(S27) Ultimus Week

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Describe your player and/or team’s journey through this latest season. What were the highlights? What were the lower points? What might you have done differently? What are your expectations for next season?

We had a really great and promising season in Arizona this past season. After a string of seasons in which we seemed pretty good but couldn't quite put it together, we were definitely able to put it together this season. Playoffs is a different story, but anything can happen in one game of playoffs so I'll exclude that from this discussion and focus instead on the regular season, in which we excelled. We had an inauspicious start, with two losses to the Sabercats and the Copperheads. I believed this wouldn't be representative of our season, and indeed it proved not to be. We followed that up with nine (9) straight wins! Our peak during the regular season would have to be the Week 9 clubbing of the Baltimore Hawks in a game that ended up with a final score of 51-20. We put up some other dominating performances during the season but this one stood above the rest. (To be fair, seems like most everyone beat up on Baltimore this season but hey let me have this one). Our players put together some impressive individual seasons, with QB Charlemagne Cortez taking home the offensive rookie of the year award and RB Tatsu Nakamura in the running for most valuable player, running back of the year, and offensive player of the year. If I could've done one thing differently this season, I would've had us win the first playoff round against the New Orleans Second Line instead of lose that game; i think that would've been a better strategy for us. Despite the playoff shortcomings this season, I'm still super optimistic about the future of the team, considering how successful we were this season and looking at the roster for next season. We're still a fairly young team, and a massive part of the core of the team is still not yet in regression. That means that our starting QB, both running backs, top 3 wide recievers, both our safeties, our corner and our new corner, two linebackers, our stud defensive tackle are all gaining TPE in the offseason. That's an incredibly large portion of the team all getting significantly better over the same offseason for a time that already went 11-5 last season. Of course anything can happen in a league this full of parity with a sim engine this random, but it's impossible to look at that situation and not be super optimistic about the next season. Very excited to see how next season goes and the successes to come to the desert. 

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How or where would you celebrate with your teammates after winning an Ultimus or Ultimini?

The most passionate celebration will be immediately after the game in the Outlaws locker room (imagine this is an alternate reality where the Outlaws won instead of getting bounced in the first round). it'll be a circus for sure, with family and friends and media around, but my teammates and i are just gonna ignore all that mess (well maybe not ignore family but ignore everybody else's family i guess) and power through spraying each other with champagne. We're gonna get our goggles ready and blast each other in the face! what a time to be alive with my outlaws buddies. this is one of the times when it's truly acceptable - expected, even - for us to act like joyous little kids, and we're gonna take advantage of every second of that opportunity. I'm gonna shotgun some beers, I'm gonna take a champagne blast to the mouth, I'm gonna pour liquids of various sorts on my favorite reporters, I'm gonna give my manager a wedgie, I'm gonna dance around the room naked, I'm gonna eat a piece of candy, I'm gonna shotgun more beers, and I'm gonna sing "we are the champions" at the top of my lungs. i will stuff Gunner Thorbjornsson into a locker. I'm gonna pour red wine onto Jay Cue's old body. 

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