The Geography Department’s Ultimate Frisbee team, “The Defenestration of Pupo,”was the UCSB intramural champion this quarter. The championship game was on May 27, with The Defenestration playing “Smurfalicious”(a non-departmental team) for the title. The game was tense, as this was the only team that the geographers had lost to in the regular season on their way to becoming the number one ranked Intramural Coed Ultimate Frisbee Team at UCSB. The final score was 9 –6 with The Defenestration taking the win from blue bunch.
According to the UCSB web site, “Ultimate Frisbee is a fast. moving, competitive, non-contact sport with a team of seven players. The sport has a great amount of freedom and informality implicit in the rules…The objective of Ultimate is to gain points by scoring goals. The disc may only be passed, and a goal is scored when a player successfully passes the disc to a teammate in the end zone that the opposing team is attacking.”
As for the team name, defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window—but whom or what Pupo is/was has yet to be explained to the editor—or to the team! The team has won the championship 3 years in a row now, and Kirk Goldsberry, the captain, quipped, “I can’t say that it was easy to guide this group of misfits to another title, but we did it nonetheless. Long live the Defenestration of Pupo!”
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