Last weekend Marywood held its second annual Bubble Soccer tournament. I went with my camera and snagged some cool shots of the whole thing! It was a really cool way to spend an afternoon. All of us enjoyed watching our friends get jostled around in plastic bubbles. The concept is pretty simple. You strap yourself into a giant blow up bubble and you run around attempting to play the sport of soccer. For most of us, just playing soccer regularly is hard. I cannot imagine trying to play while inside a giant bubble.
Teams of five were called to gather on the turf field. The prize for the team that could win the whole tournament would win the $500 cash prize.
I talked to my friend Ian Byrnes and asked him why he attended the event.
“Because I didn’t have anything else to do with my life and wanted to watch my buddies hit people.” I totally understand. Watching people run at each other dressed like that never stops being funny. Ian was just a spectator this time, but that wasn’t for lack of trying. When I asked him why he didn’t make a team for himself he said he woke up too late. Good luck next year Ian!
A team of five Marywood soccer players took home the $500 cash prize. I talked to Andrew Pellechia and asked him a few questions about the event.
These plastic bubbles are huge and last Sunday was extremely hot. I asked what it was like to be inside one of the bubbles, “It was hot, I was sweaty, and I definitely wouldn’t do it more than once a year.” I can completely understand that. Being a soccer player, I wondered what it was like to play inside the bubble. “The weight of the bubble made it much harder to run and it being on a Sunday morning didn’t help either.” Overall this was a super fun event that appeared to be entirely successful! It’s fun to take my camera along to events and see what I can snap pictures of!