All Bashed Out Honors Former Ultimate Teammate

Long before Philadelphia Flyers' famous mascot Gritty debuted, the Masters Division club ultimate team from the Northeast Region All Bashed Out featured their own. A summer article highlighted the heartfelt honor to their former teammate. However, the article was incorrect on how All Bashed Out involved the puppet. Instead of starting 6-versus-7 for the first point, as the article stated, ABO's seven players would be on the line with one player holding the yellow puppet to begin the first point of the game.

All Bashed Out puppet

From the Global News' article (July 2018): 

An American ultimate frisbee team participating in the Ultimate Frisbee World Championship this week in Winnipeg will start the tournament a man short, in memory of their teammate who passed away after a battle with cancer.

The team from New York, dubbed All Bashed Out, have been playing either with or against each other for more than 10 years. About a year ago, their good friend and teammate died of colorectal cancer at the age of 33.

"This team has kind of morphed into a memorial team for him," Lucas Murphy told Global News on Sunday.

This time of year is particularly hard for the team, as July 28th was their friend's birthday.

It has become a tradition for the team to start tournaments with six men on the field, while a puppet on the sideline acts as the seventh.*

"We have a puppet act as an avatar for our friend because he was really into puppets," Murphy said. "We were a close group of friends that were mean to each other, so we say, 'that puppet is just as good as he is.'"

*UPDATE: The puppet starts with All Bashed Out on the field.

Sandy Canetti (Ultiphotos) captured All Bashed Out  on the first point of the WMUCC championship game:

@AllBashedOut took on Boneyard in the @WMUCC at the Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba. All Bashed Out played in memory of @AlbanyUltimate alum and close friend Ryan West. Boneyard won the contest 15-8, but All Bashed Out won so much more. So proud of these guys. pic.twitter.com/ABVlONQ1N0

— Sandy Canetti (@SandyCanetti) August 8, 2018

All Bashed Out won the silver medal in the Masters Men Division at WFDF 2018 World Masters Ultimate Club Championships.