6-Man Sailors

6-man Sailors!!!!

Hey everyone! I'm finally putting up another over-due post! So, two weekends ago, I played in a tournament called 6-man! Pretty much everyone that lives in southern California knows about it (well at least everyone in the LA/south bay area). It doesn't matter if you're a volleyball player or not, 6-man is a fun time!

This year I played on a team with Alyson Jennings, Lauren Paolini, and Juliann Faucette! It was a nice little UT reunion :) The other girls on the team were Alyson's friends from out here. The point of 6-man is mostly just to have fun but it's also to dress up in costumes (yes, I played in a costume tournament again) and play volleyball! This tournament is a little different from others because you actually play with 6 people on the court, just like indoor. The court is also a little bigger than the courts I play in during real competition. On the women's side of the tournament, there are usually about 12 girls on a team. The better men's teams usually have about 40 guys!!!! Usually there are about 10 guys that play and the rest just cheer and have fun.

So, the tournament format is pool play on Saturday and you have to finish first or second in your pool to make it to the play offs on Sunday. We played 4 matches on Saturday... some of the other teams in our pool were dressed up as Santa's, bay watch girls, and the Oakley sponsored team just had on really bright weird neon clothes! I was jealous of the pink Oakley's they all got though! We ended up going 3-1, we lost to Oakley in our last match. Pao and I left the tournament after that to grab some food at La Penita, and rest for a bit. After that, we met up with our team to hang out and go see all the other 6-man people out. It's funny because it's the only time people are really allowed to go into bars or places like that in swim suits! My team didn't, but a lot of girls just stayed in their swim suits the whole time!

We lost our first game on Sunday but Pao and I stayed to watch until the finals. It ended up being a long day but it was actually really fun because the volleyball is really good on Sunday! We cheered on some of our guy friends that played and also cheered on our team from last year who ended up winning it all! 

Overall, it was a super fun weekend! And even though we didn't win it, everyone at the tournament said we were definitely the cutest dressed team!!! That's gotta count for something, right? :)

I've got lots of pics for this post!! Woo hoo :)

Hook'em! Pao, me, and Juliann

Hook'em again! Pao, me, Al

Our outfits once we took the warm ups off. Captain's hats, bright red lipstick, pig tails, rope necklace, blue tops, and white bottoms with Dragon (our sponsor) on our behinds!

The TEXAS team!!!! I made sure to find them, which wasn't tough!

Texas team again, Lukas (a guy Kiki was friend's with in high school) is the closest one in the shot.

Pao was trying to get action shots! You might be able to see the Dragon on the top of my swim suit bottoms.

Action shot, apparently Pao had her hands full (notice her squirt gun in the pic)

Men's Baywatch team
This is the Ditka team's scoreboard

Team Bridezillas

The sea of people that attended!!!! Crazy!
My new friend Mitch, me, Pao, and Taylor Bukolt (another UT alum!)

Taylor and Mitch's team was "More cowbell" - they took time outs so that they could have dance parties on the court :)

Erika Lott (my roommate for my first year of USA Vball!), me, Pao, Al

Wrestler team - notice the "wrestling ring" around their court, haha

Men dressed up as old ladies, haha
Pao, Geeter (the AVP announcer), me. Geeter's team, Team Fletch, is one of the better known teams, they didn't make it to the second day :/

The Magnum P.I. team. They all grow mustaches for at least 2 weeks before 6-man. They also wear really short shorts! But, they usually have at least a couple AVP men and some professional indoor players so they're really good!