 
070-DSC_8428: Wally stops by while Ruth takes a break.
071-DSC_8429: Eric runs into the endzone after a disc.
072-DSC_8430: He dives...
073-DSC_8431: ...and comes up with a great catch!  One of my favorite shots.
074-DSC_8433: The leopard is on the prowl.  This is one of my other
favorite pictures.  Taylor started off a number of points in the 
crouching-and-hunting-her-prey mode.  I had her recreate it for this shot.
076-DSC_8438: 
077-DSC_8440: 
078-DSC_8441: Taylor has a beanbag pumpink.
079-DSC_8442: And tosses one to me.
080-DSC_8444: I throw it back to her poorly (hard to aim while looking 
through a lens).
081-DSC_8445: Rob has some sticks to use later as wands in the local Harry
Potter fest.
082-DSC_8449: Frank as Rick takes a swig from his flask.
083-DSC_8451: